IPL Season 5: Auction to be Held on Februray 4 on Chennai!!

One of the biggest sporting even in Asia and in Cricket is Indian Premier League .IPL has gained so much popularity not only in India but all over the world where people know about cricket because this is a platform where all the biggest names of cricket  from world get  together at one plateform. Season 5 of IPL 2012 will be massive and it will all start with the players auction on 4th Fabruary 2012 and it will be interesting to see how this years event goes about.

The IPL Auction 2012 promises to be as entertaining and interesting as the previous versions. Not only will it present a chance to the teams to acquire players who are up for sale, but also provide an opportunity to unassociated and contact-devoid players to team up with a particular franchise. Most of the players of world cricket and domestic cricket are still not a part of the million dollar league. The auction will be a chance for them to get exposed to the frenzy and excitement that IPL stands for. Also, chances of retribution of Pakistani players are likely during the 2012 auctions of the IPL.

 IPL 2012 Auction Dates and Format:
The player auction will held on February 4, 2012. Each player in the auction pool had a base price under which franchise owners could not bid. Players were allowed to set their base price between $200,000 to $400,000, this year several players didn't set their base price for the auction. English spin bowler Graeme Swann is the only player who has set his base price at $400,000 for the auction.

Transfers

The first transfer window was between 15 December and 20 January, 2012 and included the following transfers.^[7]

Player	From	To	Season
Andrew McDonald	Delhi Daredevils	Royal Challengers Bangalore	2012
Kevin Pietersen	Deccan Chargers	Delhi Daredevils	2012
Dinesh Karthik	Kings XI Punjab	Mumbai Indians	2012
Harmeet Singh	Deccan Chargers	Kings XI Punjab	2012
R Sathish	Mumbai Indians	Kings Xi Punjab	2012
Pragyan Ojha[8]	Deccan Chargers	Mumbai Indians	2012

New additions

The following players were either retained who played for the team last year as their replacement or it has been a local Indian player which is selected to play for them without going into the auction.

Player	From	To	Season
Harshal Patel	Haryana Ranji Team	Royal Challengers Bangalore	2012
Chris Gayle[9]	West Indies Cricket Team	Royal Challengers Bangalore	2012-13
Sourav Ganguly[10]	Bengal Ranji Team	Pune Warriors India	2012-13
Pawan Negi	Delhi Ranji Team	Delhi Daredevils	2012
David Miller	South African Cricket Team	Kings XI Punjab	2012-13
Manprit Juneja	Gujarat Ranji Team	Delhi Daredevils	2012
Kuldeep Raval	Saurashtra Ranji Team	Delhi Daredevils	2012

Blue colour represents 'Retained'

Players bought out

The following players were left out by their teams for a specific season.

Player	From	Seasons played
Robert Frylinck	Delhi Daredevils	2011
Sridharan Sriram	Delhi Daredevils	2011
Vivek Yadav	Delhi Daredevils	2011
Rajesh Pawar	Delhi Daredevils	2011