| PITCH REPORT: BIG BOYS GET BIG BUCKS | |||
| THE IPL PLAYER BID SCORESHEET | |||
| THE LEADING INDIANS | |||
| IPL fee* | Endorsement money* | Team | |
| 1.Sachin Tendulkar# | 4.85 | 20-25 | Mumbai |
| 2. Sourav Ganguly# | 4.37 | 10 | Kolkata |
| 3. Yuvraj Singh# | 4.14 | 12-15 | Mohali |
| 4. Rahul Dravid# | 4.14 | 12 | Bangalore |
| 5. M S Dhoni | 6 | 12-15 | Chennai |
| 6. Anil Kumble | 2 | 2 | Bangalore |
| 7. Virender Sehwag# | 2.99 | 5 1 | Delhi |
| 8. Harbhajan Singh | 3.4 | 1.5 | Mumbai |
| 9. S Sreesanth | 2.5 | 1.5-2 | Mohali |
| 10. Ishant sharma | 3.8 | 0.4 | KOLKATA |
| 11. Dinesh Karthik | 2.1 | 0.35-0.40 | Delhi |
| 12. Irfan Pathan | 3.7 | 1.5 | Mohali |
| Note: Players like Sachin, Sourav, Rahul, Anil Kumble and Sehwag get around Rs 1.5 crore from BCCI a year while Dhoni and Yuvraj get Rs 1 crore #Sachin (Mumbai), Sourav (Kolkata), Dravid (Bangalore), Yuvraj (Mohali) and Sehwag (Delhi) are icon players who get 15% more than the price of the highest bid player in their team. | |||
Eight franchise owners, including corporate tycoons like Mukesh Ambani and liquor baron Vijay Mallya and Bollywood superstars Shahrukh Khan and Priety Zinta, bid for 77 cricketers in a pioneering process that has the potential to change the face of the game.
The services of flamboyant Sri Lankan opener Sanath Jayasuriya, despite his age (38), was won by Ambani-owned Mumbai team for a whopping Rs 3.9 crore.
| THE FOREIGN PLAYERS | ||
| IPL Fee* | Team | |
| 1. Andrew Symonds | 5.4 | Hyderabad |
| 2. Sanath Jayasuriya | 3.9 | Mumbai |
| 3. Jacques Kallis | 3.6 | Bangalore |
| 4. Brett Lee | 3.6 | Mohali |
| 5. Chris Gayle | 3.2 | Kolkata |
| 6. Kumar Sangakkara | 2.8 | Mohali |
| 7. Brendon McCullum | 2.8 | Kolkata |
| *Rs crore per year (Endorsement money by industry estimates) | ||
Australian speedster Brett Lee (Rs 3.6 crore), South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis (Rs 3.6 crore), Harbhajan Singh (Rs 3.4 crore), West Indian opener Chris Gayle (Rs 3.2 crore) and retiring Australian wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist (Rs 2.8 crore) were some of the other big draws.
