Friday, February 6, 2009

Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff becomes the highest paid in IPL

Kevin Pietersen and Andrew Flintoff becomes the highest paid players in IPL. Pietersen and Flintoff were bought for a staggering price of 1.55 million US dollars by the Bangalore Royal Challengers and Chennai Super Kings respectively in the second leg of the IPL auction held at Goa.
They overtook Indian skipper Mahendra singh Dhoni who was till now the highest paid player in the IPL.The former captain of England Kevin Pietersen and all-rounder Andrew Flintoff wer ethe two most talked about players in the Friday auction. Pietersen had been listed at a reserve price of $1.35 million, while Flintoff was priced second at $950,000.South African Jean Paul Duminy was bought by the Mumbai Indians for $950,000 which was about three times his reserve price.