The Gary Kirsten-Eric Simons partnership were hugely successful with Team India.
Dinesh Karthik pointed out that domestic players got good bids because of potential they possessed.
Indian Premier League was held in South Africa in 2009 as well because of the general elections in India.
IPL 7 auction Day 2: Uncapped players go at a premium as franchises shop for nuts-and-bolts cricketers.
Karn Sharma was relieved to hear about being retained by Sunrisers Hyderbad during the IPL 7 auction,
Recently, Karn Sharma was selected in the probables list for the World T20 although he didn't make it in the final 15.
The twitterati had their own take on the bids on Day 1 of IPL auctions
IPL 7 auction: Karn was sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for INR 3.5 Crore while Rishi went to Kings XI Punjab for 3 Crore.
Mumbai Indians paid Rs 4.5 crore for Anderson, a tad less than what they had splurged on Maxwell 12 months ago.
A team insider said that Pietersen was informally our leader in 2102, nurturing young talents and was excellent at that.
Yuvraj Singh becomes most expensive signing at IPL 7 auction as RCB buys him for Rs 14cr.
Apart from KXIP, it was Sunrisers Hyderabad who had a fruitful outing on the first day of the two-day IPL auction.
There's a wider pool this time with the ECB allowing their players to participate in the show.
Anderson, Pietersen, Finch and the likes will be expected to be the marquee names setting off bidding wars.
In a series of tweets, the former chief of the cash-rich IPL said he felt vindicated.
This will be the first year where even uncapped players will be part of the Indian Premier League auctions.
Kiwi batsman drops sweep from repertoire but adds cover drive instead to outwit rivals.
There are 46 capped Indian players in the list of 208 international players who have enrolled for the auction.
Pepsi, after a sponsorship deal with the Mumbai Indians, has retained pouring rights for all the franchises.
MSM Satellite was to pay Rs 425 crore to WSG to acquire the global rights to broadcast the IPL 20-20 cricket tournament.
IPL defending champions give cricketers from capital call up for a two-day camp in Baroda.
The only surprise decision came from Kings XI Punjab who retained the uncapped Manan Vohra.
Manan Vohra and Sanju Samson are two uncapped players to be retained.
Friday is the last day for all eight franchises to submit their retention lists prior to the IPL auction.
RCB, expectedly, have retained their batting nucleus in the form of Gayle, Kohli and de Villiers.