"1.5" said Mitesh which was immediately followed by a counter bid. "2" said Mitesh and someone else said "2.5" which was followed by "3." The audience at the auction were wondering when did the bid increments change from 10K to a 50K. Amidst a lot of oooo and aahhh the stakes for Sankett Deshpande, a fine young player went up to a whooping 500K+. Mitesh then said "5.5" The bidding master Sparsh said "anyone bidding 5.6 ?" but none replied. "Sold!" Sankett Deshpande bid into Mitesh's Chindi Items cricket team for 550Ks.
The auctioning process for this season's Triveni Premier League concluded yesterday at. We had bidding Captains, some of the players, the auctioning team, and an enthusiastic audience gathered in the living room of apt 9548-H. Each team captain had with him (sadly no female captains, so let's leave it at "him") a maximum sum of 2000K worth of virtual money. A total of 55 players registered for TPL which were to be divided into 4 teams. Each player has a base price of 50K and can be bid by interested captains in minimum increments of 10K. The order in which each player was put up to bidding was completely random and in no particular order. At the end of the bidding, the teams are:
Some interesting statistics about the bidding. 5 players went for more than 450Ks. The average price that a player was bought for is 152.35Ks which is just more than 3 times the base price. Muralikrishnan is the most generous captain spent more than 100K on all players except one. He also bags Nimesh MS who is the most expensive player yet in TPL. Nimesh MS goes to Muralikrishnan's team for a whooping 600Ks. Sadly Shreyas ran out of money after the bid went beyond 260K while bidding for Nimesh. One must appreciate the auctioning team for a neatly executed transparent bidding process and the captains for doing the homework on who to bid for. In the end, the bidding was a team game where each team's captain together with his players built (or bought) the team. Kudos to everyone. Now, let's all look forward to cheering the first game of TPL between Shreyas's League Champs and Yashaswi's Deccan Chargers on Friday at 1500 hrs.
The auctioning process for this season's Triveni Premier League concluded yesterday at. We had bidding Captains, some of the players, the auctioning team, and an enthusiastic audience gathered in the living room of apt 9548-H. Each team captain had with him (sadly no female captains, so let's leave it at "him") a maximum sum of 2000K worth of virtual money. A total of 55 players registered for TPL which were to be divided into 4 teams. Each player has a base price of 50K and can be bid by interested captains in minimum increments of 10K. The order in which each player was put up to bidding was completely random and in no particular order. At the end of the bidding, the teams are:
| Chindi Items | Deccan Chargers | League Champs | Blazing Blizzards | ||||
| Mitesh Peshave (c) | Yashaswi Kotagiri (c) | Shreyas Vakil (c) | Murali Krishnan (c) | ||||
| Rohit Tenneti | Nikhil Goud | Mayank Sharma | Saketh Kumar | ||||
| Ajinkya Raulkar | Prateek Demla | Ankur Agarwal | Saketh Kumar | ||||
| Sri Harsha Pokala | Stimith Baratakke | Sushant Patil | Aditya Kumar | ||||
| Sandeep Andre | Amar Laddha | Ashok Gandu | Giridhar Krishna Prayaga | ||||
| Bhanu Teja Krishnavajjala | Vinay Sheel Vangala | Nitesh Attal | Prajeeth Venigandla | ||||
| Bharath Reddy | Neel Gagan Adepu | Palak Desai | Ramesh Otturu | ||||
| Sankett Deshpande | Srujan Reddy | Avinash Basavaraj | Balasubramanian K | ||||
| Aditya Samireddy | Hitansh Vashist | Abhaysinh Barge | Nimesh MS | ||||
| Arun Kumar Samayam | Vasantsekhar Sekhar | Mayank Patel | Arun Mani | ||||
| Bhumin Desai | Mohit Reddy Gangireddy | Uday Bhanu | Tushar Gaur | ||||
| Parikshit Kulkarni | Shivacharan Challuri | Vallabh Kankani | Anay Tuljapurkar | ||||
| Bhanu Teerth | Sparsh Shekhar | Ajay Ramesh | Ramakrishna Reddy | ||||
| Subba Rao | Akhil Arunkumar | ||||||
| Ameya Rahane | |||||||
