Crickers for sale......

The men behind the Indian Premier League insisted yesterday that the international game has nothing to fear from the fledgling Twenty20 competition. Having banked $1.8bn before a ball has been bowled, and seen yesterday's remarkable player auction enrich the world's best cricketers to the tune of a further $42m, they can afford to be diplomatic.

The reality of the IPL's impact on the game is likely to be very different. Watching yesterday's auction in Mumbai, an unprecedented experiment in which the open market decided selection rather than captains or committees, one fancied cricket will never be the same again.

These are the players picked up by the eight teams in the Indian Premier League. The teams will be completed by Indian players.
The captains were pre-selected and were not part of  the auction.

BANGALORE
Rahul Dravid (Captain)
Anil Kumble (Ind) $526,000
Jacques Kallis (SAf) $981,000
Zaheer Khan (Ind) $491,000
Mark Boucher (SAf) $491,000
Cameron White (Aus) $546,000
Wasim Jaffer (Ind) $164,000
Nathan Bracken (Aus) $354,000
Dale Steyn (SAf) $354,000
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI) $218,000

CHENNAI SUPERKINGS
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind) $1.65 million
Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) $656,000
Matthew Hayden (Aus) $409,000
Jacob Oram (NZ) $736,000
Parthiv Patel (Ind) $355,000
Albie Morkel (SAf) $737,000
Joginder Sharma (Ind) $246,000
Suresh Raina (Ind) $711,000
Makhaya Ntini (Saf) $215,000
Michael Hussey (Aus) $381,000
Stephen Fleming (NZ) $381,000

DELHI DAREDEVILS
Virender Sehwag (Captain)
Daniel Vettori (NZ) $681,000
Shoaib Malik (Pak) $545,000
Mohammad Asif (Pak) $709,000
Dinesh Karthik (Ind) $573,000
AB de Villiers (SAf) $328,000
Farveez Maharoof (SL) $246,000
Tillakaratne Dilshan (SL) $273,000
Manoj Tiwary (Ind) $740,000
Gautam Gambhir (Ind) $793,000
Glenn McGrath (Aus) $381,000

HYDERABAD
Adam Gilchrist (Aus) $765,000
Andrew Symonds (Aus) $1.47 million
Herschelle Gibbs (SAf) $627,000
Shahid Afridi (Pak) $736,000
Chamara Silva (SL) $109,000
VVS Laxman (Ind) $410,000
Rohit Sharma (Ind) $821,000
RP Singh (Ind) $950,000
Chaminda Vaas (SL) $217,000
Nuwan Zoysa (SL) $120,000
Scott Styris (NZ) $190,000

JAIPUR
Shane Warne (Aus) $492,000
Graeme Smith (SAf) $518,000
Younis Khan (Pak) $245,000
Kamran Akmal (Pak) $164,000
Yusuf Pathan (Ind) $519,000
Mohammad Kaif (Ind) $738,000
Munaf Patel (Ind) $300,000
Justin Langer (Aus) $218,000

KOLKATA
Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
Shoaib Akhtar (Pak) $464,000
Ricky Ponting (Aus) $436,000
Brendon McCullum (NZ) $763,000
Chris Gayle (WI) $872,000
Ajit Agarkar (Ind) $382,000
David Hussey (Aus) $740,000
Murali Kartik (Ind) $460,000
Umar Gul (Pak) $163,000
Ishant Sharma (Ind) $1.03 million
Tatenda Taibu (Zim) $136,000

MOHALI
Yuvraj Singh (Captain)
Mahela Jayawardene (SL) $519,000
Kumar Sangakkara (SL) $764,000
Brett Lee (Aus) $982,000
Shantha Sreesanth (Ind) $681,000
Irfan Pathan (Ind) $1.01 million
Ramesh Powar (Ind) $185,000
Piyush Chawla (Ind) $435,000
Simon Katich (Aus) $218,000
Ramnaresh Sarwan (WI) $245,000

MUMBAI
Sachin Tendulkar (Captain)
Sanath Jayasuriya (SL) $1.064 million
Harbhajan Singh (Ind) $927,000
Shaun Pollock (SAf) $601,000
Robin Uthappa (Ind) $875,000
Lasith Malinga (SL) $380,000
Dilhara Fernando (SL) $163,000
Loots Bosman (SAf) $190,000