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Quote from: teosanru on Today at 10:18:07 AM

Woah, Maxwell sold for whopping 14.25 crores despite of his poor form in the previous IPL. I think punjab would have thought for once that they could Buy Maxwell for something less than 10.75 crores but RCB and CSk were too excited for him. I think his form post IPL against India is the main reason why every franchise was so excited about him. I am surprised to see Steve Smith sold for so low at just 2.2 crore. I think bowlers will once again be more valuable than batsmen.

Maxwell fiance is Indian so he's basically privileged damaad and have big fan following despite his poor show with bat, he was good with the ball tho. This is mini IPL so no one focusing on batsmen, one of the reason he didn't attract any bid. NO 1 t-20 batsman David Malan went to Punjab on his base price, no one even bother to bid on him. Everyone want bowlers.

All rounders or batsmen who can ball a bit attracting a bid war. Dubey is considered Allrounder, Moeen Ali, Maxwell and Morris comes in the same category. Although Morris and Maxwell are over priced.

Quote from: bryant.coleman on Today at 10:32:56 AM

I am not much surprised with the lack of interest for Hanuma Vihari and Kedar Jadhav.

If it was bid for test team then he, Pujara and Rahane would go for record bid war but its t-20 format. Kedar jadav is considered dead weight now.

@vishnu true. He was good bowler but that one over ruined his IPL career

Very true this is something I have seen in the auction this time. Everyone running behind bowlers or all rounders. I think this is pretty much justified if you see the previous IPL it was the bowlers in each team that have created a difference especially in critical situations. I think almost every team have full fledged batting unit with openers and finishers there are just a couple of spots here and there which everyone tried to fill in their batting.