IPL Auction 2016: Specialists find few takers, all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite gets highest bid at Rs 4.2 cr

The pre-lunch session saw little enthusiasm for the second set of specialist batsmen

Joe Burns was first up for auction among the second set of specialist batsmen (Rs 1 crore). He and David Hussey (Rs 1 crore) both went unsold. Next up was Darren Bravo (Rs 50 lakh) who too remained unclaimed. Adam Voges had no luck in getting a response from the teams, either, remaining unsold at a base price of Rs 1 crore. Nic Maddinson (Rs 50 lakh) followed in similar fashion as did Owaise Shah (Rs 1 crore). Abhinav Mukund (Rs 30 lakh) too remained unsold, making this the second specialist batsmen set to have no bidders at all.
 

Australian Andrew Tye (Rs 30 lakh) started off the all-rounder set and remained unsold as did Doug Bracewell (Rs 30 lakh). Next in queue was Chris Jordan (Rs 1 crore), who also did not find any takers. Wayne Parnell (Rs 50 lakh), Ben Cutting (Rs 50 lakh), Grant Elliott (Rs 30 lakh) too remained unsold.
 
The monotony was broken by Carlos Brathwaite (Rs 30 lakh) as KKR and DD faced off to get the West Indian all-rounder on board. The Daredevils picked him up in the end for Rs 4.2 crore. The only other all-rounder to be bid for Australian Marcus Stoinis went to Kings XI Punjab for Rs 55 lakh. James Neesham (Rs 50 lakh), Sean Abbott (Rs 50 lakh) and Abhishek Nayar (Rs 30 lakh) remained unsold.

 

The fast bowlers’ bucket was off to a slow start as well as Joel Paris (Rs 30 lakh) remained unsold. Mustafizur Rahman (Rs 50 lakh) saw Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad slug it out to get him on their respective teams. He went to the Sunrisers for Rs 1.4 crore. Jaydev Uandkat (Rs 30 lakh) got an opening bid from KKR who were joined by Gujarat Lions in the bidding. The Lions bowed out mid-way when the Sunrisers joined the bidding. The fast bowler ended up with the Knight Riders at Rs 1.6 crore.
 
Kyle Abbott (Rs 30 lakh) saw KXIP and the RCB place their bids to get him on their respective sides. After a long bid-war, the KXIP picked him up for Rs 2.1 crore. Barinder Singh Saran (Rs 50 lakh) got an opening bid from Pune Super Giants which was challenged by the Gujarat Lions. The Sunrisers also joined the bidding after Pune bowed out, facing off with the Lions. The Hyderabad team picked up the fast bowler for Rs 1.2 crore.

 
Abhimanyu Mithun was up next (Rs 30 lakh). Sunrisers Hyderabad opened the bidding and picked him up at base price. Mithun was followed by RP Singh who was up for grabs at Rs 30 lakh. Pune started the bidding at base price and picked him up when nobody entered the bidding. Munaf Patel, available for Rs 50 lakh remained unsold. South African Beuran Hendricks (Rs 30 lakh) also went unsold.
 
The third set of batsmen started with Sri Lankan Lahiru Thirimanne (Rs 30 lakh) remained unsold as did English batsman Richard Levi (Rs 50 lakh). Cameron White (Rs 1.5 crore) was up next who also did not find any takers. At Rs 50 lakh, Bangladeshi Tanim Iqbal (Rs 50 lakh) failed to get any bids, joining the rest of the batsmen auctioned so far. Marlon Samuels (Rs 50 lakh) met the same fate.

 
The first batsman to get teams bidding was Travis Head (Rs 30 lakh) with RCB getting him at Rs 50 lakh. Dean Elgar (Rs 30 lakh) remained unsold as did Reeza Hendricks (Rs 30 lakh).
 
The eleventh set for the day was the third set of all-rounders. Farhaan Behardien (Rs 30 lakh) and Nathan McCullum (Rs 50 lakh) remained unsold along with Jeevan Medis (Rs 50 lakh), Vernon Philander (Rs 50 lakh), Juan Theron (Rs 30 lakh), Shehan Jayasuriya (Rs 30 lakh), Rayad Emrit (Rs 30 lakh), Anton Devcich (Rs 30 lakh), Johan Botha (Rs 50 lakh), Ashton Agar (Rs 50 lakh) and Robin Peterson (Rs 50 lakh).

 
Fidel Edwards (Rs 50 Lakh) was the first bowler from the next set of players to be auctioned. He remained unsold and was joined by Jerome Taylor (Rs 50 lakh), Parvinder Awana (Rs 30 lakh), Sudeep Tyagi (Rs 30 lakh), Shaun Tait (Rs 1 crore), Pankaj Singh (Rs 30 lakh), Nuwan Kulasekara (Rs 50 lakh), Ben Laughlin (Rs 30 lakh), Krishna Santokie (Rs 30 lakh).
 
All-rounders Isuru Udana (Rs 30 lakh), Soumya Sarkar (Rs 30 lakh), Dilruwan Perera (Rs 50 lakh), Narsingh Deonarine (Rs 30 lakh), Henry Davids (Rs 50 lakh), Milinda Siriwardana (Rs 30 lakh), Dilshan Munaweera (Rs 30 lakh), Christopher Barnwell (Rs 30 lakh), Seekkuge Prasanna (Rs 30 Lakh) Sadun Shanka (Rs 30 lakh), and George Worker (Rs 30 lakh) all went unsold.

 
Taskin Ahmed (Rs 30 lakh), Shannon Gabriel (Rs 50 lakh), Dushmantha Chameera (Rs 30 lakh), Hardis Viljoen, (Rs 30 lakh), Mthokozisi Shezi (Rs 1 crore), Tino Best (Rs 30 lakh), Jackson Bird (Rs 50 lakh) and Scott Boland (Rs 50 lakh).