Sibanda has no takers in IPL auction

Sibanda has no takers in IPL auction

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Posted to the web: 09/02/2009 12:12:51
ZIMBABWE will miss out on the second edition of the cricket India Premier League next month after opener Vusi Sibanda attracted no bids from any of the teams.

Sibanda plays club cricket in the tough Australian domestic league and was part of the Zimbabwe team that whitewashed Kenya 5-0 in last week's One Day International series.

Last year, former national cricket captain Tatenda Taibu was part of the highly rewarding and competitive league after being bought for US$125 000 by Kolkatta Knight Riders.

English cricketers, Andrew Flintoff and Kevin Pietersen became the most costly cricketers bought in the Indian Premier League auction held last Friday.

The English cricketers were picked up for $1.55m (£1.1m) each, Flintoff going to Chennai and Pietersen to Bangalore at the 2009 IPL auction in Goa.
The amounts will be paid as salary but will be pro-rated as they can only play for three of the IPL’s six weeks.

The previous transfer record was set at the 2008 auction, when Chennai paid $1.5m (£1.04m) for India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Australia batsman Michael Clarke, who had a price tag of $1m (£686,345), pulled out of the auction on Thursday to give himself more rest and time with his family in preparation for a busy year, which includes a Test series in South Africa, the Ashes series and the Twenty20 World Cup.

Sibanda was the only Zimbabwean who had been enlisted to go into the auction of the 114 world cricketers but there was no bidding for the player.
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