Cricketers auctioned

Cricket's most important event took place in Mumbai on Wednesday. 'Live' cricket players were auctioned for the DHL Indian Premier League, multi millionaire franchisees fighting with each other for the best ones. The India Cements, who own thw Chennai team won the bidding for ODI skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who was the costliest buy, costing $1.5 million. The young Ishant Sharma was bought by Kolkatta for $950,000 and Jaipur paid a bulk of $475,000 for TYusf Pathan who has got an experience of ONE match. Every member of the Twenty20 champion team were bought for a prize that was no where near their base prize. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid and Yuvraj Singh were considered 'icons' and were paid 15% more than the top payed player of their respective teams. Many fans in Chennai have expressed their displeasure at the players being treated like a property. There is a rumour that the players are being paid very less when compared to the money they brought through the auction. For instance the highest bid Dhoni($1.5million) is said to be paid only Rs.35 lakhs. And also that the contracts of the players who refuse to take part in the IPL would be terminated by the BCCI and that the players were threatend with such announcements. Let's hope the IPL gives quality cricket to the fans so the issues might be pushed to the second place.