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List of players retained ahead of the 2014 IPL auction


Chennai Super Kings

Players retained: MS Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, R Ashwin, Dwayne Bravo
Auction purse remaining: Rs 210 million
Right-to-match cards available: 1 (not eligible for a capped India player)




Delhi Daredevils

Players retained: None
Auction purse remaining: Rs 600 million
Right-to-match cards available: 3




Kings XI Punjab

Players retained: David Miller, Manan Vohra
Auction purse remaining: Rs 435 million
Right-to-match cards available: 2




Kolkata Knight Riders

Players retained: Gautam Gambhir, Sunil Narine
Auction purse remaining: Rs 380 million
Right-to-match cards available: 2




Mumbai Indians

Players retained: Rohit Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Harbhajan Singh, Ambati Rayudu
Auction purse remaining: Rs 210 million
Right-to-match cards available: 1




Rajasthan Royals

Players retained: Shane Watson, James Faulkner, Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson, Stuart Binny
Auction purse remaining: Rs 225 million
Right-to-match cards available: 1




Royal Challengers Bangalore

Players retained: Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers
Auction purse remaining: Rs 305 million
Right-to-match cards available: 1




Sunrisers Hyderabad

Players retained: Shikhar Dhawan, Dale Steyn
Auction purse remaining: Rs 380 million
Right-to-match cards available: 2

IPL 2014 : List of players retained ahead of the 2014 IPL auction | Cricket News | Indian Premier League | ESPN Cricinfo

Bangalore to host IPL 7 auction

NEW DELHI: The 2014 Indian Premier League (IPL) auction is going to take place in Bangalore on February 12 and 13.

According to BCCI source, the IPL governing council had earlier shortlisted two other venues for the event - Mumbai and Chennai. But the board finally gave nod to Bangalore after consultation with the other key members in the board. The teams were told about the venue on Friday evening

Bangalore to host IPL 7 auction - The Times of India

 

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RCB retain Kohli, Gayle and de Villiers



Royal Challengers Bangalore have retained Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers ahead of the 2014 IPL auction. The franchise has also announced the appointment of Daniel Vettori, who played for Royal Challengers in previous seasons, as head coach and Allan Donald as bowling coach.



Trent Woodhill, who is currently David Warner's personal batting coach, was named the franchise's batting and fielding coach for the season.



January 10 is the deadline for the IPL franchises to announce their list of retained players, ahead of the auction on February 12. Each franchise is allowed to retain up to five players and can buy back additional members of their squads at the auction via right-to-match cards. The number of right-to-match cards available to each franchise will depend on the number of players already retained. Since Royal Challengers retained three players, they will have one right-to-match card at the auction.



A fixed amount will be deducted from Royal Challengers' auction purse of Rs 600 million (approx. US$ 9.6 million, at the current exchange rate) for each of three players retained: Rs 125 million for player one, Rs 95 million for player two and Rs 75 million for player three. That will leave the franchise with Rs 305 million to spend at the auction. This season, each squad must include no less than 16 and no more than 27 players, with a maximum of nine overseas players.

Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle have often won Royal Challengers games with their explosive top-order batting © AFP
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The amount deducted from the auction purse is not necessarily the IPL fee agreed to between the franchise and the retained player.



India's Kohli, who captained Royal Challengers in 2013, is one of the leading limited-overs batsmen in world cricket at the moment, while West Indies' Gayle is unarguably the most destructive Twenty20 batsman on his day. Last season Gayle slammed a world-record 175 not out off 66 balls against Pune Warriors, on his way to an aggregate of 708 at 59.00 - he was No. 2 on the tournament's run charts. Kohli slotted in at No. 3, with 634 runs at 45.28. South Africa's de Villiers, who bats lower down the order for Royal Challengers, scored 360 runs at 36.00. The trio forms an intimidating batting core for Royal Challengers.



Former New Zealand captain Vettori, who has been plagued by injury of late, had led the team before Kohli. He replaced Ray Jennings, who had coached Royal Challengers over several seasons. Vettori's appointment is unique, given he is still an active player - he is currently playing for the Brisbane Heat Australia's Big Bash League. Donald, who is South Africa's bowling coach, had worked with the now-defunct Pune Warriors in IPL 2013. Woodhill, an Australian, is a batting and fielding specialist, having worked with Pakistan and New Zealand and several domestic sides. He is credited with moulding Warner at New South Wales, and also coached the Melbourne Stars and Delhi Daredevils.



"I am happy to be retained by RCB and it's great to be back in Bangalore," Kohli said. "I look forward to working closely with Dan Vettori. Allan Donald's experience will add a lot of value."

IPL 2014 news : RCB retain Kohli, Gayle and de Villiers | Cricket News | Indian Premier League | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[W.11]

@W.11
I understand your pain. Your players won't get 10-12 cr INR just for playing 35 days in t20.

i don't really care but the quality of cricket in IPL is beyond pathetic, just hoo haa for nothing

 

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i don't really care but the quality of cricket in IPL is beyond pathetic, just hoo haa for nothing

yea.....batsmans like kp,dhawan,virat,gayle facing bowlers like mj,dale,malinga,lee is a joke

u guys deserve teams like afganistan....

actually they are even better

just bcoz u r jealous that pakistani players arent allowed........thats why u r saying wrong things about ipl.....

if u dont have something to contribute.....then dont comment plz

 

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yea.....batsmans like kp,dhawan,virat,gayle facing bowlers like mj,dale,malinga,lee is a joke

u guys deserve teams like afganistan....

actually they are even better

just bcoz u r jealous that pakistani players arent allowed........thats why u r saying wrong things about ipl.....

if u dont have something to contribute.....then dont comment plz

to be fair i hate to see bowlers like Dale Steyn being thrashed to all corners of park by average Indian batsmen on flat indian pitches in IPL

 

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to be fair i hate to see bowlers like Dale Steyn being thrashed to all corners of park by average Indian batsmen on flat indian pitches in IPL

flat tracks........jaipur,dharmashala arent flat track my friend

besides.....this year......it will be probably held in south africa or dubai......so chill

its the best form of cricket

 

[sree45]

to be fair i hate to see bowlers like Dale Steyn being thrashed to all corners of park by average Indian batsmen on flat indian pitches in IPL

Dale steyn being thrashed? :O
His economy is some where near in the last two IPL's. Let's not forget pitches at hyderabad. 120 was a winning score.

 

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IPL the most loved league


More power to IPL in Afghanistan


Almost every household in the country goes to extraordinary lengths to watch matches.

Rizwan Ull-Hayat doesn’t think twice before tanking up the generator. It’s the night his favourite Indian Premier League (IPL) team, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), will take to the field. And he doesn’t want to miss seeing his favourite players in action for even a second; not even an erratic power supply could play spoilsport.

Ull-Hayat could easily pass off as just another Indian bitten by the IPL mania bug. Except that the 23-year-old lives in Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.

For a country — and its people — who are still in the process of rebuilding themselves after over 30 years of war, IPL is the stuff that dreams are made of.

Shafiqullah Asmat Stanikzai, the Afghanistan cricket team’s manager, claims that “almost every person” in the country is glued to the TV set each time an IPL match plays out.

Ali Ahmed Darwish, 26, a manager in an oil company in Kabul, suggests a more modest figure. “Almost 80% of Afghans watch the IPL religiously. We have even managed to get a satellite TV connection at work to watch the afternoon matches.”

In other parts of Afghanistan, fans like Ull-Hayat raise the zeal up a notch. “Everybody here (Nangarhar) watches the matches and since the power supply is not regular, all of us arrange for enough oil just before a match to run our generators till the end of the game,” explains Ull-Hayat, who works as a finance manager at a company in Nangarhar, casually, like it’s no effort at all.

Darwish agrees. “Kabul is the only city where there is a regular power supply. I know so many people in other places who watch matches through fuel-run generators.”

And on days when even the generators fail, some fans head to a neighbour’s house or get an over-by-over update from friends or relatives through mobile phones.

Who are they cheering?
KKR seems to be the toast of the nation. But the fondness has more to do with team owner and Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan's Pathan lineage (his paternal grandfather was from Afghanistan) than the line-up of players.

Another team, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), has begun to slowly gain popularity, riding on the shoulders of one player — Chris Gayle. “I really wish they (RCB) win this time. But before that, I wish I could go to India, watch them thrash Chennai and avenge the recent defeat,” says Sohail Yusufzai, 23, from Kabul.

The opinion is divided within the national cricket team. While the manager is rooting for KKR, he says each team player’s preference differs on the basis of whom he looks up to in the Indian squad. The wicketkeeper-batsman, for example, is rooting for Chennai Super Kings just because he is an ardent fan of captain MS Dhoni.

Why the fuss over IPL?
Love for Indian actors and cricketers apart, the IPL craze is fuelled by the belief that it is a way out of a despondent state of affairs in a war-ravaged country. Under the Taliban rule, sports were banned.

“Afghans love Indian cricketers, from Rahul Dravid to Dhoni. Our players watch almost every match and they want to be part of the IPL,” says Stanikzai. “We’re in desperate need of help to change the face of the game in our country, which we’ve sought from the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India). We look up to the Indians and we’ll be grateful if the BCCI backs us the way Ireland and Scotland are backed by the ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board).”

To most Afghans, the smallest chance of seeing their players in the IPL simply offers a ray of hope for putting their lives back together.

More power to IPL in Afghanistan - Mumbai - DNA

 

[W.11]

yea.....batsmans like kp,dhawan,virat,gayle facing bowlers like mj,dale,malinga,lee is a joke

u guys deserve teams like afganistan....

actually they are even better

just bcoz u r jealous that pakistani players arent allowed........thats why u r saying wrong things about ipl.....

if u dont have something to contribute.....then dont comment plz

let me show you how is the quality of IPL

 

[Srinivas]

IPL 7

Where is the face palm in that pic, Seems God is not willing to do a face palm

 

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let me show you how is the quality of IPL

a funny misfielding.....and ipl is not good

learn to admire........ever seen a catch like this

IPL 2010: Best Catches - YouTube

or sixes like this

Dhoni hits 5 sixes in one over of Thissara Perera , Awesome hitting !!! - YouTube

batting like this

AB de Villiers vs Dale Steyn - YouTube

Chris Gayle Fastest Century!! - Ball by Ball - YouTube

or bowling like this

Match 1 - Unmukt Chand Bowled on First Ball - YouTube

@W.11