IPL 7 Auction: Full Coverage | Who got whom | Team Compositions
Karn was not the only player to strike gold on Thursday. Rishi Dhawan, 23, promising allrounder, was also showered with mega bucks on a day dominated by the purchase of uncapped players.
The Karn-bidding war was an absolute stunner. The Uttar Pradesh leg-spinner-cum-left-hand batsman, who was earlier with RCB and more recently with Hyderabad, had a base price of merely Rs 30 lakh. Additionally he had just 11 wickets at 6.60, including a bag of 2 for 19 against Kings XI, to show for his IPL endeavors last year. Delhi and Chennai, who initially bid for him, gave up as soon as Hyderabad and Punjab entered the fray. At that stage, both teams, particularly Punjab, wanted to shore up their spin bowling options. The bidding descended into a flash of 'paddles' until Hyderabad bought him for the highest price of the day, Rs 3.75 crore.
King's XI went into another bidding bout with Rajasthan Royals for Himachal Pradesh's Dhawan but this time won at the cost of Rs 3 crore. "We were sure whom we wanted and at what price," said team owner Ness Wadia. "We were keen on Karn, but pulled out when the bid neared the Rs 4-crore mark. We are happy with Dhawan as he will give us more options in the fast bowling department."
But King's XI were badly lacking in a frontline spinner and hence asked the auctioneer to recall experienced left-arm spinner Murali Kartik who went unsold on Wednesday. They got him for his base price of Rs 1 crore.
Another cricketer who was recalled on Thursday after being ignored on the opening day was Kiwi batsman Ross Taylor whom Delhi bagged for his base price of Rs 2 crore. His inclusion gave the Daredevils a formidable batting pool which could complicate their playing eleven options. Their catch of batsmen included Murali Vijay, Mayank Agarwal, Quinton de Kock, Kevin Pietersen, Ross Taylor, Dinesh Karthik, JP Duminy, Manoj Tiwary, Saurav Tiwary and Kedar Jadav, among others - surely an embarrassment of batting riches.
All the while Rajasthan steadily bought players, adding 14 on Thursday to Wednesday's six. Their most expensive purchase of the day was Rajat Bhatia at Rs 1.7 crore. They also picked up Mumbai allrounder Dhawal Kulkarni for Rs 1.1 crore but the rest were all sub-1 crore purchases. They went home with a number of youngsters, including the talented Karun Nair who in his debut year came up with century knocks in three successive Ranji Trophy matches.
Mumbai, CSK and RCB had little money to splurge after expensive retentions and purchases earlier. RCB were lucky they got Vijay Zol (Rs 30 lakh), Abu Nechim (Rs 30 lakh) and Shadab Jataki (Rs 20 lakh) cheaply. Mumbai, who were in danger of not having a good number of foreigners in the squad, bought Marchant De Lange, Krishmar Santokie and Ben Dunk at bargain prices while Chennai, who bought Ishwar Pandey at Rs 1.5 crore, eased off rather soon.
A total of 154 players were sold over the two days.
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