Highest Earning Players in IPL-7 2014

Indian Premier League or IPL season 7 started with the match between IPL-6 Winner Mumbai Indians and Kolkata Knight Riders at Dubai. This season of Indian Premier League auction saw massive amount of transfers so all the teams have many brand new faces playing first time for them. The auction for IPL-7 was conducted in two days saw huge amount spent on the players which have not been so successful while those who garnered huge amount in earlier auctions went for few. Here I am with the article in which I have made a list of highest paid Indian Cricketer, Highest paid overseas cricketers as well as highest paid uncapped players for Indian Premier League-7 2014.

Indian Premier League-7 Trophy 2014 (Photo credit: cloudfront.net)

Highest Paid Indian Cricketers for IPL-7 2014 :

Star Indian batsman Yuvraj Singh got highest bid of Rs. 14 Cr. in Indian Premier League 2014 auction while Indian wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik got whopping Rs.12.5 Cr. Here is the list of top 10 cricketers from India who got highest bid in IPL-7 auction 2014.

 

Dinesh Karthik & Yuvraj Singh Most Expensive Cricketers of IPL-7

Player Name	Team/Franchises	Amount (Rs.)
Yuvraj Singh	RCB	Rs. 14 Cr.
Dinesh Karthik	DD	Rs. 12.5 Cr.
Murli Vijay	DD	Rs. 5 Cr.
Robin Uthappa	KKR	Rs. 5 Cr.
Amit Mishra	SRH	Rs.  4.75 Cr.
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar	SRH	Rs. 4.25 Cr.
Mohammad Shami	DD	Rs. 4.25 Cr.
Piyush Chawla	KKR	Rs. 4.25 Cr.
Virendra Sehwag	KXIP	Rs. 3.30 Cr.
Yusuf Pathan	KKR	Rs. 3.25 Cr.

Highest Paid Overseas Cricketers for IPL-7 2014 :

Kevin Pieterson who was sacked from England cricket team after the teams dismal performance in Ashes series against Australia got highest bid of Rs. 9 Cr. as overseas cricketer from Delhi Daredevils. Sacking from England came as boon for Kevin Pieterson financially also England's loss is IPL's gain. The list of highest paid overseas cricketers in Indian Premier League -7 is dominated by the Australian cricketers. This list has maximum 5 players from Australia out of which fiery fast bowler Mitchell Johnson got the bid of Rs.6.5 Cr for IPL-7 2014.

 

Player Name	Team/Franchises	Amount (Rs.)
Kevin Pieterson	DD	Rs. 9 Cr.
Mitchell Johnson	KXIP	Rs. 6.5 Cr
Glen Maxwell	KXIP	Rs. 6 Cr.
Jacques Kallis	KKR	Rs. 5.5 Cr.
David Warner	SRH	Rs. 5.5 Cr.
Michael Hussey	MI	Rs. 5 Cr.
Mitchell Starc	RCB	Rs. 5 Cr.
Faf du Plesis	CSK	Rs. 4.75 Cr.
Dwayne Smith	CSK	Rs. 4.5 Cr.
Corey Anderson	MI	Rs. 4.5 Cr.

Highest Paid Uncapped Cricketers for IPL-7 2014 :

Karn Sharma and Rishi Dhawan got whopping amount of Rs. 3.75 Cr. and Rs.3 Cr respectively in the auction for IPL7 on the basis of their good performances in Indian Premier League-6 2013. This list has the name of uncapped players who got highest bid in the auction for Indian Premier League 7 2014.

Player Name	Team/Franchises	Amount (Rs.)
Karn Sharma	SRH	Rs. 3.75 Cr.
Rishi Dhawan	KXIP	Rs. 3 Cr.
Kedar Jadhav	DD	Rs. 2 Cr.
Manish Pandey	KKR	Rs. 1.7 Cr
Rajat Bhatiya	RR	Rs. 1.7 Cr.
Mayank Aggarwal	DD	Rs. 1.6 Cr
Aditya Tare	MI	Rs. 1.6 Cr.
Ishwar Pandey	CSK	Rs. 1.5 Cr.
Gurkeerat Singh	KXIP	Rs. 1.3 Cr.
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	DD	Rs. 1.25 Cr.

           Don't You think Yuvraj and Karthik got much more money than they deserve ?   
      
          Who is going to be the best buy for Franchisees ? Which player got much more money than he deserved in IPL-7 auction apart from Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Karhik ? Which player got much lower money than he deserved ?