IPL player list at 2013 auction
| IPL 6 - Player Auction 2013 | |||
| Player Name | Country | IPL Team | Cost (USD) |
| Abhishek Nayar | India | Pune Warriors | 675000 |
| Ajantha Mendis | Sri Lanka | Pune Warriors | 725000 |
| Akila Dananjaya | Sri Lanka | Chennai Super Kings | 20000 |
| Ben Laughlin | Australia | Chennai Super Kings | 20000 |
| Chris Morris | South Africa | Chennai Super Kings | 625000 |
| Christopher Barnwell | West Indies | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 50000 |
| Clint McKay | Australia | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 100000 |
| Dan Christian | Australia | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 100000 |
| Darren Sammy | West Indies | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 425000 |
| Dirk Nannes | Australia | Chennai Super Kings | 600000 |
| Fidel Edwards | West Indies | Rajasthan Royals | 210000 |
| Glenn Maxwell | Australia | Mumbai Indians | 1000000 |
| Jacob Oram | New Zealand | Mumbai Indians | 50000 |
| James Faulkner | Australia | Rajasthan Royals | 400000 |
| Jason Holder | West Indies | Chennai Super Kings | 20000 |
| Jaydev Unadkat | India | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 525000 |
| Jeevan Mendis | Sri Lanka | Delhi Daredevils | 50000 |
| Jesse Ryder | New Zealand | Delhi Daredevils | 260000 |
| Johan Botha | South Africa | Delhi Daredevils | 450000 |
| Kane Richardson | Australia | Pune Warriors | 700000 |
| Kushal Perera | Sri Lanka | Rajasthan Royals | 20000 |
| Luke Pomersbach | Australia | Kings XI Punjab | 300000 |
| Manpreet Gony | India | Kings XI Punjab | 500000 |
| Michael Clarke | Australia | Pune Warriors | 400000 |
| Moises Henriques | Australia | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 300000 |
| Nathan Coulter-Nile | Australia | Mumbai Indians | 450000 |
| Nathan McCullum | New Zealand | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 100000 |
| Pankaj Singh | India | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 150000 |
| Phillip Hughes | Australia | Mumbai Indians | 100000 |
| Quinton de Kock | South Africa | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 20000 |
| Ravi Rampaul | West Indies | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 290000 |
| Ricky Ponting | Australia | Mumbai Indians | 400000 |
| RP Singh | India | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 400000 |
| Ryan McLaren | South Africa | Kolkata Knight Riders | 50000 |
| Sachithra Senanayake | Sri Lanka | Kolkata Knight Riders | 625000 |
| Sudeep Tyagi | India | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 100000 |
| Thisara Perera | Sri Lanka | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 675000 |
NewZealand beat India by 1 run in T20 match
Brendon McCullum lifted New Zealand from 2 for 2 with a calculated 91 that highlighted his importance to his side, especially in Twenty20s. McCullum had support from Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor, but he was almost single-handedly responsible for New Zealand reaching a competitive score with a knock that began watchfully, and then exploded into a frenzy of powerful hits over extra cover, down the ground and over midwicket.
McCullum often begins a Test innings with a charge down the track and it was probably the two early wickets that made him play with some caution initially. Rob Nicol and Martin Guptill came out swinging but were bowled by incoming deliveries from Zaheer Khan and Irfan Pathan, and New Zealand were 2 for 2 in the second over.
McCullum broke free in the fifth over, flicking and cutting Zaheer for boundaries. L Balaji, making his T20I debut and playing his first game for India since February 2009, was inside-edged past short fine leg and sliced over point for boundaries in the next over.
Williamson, a calm man under pressure usually, ensured he gave the strike to McCullum, who was now in control enough to ward off his usual self-destructing tendencies.
Sweeps, reverse-sweeps and scoops were kept away. The one time he tried a reverse-sweep, on 38, he got away with a close lbw shout against R Ashwin, with the umpire ruling there was an inside edge when replays indicated there wasn't any. McCullum's one good innings during the Test series against India was ended when the umpire did not spot an inside edge. It was his turn to benefit today.
McCullum went after Ashwin, lofting him over extra cover for boundaries and down the ground for sixes. Ashwin, the lone spinner playing ahead of the recalled Harbhajan Singh, went for 34 in three overs.
There was not much help for the spinner, though, and MS Dhoni's selection of three medium-pacers in the XI worked on the pitch with some grass cover. Zaheer was sharp, Irfan productive, and Balaji an efficient third seamer. Yuvraj Singh bowled two tidy overs of slow left-arm on his comeback from cancer and was alert in the field.
McCullum was hard to control, though, and was only nine short of what would have been his second T20I hundred when he was eventually bowled after missing a sweep off a slow cutter from Irfan Pathan in the 17th over. Taylor and Jacob Oram were around to take New Zealand to a respectable score on a pitch where the ball came on at decent pace.
With the injured Virender Sehwag missing this game, it will be interesting to see who opens the India innings with Gautam Gambhir.
Australia crush Pakistan by 94 runs
Australia crush Pakistan by 94 runs
Australia began the series with one of their worst Twenty20 losses but they finished it with their second-best win in the format, crushing Pakistan by 94 runs in the dead rubber in Dubai. David Warner and Shane Watson set up the victory with an Australian-record opening partnership before Pat Cummins and Mitchell Starc ran through Pakistan, who suffered their worst defeat in a T20 international and were all out for 74, their lowest total in the format.
Pakistan still won the series 2-1 but if the old sporting cliché that you're only as good as your last performance can be trusted, the Australians will be reasonably happy when they arrive in Sri Lanka in the next few days for the ICC World Twenty20. The fact that Warner and Watson both fired and found their six-hitting rhythm would be especially pleasing for the captain George Bailey, although some more runs from the middle order would have been preferable.
Cummins was outstanding with the new ball as Pakistan slumped to 19 for 5 in the chase, and Brad Hogg's 1 for 11 - the most economical four-over spell by an Australian in a T20 international - was another positive sign for the Australians. They narrowly missed out on bettering their most comprehensive T20 victory, the 95-run defeat they inflicted on South Africa at the Gabba in January 2006, and it was a win Australia desperately needed, having fallen to tenth on the ICC T20 rankings'We believe we can win' - Sammy
West Indies captain Darren Sammy has said his team has the self-belief to go all the way and lift the ICC World Twenty20 title in Sri Lanka, starting later this month. Sammy said he was touched by the support from the fans and urged them to continue showing faith in the team.
"This is a huge tournament for the team and the fans as well, so we will go to Sri Lanka and give it all we've got," Sammy said before the team's departure for Sri Lanka. "We believe we can win, but it will be hard, tough work. Once we play together and continue to get the backing of the fans, we know we can lift the title."
The squad had been training at the High Performance Centre in Barbados for nine days. The World T20 will be the team's first international assignment after the home series against New Zealand.
"The camp went very well and we are all in the right frame of mind," Sammy said. "We will head off to Sri Lanka believing in ourselves and believing in each other.
Franklin speaks about NZ's World T20 chances
James Franklin believes the upcoming World Twenty20 could be the final time some of the New Zealand players take part in a world event together and feels the experience in the side could take it to the latter stages of the tournament.
"Probably it is the last World Cup for this group of players playing together," Franklin said after the first of two Twenty20 internationals between India and New Zealand was washed out in Visakhapatnam. Franklin, Daniel Vettori, Jacob Oram, Brendon and Nathan McCullum, and Kyle Mills - part of the New Zealand squad for the World T20 - are all well over 30 years.
"It is a pretty experienced T20 team. A lot of guys have played T20 all over the world so if individuals get in form then I think we have got a real chance of going fairly deep in this tournament."
Franklin skipped New Zealand's recent tour of West Indies and focused on playing T20 cricket for Essex with an eye on the World T20 but said he wanted to play for his country in all three formats. Franklin made a comeback to the Test side for the recent two-match series against India after his previous Test against Pakistan in January 2011.
