The IPL auction brought life-changing amounts of money to some, and snubbed others who were expecting to hit the jackpot
ESPNcricinfo staff12-Jan-2011″It’d be nice to earn those kind of figures in a full career. Its been a funny afternoon, to say the least.”
“I’m sure all those IPL franchises, everyone will know what I’m capable of. I didn’t have anything to prove. Its unfortunate things didn’t come off in the IPL, disappointed but at the same time you’ve got to live life and still got to move on.”
“Dada is like a younger brother to me and I want to win more games together.”
“I am surprised because I never expected that I would be bought for an exorbitant amount of $1.6 million. I would be lying if I say money is not important, but my dream is to play for India.”
“I played with them for three years and have several happy memories with the team. My wife is also from Chennai and she is upset with this change but it happens in the game. I will miss Chennai, my teammates and miraculous captain Dhoni.”
“Definitely not 2.1, considering my performance in the previous IPL, I thought, if I was lucky, I’d go for 1.3, 1.5 or so. God’s been very kind to me.”
he felt a lot of comfort and peace at the massive money spent on him as he was questioning his ability after years out of the national team
“It is a very good start to 2011. People think I am an important player. I am very pleased.”
“I am happy to play for Mumbai Indians. I have played for Mumbai (the domestic side) for five years now. Now I am a complete Mumbaikar!”
“Pressure on him with huge price tag? I don’t think so. Maybe in a T20 game. Dan’s thrilled. He was probably as surprised as a lot of people with his bid. Talking to him before he was pretty happy to get his base price of 50k. We were sitting there watching it, he couldn’t stop laughing for two hours.”
“A lot of good players passed by so thought I might be one of them. Repeat for CSK? Will miss all the great fans of the Chargers but I’m excited to be heading to Chennai. Better change my ring tone on phone, it’s playing the chargers theme song!!!”
“I got Rs 8 lakh (about $17,700) for representing the KKR last year. I had a feeling that domestic fast bowlers would be in demand. I was expecting a good price, but this ($250,000) was unexpected.”
“If the opportunity arose then brilliant but I have plenty of others things to focus my mind. I didn’t lose much sleep over it.”
“Somerset have been really good to me. My wife is English and I was very keen to move to England. Somerset gave me that opportunity, so it’s not going to be a case of ‘thanks very much for three years, but I’m out of here’.”
“I’ve never met him but it will be awesome. The whole world looks at this guy. When I was a boy, he was playing Test cricket and he is still going.”
“The main reason we picked him was because he is the captain. Even if he is not at the peak of his career, I still feel as a leader he has a lot to offer.”
