Minimum Bid Amount for Players

[All amounts in US$]

Shane Warne will be the Indian Premeir League’s most expensive signing, at a cost of US$400,000 for the first season, set to kick off in April 2008

Australia

Justin Langer 175,000

Sri Lanka

Farveez Maharoof: 150,000,

Sangakkara: 250,000,

Jaywardene: 250,000,

Muttiah Muralitharan: 250,000,

Sanath Jayasuriya: 250,000,

Nuwan Zoysa: 100,000,

Dilhara Fernando: 150,000,

Chaminda Vaas: 175,000,

Lasith Malinga: 200,000

Pakistan

Mohammad Asif 225,000,

Shahid Afridi: 225,000,

Shoaib Akhtar: 225,000,

Younus Khan: 225,000

West Indies

Shivnarine Chanderpaul 175,000

New Zealand

Daniel Vettori 225,000,

Jacob Oram 200,000,

Scott Styris 150,000,

Brendon McCullum 175,000

South Africa

Loots Bosman 150,000,

AB de Villiers 175,000,

Albie Morkel 200,000,

Graeme Smith 225,000,

Herschelle Gibbs 225,000,

Shaun Pollock 200,000,

Ashwell Prince 150,000,

Makhaya Ntini 175,000,

Mark Boucher 175,000,

Jacques Kallis 200,000.

IPL Players Minimum Bid Amount

The auction for the players will be held somewhere in the middle of the month. But he are some figures that are being quoted for the various players. These are base figures and rough estimates only. The final figures may be lot higher or lesser than the numbers quoted here.

Sachin Tendulkar - $400,000

Sourav Ganguly -$400,000

Rahul Dravid-$400,000

Yuvraj Singh-$400,000

Mahendra Singh Dhoni-$400,000

The first 4 players will be playing for their home teams and will not be auctioned. Instead they are assured a flat 15% more than the highest bid of the IPL player auction.

The IPL board has prepared a list of 31 Indian players and 53 foreign players for the tournament. Others are still joining or have expressed their willingness to be part of the event.

Foreign players have been signed up for varying amounts

Shane Warne was signed up for $400,000 - making him the most expensive player of the tournament apart from the 5 Indian players called the IPL icons.

Former Aussie fast bowler Glenn McGrath- $350,000

New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming, - $350,000.

Apart from this other Indian players quotes doing the rounds are

Anil Kumble and Harbhajan - $250,000

Virender Sehwag, Sreesanth, Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, Robin Uthappa, Murali Kartik and Dinesh Karthik - $200,000

Irfan Pathan - $175,000

Rohit Sharma - $150,000

Mohd Kaif, Suresh Raina and Yousuf Pathan- $125,000

Joginder Sharma-$110,000

Munaf Patel and Ishant Sharma-$100,000

Players from other countries are being quoted at various prices in these bands

Latest players to join the IPL bandwagon include Salman Butt, Misbah and Sohail Khan. They are in the price range of $125,000 - $150,000.