Thursday's Auction - OPENING 9AM

First topic message reminder :

After a heck of an auction day on Wednesday, its all going to happen again.

S: Dale Steyn, Umar Gul
H: Ricky Ponting, Daniel Vettori, Kumar Sangakkara, Ravichandran Ashwin, Rahul Dravid, Amit Mishra, Shane Warne
M: Jamie How, Xavier Doherty, Kamran Akmal, Fidel Edwards, Charl Langeveldt, Nathan McCullum, James Pattinson, Mohammed Ashraful, Tamim Iqbal, Stuart MacGill, Rob Nicol
L: Darren Bravo, Usman Khawaja, Patrick Cummins, Devendra Bishoo, Steve Smith, Vinay Kumar, Makhaya Ntini, Chamara Kupugedera, Ray Price


Current Highest Bid
Cummins - 110k
Ashwin - 310k
Sangakkara - 300k
Bishoo - 80k
N McCullum - 150k
Smith - 75k
Vettori - 300k
Tamin Iqbal - 150k
Bravo - 75k

lol im waiting for kiwi, to come and outbid me.

Gregers wrote:Its no longer the case GG, that rule was abolished in the move from IPL to EPL

Okay, thanks for clearing that up!

Sorry to be a total pain in the *** but I've just noticed Bishoo isn't u25, so I'd like to withdraw my bid for him.

Thats alight GG, how much was he on before your bid?

32mins to hold out on nicol

This was leading:

Sainty wrote:Devandara Bishoo - 75k

i have enough, englishmen, and u-25's in my squad, so i can concentrate on overseas

Cheers GG

I need one more Englishman...

On behalf of JD

Iqbal

180k

On behalf of MFC

Gul

500k

Can someone do a quick check of who is highest bidder for who, cheers

i will put my bids together:

Rob Nicol- £160k

+

James Pattinson-£150k

On behalf of Olly

Iqbal

190k

On behalf of JD

Iqbal

200k

I'm highest bidder on Cummins - 125k and Bravo - 75k

Sussex bid 500k for Dale Steyn

im highest bidder on

Nicol and Pattinson gregers if that helps

Gul 500,000 Durham
Nicol 160,000 Essex
Iqbal 200,000 Hampshire
Khawaja 75,000 Hampshire
Kumar 75,000 Hampshire
Smith 80,000 Hampshire
McCullum 150,000 Lancs
Sangakarra300,000 Leics
Bishoo 75,000 Leics
Vettori 300,000 Middlesex
Price 75,000 Middlesex
Steyn 500,000 Sussex
Ashwin 310,000 Worcs
Cummins 125,000 `Yorkshire
Bravo 75,000 Yorkshire

As things stand I believe

erm excuse me, im also highest bid on pattinson

Cheers Marsh , got them all written down as well as the bidding instructions I've got from 4 people!

And it is 200k for Iqbal at Notts, not Hampshire!

From Olly

210k

Iqbal

From JD

220k

Iqbal

gregrs have u got pattinson down as well as nicol mate?

Bishoo - 90k

Ashwin 320k

Ashwin

Worcs

330k

Battle for Ashwin!

From Olly 220k Iqbal

From JD 230k Iqbal

From Olly and JD

250k Iqbal

- Both people sent that as their top bid, if no one goes above 250 then Iqbal will be made available starting at 250k tomorrow but with only JD and Olly able to bid on him

im not going for him..

i would be happy with nicol and pattinson and have £500k to spend on the final day

Sainty you still had Bishoo at 75k mate

I saw 80k, sorry!

Ashwin 380k

Np mate, GG (I think) retracted his bid

2mins left.

Ashwin

Worcs

385k

Iqbal
Notts
255k

Sussex bid 150k for Cummins

Ashwin
400

Smith £100,000

Lancs

Ashwin

405k

Warne
300k

Ashwin 420k

Surrey

Patrick Cummins

155k

Smith

From Olly

£110k

Auction shut

pattinson j 155k

CLOSED!

boom......

NICOL AND PATTINSON GOING TO ESSEX

cya tomorrow when i will have £500k to bust out.

just lost out this time (or did I...)

Got steyn though so all's good!

so i can confirm both signings then

Damn and blast!

Ah well, more money for tomorrow I suppose.

Pipped at the last second for the second time in a row!

Managed to get McCullum at least

Never again am I bidding as 4 people plus myself!

Far too stressful!

Happy to concede that I missed out on Pattinson if that is the case, but can Gregers/Sainty please confirm the situation (posted btwn Gregers and Sainty shutting the auction)

gregers said it first and it was 9:00pm so it was shut....