Johnson, Haddin valued at top base price for IPL auction

Freshly-crowned Ashes heroes Mitchell Johnson, Brad Haddin and Steven Smith are part of a group of 31 players that has attracted the highest base price of Rs 20 million (US$ 320,000 approx.) for the IPL player auction to be to be held in Bangalore on February 12 and 13. They are part of the 233-strong auction list of capped players from ten countries, which was finalised by the IPL last week and distributed to the eight franchises.Read more....