Monday, March 3, 2008

Symonds and Dhoni go for highest bids in IPL

The owner’s of the teams spent lavishly at the auction for the players of "Indian premier league", with mahender singh dhoni captian of Indian team at the top of the list. On the day of auction the bidding of 77 players reached over 40 million, which turned out to be a big sensation for the players in Indian premier league.

The TV rights were sold for an astonishing 1billion $ for next ten years, and the teams were sold to $723 millions.

Chennai won over Mumbai in the race for the Indian captain "Mahendar Singh Dhoni". The people started cheering when the bid crossed the 1million mark. The south Indian team grabbed dhoni for an astonishing amount of $1.5 million.

Dhoni after hearing this news gave an interview to the indiatimes website saying that he was happy about the bid and never felt tensed or lost sleep for the sake of this bid. He is presently captaining the Indian team in the tri series against Australia.

Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds was next in the list in the Indian Premier League after Dhoni who crossed the 1 million mark. He was bid for $1.35 million by the Hyderabad team.

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