Dhoni, Symonds get biggest slices of IPL pie

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for the 1st time, I think so, crickters r making what they should have made way b4.

How much Mahatma Gandhi/ Mother Therasa earned in their lifetime.....Shame on you India....

India has finally come up with a plan that will attract people back to watching cricket in India. Lets face it, India are a very poor second best team in the world. So,pay big money to buy Australians, South Africans, Sri Lankans, West Indians and Pakistani's who have heart and are excellent players to watch, and mix them with a bunch of ordinary Indian players. When the Indians fail in these new IPL teams, it will be interesting to hear the excuses.

Andrew Symonds USD 1,350,000 - Harbhajan Singh USD 850,000. The amazing thing is, these prices are determined by Indians!

I still dont get why all the bloggers think that bidding for a cricketer is like prositution. That way, any office-worker/teacher or anyone else involved in any profession can be categorised to be the same. All anyone of these is doing is selling their time/efforts to earn a few more bucks(including the farmer who tills(exploits) the land and uses(abuses) the cattle/trees etc.. for his own ends)! Remember these cricketers are not selling themselves, rather they are selling their skills to the respective franchises. I feel most of the bloggers here are lazy IT people(myself included) who are more than a touch jealous of all the money that crickters are going rake in. I like it and wish even the ICL becomes as big a success. Helping the poor people aint one of cricketers problems, it is the government's problem. So dont blame cricketers getting rich for all the nations' ills. It is also an Indian thing to see something wrong when a person makes money even if it is their most popular crickter. Just disgusted with those that envy others success.

indians should boycott the IPL teams which bought aussies, If they get a hit in ratings, automatically they will relieve the aussies from playing for them. I hope the IPL will be a big flop.

What has famers dying and every unfortunate thing that happens in India got to do with how much these cricketers earn? Its not as if farmers will continue to live and prosper if cricketers dont earn money. Is it? One of the questions was how does this help the poor?! This doesnt help the poor and the Indian cricket board was neither setup for it nor has one of it tasks as "helping the poor and the farmer". It has only one mission - manage and encourage cricket in India. I see nothing wrong with whats happening with IPL. Infact I see that players are getting what is due to them in the first place and have been missing out all these years. Finally they are getting the money instead of the lion share going to the board. Look at European Soccer, NBA. Someone even mentioned that cricket is getting americanised, Rather cricket is finally coming out the grips of BCCI/CA/ICC and their subsidiaries. I dont think even the BCCI realizes what it has unleashed. Thats the beauty of this beast.

What happened to play for the nation and pride of the nation? It reminds us of slave trading in USA or Mela of Rajashthan where animals get traded!

BY STANDING IN QUE FOR THE AUCTION, THAT M@#$%* SYMMONDS HAS PROVED THAT HE IS A BOOT LICKER. OF COURSE, THOSE WHO HAVE BID FOR HIM HAVE PROVED TO BE SPINELESS INDIANS

The BCCI is full of Thieves and IPL is just to get them more money...This is no longer a sport

Good to see Indi you have gotten over the Sydney test.If Indians are prepared to pay USD1.35 million for Symonds, well all of your hot air Indi just sounds even more stupid. Get a life and accept India lost the test to a better team. You should be used to it by now.

So much for nationalism, It should be called mercenary cricket. Play for the highest bid.I thought IPL would help discover new talent that seems not to be case, It is just mercenary cricket, with no nationalism or region. It is doomed to fail.

This is all Bakwas, Bling and Glitz of the choosen few, how does these pomp and Bakwas, help the poor and the marginalised?,how does it help the economic growth? Indians have lost their sanity and their desire to flaunt their new found wealth,is gobsmaking and stupidity of grandeur. We are amazed.

Let us keep sports and politics apart. However Symonds/Bhajji's incident is sport. Any idiot paying for Symonds is arrogant. The team buying Symonds and Tricky Ricky Ponting should be boycotted.

The AMEICANIZATION of India has begum.The only thing is that in the USA,it is Basketball.

Symonds, hayden and ponting tormented bhajji and kumble during the test series. It is the same syndey robbers who goared about Indian money power. Now those bugger beggers wants the same money. They are international beggers. Shame on them. These aussies is not even worth 1 paise, let alone spending millions of dollars on these sydney thugs.

Every Indian should boycott IPL. Do these crickerters deserve this kind of money. Thousands of debt-ridden farmers for a few thousand rupees , have commited suicide in this country. If Indians, have any shame left, they should boycott this tournament !

Shoaib is an anti-India guy and bashes Indian batemen as being afraid of pace bowling and such gibberish - why throw precious Inidan money to this ungrateful being - i will never see any IPl match played by Shoaibwe know why SRK wants shoaib