IPL Draft: MS Dhoni is first pick, to play for Pune, Raina goes to Rajkot
Pune picks Rahane, Ashwin, Brendon McCullum is first overseas player, drafted to Rajkot.
Pune picks Rahane, Ashwin, Brendon McCullum is first overseas player, drafted to Rajkot.
Mumbai
: MS Dhoni was the first pick for the new Pune franchise, owned by Sanjiv Goenka’s New Rising during the first-ever Indian Premier League (IPL) Player Draft, held here on Tuesday. Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings teammate Suresh Raina was the first player chosen by Rajkot, owned by Keshav Bansal’s mobile company Intex.
The other four players chosen by Pune were Team India members Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Australian skipper Steven Smith and South Africa all-rounder Faf du Plessis.
Rajkot's other choices were: Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Dwayne Bravo. Both franchises will lose Rs 39 crore from their auction purse, and will have Rs 27 crore to spend at the auction in Bangalore to make up the rest of their squad.
All the other Super Kings and Royals players will not go into the main player auction in February.
Team Rajkot picks all-rounder Dwayne Bravo as their fifth and final choice in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015.@msdhoni to play for Pune franchise. First to be picked in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Team Rajkot picks @imjadeja as their second choice in the vivo #IPLdraft.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Teams Pune's picks from the vivo #IPLdraft - MS Dhoni, Ajinkya Rahane, R Ashwin, Steve Smith, Faf du Plessis
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Here are the live updates:
T20 specialist Suresh Raina will play for Rajkot thus ending the Dhoni-Raina combination in the IPL.
.@ImRaina to play for Team Rajkot #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Pune have picked Team India's reliable middle-order batsman Ajinkya Rahane and premiem off-spineer Ravichandran Ashwin.
Team Pune picks @ajinkyarahane88 as their second choice in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Off spinner @ashwinravi99 goes to Team Pune #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015New Zealand skipper Brendon McCullum becomes first overseas player to be picked. He will feature for Rajkot.
Brendon McCullum first overseas player to be picked in the #IPLdraft. He will represent Team Rajkot.
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Team Pune picks Steven Smith as their fourth choice in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Team Rajkot picks all-rounder James Faulkner as their fourth choice in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Last pick for Team Pune is batsman Faf du Plessis in the vivo #IPLdraft
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015According to reports, six top Indian cricketers and four sought-after foreigners, from a pool of 50 cricketers, are likely to be among the hottest picks at the first-ever player draft.
The summary of the vivo #IPLdraft pic.twitter.com/tGEGjZcwnr
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 15, 2015Sanjeev Goenka's New Rising won the bid for the Pune franchise while Intex won the bid for Rajkot after a reverse bidding process held in Delhi on December 8 to replace suspended teams Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for the next two editions to be held in 2016 and 2017.
Also available for picking by the Twenty20 League's two new franchises are other top international stars such as New Zealander Brendon McCullum, Australia's Shane Watson, now retired from Test cricket, and current captain Steven Smith, and West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo from a total of 50 cricketers, who played for suspended IPL teams CSK and RR in the last edition earlier this year.
List of players for vivo IPL 2016 draft https://t.co/BuYsmJNLDU pic.twitter.com/vBq5aPEYaq
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 14, 2015Pune will be given the choice to pick the players first because they were the lowest bidders (negative bids) to buy the new team for two years in the draft to be held at the Mumbai Cricket Association's recreation centre at the Bandra Kurla Complex.
The bidding process for the two new franchises was necessitated by the suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for the involvement of some of their officials and co-owners in the 2013 IPL spot-fixing scandal, which was probed by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice (retd) R M Lodha committee.
Owners of new IPL team pledge passion for cricket https://t.co/tOhNylsjT9 pic.twitter.com/3pE6CaiNK6
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) December 8, 2015However, both the CSK and RR will be allowed back in the league after serving out their suspension.
The cricketers from the two suspended franchises will be divided into two groups of capped and uncapped and the top names will be sold through the draft system. The two new teams will have a minimum of Rs 40 crore and a maximum of Rs 66 crore to buy players.
Dhoni, who led the Super Kings for eight seasons, is expected to be in the first list and the franchises, choosing the first two players in the draft in which one player each will be put up to be chosen alternately, would have to shell out Rs 12.5 crore.
It would also be interesting to note whether Rajkot guns for its home player Jadeja whose stocks have risen after he made his comeback into the Indian squad in the Test series against South Africa and shone with both ball and bat.
Other leading players who would be in the draft are CSK's Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Dwayne Bravo and Brendon McCullum and RR’s Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith and Shane Watson.
As per the tender for the two new teams, the first capped player would be paid 12.5 crore while the remaining four capped players are to get Rs 9.5 crore, Rs 7.5 crore, Rs 5.5 crore, and Rs 4 crore respectively.
Uncapped players can be picked for a stipulated fee of Rs 4 crore.
List of Indian players (33): Ravichandran Ashwin, Stuart Binny, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhawal Kulkarni, Abhishek Nayar, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Sanju Samson, Mohit Sharma, Rahul Sharma, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Eklavya Dwivedi, Deepak Hooda, Vikramjeet Malik, Mithun Manhas, Ronit More, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Ishwar Chandra Pandey, Pardeep Sahu, Dinesh Salunkhe, Barinder Singh Saran, Ankit Nagendra Sharma, Pratyush Singh, Pravin Tambe, Rahul Tewatia, Sagar Vijay Trivedi and Dishant Yagnik.
List of Foreign players (17): Kyle Abbott (South Africa), Samuel Badree (West Indies), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Ben Cutting (Australia), Faf du Plessis (South Africa), James Faulkner (Australia), Matt Henry (New Zealand), Michael Hussey (Australia), Brendon McCullum (New Zealand), Christopher Morris (South Africa), Kane Richardson (Australia), Dwayne Smith (West Indies), Steven Smith (Australia), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Juan Theron (South Africa), Andrew Tye (Australia) and Shane Watson (Australia).