The 'hotshots' of Bollywood are now part of the who's who of cricket as well. While Shah Rukh Khan had got the ownership of Kolkata franchise, Preity Zinta got Mohali franchise, to form their cricket teams. The bidding for the players opened yesterday. Among the bidders were other biggies like Vijay Mallya, Mukesh Ambani and the likes, who are owners of the IPL franchise.
However, the investment of B-town stars in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has surely added to the glamour quotient. After Preity's 'bhangra' performance and SRK making 'cool' uniforms for his team, came the 'D' day of the actual bidding for players. On February 20, Wednesday, the bidding began and stopped at nothing less than millions.
Shah Rukh got Sourav Ganguly, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Brendon McCullum, Chris Gayle, Ajit Agarkar, David Hussey, Ishant Sharma, Murali Karthik, Umar Gul, and Tatenda Taibu in his Kolkata team.
Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Kumar Sangakkara, Sree Santh, Mahela Jayawardene, Piyush Chawla, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Simon Katich, and Ramesh Powar formed the players of Preity's team Mohali.
However, what took the cake was the whooping amount paid to the players. Among all the cricketers, M.S. Dhoni walked with the maximum amount of 6 Crores, almost 17 times more than what he makes playing for India. The other four players who took the cream were Symonds, Jayasuria, Ishant, and Irfan. But will this maths and long-term planning work for their respective teams is what time will tell us… until then, IPL Twenty20 is the next most-awaited thing of the year.
Courtesy: IndiaFM
