Welcome to live coverage of the 3rd IPL auction.
Players to watch out for:
Ricky Ponting
Stuart Broad
Umar Gul
Mitchell Johnson
Brad Haddin
Kamran Akmal
and Rahul Dravid.
So, without further ado, let's get going.
In the first round, team coaches will be able to bid with the confimation of their team owners.
First up is Chris Read, the English Wicket-Keeper:
Chennai bid 425k,
No more hands go up,
Chris Read sold to Chennai for 425,000
Next it's Umar Gul, the Pakistani Seam Bowler
A base price of 400k,
bidding begins,
it's gone all quiet in the bidding room...
No Bids for Umar Gul
Now it's Mitchell Johnson, will he be signed??
Chennai again bid 425,000,
Deccan Pass,
No more bids for Johnson
Mitchell Johnson sold to Chennai for 425,000
Stuart Broad is the second English player up,
Deccan go in at 425k,
No more bids for Broad at the moment,
Stuart Broad is sold to Deccan for 425,000
No bids for Brad Haddin, he's unsold
None for Graham Manou
Sameera Vithana is next,
No bids so far,
Kolkata bid 365k,
Punjab bid 390k,
and Mumbai bid 415k,
Punjab 440k and Kolkata are back in at 465k,
Punjab now have it at 490k,
Sameera Vithana sold to Punjab for 490,000
Bidding begins for Nicky Boje,
Mumbai bid 365k,
Nicky Boje sold to Mumbai for 365,000
No bids for Chris Hartley
Mohammad Hashim is being bidded for,
Bangalore in at 365k,
Mohammad Hashim sold to Bangalore for 365,000
No Bids for Sachithra Senanayake
Kamran Akmal is up,
Deccan bid 315k,
No more bids,
Kamran Akmal sold to Deccan for 315,000
No bids for Phil Jacques,
Phil Hughes,
Basanth Mohanty,
Jitender Billa
and Chris Rogers
Next is Ricky Ponting, who Deccan have publicly said they are aiming for,
No bids for Ponting,
Deccan bid 275k,
and there are no more bids,
a big surprise there,
Ricky Ponting sold to Deccan for 275,000
Amit Bandhari is next,
Punjab bid 275k,
Amit Bandhari sold to Punjab for 275,000
Kiran Powar is up for auction now,
Mumbai bid 275k,
Kiran Powar sold to Mumbai for 275,000
No bids for Pankaj Dharmani,
Satyajit Parab,
Ibrahim Khaleel,
Rajesh Powar,
Amir Khan,
and Madhusudan Acharya,
Vishal Bhatia,
230k from Mumbai,
Vishal Bhatia sold to Mumbai for 230,000
Rahul Dewan is next,
Kolkata start at 230k,
Rajasthan go to 240k,
it goes quiet,
Rahul Dewan sold to Rajasthan for 240k
No Bids for Ankit Rawat,
Thilak Naidu,
and Hemanth Kumar
Next is Rahul Dravid, the Indian veteran...
it's silent out there at the moment,
Deccan raise at 230k,
wait a moment,
Chennai are thinking about it,
no, no more bids.
Rahul Dravid sold to Deccan for 230k
No bids for Varun Kumar,
Amit Deshpande,
or Arshad Bhatt.
That concludes the first round of the auction.
Now, the second round, when team owners get full control, and take part in a silent bid for unsold players so far.
Madhusudan Acharya sold to Rajasthan for 230,000
Thilak Naidu sold to Rajasthan for 230,000
Phil Jacques sold to Mumbai for 315,000
Varun Kumar sold to Kolkata for 230,000
Phil Hughes sold to Punjab for 315,000
Chris Rogers sold to Deccan for 275,000
Satyajit Parab sold to Delhi for 275,000
Hemanth Kumar sold to Delhi for 230,000
Amit Deshpande sold to Delhi for 230,000
Arshad Bhatt sold to Delhi for 230,000
Others:
Sunny Gupta - Bangalore - 25,000
Amir Hashmi - Chennai - 25,000
Harbajan Singh - Chennai - 25,000
Bodapati Sumanth - Deccan - 25,000
Imtiyaz Ahmed - Mumbai - 25,000
Gnaneswara Rao - Mumbai - 25,000
Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna - Rajasthan - 25,000
Top 5 Most Expensive Players:
Sameera Vithana - Punjab - 490,000
Chris Read - Chennai - 425,000
Mitchell Johnson - Chennai - 425,000
Stuart Broad - Deccan - 425,000
Nicky Boje - Mumbai - 365,000
Deccan Signings:
Stuart Broad - 425,000
Kamran Akmal - 315,000
Chris Rogers - 275,000
Ricky Ponting - 275,000
Rahul Dravid - 230,000
Bodapati Sumanth - 25,000
That's all from the IPL3 Auction, thanks for reading.