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[Jeet]

Alphonso Thomas got snapped up.

[johan95]

No surprise the Fonz was snapped up, given his death bowling ability, and form last season!

[espocrespo]

Who do you think the biggest surprise signing was?
Im thinking

Chris Lynn
Matt Wade
Faf Du Plessis
James Pattinson
Michael Klinger

[will5210]

Dimi Maskyouranus to Punjab

[harrystokoe]

Daniel Christian went for $900,000 and his base price was only $50,000!

[will5210]

I think if you held your nerve & waited at the auction, you'd get some really good overseas players for peanuts.

[Jeet]

Steve O'Keefe bargain at $20k

[essexarsenal]

ipl continues to be a joke and dodgy dealings ! m. marsh bought by his dad for $290 000 and the aussie coach buying dan christian for $900 000. 

[Colesy]

Gayle didn't get bought did he?

[uknsaunders]

Michael Vaughan mentioned on his twitter about all the coaches being Australia or South African and hence those players were getting brought. You need English coaches to get English players playing apparantly.

I reckon the Colly retirement might of been a little pushed a bit by the IPL. Colly gets $250k for 2 years, possibly more than he would've got from playing test cricket. I'd wouldn't have put it past Warne to have tapped Colly up during the ashes - he was very nice about him at the end of the series :-)

[essexarsenal]

Gayle didn't get bought did he?

No, reason is he was only free to play for 2 weeks

[uknsaunders]

as I understand it, the auction price gets reduced according to the players availability anyway. ie. if Gayle is available 2 weeks out of 6 - his 400k for 2 years would be 200k for 1 year / 0.3 = 60k for 2011 (something like that).

The flipside of this is when he isn't around they need to find a suitable replacement - which is a pain in the (No Swearing Please) and hence why Franchises go for players available for 6 weeks, because it makes planning alot easier. That's why KP only fetched 650k as well.

Colly being available all 6 weeks probably got him the gig. Anderson's limited availability and Flowers threat to pull him out on a whim didn't help.

Still surprised that nobody took a punt on gayle,swann,anderson,wright.

[yvk3103]

I am surprised that all the franchised did not spend their full purse..... a while back they were asking BCCI/IPL governing council to allow them to increase their purse or retain more players....

The msot aggressive has been KKR in picking up their players......

Pune bagged 3 good players as well Robin Uthapa (highly talented and mightily ignored by BCCI), Yuvi amd Murali Karthik...

The mantra this time seems to be young, agile and talented

I think Chennai did the right thing in trying to retain as many of their old players as possible.....

[uknsaunders]

alot of deals are done after the auction - so you might see the likes of Gayle/Anderson/Swann playing after all and I think that still comes out the purse.

[Jeet]

Franchises have to sign 6 Indian's under the age of 22, so they can't blow their entire purse in the auction.

Players capped at full International level can't be sign outside the auction, unless they are replacements for injured or unavailable players.

Swann, Anderson and Wright gathered no interest as their base price was $400k, they should have taken the same route as Morgan(base price was $200k) and had a lower base price.

Overseas spinners don;t sell well barring Murali and Warne, both getting over $1m. Botha was a strange one, can't understand how he was more expensive than Vettori(arguably the best spinner in T20 cricket in terms of economy).

Van Der Merwe was sold for $50k
Suraj Randiv  was sold for $80k
Steve O'Keefe was sold for $20k
Steven Smith was sold for $200k

These guys where bargain buys.

Even Murali Kartik only went for $400k.

Pune bagged 3 good players as well Robin Uthapa (highly talented and mightily ignored by BCCI)

Yash, Uthappa is rubbish, he's been running his mouth for 3 years how he's one of the best players in India, yet he does little to show that. He thought he could be w/k and gave up. He opened the batting and gave up. The guy is a quitter.