Brian Lara and Adam Gilchrist placed in IPL top-bracket
Brian Lara, the West Indian legendary batsman along with Australian wicketkeeper batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Adam-Gilchrist-c918 have made a place into the top-bracket price list for the IPL season 4 auctions.
According to the news, the list forwarded by the IPL Governing Council to the franchises does not contain the much expected names of Mitchell Johnson, Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 and Ricky Ponting.
So far, about 400 players around the world have expressed their willingness to take part into the fourth season of IPL, and all of them have been placed into six different brackets ranging from $ 20,000 to 400,000.
Among rest of the Australian players who have been placed into the top price bracket, we have Shaun Marsh, who was the top scorer in first season of the cricketing extravaganza, Gilchrist, who lead Deccan Chargers to the top of the podium in second edition
of the IPL and the pacer Brett Lee.
Surprisingly, Mike Hussey and David Hussey have gone down to second base price bracket of $ 300,000, while David Warner, the impressive hitter has slipped to the third bracket which has a base price of $ 200,000.
However, it was interesting to see that Brian Lara, who hasn’t played any ODI since 2007, has been put into the top bracket. Revealing the reasons behind offering such huge amount to the batting legend, a source at IPL Governing Council said, “Brian Lara
is a big brand name. Also the fact, he may not have been too comfortable being bracketed in a lower base-price category.” Besides Lara, Chris Gayle is the only player from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760 who has been put into the top bracket.
From England, who also happen to be the defending champions of world T20 world cup, 6 players have been included into the top price base bracket for IPL 4. The players from England comprise of Stuart Broad, Michael Yardy, James Anderson, Luke Wright, Graeme
Swann and Kevin Pietersen. From http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 are in the top running.
Kumar Sangakkara, the Sri Lankan skipper and an emphatic left-handed batsman, however, could not make into the top bracket, but two of his teammates; Mahela Jayawardene and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 have also
been placed into the top price base bracket.
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