List of 2008 Indian Premier League auctions and personnel signings

This is a list of all auctions and personnel signings for the 2008 Indian Premier League (IPL).

Team Auction

The auctions for team ownership were held on 24 January 2008. The base price of each team was set at US$50 million. The auction fetched a total amount of US$723.59 million against the combined base price of US$400 million. Mumbai was the most expensive team, costing over US$111.9 million. The auction also led to controversy regarding the conflict of interest with then BCCI secretary N. Srinivasan holding a stake in the Chennai team.

Team	City	Franchise Owner(s)	Cost (in US$ millions)
Royal Challengers Bangalore	Bangalore	Vijay Mallya's United Spirits	111.60
Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	India Cements	91.00
Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	GMR Group	84.00
Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad	Deccan Chronicle	107.00
Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	Emerging Media-led consortium	67.00
Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	Shah Rukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment	75.09
Kings XI Punjab	Mohali	Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul and Dabur's Mohit Burman	76.00
Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries	111.90

Player's Auction

Icon players

Icon player was a status given to five players of the Indian Premier League to ensure that top drawer players will represent their respective home city sides, which was important for the league to increase fan support and interest among the locals. The icon players received 15% percent more money than the highest paid player of the team bought in the auction. Initially four icon players were designated but later on the request of Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwag's name was added to the list. Deccan Chargers also asked for Icon Player status to be given to VVS Laxman, but he declined the offer in order to allow the franchise to spend more money on other players and still not breach the US$5 million salary cap.

Name	Team	Highest bid by the team (in US$ thousands)	Salary (in US$ thousands)
Sachin Tendulkar	Mumbai Indians	975	1121
Sourav Ganguly	Kolkata Knight Riders	950	1093
Rahul Dravid	Royal Challengers Bangalore	900	1035
Yuvraj Singh	Kings XI Punjab	925	1064
Virender Sehwag	Delhi Daredevils	725	834

Auction-1

The first auction was held on 20 February 2008. The total salary cap was set at US$5 million with a minimum of US$ 3.3 million to be spend. Players were divided into categories with Category-A, B, C and D representing prominent players. Remaining wicket-keepers, all-rounders, batsmen and bowlers were kept in category-E, F, G and H, respectively. 77 players signed up for auction including 48 foreign players. 75 players were auctioned with Mohammed Yousuf and Ashwell Prince remaining unsold. MS Dhoni was the costliest player at US$1.5 million. Andrew Symonds was the most costly foreign player. The unsold players were paid their base price by the BCCI. Jaipur was fined for not reaching the minimum spending of US$3 million.

No.	Category	Name	Nationality	Speciality	Base Price (in US$ thousands)	Team	Auctioned Price (in US$ thousands)
1	A	Shane Warne	Australia	Bowler	450	Rajasthan Royals	450
2	A	MS Dhoni	India	Wicketkeeper	400	Chennai Super Kings	1500
3	A	Adam Gilchrist	Australia	Wicket keeper	300	Deccan Chargers	700
4	A	Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan	Bowler	250	Kolkata Knight Riders	425
5	A	Mahela Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Batsman	250	Kings XI Punjab	475
6	A	Muttiah Muralitharan	Sri Lanka	Bowler	250	Chennai Super Kings	600
7	B	Anil Kumble	India	Bowler	250	Royal Challengers Bangalore	500
8	B	Glenn McGrath[REC]	Australia	Bowler	350	Delhi Daredevils	350
9	B	Mohammed Yousuf[REC]	Pakistan	Batsman	350	Unsold
10	B	Harbhajan Singh	India	Bowler	250	Mumbai Indians	850
11	B	Sanath Jayasuriya	Sri Lanka	Allrounder	250	Mumbai Indians	975
12	B	Kumar Sangakkara	Sri Lanka	Wicketkeeper-batsman	250	Kings XI Punjab	700
13	C	Ricky Ponting	Australia	Batsman	335	Kolkata Knight Riders	400
14	C	Brett Lee	Australia	Bowler	300	Kings XI Punjab	900
15	C	Andrew Symonds	Australia	Allrounder	250	Deccan Chargers	1350
16	C	Michael Hussey[REC]	Australia	Batsman	250	Chennai Super Kings	250
17	C	Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Bowler	250	Delhi Daredevils	625
18	C	Matthew Hayden	Australia	Batsman	225	Chennai Super Kings	375
19	C	Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Wicketkeeper	175	Kolkata Knight Riders	700
20	C	Jacob Oram	New Zealand	Allrounder	200	Chennai Super Kings	675
21	D	Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	Batsman	350	Chennai Super Kings	350
22	D	Graeme Smith	South Africa	Batsman	250	Rajasthan Royals	250
23	D	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	Batsman	250	Deccan Chargers	575
24	D	Chris Gayle	West Indies	Allrounder	250	Kolkata Knight Riders	800
25	D	Shoaib Malik	Pakistan	Allrounder	300	Delhi Daredevils	500
26	D	Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	Allrounder	225	Deccan Chargers	675
27	D	Younis Khan	Pakistan	Batsman	225	Rajasthan Royals	225
28	D	Mohammad Asif	Pakistan	Bowler	225	Delhi Daredevils	650
29	D	Jacques Kallis	South Africa	Allrounder	225	Royal Challengers Bangalore	900
30	D	Zaheer Khan	India	Bowler	200	Royal Challengers Bangalore	450
31	D	Sreesanth	India	Bowler	200	Kings XI Punjab	625
32	E	Dinesh Karthik	India	Wicketkeeper	200	Delhi Daredevils	525
33	E	AB de Villiers	South Africa	Wicketkeeper	200	Delhi Daredevils	300
34	E	Mark Boucher	South Africa	Wicketkeeper	200	Royal Challengers Bangalore	450
35	E	Parthiv Patel	India	Wicketkeeper	150	Chennai Super Kings	325
36	E	Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	Wicketkeeper	150	Rajasthan Royals	150
37	E	Tatenda Taibu[REC]	Zimbabwe	Wicketkeeper	125	Kolkata Knight Riders	125
38	F	Albie Morkel	South Africa	Allrounder	225	Chennai Super Kings	675
39	F	Ajit Agarkar	India	Allrounder	200	Kolkata Knight Riders	350
40	F	Shaun Pollock	South Africa	Allrounder	200	Mumbai Indians	550
41	F	Irfan Pathan	India	Allrounder	200	Kings XI Punjab	925
42	F	Scott Styris	New Zealand	Allrounder	175	Deccan Chargers	175
43	F	Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	Allrounder	150	Delhi Daredevils	225
44	F	Tillakaratne Dilshan	Sri Lanka	Allrounder	152	Delhi Daredevils	250
45	F	Cameron White	Australia	Allrounder	100	Royal Challengers Bangalore	500
46	F	Yusuf Pathan	India	Allrounder	100	Rajasthan Royals	475
47	F	Joginder Sharma	India	Allrounder	100	Chennai Super Kings	225
48	G	Ramnaresh Sarwan[REC]	West Indies	Batsman	225	Kings XI Punjab	225
49	G	Simon Katich[REC]	Australia	Batsman	200	Kings XI Punjab	200
50	G	Justin Langer[REC]	Australia	Batsman	200	Rajasthan Royals	200
51	G	Gautam Gambhir	India	Batsman	220	Delhi Daredevils	725
52	G	Robin Uthappa	India	Batsman	200	Mumbai Indians	800
53	G	Shivnarine Chanderpaul[REC]	West Indies	Batsman	200	Royal Challengers Bangalore	200
54	G	Ashwell Prince[REC]	South Africa	Batsman	175	Unsold
55	G	VVS Laxman	India	Batsman	150	Deccan Chargers	375
56	G	Wasim Jaffer	India	Batsman	150	Royal Challengers Bangalore	150
57	G	Rohit Sharma	India	Batsman	150	Deccan Chargers	750
58	G	Loots Bosman[REC]	South Africa	Batsman	150	Mumbai Indians	175
59	G	Mohammad Kaif	India	Batsman	125	Rajasthan Royals	675
60	G	Suresh Raina	India	Batsman	125	Chennai Super Kings	650
61	G	Manoj Tiwary	India	Batsman	100	Delhi Daredevils	675
62	G	Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka	Batsman	100	Deccan Chargers	100
63	G	David Hussey	Australia	Batsman	100	Kolkata Knight Riders	625
64	H	Nathan Bracken	Australia	Bowler	225	Royal Challengers Bangalore	325
65	H	R P Singh	India	Bowler	200	Deccan Chargers	875
66	H	Murali Kartik	India	Bowler	200	Kolkata Knight Riders	425
67	H	Makhaya Ntini	South Africa	Bowler	200	Chennai Super Kings	200
68	H	Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	Bowler	200	Mumbai Indians	350
69	H	Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	Bowler	200	Deccan Chargers	200
70	H	Ramesh Powar	India	Bowler	150	Kings XI Punjab	170
71	H	Umar Gul	Pakistan	Bowler	150	Kolkata Knight Riders	150
72	H	Dale Steyn	South Africa	Bowler	150	Royal Challengers Bangalore	325
73	H	Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	Bowler	150	Mumbai Indians	150
74	H	Ishant Sharma	India	Bowler	150	Kolkata Knight Riders	950
75	H	Piyush Chawla	India	Bowler	125	Kings XI Punjab	400
76	H	Munaf Patel	India	Bowler	100	Rajasthan Royals	275
77	H	Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka	Bowler	100	Deccan Chargers	110

^REC REC: Players unsold originally but were brought back.

Auction-2

The second IPL auction for foreign players took place in Mumbai on 11 March 2008. 26 players including unsold players from auction-1 signed up for the auction. The base price was set at US$50,000. 14 players were sold in the auction. James Hopes was the costliest player at US$300,000. Dimitri Mascarenhas became the first English player to sign up for IPL. Mohammed Yousuf again remained unsold in 2nd auction due to continuing dispute with Indian Cricket League. IPL allowed teams to cross 8 foreign players limit. Players sold lower than their signed up price were paid the remaining amount by IPL.

No.	Name	Nationality	Speciality	Team	Auctioned Price (in US$ thousands)
1	Mohammed Yousuf	Pakistan	Batsman	Unsold
2	Morne Morkel	South Africa	Bowler	Rajasthan Royals	60
3	Ashwell Prince	South Africa	Batsman	Mumbai Indians	175
4	Kyle Mills	New Zealand	Bowler	Kings XI Punjab	150
5	Mohammad Hafeez	Pakistan	All-rounder	Kolkata Knight Riders	100
6	Ross Taylor	New Zealand	Batsman	Royal Challengers Bangalore	100
7	Peter Fulton	New Zealand	Batsman	Unsold
8	Jamie How	New Zealand	Batsman	Unsold
9	Jeetan Patel	New Zealand	Allrounder	Unsold
10	Chris Martin	New Zealand	Bowler	Unsold
11	James Franklin	New Zealand	Allrounder	Unsold
12	Brad Hodge	Australia	Allrounder	Unsold
13	Shane Watson	Australia	Allrounder	Rajasthan Royals	125
14	Phil Jaques	Australia	Batsman	Unsold
15	James Hopes	Australia	Allrounder	Kings XI Punjab	300
16	Brett Geeves	Australia	Bowler	Delhi Daredevils	50
17	Luke Pomersbach	Australia	Batsman	Kings XI Punjab	50
18	Prasanna Jayawardene	Sri Lanka	Wicketkeeper	Unsold
19	Mohammad Ashraful	Bangladesh	Batsman	Unsold
20	Mashrafe Mortaza	Bangladesh	Allrounder	Unsold
21	Misbah-ul-Haq	Pakistan	Batsman	Royal Challengers Bangalore	125
22	Salman Butt	Pakistan	Batsman	Kolkata Knight Riders	100
23	Yasir Hameed	Pakistan	Batsman	Unsold
24	Dimitri Mascarenhas	England	Allrounder	Rajasthan Royals	100
25	Sohail Tanvir	Pakistan	Bowler	Rajasthan Royals	100
26	Abdur Razzak	Bangladesh	Bowler	Royal Challengers Bangalore	50

Under-19 Draft

Along with 2nd Auction, the 15 players from winners of 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup along with Viraj Kadbe were picked upon draft system based upon US National Football League. The franchises were randomly allotted numbers from 1 to 8. The franchise assigned the number 1 got the choice of picking player first and then the second franchise and so on. After eight players were picked, the order of the bidding reversed. Delhi was the first team and chose Pradeep Sangwan. Deccan Chargers passed on both of their drafts. Delhi Daredevils also picked only one of the draft while Chennai Super Kings picked three players. The players with Ranji experience were paid US$ 50,000 and remaining US$ 30,000.

Player's Signing

IPL franchise could sign Indian players at any time. The base price for was fixed at $50,000 for the Ranji Trophy players and $20,000 for those having not played the Ranji Trophy. Franchises had to pick minimum four under-22 Indian players from their designated catchment area in their squad. Praveen Kumar was claimed to be signed by both Delhi and Bangalore franchise, with the player later confirming that he had joined the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The following players were signed before the tournament.

Name	Nationality	Team	Signing date	Ref
Praveen Kumar	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	23 February 2008
Yo Mahesh	India	Delhi Daredevils	Up to 10 March 2008
Shikhar Dhawan	India
Mithun Manhas	India
Rajat Bhatia	India
Mayank Tehlan	India
Sunil Joshi	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Up to 10 March 2008
Balachandra Akhil	India
Vinay Kumar	India
Bharat Chipli	India
J. Arunkumar	India
KP Appanna	India
Devraj Patil	India
Shadab Jakati	India	Chennai Super Kings	Up to 10 March 2008
Sudeep Tyagi	India
R Ashwin	India
Srikkanth Anirudha	India
S Badrinath	India
Pinal Shah	India	Mumbai Indians	Up to 10 March 2008
Abhishek Nayar	India
Ajinkya Rahane	India
Yogesh Takawale	India
Sanjay Bangar	India	Deccan Chargers	Up to 10 March 2008
Venugopal Rao	India
Arjun Yadav	India
Dwaraka Ravi Teja	India
Pragyan Ojha	India
Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna	India
P Vijay Kumar	India
Sarvesh Kumar[N-RAN]	India
Halhadar Das	India
VRV Singh	India	Kings XI Punjab	Up to 10 March 2008
Karan Goel	India
Uday Kaul	India
Pankaj Singh	India	Rajasthan Royals	Up to 10 March 2008
Anup Revandkar[N-RAN]	India
Dinesh Salunkhe[N-RAN]	India
Wriddhiman Saha	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	11 March 2008
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	India
Rohan Banerjee[N-RAN]	India
Saurasish Lahiri	India
Aakash Chopra	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	13 March 2008
Cheteshwar Pujara	India
Ashish Nehra	India	Mumbai Indians	14 March 2008
Amit Mishra	India	Delhi Daredevils
Luke Ronchi	New Zealand	Mumbai Indians	26 March 2008
Lakshmipathy Balaji	India	Chennai Super Kings	29 March 2008
Shaun Marsh	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	9 April 2008
Dominic Thornely	Australia	Mumbai Indians
Darren Lehmann	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	15 April 2008
Neravanda Aiyappa	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Up to 15 April 2008
Palani Amarnath	India	Chennai Super Kings	Up to 15 April 2008
Arun Karthik[N-RAN]	India
Manpreet Gony	India
Suresh Kumar	India
Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan	India
Yogesh Nagar[N-RAN]	India	Delhi Daredevils	Up to 15 April 2008
Tejashwi Yadav[N-RAN]	India
Pankaj Dharmani	India	Kings XI Punjab	Up to 15 April 2008
Rishi Dhawan[N-RAN]	India
Gagandeep Singh	India
Sahil Kukreja	India
Wilkin Mota	India
Nitin Saini	India
Sunny Sohal	India
Ashoke Dinda	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	Up to 15 April 2008
Debabrata Das[N-RAN]	India
Ranadeb Bose	India
Yashpal Singh	India
Ankeet Chavan[N-RAN]	India	Mumbai Indians	Up to 15 April 2008
Gaurav Dhiman	India
Siddharth Chitnis[N-RAN]	India
Rajesh Pawar	India
Rohan Raje[N-RAN]	India
Vikrant Yeligati[N-RAN]	India
Musavir Khote	India
Dhawal Kulkarni[N-RAN]	India
Swapnil Singh	India
Niraj Patel	India	Rajasthan Royals	Up to 15 April 2008
Jaydev Shah	India
Mahesh Rawat	India
Aditya Angle	India
Sumit Khatri	India
Parag More	India
Siddharth Trivedi	India
Swapnil Asnodkar	India

^N-RAN N-RAN: Players having not played Ranji Trophy at the time of tournament.4

Withdrawn and Replacement players

Players were signed as replacement of contracted players who were not available to play due to injuries and national commitments. Under IPL rules, the replacements cannot be paid more than the players they are replacing, though they can be paid less. The following players withdrew from the tournament either due to injuries or because of other reasons.

Players	Nationality	Team	Reason	Announcement date	Replacement Player	Nationality	Signing date	Ref
Justin Langer	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	Pre-existing contract with Somerset County	23 February 2008
Morne Morkel	South Africa	Rajasthan Royals	Pre-existing contract with Yorkshire County	14 March 2008
Shoaib Akhtar	Pakistan	Kolkata Knight Riders	Banned due to disciplinary reasons by PCB	3 April 2008	Allowed to play back on 4 May after suspension of Ban
Sudeep Tyagi	India	Chennai Super Kings	Stress Fracture in the Back
Nathan Bracken	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Knee Surgery Recovery	14 April 2008	Ashley Noffke	Australia	14 April 2008
Lasith Malinga	Sri Lanka	Mumbai Indians	Knee Injury	19 April 2008	Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	19 April 2008
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Kolkata Knight Riders	Replacement for players on International duty		Brad Hodge	Australia	26 April 2008
Ricky Ponting	Australia
Brett Lee	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	International Duty	28 April 2008
Simon Katich	Australia
Kyle Mills	New Zealand		International Duty	28 April 2008
Harbhajan Singh	India	Mumbai Indians	Banned after slapping Sreesanth	28 April 2008
Chris Gayle	West Indies	Kolkata Knight Riders	Groin Injury and International Duty	29 April 2008
Daniel Vettori	New Zealand	Delhi Daredevils	International Duty	30 April 2008
Brendon McCullum	New Zealand	Kolkata Knight Riders
Jacob Oram	New Zealand	Chennai Super Kings
Ross Taylor	New Zealand	Royal Challengers Bangalore		1 May 2008
Ricky Ponting	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	International Duty	1 May 2008
Matthew Hayden	Australia	Chennai Super Kings
Michael Hussey	Australia
Andrew Symonds	Australia	Deccan Chargers
Ashley Noffke	Australia	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Brad Hodge	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	International Duty	9 May 2008
Dimitri Mascarenhas	England	Rajasthan Royals	County duty with Hampshire	12 May 2008
Makhaya Ntini	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	Replacement for players on International duty		Chamara Kapugedera	Sri Lanka	8 May 2008
V. V. S. Laxman	India	Deccan Chargers	Hairline Fracture	12 May 2008
Cheteshwar Pujara	India	Kolkata Knight Riders	Withdrawn by the team	13 May 2008
Ranadeb Bose	India
Yashpal Singh	India
Saurasish Lahiri	India
Rohan Banerjee	India
Shivnarine Chanderpaul	West Indies	Royal Challengers Bangalore	International Duty	15 May 2008
Ramnaresh Sarwan	West Indies	Kings XI Punjab
Dwayne Bravo	West Indies	Mumbai Indians	International Duty	17 May 2008	Andre Nel	South Africa	17 May 2008
					Dwayne Smith	West Indies	19 May 2008
		Kolkata Knight Riders	Replacement for players on International duty		Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	18 May 2008
Stephen Fleming	New Zealand	Chennai Super Kings	Birth of his child	29 May 2008
Graeme Smith	South Africa	Rajasthan Royals	Hamstring Injury	31 May 2008

Support staff appointments

Staff	Nationality	Team	Role	Announcement date	Ref
Greg Shipperd	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	Coach	19 February 2008
Tom Moody	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	Coach	18 February 2008
John Buchanan	Australia	Kolkata Knight Riders	Coach	20 February 2008
Robin Singh	India	Deccan Chargers	Coach	21 February 2008
Kepler Wessels	South Africa	Chennai Super Kings	Coach	27 February 2008
Shane Warne	Australia	Rajasthan Royals	Coach	28 February 2008
Venkatesh Prasad	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Coach	13 March 2008
Martin Crowe	New Zealand	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Chief Cricket Officer	13 March 2008
Charu Sharma	India	Royal Challengers Bangalore	CEO	13 March 2008
Neil Maxwell	Australia	Kings XI Punjab	CEO	18 March 2008
Jeremy Snape	England	Rajasthan Royals	Performance Coach	8 April 2008
Lalchand Rajput	India	Mumbai Indians	Coach	8 April 2008
Harsha Bhogle	India	Mumbai Indians	Team Advisor	8 April 2008
Dennis Lillee	Australia	Delhi Daredevils	Bowling consultant	17 April 2008

External links

• ESPNcricinfo- Indian Premier League, 2007/08-Squads