Who will be the new IPL captains?

As the IPL auctions for 2011 come to an end, we cast a glance on the new line-ups, possible captaincy options, team spend and players retained.

Some quick thoughts:

Defending champs Chennai have retained an astonishing number of players, 10 11. The next best are Mumbai and Rajasthan with four.

There’s lots of noise about fans boycotting KKR at the Eden. They’ve got to realise Ganguly wasn’t a KKR problem; the other nine teams didn’t consider him either. It’s clear there’s a non-cricketing reason behind Ganguly’s removal. He was the fourth highest run-maker in IPL 2010.

On a whole, it is sad Ganguly waited to be shown the door. It’s a lesson for Dravid and Laxman. Kumble played it smarter, withdrawing at the last minute from the auctions.

Lara’s exclusion wasn’t surprising either. He’s in no fitness for this level of cricket and seemed like he was only in it for the money. The ten teams showed him place, and rightly so.

Delhi, one of the most consistent teams in the IPL, will have a captaincy crisis. Virender Sehwag is a reluctant leader; if he doesn’t lead them, it’s unclear at the moment who will.

Questions for readers: who do you think should captain the new teams? And which four teams will reach the play-offs? Comment away.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Captaincy options: Daniel Vettori, Zaheer Khan, AB de Villiers

Players bought: 15 | Money spent: $6,840,000 (out of $7,200,000)

Players retained before auction: Virat Kohli

Retained at auction: None

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Saurabh Tiwary	1,600,000	100,000
AB de Villiers	1,100,000	400,000
Zaheer Khan	900,000	300,000
Cheteshwar Pujara	700,000	100,000
Tillakaratne Dilshan	650,000	400,000
Dirk Nannes	650,000	200,000
Daniel Vettori	550,000	400,000
Abhimanyu Mithun	260,000	100,000
Charl Langeveldt	140,000	100,000
Mohammad Kaif	130,000	100,000
Luke Pomersbach	50,000	20,000
Johan van der Wath	50,000	50,000
Rilee Rossouw	20,000	20,000
Nuwan Pradeep	20,000	20,000
Jonathan Vandiar	20,000	20,000

Chennai Super Kings

Captain: MS Dhoni

Players bought: 14 | Money spent: 4,165,000 (out of $4,500,000)

Players retained before auction: Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Albie Morkel

Retained at auction: Hussey, Ashwin, Badrinath, Bollinger, Tyagi, Joginder, Bailey

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
R Ashwin	850,000	100,000
S Badrinath	850,000	100,000
Doug Bollinger	700,000	200,000
Michael Hussey	425,000	200,000
Sudeep Tyagi	240,000	50,000
Dwanye Bravo	200,000	200,000
Scott Styris	200,000	100,000
Joginder Sharma	150,000	100,000
Francois du Plessis	120,000	20,000
Wriddhiman Saha	100,000	100,000
Ben Hilfenhaus	100,000	100,000
Nuwan Kulasekara	100,000	100,000
Surav Randiv	80,000	50,000
George Bailey	50,000	50,000

Deccan Chargers

Captaincy options: Sangakkara, Pietersen, White

Players bought: 14 | Money spent: 6,875,000 (out of $9,000,000)

Players retained before auction: None

Retained at auction: Ojha

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Dale Steyn	1,200,000	200,000
Cameron White	1,100,000	300,000
Daniel Christian	900,000	50,000
Kumar Sangakkara	700,000	300,000
Kevin Pietersen	650,000	400,000
Pragyan Ojha	500,000	200,000
Ishant Sharma	450,000	200,000
Shikhar Dhawan	300,000	100,000
JP Duminy	300,000	200,000
Amit Mishra	300,000	100,000
Manpreet Gony	290,000	50,000
Juan Theron	85,000	50,000
Michael Lumb	80,000	50,000
Chris Lynn	20,000	20,000

Delhi Daredevils

Captaincy options: Virender Sehwag

Players bought: 16 | Money spent: 6,440,000 (out of $7,200,000)

Players retained before auction: Sehwag

Retained at auction: Warner, McDonald

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Irfan Pathan	1,900,000	200,000
David Warner	750,000	200,000
Umesh Yadav	750,000	50,000
Venugopal Rao	700,000	100,000
Morne Morkel	475,000	100,000
Ashok Dinda	375,000	100,000
James Hopes	350,000	200,000
Aaron Finch	300,000	100,000
Naman Ojha	270,000	100,000
Ajit Agarkar	200,000	100,000
Mathew Wade	100,000	100,000
Colin Ingram	100,000	100,000
Andrew McDonald	80,000	50,000
Roelof van der Merwe	50,000	50,000
Robert Frylinck	20,000	20,000
Travis Burt	20,000	20,000

Kochi

Captaincy options: Jayawardene, McCullum, Laxman

Players bought: 17 | Money spent: 7,790,000 (out of $9,000,000)

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Mahela Jayawardene	1,500,000	400,000
Muttiah Muralitharan	1,100,000	300,000
Ravindra Jadeja	950,000	100,000
S Sreesanth	900,000	200,000
RP Singh	500,000	200,000
Brendon McCullum	475,000	400,000
Vinay Kumar	475,000	100,000
Brad Hodge	425,000	200,000
VVS Laxman	400,000	300,000
Parthiv Patel	290,000	100,000
Steven Smith	200,000	200,000
Owais Shah	200,000	200,000
Ramesh Powar	180,000	100,000
Thisara Perera	80,000	50,000
Michael Klinger	75,000	20,000
Stephen O’Keefe	20,000	20,000
John Hastings	20,000	20,000

Kolkata Knight Riders

Captaincy options: Gambhir, Kallis, Shakib

Players bought: 12 | Money spent: 8,575,000 (out of $9,000,000)

Retained at auction: Unadkat, Tiwary

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Gautam Gambhir	2,400,000	200,000
Yusuf Pathan	2,100,000	300,000
Jacques Kallis	1,100,000	300,000
Laksmipathy Balaji	500,000	100,000
Manoj Tiwary	475,000	100,000
Shakib Al Hasan	425,000	200,000
Brett Lee	400,000	400,000
Eoin Morgan	350,000	200,000
Brad Haddin	325,000	200,000
Jaidev Unadkat	250,000	50,000
Ryan ten Doeschate	150,000	50,000
James Pattinson	100,000	100,000

Mumbai Indians

Captain: Sachin Tendulkar

Players bought: 8 | Money spent: 4,020,000 (out of $4,500,000)

Players retained before auction: Tendulkar, Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Rohit Sharma	2,000,000	200,000
Andrew Symonds	850,000	300,000
Munaf Patel	700,000	100,000
Davy Jacobs	190,000	20,000
Clint McKay	110,000	100,000
James Franklin	100,000	100,000
Moises Henriques	50,000	50,000
Aiden Blizzard	20,000	20,000

Pune Warriors

Captaincy options: Graeme Smith, Yuvraj Singh

Players bought: 14 | Money spent: 8,070,000 (out of $9,000,000)

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Robin Uthappa	2,100,000	200,000
Yuvraj Singh	1,800,000	400,000
Angelo Mathews	950,000	300,000
Ashish Nehra	850,000	200,000
Graeme Smith	500,000	400,000
Murali Kartik	400,000	200,000
Callum Ferguson	300,000	200,000
Mitchell Marsh	290,000	100,000
Tim Paine	270,000	100,000
Wayne Parnell	160,000	100,000
Jesse Ryder	150,000	100,000
Nathan McCullum	100,000	100,000
Jerome Taylor	100,000	100,000
Alfonso Thomas	100,000	50,000

Kings XI Punjab

Captaincy options: Gilchrist

Players bought: 11 | Money spent: 6,945,000 (out of $9,000,000)

Retained at auction: Chawla, Marsh,

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
David Hussey	1,400,000	300,000
Dinesh Karthik	900,000	200,000
Adam Gilchrist	900,000	400,000
Piyush Chawla	900,000	100,000
Abhishek Nayyar	800,000	50,000
Praveen Kumar	800,000	200,000
Shaun Marsh	400,000	400,000
Stuart Broad	400,000	400,000
Ryan Harris	325,000	200,000
Dmitri Mascarenhas	100,000	100,000
Nathan Rimmington	20,000	20,000

Rajasthan Royals

Captain: Shane Warne

Players bought: 6 | Money spent: 3,095,000 (out of $5,900,000)

Players retained before auction: Warne, Shane Watson

Retained at auction: Botha, Tait

Player	Price ($)	Base Price ($)
Ross Taylor	1,000,000	400,000
Johan Botha	950,000	200,000
Rahul Dravid	500,000	400,000
Shaun Tait	300,000	300,000
Paul Collingwood	250,000	200,000
Pankaj Singh	95,000	50,000