Bangalore: Indians addled it affluent on the aboriginal day of behest at the Indian Premier League (IPL) bargain on Saturday, with Gautam Gambhir attractive a almanac $2.4 million. The awkward opener was amid four Indians to accompany the $2 actor club at the bargain for the fourth copy of the scandal-plagued tournament, forth with Yusuf Pathan, Robin Uthappa and Rohit Sharma.
The top seven earners on the aperture day of the two-day bargain were all Indians, with Irfan Pathan, brother of Yusuf, Yuvraj Singh and Saurabh Tiwary activity for added than $1 million.
In contrast, at the countdown bargain in 2008 alone two players - India's Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds - were bought for added than $1 million.
This time Symonds went to Mumbai Indians for $850,000 at the high-profile bargain which saw Bollywood stars and accumulated big-wigs bid for the players.
Gambhir was the aboriginal to go beneath the bang in Bangalore, and was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for an bulk far beyond his abject amount of $200,000. He was anon abutting in the absolute bracket by all-rounder Yusuf, who was bought by the aforementioned authorization for $2.1 million. Yusuf's assets amount was $300,000.
Batsman Uthappa went to beginning authorization Pune Warriors for $2.1 million, while Sharma was bought by Mumbai Indians for $2 actor as Indians alleged the shots.
The prices paid to the Indian aggregation calmly eclipsed the antecedent almanac of England duo Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff, who went for 1.55 actor dollars anniversary in 2009.
Pietersen, with a abject amount of $400,000, was bought by Deccan Chargers for $650,000 this time.
Among added $1 actor men were Beginning Zealander Ross Taylor, Sri Lankans Mahela Jayawardene and Muttiah Muralitharan, South Africans AB de Villiers, Jacques Kallis and Dale Steyn, and Australians Cameron White and David Hussey. Jayawardene emerged the highest-paid foreigner, airtight up by Kochi for $1.5 million.
Former captains Brian Lara of the West Indies and Sourav Ganguly of India remained unsold on the aperture day, forth with accent West Indies batsman Chris Gayle and England bowlers Graeme Swann and James Anderson. Lara, 41, was amid 21 cricketers with the accomplished assets amount of $400,000 for a three-year contract.
The anniversary IPL clash revolutionised candid back it access on to the arena in 2008 with a high-octane alloy of all-embracing brilliant players, Twenty20 matches and Bollywood glamour.
But its fortunes biconcave badly aftermost year afterwards allegations of massive corruption, money-laundering and tax evasion, as able-bodied as abstruse deals to adumbrate teams' absolute owners, and alike links to India's bent underworld.
IPL architect Lalit Modi - whose audacious appearance embodied the accident - was befuddled out by the BCCI, the sport's administering anatomy in India, over allegations about his conduct and organisers achievement this year will accommodate a beginning start.
The tournament, starting on April 8, will affection 10 teams, including the two beginning abandon - Pune Warriors and Kochi.
Twelve players accept been retained by their aboriginal franchises, with Dhoni blockage with the Chennai Super Kings and Shane Warne and Shane Watson afraid with the Rajasthan Royals.
Pakistan's cricketers connected to absence out on the IPL bonanza afterwards none of them was included for the auction. Pakistan players alternate in the countdown IPL, but were affected out of the 2009 division due to aegis apropos afterward the Mumbai attacks, and were again abandoned for the 2010 tournament.
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