IPL 3 auction: Pollard, Bond costliest, no takers for Pakistanis

vIndianz.com (19 Jan, 2010) — Mumbai: West Indian all-rounder Kieron Pollard and New Zealand paceman Shane Bond emerged as the most expensive players, being sold for a whopping $750,000 (app Rs 3.42 crore) at the auction for the third edition of the Indian Premier League on Tuesday.

dlf-ipl It was a four-way tie among Mumbai Indians, Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders to grab Pollard and eventually Mumbai won the player through a silent tie-breaker bid in the high profile auction which saw no Pakistani player being sold out.

The price of the silent bid was not disclosed by the organisers with IPL Chairman Lalit Modi saying that the information will be confined to the bidders and them.

Like Pollard, a keen tussle was witnessed to grab Kiwi paceman Bond with Kolkata Knight Riders and Deccan Chargers making the highest bid.

In all 67 players were auctioned for the third season of the Indian Premier League. With 12 spots up for grab in the 8 franchisees, Shahid Afridi was the first player to go under the hammer but none of the teams showed interest and the Pakistani all-rounder went unsold in the first round of bidding.

Australian keeper Brad Haddin and English spinner Graeme Swann went unsold. South

African pacer Wayne Parnell was latched on by the Delhi Daredevils for a price of $610,000.

The drama unfolded again as there was a two way tie for ICL returnee and Kiwi pacer Shane Bond

between Deccan Chargers and Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata. Bond though went to the Kolkata Knight

Riders in the end for an undisclosed amount.

West Indian pacer Kemar Roach was sold to the Deccan Chargers for $720,000 and English middle

order bat Eoin Morgan went to Royal Challengers Bangalore for $220,000.

Kieron Pollard had a base price of $200,000 while Shane Bond was priced initially at $100,000.

The list of players auctioned:

India

Mohammed Kaif: sold to Kings XI Punjab for $250,000

Under-19 captain Ashok Menaria sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore

Under-19 player Harmeet Singh goes to Deccan Chargers

Under-19 player Harshad Patel goes to Mumbai Indians

Australia

Brad Haddin: Unsold in 1st Rd

Philip Hughes: Unsold

Doug Bollinger: Unsold

Ashley Noffke: Unsold

Adam Voges: Sold to Rajasthan Royals for $50,000

Luke Pomersbach: Unsold

Clint McKay: Unsold

Graham Manou: Unsold

Ben Laughlin: Unsold

Jason Krejza: Unsold

Damien Martyn: Sold to Rajasthan Royals for $100,000

England

Tim Bresnan: Unsold

Eoin Morgan: sold to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $220,000

Robert Key: Unsold

Anthony McGrath: Unsold

Monty Panesar: Unsold

Mark Ramprakash: Unsold

Graeme Swann: Unsold in the 1st Rd

Jonathon Trott: Unsold

Pakistan

Shahid Afridi: Unsold

Misbah-ul-Haq

Umar Gul

Imran Nazir: Unsold

Rana Naved-ul-Hasan: Unsold

Mohammad Aamer: Unsold

Abdul Razzaq: Unsold

Kamran Akmal: Unsold

Umar Akmal: Unsold

Saeed Ajmal: Unsold

Sohail Tanvir: Unsold

South Africa

Zander de Bruyn: Unsold

Wayne Parnell: Sold to Delhi Daredevils for $610,000

Tyron Henderson: Unsold

Lonwabo Tsotsobe: Unsold

Rory Kleinveldt: Unsold

Yusuf Abdulla: Sold to Rajasthan Royals for

Vernon Philander: Unsold

Johan van der Wath: Unsold

Vaughn van Jaarsveld: Unsold

Morne van Vyk: Unsold

Justin Kemp: sold to Chennai Super Kings for $100,000

Sri Lanka

Nuwan Kulasekara: Unsold

Nuwan Zoysa: Unsold

Upul Tharanga: Unsold

Thissara Perera: sold to Chennai Super Kings for $50,000

Thilina Kandamby: Unsold

Kaushalya Weeraratne: Unsold

Chamara Welegedara: Unsold

Chinthaka Jayasinghe: Unsold

Chamara Silva: Unsold

West Indies

Kieron Pollard: Auction goes to a 4-way tie at the bidding price of $750,000, sold for undisclosed amount to Mumbai Indians after tie-breaker.

Ramnaresh Sarwan: Unsold;

Daren Ganga: Unsold

Lendl Simmons: Unsold

Darren Bravo: Unsold

Wavell Hinds: Unsold

Kemar Roach: Sold to Deccan Chargers for $720,000

Sulieman Benn: Unsold

New Zealand

Grant Elliott: Unsold

Lou Vincent: Unsold

Shane Bond: Auction goes to a 2-way tie at the bidding price of $750,000, sold for undisclosed amount to Kolkata Knight Riders after tie-breaker.

Nathan McCullum: Unsold

Zimbabwe:

Murray Goodwin: Unsold

Bangladesh

Shakib Al Hasan: Unsold

Canada

Rizwan Cheema: Unsold

Netherlands

Ryan ten Doeschate: Unsold

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IPL 3 auction: Pollard, Bond costliest, no takers for Pakistanis

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