IPL-IV: List of Indian Cricketers up for auction

For the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) around 62 Indian cricketers up for auction with Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the legendary Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar in the top-bracket of cricketers valued at Rs 1.84 crore.


List of Players Up for auction -

      Andhra: Yelakka Venugopal Rao
     Assam: Sridharan Sriram
     Baroda: Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Munaf Patel
      Bengal: Sourav Ganguly, Manoj Tiwary, Wriddhiman Saha, Ashok Dinda
     Delhi: Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli, Shikhar Dhawan, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma      
      Gujarat: Parthiv Patel, Siddharth Trivedi
     Haryana: Joginder Sharma, Amit Mishra
     Hyderabad: VVS Laxman, T Suman, Pragyan Ojha
     Jharkhand: Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Saurabh Tiwary
     Karnataka: Anil Kumble, Rahul Dravid, Manish Pandey, Abhimanyu Mithun, Vinay Kumar, Robin Uthappa
     Kerala: S Sreesanth
     Mumbai: Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Wasim Jaffer, Abhishek Raut, Rohit Sharma, Abhishek Nayar, Ramesh Powar
     Madhya Pradesh: Naman Ojha
     Punjab: Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Manpreet Gony, VRV Singh
     Railways: Murali Kartik
     Rajasthan: Pankaj Singh
     Saurahstra: Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara
     Tamil Nadu: Dinesh Karthik, S Badrinath, R Sathish, R Ashwin, M Vijay, L Balaji
     Uttar Pradesh: Mohammed Kaif, Suresh Raina, Praveen Kumar, Sudeep Tyagi, Piyush Chawla, Rudra Pratap Singh
     Vidarbha: Umesh Yadav

However, Tendulkar and Dhoni are likely to be retained by their respective franchises -- Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings.

The five brackets of base price:

1st: Rs 1.84 crore

2nd: Rs 1.3 crore

3rd: Rs 92 lakh

4th: Rs 46 lakh

5th bracket: Rs 23 lakh.

The cricketers who will command the highest base price of Rs 1.84 crore are Sachin Tendulkar, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, and Yuvraj Singh. 

The second bracket is that of Rs 1.3 crore where Twenty20 hitter Yusuf Pathan finds a place along Zaheer Khan and Suresh Raina. 

The third bracket is of Rs 92 lakh with the likes of Gautam Gambhir, Virat Kohli,  Irfan Pathan, Robin Uthappa, Ashish Nehra, Ishant Sharma, Praveen Kumar and veterans such as Ganguly, Kumble, Dravid and Laxman.

The fourth bracket is of Rs 46 lakh which consists of domestic cricketers and the fringe India players who have represented the country since 2005. 

Bengal players Wriddhiman Saha, Manoj Tiwary, Ashok Dinda along with Saurashtra's Cheteshwar Pujara are some of the players in the fourth bracket. 

The fifth and final bracket is of Rs 23 lakh where there are India discards such as Manpreet Gony, Sudeep Tyagi, Sridharan Sriram to name a few.