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4.4cr from srk, 4.3 from preity to their captains
The hotshots of Bollywood are now part of the who's who of cricket as well. While Shah Rukh Khan got the ownership of the Kolkata franchise, Preity Zinta got the Mohali franchise a few weeks back to form their cricket teams.
The bidding for the players opened on February 20 and among the bidders were other biggies like Vijay Mallya and Mukesh Ambani who own other IPL franchises. However, the investment of B-town stars in the Indian Premier League (IPL) has surely added to the glamour quotient.
After Preity's 'bhangra' performance and SRK’s 'cool' uniforms for his team, the actual bidding began. Shah Rukh got Sourav Ganguly, Shoaib Akhtar, Ricky Ponting, Brendon McCullum, Chris Gayle, Ajit Agarkar, David Hussey, Ishant Sharma, Murali Karthik, Umar Gul, and Tatenda Taibu in his Kolkata team. On the other hand, Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Kumar Sangakkara, Sree Santh, Mahela Jayawardene, Piyush Chawla, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Simon Katich, and Ramesh Powar formed the players of Preity's Mohali team.
However, what took the cake was the whooping amount of money that was paid to the players. Among all the cricketers, M S Dhoni walked away with the maximum amount—Rs 6 crore, which is almost 17 times more than what he makes playing for India. The other four players who took home equally big bids were Symonds, Jayasuria, Ishant, and Irfan.
But will this maths and long term planning work for their respective teams is what time will tell us… until then IPL Twenty20 is the next most awaited thing of the year.
