Saturday brings a bad news for Sourav Ganguly and his fans which turned on bad fortune of them on Sunday.
None of the 10 franchises put his name up in the wish list for the second time after the first round of auctions ended on Sunday.Sourav would not be playing in IPL . It's completely unbeliveable disbelief when his name was announced by the auctioneer on Saturday and there was no response from the franchise owners.On Sunday,disbelief gave way to indignation as none of the franchises pencilled him out to be re-auctioned even though 28 players from the unsold list were given a second chance.UP captain Mohammad Kaif,one of Souravs proteges,in fact,was given a third chance and finally found a buyer in Royal Challengers Bangalore.Souravs Kolkata Knight Riders teammate Murali Kartik,who too had gone unsold in Round I,hit pay dirt when he was re-presented at the auction with Pune Warriors buying him for $400,000 double his base price.It was almost as if the 10 franchises had come to the auction with a mindset that the likes of Sourav,Chris Gayle,Mark Boucher and Brian Lara were not to be touched.The franchises reluctance to buy West Indies and English players was understandable because of the uncertainty over their availability for the entire IPL-4 (April 8-May 20).However,it was baffling why teams like Pune,Kochi and Deccan Chargers who had plenty in their kitty refused to go for Sourav even though they didnt have enough Indian batsmen on their rosters.It was a humiliation of sorts for a man whom BCCI had anointed as an icon player when IPL was conceived.For the record,of the 48 capped Indian players who went on auction,only three, including Sourav,remained unsold.The other two Wasim Jaffer and VRV Singh could not find a buyer even though,unlike Sourav,they were put up for re-auction.KKR,having splurged on Day I,operated on a low key on Sunday.They spent $500,000 on L Balaji and $250,000 on Jaydev Unadkat to bolster their pace attack even as Bengal boy Ashok Dinda was snatched away by Delhi Daredevils.KKR also made a couple of low-key purchases in Dutch allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate and U-20 Aussie pacer James Pattinson,but still failed to address the balance of the side.Having bought seven foreign players and only five Indians,they now have no option but to recruit from CAB first division club Kalighat,which has served as a supply chain for them for three IPL seasons.There is talk of Sourav taking up a mentoring role with an IPL side,but the man himself remained tight-lipped about his future plans.
None of the 10 franchises put his name up in the wish list for the second time after the first round of auctions ended on Sunday.Sourav would not be playing in IPL . It's completely unbeliveable disbelief when his name was announced by the auctioneer on Saturday and there was no response from the franchise owners.On Sunday,disbelief gave way to indignation as none of the franchises pencilled him out to be re-auctioned even though 28 players from the unsold list were given a second chance.UP captain Mohammad Kaif,one of Souravs proteges,in fact,was given a third chance and finally found a buyer in Royal Challengers Bangalore.Souravs Kolkata Knight Riders teammate Murali Kartik,who too had gone unsold in Round I,hit pay dirt when he was re-presented at the auction with Pune Warriors buying him for $400,000 double his base price.It was almost as if the 10 franchises had come to the auction with a mindset that the likes of Sourav,Chris Gayle,Mark Boucher and Brian Lara were not to be touched.The franchises reluctance to buy West Indies and English players was understandable because of the uncertainty over their availability for the entire IPL-4 (April 8-May 20).However,it was baffling why teams like Pune,Kochi and Deccan Chargers who had plenty in their kitty refused to go for Sourav even though they didnt have enough Indian batsmen on their rosters.It was a humiliation of sorts for a man whom BCCI had anointed as an icon player when IPL was conceived.For the record,of the 48 capped Indian players who went on auction,only three, including Sourav,remained unsold.The other two Wasim Jaffer and VRV Singh could not find a buyer even though,unlike Sourav,they were put up for re-auction.KKR,having splurged on Day I,operated on a low key on Sunday.They spent $500,000 on L Balaji and $250,000 on Jaydev Unadkat to bolster their pace attack even as Bengal boy Ashok Dinda was snatched away by Delhi Daredevils.KKR also made a couple of low-key purchases in Dutch allrounder Ryan ten Doeschate and U-20 Aussie pacer James Pattinson,but still failed to address the balance of the side.Having bought seven foreign players and only five Indians,they now have no option but to recruit from CAB first division club Kalighat,which has served as a supply chain for them for three IPL seasons.There is talk of Sourav taking up a mentoring role with an IPL side,but the man himself remained tight-lipped about his future plans.
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