EPL - AUCTION

Welcome to the upcoming Auction for the coming season.

A number of players
each day will be put up for auction. These will be a mixture of the star, high, middle and low brackets. If you wish to bid for one of the
players available for that day, you have until 9pm UK time on that
evening to submit your bids.

The highest bidder at 9pm will be the winner.

Note:
No editing of posts is allowed. Once you have made a bid that is your bid, and you have to write another post if you want to place an improved bid. I'm sure you will all understand that this is to stop people editing their bids to stay in the lead, so to speak. Any edited posts will be disregarded and will not count.

The players up for auction will be announced soon as well as which days each player is available on.

STAR

Sachin Tendulkar
Virendar Sehwag
MS Dhoni
Dale Steyn
Jaques Kallis
AB de Villiers
Shane Watson
David Warner
Lasith Malinga
Shahid Afridi
Kieron Pollard

High:

Hafeez, Siddle, Katich, Gul, Sammy, B.Taylor, Ponting, M.Johnson, Misbah, Dwayne Bravo, Symonds, Vettori, Dilshan, B.McCullum, Gambhir, Zaheer Khan, Nannes, Sangakkara, M.Hussey, R.Ashwin, Gilchrist, Dravid, Yuvraj, Raina, Jayawardene, Tait, Bailey, Mishra, Younis Khan, Amla, G.Smith, Mathews, M.Clarke, M.Morkel, Warne, Hayden

Middle:

U.Akmal, Tharanga, Riaz, Tahir, S.Clarke, How, Doherty, K.Akmal, A.Akmal, Mendis, Edwards, Benn, Simmons, J.Khan, Rohit, Munaf, Harbajhan, Kohli, Langeveldt, Duminy, C.White, du Plessis, Southee, Bollinger, Haddin, Parnell, Ryder, Hodge, N.McCullum, Lee, Christain, Hogg, Pattinson, Y.Pathan, I.Pathan, Oram, Vijay, Tiwary, P.Kumar, Ashraful, Shakib, Iqbal, Malik, Boucher, Botha, Rehman, Laxman, Narine, MacGill, Harris

Low:

Devon Smith, Dwayne Smith, Vincent, Samaraweere, Darren Bravo, Khawaja, Cummings, Chandimal, Bishoo, Hassan, Taibu, Cosgrove, Doshi, Uthappa, Paine, P.Patel, S.Marsh, Fergusson, S.Smith, Birt, Finch, M.Marsh, O'Keefe, Wade, McKay, Hastings, V.Kumar, Rahane, van Wyk, Ntini, Bosman, Miller, Jayasuriya, Kupugerdera, Kulasekera, Rampaul, Ramdin, Samuels, Price, Cheema, Obuya, Massiah, M.Shazhad

Really dont think Pollard belongs to the above category but each to their own I suppose.

i defo want malinga, my bowling attack needs strengthing!

think pollard should be, game changer for somerset

are we gonna be able to say which players should be in the auction for other categories like we did in the IPL?

like nominate some?

Sainty and me are talking about players atm, got a basic list sorted just finalising it

PLAYER LIST UP, feedback welcome

Is that Phillip Hughes in the low category? If so, he's signed for Worcs this season. If it isn't, ignore me!

It is Hughes, will remove him!

No worries mate.

Am I right in Albie Morkel being in the auction and Morne Morkel already being in the league?

Gregers wrote:Am I right in Albie Morkel being in the auction and Morne Morkel already being in the league?

Other way around I think. Had a quick look through the auction and a couple of names missing are:

Sunil Narine
Stuart MacGill
Ryan Harris
Ben Hilfenhaus
Pathan brothers
Muralitharan

Apologies if they are there, I probably missed them.

By the way, could Warne and Hayden be there? they did both play in the BBL last month.

Murali is at the Unicorns already, Yusuf Pathan is there

The others I will add, and Warne and Hayden will be added to the high list

Cheers, Gregers

Yeah, Albie Morkel is already at Somerset and I think Hussey. D has signed for Notts again, althought that may just be from him and has not been confirmed by Notts yet!

Albie Morkel definitly at Somerset

If Pollard is in the high category then so should Yuvraj.Better than Poolard in every department.

shankythebiggestengfan wrote:If Pollard is in the high category then so should Yuvraj.Better than Poolard in every department.

Pollard is regarded as a leading T20 cricketer. Yuvraj hasn't played since October. You may think that Yuvi's better but in a T20 competition Pollard will always be in the top bracket.

What about Mohammad Shahzad of Afghanistan. He played a great reverse sweep off Ajmal last week and would fit well into the low category.

i hope the auction is in May.

Suliemmn Benn could go in the low category...

Is Benn to high in the middle column?

Gregers wrote:Is Benn to high in the middle column?

Up to you. The point is, I guess, that some players are over-priced and others bargains. If it was up to me he is in the middle.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/story/553866.html

I think he's a middle quality player based on him being a genuine threat

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EDIT 1: Player list updated, Sainty can you pm me about how many we should have in the auction per day


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EDIT 2: Symonds has contacted the EPL board and wishes to bow out after this tournament

When is the auction?I thought this was supposed to start in May/June.

Its next week shanky, I believe it is at least

Gregers wrote:Its next week shanky, I believe it is at least

impossible for me to stay up till 1.30 IST late night with exams coming up.

Cant we have it at a fixed time?
Say 12.30pm to 2.00 pm English time?

I think its already been said it'll be finished at 9(at night) mate

shanks im not around till 4pm most days..

also it has been confirmed that will be 9pm closing time...

im only around all day tomorrow and today.

So any suggestions?

cricketfan90 wrote:shanks im not around till 4pm most days..

also it has been confirmed that will be 9pm closing time...

im only around all day tomorrow and today.

it has been confirmed by both runners that 9pm english time is the cut off

cricketfan90 wrote:

cricketfan90 wrote:shanks im not around till 4pm most days..

also it has been confirmed that will be 9pm closing time...

im only around all day tomorrow and today.

it has been confirmed by both runners that 9pm english time is the cut off

So I shall PM my bids shall I?

Its 9am to 9pm English Time, if you want to pm top bid amounts to Sainty (as he's your league runner) then thats fine

Gregers wrote:Its 9am to 9pm English Time, if you want to pm top bid amounts to Sainty (as he's your league runner) then thats fine

And to you?

Your in Sainty's league so they would go to him, if Sainty isn't going to be around that evening he can then send them to me if necessary

Shouldnt we be having a larger auction purse than what it was for the IPL for the EPL because the EPL teams,unlike the IPL teams only have 2 overseas players in their squads and also unlike the IPL,there will be injuries in this league?So need to buy more players.In the IPL we already had 10 foreign players in our squads.

Players just wont be as expensive, shanks

GG wrote:Players just wont be as expensive, shanks

No the base price is same isnt it?

Maybe the auctions will get over quickly as the managers wont have much money left.

I'd say to pm bids to both me and Gregers, purely because I have a pretty scattered university schedule so am in and out a lot and so does Gregers I'd imagine.

RIGHT ITS MONDAY, SO AUCTION SURELY OPEN, LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE?...

erm not to be too annoying or anything, but Gibbs is in the Durham squad