Shahid Afridi has been sold to the Dhaka franchise for $700,000 in an auction for Bangladesh Premier League (BPL)2012 tournament. But batsman Herschelle Gibbs and spinner Monty Panesar failed to attract bids in current BPL auction.
There is a total of 111 overseas players and 80 local cricketers with a maximum budget of $2million.
Chris Gayle for Barisal in $551,000
Marlon Samuels for Rajshahi in $360,000
Kieron Pollard for Dhaka franchises in $300,000
Shoaib Malik for Chittagong in $150,000
Dwayne Bravo for Chittagong in $150,000
Brad Hodge for Barisal in $140,000
Sanath Jayasuriya for Rajshahi in $110,000
Muttiah Muralitharan for Chittagong in $100,000
Niall O’Brien for Khulna in $80,000
Nasir Hossain for Khulna in $200,000
There are no Indian players in the auction for Bangladesh Premier League.
Bangladesh international players Tamim Iqbal, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammad Ashraful, Mushfiqur Rahim, Alok Kapali and Shahriar Nafees had been choosen as a icon players for all the six franchises in BPL and excluded from current auction.