No buyers for Shakib Al Hasan

Remember a franchise can have only ten foreign players on their rolls. Delhi have already exhausted their quota. Pool D's bidding begins, the first player is Bangladesh allrounder Shakib Al Hasan, the world's best allrounder at the moment according to the ICC rankings. Shakib's bidding began at $75,000 but he had no bidders.

Bangladesh's captain Mohammad Ashraful, who's known for his flashy stroke play, did not have any bidders at his base price of $75,000.

Deccan Chargers bought Dwayne Smith, the West Indian allrounder, at his base price of $100,000.

There were no bids for South Africans Gulam Bodi and Morne van Wyk, who is a wicketkeeper, and West Indies fast bowlers Daren Powell and Jerome Taylor, whose bidding opened at $150,000. Australian under-19 and New South Wales allrounder Steven Smith's bidding also start at $75,000 but he too remained unsold. Ashley Noffke, who was Nathan Bracken's replacement at the Bangalore Royal Challengers last season, had no takers either.