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As many as 350 leading cricketers from India and abroad will go under the auctioneer's hammer in Bangalore on January 8 and 9 when Indian Premier League franchises bidding for their services in the fourth season of the lucrative Twenty20 League. Here's the list of those to be auctioned with their base prise.
Leander Paes and Mahesh Bhupathi had things their way as India ruled the tennis courts at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.
Mahela Jayawardene managed to stay ahead of Kevin Pietersen and the Hussey brothers to become the most valuable player (MVP) in the ICC World Twenty20.
It was always going to be a toss-up between Tillakaratne Dilshan and Shahid Afridi. Dilshan's duck, and another brilliant all-round performance by Afridi, tilted the scales in favour of the phenomenally talented player from Pakistan.
You have to search really hard to find names of Indian players in the list of the "most valuable players" so far in the ICC World Twenty20. Yuvraj Singh is at the sixth position... but then there's practically no one else! After you run your finger down the list for quite a while you'll run into Pragyan Ojha at No. 22, Yusuf Pathan at No. 24 and Rohit Sharma at No. 25.
Adam Gilchrist is IPL 2009's most valuable player. If his batting, bowling and fielding performance is expressed only in terms of 'runs', he is seen to have scored a staggering 753 runs. And we haven't taken into account his phenomenal captaincy skills!
The most valuable player index (MVPI) is computed by adding up every player's batting, bowling and fielding points -- expressed as a run equivalent.
The IPL league games threw up many surprises. Very few expected Rajasthan Royals to be the best team (and now a finalist); nobody expected the Deccan Chargers to do so badly. We'll discuss each team's performance, and identify the five best and three most disappointing players. While doing so we shall italicize what appear to be key pointers.
PVI and MVPI after the IPL league matches.
It's interesting to look back at the IPL player auction in February 2008 and see if there are some lessons to learn from an event that shook the cricketing fraternity. These are random thoughts, and appearing in a random order, but influenced by our paisa vasool analysis.
After the first week of the DLF IPL, the Australians appeared to be dominating. From the second week onwards, especially after Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Brett Lee and Andrew Symonds left, the Indians seemed to be gaining ascendancy with fine performances from Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Rohit Sharma, the Pathan brothers and M S Dhoni.
The T20 is often described as a young man's game; if you cross 30 you are supposed to be too old Is this hypothesis true? Is younger indeed better?
A summary of the eight rounds in the IPL Players' Auction, held in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Virender Sehwag of Delhi Daredevils is currently the best performing captain. Shane Warne of Rajasthan Royals and V V S Laxman of Deccan Chargers offer the next best value for money, partly because they carry smaller price tags than the other captains.
If franchise owners like Mukesh Ambani, Vijay Mallya or Shahrukh Khan want real numbers to tell them which of their players have really been paisa vasool (good value for money) this index below provides the answers.
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