IPL Second Auction on Tuesday

The second round of auction for IPL Teams is set to take place in Mumbai on Tuesday. Rajasthan Royals are best placed to make the most of the situation as they have US$2.05 million of unspent money, the most among the franchises, and are looking to sign up a couple of Australians, including Shane Watson and James Hopes. Eighteen players are up for grabs in this round with 16 Under-19 players being decided by the so called draft pick. Other franchises are focusing on buying U-19 players on the auction date.

The money remaining with the other franchises are:

Bangalore $374,000

Chennai $23,750

Delhi $71,250

Hyderabad $262,500

Kolkata $107,500

Mohali $292,250

Mumbai $53,750

It was reported that Jaipur were fined for under-bidding in the first auction - they spent only $2.9 million lesser than the minimum amount of US$3.3 million and were reportedly asked to pay the difference penalty - but Fraser, who is a support staff of the team said that they have not paid any fine so far.

Bangalore need focus on boosting their batting strength and should look to pick up at least one batsman during the auction. The Hyderabad franchisee has recently signed up former Indian cricketer Sanjay Bangar and is not seriously looking to pick up anyone here. The Chennai and Mumbai teams do not have much money with them and want to focus on the U-19 players in this auction round. The Kolkata franchisee may not be interested in the auction as they unveil their team logo and name around the same time when the auction will be held. Some of the franchises have made signings since the auction on February 20; these are largely junior players and those from the catchment areas.

Some Players who were signed up after the first round of auction are:

Delhi - Yo Mahesh, Shikhar Dhawan, Mithun Manhas, Rajat Bhatia and Mayank Tehlan.

Bangalore - Sunil Joshi, Balachandra Akhil, R Vinay Kumar, Bharat Chipli, J Arun Kumar, KP Appanna, Devraj Patil.

Chennai - Goa's Shadab Jakati, Uttar Pradesh's Sudeep Tyagi, R Ashwin, Srikkanth Anirudha and S Badrinath.

Mumbai - Baroda wicket-keeper, Pinal Shah, along with Mumbai Ranji players Abhishek Nayar and Ajinkya Rahane and Maharashtra's Yogesh Takawale.

Hyderabad - Sanjay Bangar, Venugopal Rao, N Arjun Yadav, D Ravi Teja, Pragyan Ojha, D Kalyankrishna, P Vijay Kumar, M Sarveesh and Orissa's Halahar Das.

Mohali - VRV Singh and two U-22 players in Karan Goel and Uday Kaul.

Jaipur - Pankaj Singh and Mumbai's U-22 player Anup Revandkar