IPL 2013 auction: Michael Clarke, Ricky Ponting fetch top base price

It will be Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting, the current Australia cricket in-charge and the former leader, who will also lead the 2013 IPL auctions in terms of the base price. With $400,000 as their reserve price, the Australian duo are joined by South Africa's Johan Botha at $300,000 and India's RP Singh at $100,000 as marquee players during the auction, an IPL media release said.

The IPL 2012 saw Clarke play for the Pune Warriors India. Ponting on the other hand was a Kolkata Knight Riders in the inaugural IPL in 2008. He was subsequently released by the KKR in 2010.

Botha, who played for Rajasthan Royals until the last season, will go into the auction with a base price of USD 300,000 while RP Singh, having been released by Mumbai Indians, will feature in the auction with a base price of USD 100,000. A large chunk of the list includes players from South Africa, Sri Lanka and Australia - all considered strong twenty20 playing nations.It is noteworthy here that the list does not feature any Pakistan players. West Indies’ World Twenty20 2012 winning captain and all-rounder, Darren Sammy, will feature in the IPL Player Auction for the first time, with a reserve price of USD 100,000. England’s batsman, Ravi Bopara (USD 100,000) and wicketkeeper batsman, Matt Prior (USD 200,000) have also made it to the auction list.

The list of 101 players feature seven Indians, including Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy winning all-rounder, Abhishek Nayar (USD 100,000), who has been released by Kings XI Punjab. Nayar’s Mumbai team-mate Wasim Jaffer, who scored a title-winning century in the Ranji Trophy final, is also on the list at a reserve price of USD 50,000. Pacers, Sudeep Tyagi, Jaydev Unadkat, Pankaj Singh and Manpreet Gony are the remaining Indians to go under the hammer.On the list that is dominated by the South Africans, Sri Lankans and the Australians, Ireland’s all-rounder, Kevin O’Brien is the lone representative of the associate countries. Any of those on this auction list who are not taken during the auction on Feb 3, along with those who made themselves available for the auction but did not make the auction list, may still be signed after the auction as injury replacements.

Here are the list of the players those will be auctioned February 3rd.

Serial no.	Name	Country	Specialism	Last IPL team	Reserve price US '000
1	Johan Botha	South Africa	All-rounder	RR	300
2	Michael Clarke	Australia	Batsman	PWI	400
3	Ricky Ponting	Australia	Batsman	KKR	400
4	Rudra Pratap Singh	India	Bowler	DC/KTK/MI	100
5	Darren Bravo	West Indies	Batsman	DC	100
6	Aaron Finch	Australia	Batsman	DD	200
7	Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	Batsman	MI	200
8	Martin Guptill	New Zealand	Batsman		100
9	Philip Hughes	Australia	Batsman		100
10	Luke Pomersbach	Australia	Batsman	KXIP/RCB	50
11	Upul Tharanga	Sri Lanka	Batsman		100
12	Adam Voges	Australia	Batsman	RR	100
13	Dinesh Chandimal	Sri Lanka	Wk/Batsman	RR	100
14	Quinton de Kock	South Africa	Wk/Batsman		20
15	Prasanna Jayawardena	Sri Lanka	Wk/Batsman		50
16	Kusal Janith Perera	Sri Lanka	Wk/Batsman		20
17	Matt Prior	England	Wk/Batsman		200
18	Denesh Ramdin	West Indies	Wk/Batsman		50
19	Kaushal Silva	Sri Lanka	Wk/Batsman		20
20	Dane Vilas	South Africa	Wk/Batsman		20
21	Matthew Wade	Australia	Wk/Batsman		200
22	Ravi Bopara	England	All-rounder	KXIP	100
23	Daniel Christian	Australia	All-rounder	DC	100
24	James Faulkner	Australia	All-rounder	PWI	100
25	Moises Henriques	Australia	All-rounder	DD/KKR/MI	100
26	James Hopes	Australia	All-rounder	DD/KXIP/PWI	100
27	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	All-rounder	DD	200
28	Abhishek Nayar	India	All-rounder	MI/KXIP	100
29	Thisara Perera	Sri Lanka	All-rounder	CSK/KTK/MI	50
30	Jesse Ryder	New Zealand	All-rounder	RCB/PWI	100
31	Darren Sammy	West Indies	All-rounder		100
32	Doug Bollinger	Australia	Bowler	CSK	200
33	Fidel Edwards	West Indies	Bowler	DC	100
34	Manpreet Gony	India	Bowler	CSK/DC	200
35	Ryan McLaren	South Africa	Bowler	KXIP/MI	50
36	Dirk Nannes	Australia	Bowler	DD/RCB	200
37	Ravi Rampaul	West Indies	Bowler		50
38	Vernon Philander	South Africa	Bowler		100
39	Pankaj Singh	India	Bowler	RCB/RR	50
40	Sudeep Tyagi	India	Bowler	CSK	100
41	Jaidev Unadkat	India	Bowler	KKR	100
42	Devendra Bishoo	West Indies	Bowler		50
43	Cameron Boyce	Australia	Bowler		20
44	Akila Dananjaye	Sri Lanka	Bowler		20
45	Paul Harris	South Africa	Bowler		20
46	Rangana Herath	Sri Lanka	Bowler		100
47	Nathan McCullum	New Zealand	Bowler	PWI	100
48	Ajantha Mendis	Sri Lanka	Bowler	KKR	50
49	Stephen O'Keefe	Australia	Bowler	KTK	100
50	Veeraswamy Permaul	West Indies	Bowler		20
51	Aaron Phangiso	South Africa	Bowler		20
52	Suraj Randiv	Sri Lanka	Bowler	CSK	50
53	Callum Ferguson	Australia	Batsman	PWI	100
54	Wasim Jaffer	India	Batsman	RCB	50
55	Chamara Kapugedera	Sri Lanka	Batsman	CSK	20
56	Richard Levi	South Africa	Batsman	MI	50
57	Jehan Mubarak	Sri Lanka	Batsman		20
58	Tharanga Paranavitana	Sri Lanka	Batsman		50
59	Ricardo Powell	West Indies	Batsman		50
60	Kieran Powell	West Indies	Batsman		50
61	Thilan Samaraweera	Sri Lanka	Batsman		100
62	Lahiru Thirimanne	Sri Lanka	Batsman		20
63	John Hastings	Australia	All-rounder	KTK	200
64	Danza Hyatt	West Indies	All-rounder		20
65	Farveez Maharoof	Sri Lanka	All-rounder	DD	50
66	Jeevan Mendis	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		50
67	Chistopher Morris	South Africa	All-rounder		20
68	Seekuge Prasanna	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		20
69	Sachithra Senanayaka	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		50
70	Scott Styris	New Zealand	All-rounder	DC/CSK	100
71	Tino Best	West Indies	Bowler		50
72	Ben Cutting	Australia	Bowler	KXIP	100
73	Shaminda Eranga	Sri Lanka	Bowler		50
74	Dilhara Fernando	Sri Lanka	Bowler	MI	20
75	Josh Hazlewood	Australia	Bowler		100
76	Clinton Mckay	Australia	Bowler	MI	100
77	Jerome Taylor	West Indies	Bowler	KXIP/PWI	50
78	Lonwabo Tsotsobe	South Africa	Bowler		20
79	Joe Burns	Australia	Batsman		50
80	Henry Davids	South Africa	Batsman		20
81	Daniel Harris	Australia	Batsman	DC	50
82	Nic Maddinson	Australia	Batsman		100
83	Dilshan Munaweera	Sri Lanka	Batsman		20
84	Ben Rohrer	Australia	Batsman		50
85	Rilee Rossouw	South Africa	Batsman	RCB	20
86	Jandre Coetzee	South Africa	All-rounder		20
87	Alistair Gray	South Africa	All-rounder		20
88	Kevin O'Brien	Ireland	All-rounder		50
89	Dilruwan Perera	Sri Lanka	All-rounder		50
90	Dwaine Pretorius	South Africa	All-rounder		20
91	Stiaan van Zyl	South Africa	All-rounder		20
92	David Weise	South Africa	All-rounder		20
93	Andrew Birch	South Africa	Bowler		20
94	Trent Copeland	Australia	Bowler		50
95	Nathan Coulter-Nile	Australia	Bowler		100
96	Rory Kleinveldt	South Africa	Bowler		50
97	Ben Laughlin	Australia	Bowler		20
98	Alister McDermott	Australia	Bowler	RR	50
99	Nuwan Pradeep	Sri Lanka	Bowler	RCB	20
100	Dammika Prasad	Sri Lanka	Bowler		50
101	Kane Richardson	Australia	Bowler		100