IPL 2011 Teams & Players Info

IPL season 4 is on a way so cricket fans are eagerly wating for information about upcoming team fixtures and team players. IPL cricket was started as a contract of renewal all team's after three year, so in this IPL season 4 all IPL franchises were bettled for auction on 8 and 9 January at the Royal Gardenia, Bangalore in which bidding of 350 players have participated. Each player had bidding price of $20,000 to $400,000 and any franchise could not allow bidding below it. Players were allowed to set their base price between these prices. There are 10 teams in the IPL and will play each 14 matches. There will be total 72 matches.

Teams and Players of IPL 4

Kings XI Punjab:

This franchise of IPL 4 is based in Mohali, India. The owners of this team are Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia (Bombay Dyeing), Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group), Mohit Burman (Dabur). Team has spent $6,945, 000 in auction.
Players and bidding price for each listed below:

• Adam Gilchrist: $900,000
• David Hussey: $1.4 million
• Dinesh Karthik: $900,000
• Shaun Marsh: $400,000
• Stuart Broad: $400,000
• Abhishek Nayar: $800,000
• Praveen Kumar: $800,000
• Ryan Harris: $325,000
• Piyush Chawla - Retained
• Nathan Rimmington: $20,000

Rajasthan Royals:

Emerging Media (Lachlan Murdoch, A.R Jha and co.), Shilpa Shetty, Raj Kundra, Suresh and Kavita Chellaram owned this franchise that based in Jaipur city, India. It has allotted $6,195, 000 on players in auction.
Players of the team with their base price-

• Ross Taylor: $1 million
• Rahul Dravid: $500,000
• Johan Botha: $950,000
• Paul Collingwood: $250,000
• Shaun Tait: $300,000
• Pankaj Singh: $95,000
• Shane Warne and Shane Watson are retained players in team.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

It represents Kolkata and held by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan (Red Chillies Entertainment) and Jai Mehta (The Sea Island Investment Ltd). Team has used up $8,575, 000 for bidding players in auction, 2011.
Players that will be playing in this IPL 4 from this team are-

• Gautam Gambhir: $2.4 million
• Yusuf Pathan: $2.1 million
• Jacques Kallis: $1.1 million
• Brad Haddin: $325,000
• Shakib Al Hasan: $425,000
• Brett Lee: $400,000
• Eoin Morgan: $350,000
• Manoj Tiwary: $475,000
• Lakshmipathy Balaji: $500,000
• Jaidev Unadkat: $250,000
• Ryan ten Doeschate: 150,000
• James Pattinson: $100,000

Mumbai Indians:

This team has ownership of Reliance Industrial Investments and Holdings Ltd and stands for Mumbai in the IPl. $8,520, 000 of amount has invested by this franchise for IPL 4.
Auctioned players of the team are mentioned below-

• Rohit Sharma: $2 million
• Andrew Symonds: $850,000
• David Jacobs: $190,000
• James Franklin: $100,000
• Munaf Patel: $700,000
• Clint McKay: $110,000
• Aiden Blizzard: $20,000

Retained players are Sachin Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga and Keiron Pollard.
Delhi Daredevils:

GMR Sports Private Ltd is the owner of this Delhi presenting franchise, Delhi Daredevils. Cost of the team for coming IPL is $8,250, 000.
 Players with their bid are as-

• Virender Sehwag: Retained
• Irfan Pathan: $1.9 million
• David Warner: $750,000
• Naman Ojha: $270,000
• James Hopes: $350,000
• Morne Morkel: $475,000
• Aaron Finch: $300,000
• Matthew Wade: $100,000
• Ajit Agarkar: $210,000
• Ashok Dinda: $375,000
• Roelof Van der Merwe: $50,000
• Venugopal Rao: $700,000
• Andrew McDonald: $80,000
• Colin Ingram: $100,000
• Robert Frylinck: $ 20,000
• Travis Birt: $ 20,000

Chennai Super Kings:

Vice-Chairman and Managing Director of India Cements Ltd., N. Srinivasan is the holder of this Chennai based cricket team Franchise. They paid $8,615, 000 for team members.
Team has select following players-

• Michael Hussey: $425,000
• Wriddhiman Saha: $100,000
• Dwayne Bravo: $200,000
• Doug Bollinger: $700,000
• Ravichandran  Ashwin: $850,000
• Subramaniam Badrinath: $800,000
• Scott Styris: $100,000
• Ben Hilfenhaus: $100,000
• Joginder Sharma: $150,000
• Nuwan Kulasekara: $100,000
• Sudeep Tyagi: $240,000
• Suraj Randiv: $80,000
• George Bailey: $50,000
• Francois du Plessis: $120,000
• M S Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Albie Morkel are retained.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Vijay Mallaya (UB Group) possessed this team presents Bangalore in the IPL and put in $8,640, 000 on players to make his team more powerful.
Team members’ list with bid price-

• Virat Kohli - retained
• Tillakaratne Dilshan: $650,000
• Zaheer Khan: $900,000
• AB de Villiers: $1.1 million
• Daniel Vettori: $550,000
• Saurabh Tiwary: $1.6 million
• Dirk Nannes: $650,000
• Cheteshwar Pujara: $700,000
• Charl Langeveldt: $140,000
• Luke Pomersbach: $50,000
• Abhimanyu Mithun: $260,000
• Johan Van der Wath: $50,000
• Rilee Rossouw: $20,000
• Nuwan Pradeep: $20,000
• Mohammad Kaif: $130,000
• Jonathan Vandiar: $20,000

Deccan Chargers:

Owner of this team is Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd based in Hyderabad. Used amount for this franchise is $6,875, 000 in auction and team players are-

• Kevin Pietersen: $650,000
• Cameron White: $1.1 million
• Kumar Sangakkara: $700,000
• JP Duminy: $300,000
• Shikhar Dhawan: $300,000
• Ishant Sharma: $450,000
• Dale Steyn: $1.2 million
• Pragyan Ojha: $500,000
• Amit Mishra: $300,000
• Daniel Christian: $900,000
• Manpreet Gony: $290,000
• Chris Lynn: $20,000
• Juan Theron: $85,000
• Michael Lumb: $80,000

Sahara Pune Warriors:

This is one of the two new teams that included in the IPL last year that stand for Pune in the Indian Premium League. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group owned this team and purchased team in auction at a cost $8,070, 000.
Pune includes following players:

• Yuvraj Singh: $1.8 million
• Graeme Smith: $500,000
• Robin Uthappa: $2.1 million
• Angelo Matthews: $950,000
• Tim Paine: $270,000
• Ashish Nehra: $850,000
• Nathan McCullum: $100,000
• Callum Ferguson: $300,000
• Wayne Parnell: $160,000
• Mitchell Marsh: $290,000
• Jerome Taylor: $100,000
• Alfonso Thomas: $100,000
• Jesse Ryder: $150,000
• Murali Kartik: $400,000 

Kochi IPL Team:

Kochi is also involved as a new team in this IPL presenting Kochi, Kerala. Owners are Anchor Earth, Parinee Developers, Film Waves Combine, Anand Shyam, Rendezvous Sports World and Vivek Venugopal. Owners have depleted $8,640, 000 for players in the auction for playing.
Players auctioned for this team are-

• Mahela Jayawardene: $1.5 million
• VVS Laxman: $400,000
• Brendon McCullum: $475,000
• S Sreesanth: $900,000
• RP Singh: $500,000
• Parthiv Patel: $290,000
• Ravindra Jadeja: $950,000
• Steven Smith: $200,000
• Muttiah Muralitharan: $1.1 million
• Ramesh Powar: $180,000
• Brad Hodge: $425,000
• Thisara Perera: $80,000
• R Vinay Kumar: $475,000
• Steven O'Keefe: $20,000
• Owais Shah: $200,000
• Michael Klinger: $75,000
• John Hastings: $20,000