IPL commissioner Lalit Modi dismissed suggestions that a deal for Pietersen has already been done
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Kevin Pietersen will continue to be in the glare during and after the IPL auction, to be held in Goa on February 6. pic/afp |
IPL commissioner Lalit Modi dismissed suggestions that a deal for Pietersen has already been done
Twenty-one English players will be in the auction for the Indian Premier League, IPL commissioner Lalit Modi has revealed.
Kevin Pietersen is unsurprisingly the most expensive Englishman on the auction list, which features 114 players in total, with a minimum price of $1.35million (approx Rs 66,176,639).
Other England players involved in the auction, which gets under way on February 6, include Andrew Flintoff, Monty Panesar, Steve Harmison, Paul Collingwood, Ian Bell, Matt Prior and Owais Shah, while former internationals Darren Gough and Dominic Cork are also on the list.
Flintoff has a minimum price of $950,000, with Harmison and Collingwood priced at $250,000, Bell at $200,000 and Prior at $150,000.
Modi told Sky Sports News: "This (the price) is based upon the 14 league games (not including the semi-final or final). If they play 10 of the 14 games they get paid according to ratio. If play seven they get half."
Modi also dismissed suggestions that a deal for Pietersen has already been done.
"That is not the case," he said. "The rules prohibit that. All players must go through the auction. They must be picked through the auction at hammer price.
Category A
"The names go into a category Kevin Pietersen is in category A, along with Andrew Flintoff. Each category will go for auction by itself. Category A will start at $1.35m and then go up in increments, maybe of $50,000 or $100,000."
Modi added: "Everybody is very much looking forward to having England players coming out here. The players are happy they are all able to participate. They are all very good players and I think it will be very good for the second edition of the IPL."
The most expensive player in last year's edition of the IPL was India's wicket-keeper batsman Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who went for $1.5m.
And Modi was unwilling to predict whether any of England's biggest names would exceed that this time round.
"I can't comment on that," he said. "But they have a very high base price and are very much in demand."
