Dhoni Tops Indian Auction Bidding

Indian Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni have attracted the largest bid on the bidding at the Indian Premier League's inaugural auction. Dhoni received 1m USD of bid from Chennai when Australia's Adam GilChrist received $700,000 and Shane Warne received $450,000. Players will be paid annually by eight city by Eight city franchises. The players contract is secured for 3 years by BCCI. Here is the list of other players and their team.
Mahendra Dhoni: $1.5m (Chennai)
Andrew Symonds: $1.35m (Hyderabad)
Sanath Jayasuriya: $975,000 (Mumbai)
Ishant Sharma: $950,000 (Kolkata)
Irfan Pathan: $925,000 (Mohali)
Brett Lee : $900,000 (Mohali)
Jacques Kallis: $900,000 (Bangalore)
RP Singh: $875,000 (Hyderabad)
Harbhajan Singh: $850,000 (Mumbai)
Chris Gayle: $800,000 (Kolkata)

MS Dhoni was bought by Indian Cements where, Indian former captain Sourav Ganguly was bought by kolkata franchise which is backed by bollywood superstar Shar Rukh Khan. Shah Rukh's Kolkata franchise also bought Pakistan's troubled fast bowler shoiab Akhtar.

Symonds will play the later matches.

Andrew symonds one of the strong or good player of australia will not play the starting games on the upcoming ICC world cup which is going to be started after 7 days. He had ratured his right biceps in a match agains England on Feb 2. He was tested with tennis ball for 10 minutes and reports have said that he will play the match from 24th march. There are so many problems now in the news about australian team with injuries and other. Symonds come back will surely help the australian team and the fans of course.
Symonds have a good record and he is a key player of the Australian team. He have made 4,037 runs and 121 wickets from his 161 internationals and is in the recovery condition now. There are scotland, south africa and the netherlands in australia's group which is quite easy for them to be passed from the initial matches.