Comments on: Meet N. Srinivasan, Master Of Indian Cricket

By: Ram

Ram — Mon, 30 May 2011 07:10:28 +0000

Correction: Viru – 775750 USD

By: Ram

Ram — Mon, 30 May 2011 07:03:29 +0000

Wait, I may have apologized too quickly. I can’t find any article which explicitly states what I said. But, the salary cap was supposed to be 5 M USD. If you look at this web page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Indian_Premier_League#Player_auctions
and sum up what the Delhi players were paid, it comes to 4,825,000 ,with Gambhir highest at 725000. That would ve put Viru’s salary at 1.2 M USD. That would clearly break the salary cap of 5 M USD proving what I said
If I have made a mistake any where, do forgive me.

By: Ram

Ram — Mon, 30 May 2011 06:26:09 +0000

Oops, memory lapse, sorry.

By: Mahek

Mahek — Sun, 29 May 2011 16:55:50 +0000

What on earth are you talking about man? The Icon Players’ salaries were fixed at 7% more than that of their franchise’s highest paid player and the salary did count toward the franchise’s salary cap.

I don’t have a problem with the player retention rule per se. I’d allow franchises to even retain as many players as they want provided they match the market value. This means all the players go into the auction. If Dhoni drew a winning bid of 3 million from Pune, CSK would have the option of retaining him for that much. That way, atleast the salacy cap wouldn’t have been made a mockery of the way it’s been this season.

If all 8 teams would’ve retained 4 players each there would be hardly any quality Indian players left in the auction. There would still be some good overseas players left but the supply-demand mechanics of the IPL have meant that Indian players will always go for much higher prices than their foreign counterparts.

By: Ram

Ram — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:55:55 +0000

And I believe Panicker is wrong, in the auction, player were put into pools according to their base prices & their specialties and were then picked out at random within the pool. I am not sure though, I watched around 10 min & then got bored. Cricinfo had a live commentary of the auctions & you can check that out. As far as strategy was concerned, stupidity reigned, I remember higher salaries were paid for Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Tiwary, Botha than to R.Ashwin.

By: Ram

Ram — Sun, 29 May 2011 13:21:49 +0000

Be not so quick to blast down the player retention rules.
Remember the icon system in the first 3 IPLs ? 6 teams had a player in the team even before the auction & whose salary was entirely outside the salary cap – except for CSK and RR. Remember MSD’s salary was 1.5 M USD which shows how much having an “icon” means to a team. The purpose of the icon system was to build up fan support for the teams in their respective cities- exactly what the player retention rules also intended, except an arbitrary & contentious amount was taken out of the cap – surely that’s better than the old system?
Another point – if all 8 teams had retained 4 players, and had 4.5 M only left, that would have left the 2 new teams able to call the shots on the auction floor, the other 8 would have been more cautious & 2 M dollar deals would not have been so frequent.
As for Srinivasan, I think he’s in a class of his own compared to the likes of Modi- something like the Mafia dudes. Only the 2nd time his name has been commonly mentioned in the last 6 months. People almost forget that such a powerful guy exists.