INDIAN PREMIER LEAGUE-2008

On-field action aside, we could have just witnessed the most eventful day in cricket's history, one when players were bought like stocks at a share market. In the frenetic Indian Premier League auctions,the day kicked off with the blockbuster news of Dhoni being bought for US$1.5 million by Chennai. That set the ball rolling, and no other player was able to catch up with it by the end of the day. Dhoni was part of the first group of players to be auctioned and grossed more than double what Adam Gilchrist did ($700,000 from Hyderabad).
Top ten players at the auction were....
Mahendra Singh,Sanath Jayasuriya,Ishant Sharma,Irfan Pathan,Jacques Kallis,Brett Lee,RPSingh,Harbhajan Singh....
The icon players were....
Sachin Tendulkar,SouravGanguly,Rahul Dravid,Yuvaraj singh and Virendher Sehwag....
At the end of the Dhoni being bought for US$1.5 million by Chennai was the highest paid cricketer inIPL...Andrew Symonds was bought by Hyderabad for US$ 1.35 million next to Dhoni....However other players was bought by Mohali,Mumbai,Kolkata and Bangalore....They had the winning bid of less than 1million US dollars....Indian premier League finally with this auction will change cricket as it played forever.......