IPL auction, Day 1: As it happened...

While Indian veteran Yuvraj Singh was bought for 14 crores by the Royal Challengers Bangalore on Day 1, wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik too sealed a huge deal when Delhi Daredevils bought him for a whopping 12. 5 crores.

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Zee Media Bureau/Manushree Chaumal & Suyash Srivastava Bangalore: IPL auction on day one saw a lot of entertainment. While Indian veteran Yuvraj Singh was bought for 14 crores by the Royal Challengers Bangalore, wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik too sealed a huge deal when Delhi Daredevils bought him for a whopping 12. 5 crores. Kevin Pietersen was bought by the Delhi Daredevils after Kings XI Punjab had made a final bid of Rs 9 crore for the stylish right-hander. Australia's Mitchell Johnson and New Zealand's Corey Anderson were signed for Rs 6.5 crore and Rs 4.5 crore respectively by Kings XI Punjab and Mumbai Indians. ALSO SEE: * OUR SPECIAL COVERAGE ON IPL 7 AUCTION» * IPL 7 auction: Who bought whom?» * Was Rs 14-crore bid on Yuvraj Singh, worth for Royal Challengers Bangalore? » * IPL 2014: Have Kings XI Punjab hit the jackpot with best bargains?» ============================================================== #That ends the Day 1 auction! #Isuru Udana, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Aavishkar Salvi, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Uranga Lakmal, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Nuwan Pradeep, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Rory Kleinveldt, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Ian Butler, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Hamish Bennett, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Shaminda Eranga, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Simon Jones, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Nuwan Kulasekara, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jaun Theron, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Kyle Mills, base price Rs 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Jerome Taylor, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Sheldon Cottrell, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jade Dernbach, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Tino Best, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Matt Henry, base price Rs 30 lakh, SOLD to Chennai Super Kings at base price. #Ben Laughlin, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Mitchell McClenaghan, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Marchant de Lange, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Kemar Roach, base price Rs 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Sudeep Tyagi, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Santokie, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #VRV Singh, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Lanwabo Tsotsobe, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Rikki Clarke, base price Rs 1.50 cr, UNSOLD. #Danza Hyatt, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Angelo Perera, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Garey Mathurin, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Elton Chigumbura, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Rayad Emrit, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Grant Elliott, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Mohammad Mahmudullah, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Dilruwan Perera, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Callum Ferguson, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Dilshan Munaweera, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Wasim Jaffer, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Justin Ontong, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jehan Mubarak, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Hemang Badani, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Robert Quiney, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Adrian Barath, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Chamara Kapugedara, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Mohammad Kaif, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Wayne Parnell, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Shaun Tait, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Adam Milne, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD #Abhimanyu Mithun, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Dirk Nannes, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Ryan McLaren, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Pankaj Singh, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jackson Bird, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Patrick Cummins, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Doug Bollinger, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jeevan Mendis, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #David Wiese, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Dimitri Mascarenhas, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Fervooz Maharoof, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Christopher Barnwell, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Jacob Oram, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Vernon Philander, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Samit Patel, base price Rs 2.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Neil Broom, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Luke Pomersbach, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Kieran Powell, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Travis Birt, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Dean Elgar, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Vaughn van Jaarsveld, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Phillip Hughes, base price Rs 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Lahiru Thirimanne, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Collin Munroe, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Richard Levi, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Sohag Ghazi, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #James Muirhead, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Nicky Boje, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Nikita Miller, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Fawad Ahmed, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Ashley Nurse, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Devendra Bishoo, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Time for some spinners' bidding #Josh Hazlewood, base price 50 lakh, SOLD to Mumbai Indians for 50 lakhs. #Tim Southee, base price 50 lakh, SOLD to Rajasthan Royals for 1.20 crore. #Jason Holder, base price Rs 50 lakh, SOLD to Sunrisers for 75 lakh. #Clint McKay, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Joginder Sharma, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Ben Hilfenhaus, base price 1.00 cr, SOLD to Chennai for 1 crore. #Kane Richardson, base price 1.00 cr, SOLD to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.00 cr. #Manpreet Gony, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Ben Cutting, base price 50 lakh, SOLD to 80 lakh to Rajasthan Royals. #Fidel Edwards, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Jesse Ryder, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Van der Merwe, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #John Hastings, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Andrew McDonald, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Sachithra Senanayeka, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #James Neesham, base price 30 lakh, several franchises bid for him, sold for 1 cr to Delhi Daredevils. #James Franklin, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Johan Botha, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. Time for all-rounders' bidding! #Abhinav Mukund, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Venugopal Rao, base price 30 lakh, sold for 55 lakhs to Sunrisers Hyderabad. #Hamish Rutherford, base price 50 lakh, #Upul Tharanga, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Adam Voges, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Henry Davids, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Behardien, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Ben Rohrer, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Hershelle Gibbs, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Chris Lynn, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Neil Mckenzie, base price 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Akila Dananjaya, base price, UNSOLD. #Brad Hogg, base price 1.50 cr, UNSOLD. #Ramesh Powar, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Suraj Randiv, base price 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Nathan Lyon, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Imran Tahir, base price 1.00 cr, UNSOLD. #Samuel Badree, base price Rs 30 lakh, sold to CSK for 30 lakhs. #Sulieman Benn, base price Rs 30 lakh, UNSOLD. #Rangana Herath, base price Rs 1.50 cr, UNSOLD. #Munaf Patel, base price Rs 50 lakh, UNSOLD. #Mohit Sharma, base price Rs 1 crore, sold to CSK for 2 crore. #Jaydev Unadkat, base price Rs 1 crore, sold at 2.80 cr to Delhi Daredevils. #Parvinder Awana, base price Rs 50 lakh, retained by KXIP for 65 lakhs by their Right to Match card. #Varun Aaron, base price Rs 1.5 crore, sold to RCB for Rs 2 crore. #Ashish Nehra, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to Chennai Super Kings at the same price. #Lakshmipathy Balaji, base price Rs 50 lakh, goes to Kings XI Punjab at Rs 1.80 crore #Nathan Coulter-Nile, base price Rs 1 crore, a slight drama between Rajasthan Royals and the bidder, Nile goes to Delhi Daredevils for Rs 4.25 crores. #Brett Lee, base price 2 crore, unsold #RP Singh, base price Rs 1 crore, no bid. Fast bowlers, Part-II #Moises Henriques, base price Rs 1 crore, sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad, at Rs 1 crore. #Luke Wright, base price Rs 1.50 crore, no takers! #Ravi Bopara, base price Rs 1 crore, unsold! #Daniel Christian, base price Rs 1 crore, unsold! #Abhishek Nayar, base price Rs 30 lakh, sold to Rs 1 crore to Rajasthan Royals. #Corey Anderson, base price Rs 1 crore, sold to Mumbai Indians at Rs 4.5 crore. #Lakshmi Ratan Shukla, base price Rs 50 lakh, sold at Rs 1.5 crore to Delhi Daredevils. #Glenn Maxwell, base price Rs 1 crore, discussion going on at Mumbai Indians table, Delhi Daredevils join the tussle. Delhi out. Kings XI Punjab join in. Glenn is finally bought by Kings XI at Rs 6 crore. #Andre Russell, base price Rs 50 lakh, unsold. All-rounders next #Luke Ronchi, base price Rs 30 lakh, unsold! #Johnson Charles, base price Rs 30 lakh, unsold! #Brendon Taylor, base price Rs 30 lakhs, sold at same price to Sunrisers Hyderabad. #Prassana Jayawardane, base price Rs 50 lakh, unsold! #Denesh ramdin, base price Rs 30 lakh, unsold! #Dane Vilas, base price Rs 30 lakh, unsold! #Andre Fletcher, base price Rs 30 lakh, unsold! #Kaushal Silva, base price 30 lakh, unsold ! #Tim Paine, base price Rs 50 lakh, unsold! Wicket-keepers now #Lendl Simons, base price Rs 50 lakh, remains unsold. #Martin Guptill, base price Rs 50 lakh, unsold #Tamim Iqbal, base price Rs 50 lakh, yet another unsold player. #Ian Bell, base price Rs 1 crore, unsold. #Badrinath, base price Rs 1 crore, unsold. #Marlon Samuels, base orice Rs 2 crore, unsold ! #Saurabh Tiwary, base price Rs 50 lakh, goes to Delhi Daredevils at Rs 70 lakh. #England batsman Alex Hales, base price Rs 2 crore, unsold. #Darren Bravo, base price Rs 50 lakh, goes unsold too. #Nic Maddinson, base price Rs 50 lakh, sold to RCB at Rs 50 lakh. #Cameron White, base price Rs 1.50 crore, remains unsold. The second session resumes. All eyes on batsmen's auction now. Morning session concludes. The next session continues after an hour and a half lunch break. Stay on the page for more live action. #Muttiah Muralitharan, base price Rs 1 crore, goes to RCB at Rs 1 crore. #Robin Peterson, base price Rs 1 crore, goes unsold. #Rahul Sharma, base price Rs 50 lakh, bought by Delhi daredevils at Rs 1.90 crore. #Nathan McCullum, base price Rs 1 crore, remains unsold. #Murali Karthik, base price Rs 1 crore, remains unsold. #Ajantha Mendis, base price Rs 50 lakhs, remains unsold. #Pragyan Ojha, base price Rs 2 crore, retained by Mumbai Indians for Rs 3.25 crore. #Piyush Chawla, base price Rs 50 lakh, goes to Rs 4.25 crore to KKR. Time for some spin action. Two-minute break before next set auction. #Morne Morkel, base price Rs 1.50 crore, sold at Rs 2.80 crore to KKR. #R Vinay Kumar, base price Rs 1.50 crore, sold to KKR at Rs 2.80 crore. #Praveen Kumar, base price Rs 2 crore, goes unsold. #Umesh Yadav, base price Rs 1 crore, goes at Rs 2.60 to KKR. #Ravi Rampaul, base price Rs 50 lakh, at Rs 90 lakh goes to RCB. #Mohammad Shami, base price Rs 1 crore, goes at Rs 4.25 crore to Delhi Daredevils. #Bhuvneshwar Kumar, base price Rs 1.50 crore, goes to Sunrisers Hyderabad at Rs 4.25 crore. #Ishant Sharma, base price Rs 1.50 crore, sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad at Rs 2.60 crore. #Ashok Dinda, base price Rs 1 crore, sold at Rs 1.50 crore to RCB. # Mitchell Starc, base price Rs 2 crore, sold at Rs 5 crore to RCB. 11:58 am: Fast bowlers' auction begins. Two-minute break follows. A lot of money spent on batsmen. #Shakib al-Hasan, base price Rs 1 crores, bought by KKR at Rs 2.80 crore. #Azhar Mahmood, base price Rs 1 crores, remains unsold. #Tillakaratne Dilshan, base price Rs 2 crore, remains unsold! #Irfan Pathan, base price Rs 1.50 crore, sold at Rs 2.40 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad. #Angelo Mathews, base price Rs 2 crore, unsold! #David Hussey, base price Rs 1 crore, remains unsold #South African all-rounder Albie Morkel, base price Rs 1.50 crore, sold at Rs 2.40 crore to RCB. #Thisara Perera, base price Rs 50 lakh, sold at Rs 1.60 crore to Kings XI Punjab. #Yusuf Pathan, base price Rs 2 crore, retained by KKR Rs 3.25 crore. #Aussie all-rounder Steve Smith, base price Rs 2 crore, sold at Rs 4 crore to Rajasthan Royals #Craig Kieswetter remains unsold. #Perera base price Rs 50 lakh, remains unsold. #Parthiv Patel, base price Rs 1 crore, sold at Rs 1.4 crore to RCB. #Mathew Wade, base price Rs 1 crore, remains unsold. #Wridhiman Saha, base prie Rs 1 crore sold at rs 2.20 crore to Kings XI Punjab. #Quinton de Kock, base price Rs 1 crore, sold at Rs 3.50 crore Delhi Daredevils #Naman Ojha unsold Third Marquee ends. Ten-minute break follows. CSK have less than 10 crores left in the purse. #Dwayne Smith, base price Rs 1.5 crore, sold at Rs 4.5 crore to Chennai Super Kings. #Manoj Tiwary, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to Delhi daredevils for Rs 2.8 crore #Shaun Marsh, base price Rs 2 crore, retained by Kings XI Punjab at Rs 2.20 crore. #Brad Hodge, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to Rajasthan Royals for Rs 2.40 crore #Robin Uthappa, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to KKR for Rs 5 crore. #JP Duminy, base price Rs 1 crore, sold at Rs 2.20 crore to Delhi Daredevils. #Cheteshwar Pujara, base price Rs 1.5 crore, sold at mere Rs 1.90 crore to Kings XI Punjab. #Aaron Finch, base price Rs 1 crore sold at Rs 4 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad. #Ross Taylor remains unsold Second Marquee over. Two minute quick beak. Dinesh Karthik became the second most expensive player after Yuvraj Singh yet at Rs 12.5 crore. #Zaheer Khan, base price Rs 1 crore, sold to Mumbai Indians at Rs 2.60 crore. #Amit Mishra, base price Rs 2 crore, retained by Sunrisers Hyderabad at Rs 4.75 crore. #Michael Hussey, base price Rs 2 crore, sold at Rs 5 crore to Mumbai Indians. #Brendon McCullum, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to Chennai Super Kings at Rs 3.25 crore. #Dinesh Karthik, base price Rs 2 crore, goes to Delhi Daredevils at Rs 12.5 crore. # Faf du Plessis, base price Rs 1.5 crore, sold Rs 4.75 crore to Chennai Super Kings. #West Indian all-rounder Darren Sammy, base price Rs 1 crore. Rajasthan Royals open bidding. Sunrisers Hyderabad get Sammy for Rs 3.50 crore. #Aussie T20 captain George Bailey at base price Rs 2 crore; Delhi Daredevils and Kings XI Punjab bid hard, sold at Rs 3.25 crore to Kings XI Punjab. #10:30 am: Marquee 2 auction begins Marquee 1 over. Ten minute break for next set of players' auction. Yuvi is the most expensive so far, at 14 crores. All eyes on Corey Anderson after KP sold at Rs 9 crore. #Aussie Mitchell Johnson, base price Rs 2 crore, sold at Rs 6.50 crore to Kings X1 Punjab. #David Warner, base price Rs 1.5 crore, goes to Rs 5.5 crore to Sunrisers Hyderabad. #No takers for Virender Sehwag initially. Kings Xi Punjab bid. Mumbai Indians join in. Sehwag goes to Rs 3.20 crore to Kings XI Punjab. #Jacques Kallis, base price Rs 2 crore. KKR and CSK bid for him. And the Proteas legend goes to KKR for 5.5 crore. #Yuvraj Singh, base price Rs 2 crore, Kings X1 Punjab And Rajasthan Royals both keen for Yuvi. Royal Challengers Bangalore join in. KKR joins in. And Yuvi goes to RCB for Rs 14 crore. #Kevin Pietersen, base price Rs 2 crore, sold to Rs 9 crore to Delhi Daredevils #Mahela Jayawardena, base price Rs 2 crore remains unsold, will be re-auctioned tomorrw. #Delhi Daredevils and Sunrisers Hyderabd bidding hard for Murali Vijay, base Price 2.00 crore. Delhi Daredevils take Murali for Rs 5 crore. Mahela Jayawardena, base price Rs 2 crore remains unsold, will be re-auctioned tomorrw. 9:45 am: The franchise owners are all geared up to bid for their players ! Auction about to begin any moment. Indians to watch out for: Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan Foreign players to watch out for: Kevin Pietersen, David Warner, George Bailey, Jacques Bailey, Corey Anderson, Mitchell Johnson, Mahela Jayawardene ============================================================== Bangalore: Mired in controversies but lucrative nonetheless, the Indian Premier League will conduct its seventh players` auction here on Wednesday with some of the biggest global and Indian stars going under the hammer alongside uncapped players for the first time. Controversial England batsman Kevin Pietersen will be one of the first players to go under the hammer along with senior India discards Virender Sehwag and Yuvraj Singh in the two-day auction here. But the biggest draw of IPL VII auction would be without doubt New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson, who has been slotted at No 83 in the 10th set which has the second array of international all-rounders. Among the 219 capped players, who have played some form of international cricket, 169 are Indians while 50 are overseas players. This will also be the first time in IPL`s history that uncapped players will be auctioned. The cricketers have been divided into 53 sets with each lists ranging from eight to 10 players. The first list that consists of some of the biggest stars of Indian and international cricket named as Marquee 1 or M1. While Pietersen`s international career may have come to an abrupt end, but the maverick England batsman will be in demand as he is set to be the fourth player to be auctioned on the first day at the ITC Gardenia. Along with Pietersen, the likes of Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, David Warner, Ashes hero Mitchell Johnson, Mahela Jayawardene, and the recently-retired Jacques Kallis will also go under the hammer at the first go. Murali Vijay is also present in M1 list where all players have a base price of Rs 2 crore save Warner (Rs 1.5 crore). The second list of marquee player or M2, as they are slotted, consists of New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum, Australian ODI and T20 captain George Bailey, veteran speedster Zaheer Khan, South African batsman Faf Du Plessis, Australian batsman Michael Hussey and West Indies all-rounder Darren Sammy to name a few. Like in the previous years, no Pakistan players feature in the IPL list while there are a huge 28 sets slotted for the uncapped Indian and overseas players. While young South African keeper-batsman Quinton de Kock, who scored a hat-trick of ODI centuries is in the first list of capped wicketkeepers (WK 1) with a base price of Rs 1 crore, flavour of the season Anderson has been slotted in the second set of international all-rounder (AL 2) at No 83. The slotting of Anderson at 83 will mean that there will be a `Bidding War` for the in-form burly Black Caps all-rounder as some of the teams with higher salary caps like Delhi Daredevils will have to face the might of Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians as the franchises are supposed to be on even keel by then. It`s surprising that Anderson didn`t find his name in the premier set of international all-rounders in which the Pathan brothers --- Irfan and Yusuf have been clubbed alongside Shakib Al Hasan of Bangladesh, former Pakistan all-rounder Azhar Mahmood, who is now a British passport holder. Set No 25, which consists of uncapped Indian batsmen, will see a bidding war among the franchises for the likes of Kedar Jadhav, Unmukt Chand, Vijay Zol. The base prices of these uncapped players have been fixed between of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 30 lakh.