IPL AUCTION

Royal Challengers Bangalore pay Rs 14 crore for Yuvraj Singh

Dinesh Karthik a surprise pick by Delhi Daredevils, for Rs 12.5 crore

The opening day of the 2014 Indian Premier League players' auction in Bangalore, on Wednesday, saw a lot of action, with the teams going all out for the marquee players.

India's batting ace Yuvraj Singh commanded the highest price, Royal Challengers Bangalore paying a massive Rs 14 crore for him, while Dinesh Karthik was a surprise pick at Rs 12.5 crore by Delhi Daredevils.

Delhi also did well to retain the services of Kevin Pietersen, after using the 'Right to Match' card, for Rs 9 crore, while Australia's Ashes hero Mitchell Johnson was snapped up by Kings XI Punjab for Rs 6.5 crore.

The Kings also managed to snatch hard-hitting Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell for Rs 6 crore.

                              SOLD PLAYERS

 Chennai Super Kings

Player	Type	Price Paid
Faf Du Plessis	Batsman	₹4,75,00,000
Dwayne Smith	Batsman	₹4,50,00,000
Brendon McCullum	Wicket Keeper	₹3,25,00,000
Ashish Nehra	Bowler	₹2,00,00,000
Mohit Sharma	Bowler	₹2,00,00,000
Ishwar Chandra Pandey	Bowler	₹1,50,00,000
Ben Hilfenhaus	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
John Hastings	All-Rounder	₹50,00,000
Samuel Badree	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Matt Henry	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Mithun Manhas	All-Rounder	₹30,00,000
Vijay Shankar	All-Rounder	₹10,00,000
Ronit More	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Baba Aparajith	Batsman	₹10,00,000
Pawan Negi	Bowler	₹10,00,000

 Delhi Daredevils

Player	Type	Price Paid
Dinesh Karthik	Wicket Keeper	₹12,50,00,000
Kevin Pietersen	Batsman	₹9,00,00,000
Murali Vijay	Batsman	₹5,00,00,000
Mohammad Shami	Bowler	₹4,25,00,000
Nathan Coulter-Nile	Bowler	₹4,25,00,000
Quinton De Kock	Wicket Keeper	₹3,50,00,000
Manoj Tiwary	Batsman	₹2,80,00,000
Jaydev Unadkat	Bowler	₹2,80,00,000
Jean-Paul Duminy	Batsman	₹2,20,00,000
Ross Taylor	Batsman	₹2,00,00,000
Kedar Jadhav	Batsman	₹2,00,00,000
Rahul Sharma	Bowler	₹1,90,00,000
Mayank Agarwal	Batsman	₹1,60,00,000
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	All-Rounder	₹1,50,00,000
James Neesham	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
Wayne Parnell	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
Shahbaz Nadeem	Bowler	₹85,00,000
Saurabh Tiwary	Batsman	₹70,00,000
Siddarth Kaul	Bowler	₹45,00,000
Rahul Shukla	Bowler	₹40,00,000
Jayant Yadav	All-Rounder	₹10,00,000
HS Sharath	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Milind Kumar	Batsman	₹10,00,000

 Kings XI Punjab

Player	Type	Price Paid
Mitchell Johnson	All-Rounder	₹6,50,00,000
Glenn Maxwell	All-Rounder	₹6,00,00,000
George Bailey	Batsman	₹3,25,00,000
Virender Sehwag	Batsman	₹3,20,00,000
Rishi Dhawan	All-Rounder	₹3,00,00,000
Wriddhiman Saha	Wicket Keeper	₹2,20,00,000
Shaun Marsh	Batsman	₹2,20,00,000
Cheteshwar Pujara	Batsman	₹1,90,00,000
Beuran Hendricks	Bowler	₹1,80,00,000
Lakshmipathy Balaji	Bowler	₹1,80,00,000
Thisara Perera	All-Rounder	₹1,60,00,000
Gurkirat Singh Mann	Batsman	₹1,30,00,000
Murali Kartik	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
Sandeep Sharma	Bowler	₹85,00,000
Mandeep Hardev Singh	All-Rounder	₹80,00,000
Akshar Rajesh Patel	All-Rounder	₹75,00,000
Parvinder Awana	Bowler	₹65,00,000
Shardul Narendra Thakur	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Anureet Singh	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Shivam Sharma	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Karanveer Singh	All-Rounder	₹10,00,000

 Kolkata Knight Riders

Player	Type	Price Paid
Jacques Kallis	All-Rounder	₹5,50,00,000
Robin Uthappa	Batsman	₹5,00,00,000
Piyush Chawla	Bowler	₹4,25,00,000
Yusuf Pathan	All-Rounder	₹3,25,00,000
Shakib Al Hasan	All-Rounder	₹2,80,00,000
Morne Morkel	Bowler	₹2,80,00,000
Ranganath Vinay Kumar	Bowler	₹2,80,00,000
Umesh Yadav	Bowler	₹2,60,00,000
Manish Pandey	Batsman	₹1,70,00,000
Chris Lynn	Batsman	₹1,30,00,000
Patrick Cummins	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
Ryan Ten Doeschate	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
Suryakumar Yadav	Batsman	₹70,00,000
Andre Russell	All-Rounder	₹60,00,000
Manvinder Bisla	Wicket Keeper	₹60,00,000
Veer Pratap Singh	Bowler	₹40,00,000
Kuldeep Singh Yadav	Bowler	₹40,00,000
Debabrata Das	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
Sayan Sekhar Mandal	All-Rounder	₹10,00,000

 Mumbai Indians

Player	Type	Price Paid
Michael Hussey	Batsman	₹5,00,00,000
Corey Anderson	All-Rounder	₹4,50,00,000
Pragyan Ojha	Bowler	₹3,25,00,000
Zaheer Khan	Bowler	₹2,60,00,000
Aditya Tare	Wicket Keeper	₹1,60,00,000
Jasprit Bumrah	Bowler	₹1,20,00,000
Jalaj Saxena	All-Rounder	₹90,00,000
Josh Hazlewood	Bowler	₹50,00,000
Marchant De Lange	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Krismar Santokie	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Ben Dunk	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
C.M. Gautam	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
Apoorv Vijay Wankhade	Batsman	₹10,00,000
Pawan Suyal	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Sushant Marathe	Wicket Keeper	₹10,00,000
Shreyas Gopal	Bowler	₹10,00,000

 Rajasthan Royals

Player	Type	Price Paid
Steven Smith	All-Rounder	₹4,00,00,000
Brad Hodge	Batsman	₹2,40,00,000
Rajat Bhatia	All-Rounder	₹1,70,00,000
Tim Southee	Bowler	₹1,20,00,000
Dhawal Kulkarni	Bowler	₹1,10,00,000
Abhishek Nayar	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
Kane Richardson	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
Ben Cutting	Bowler	₹80,00,000
Karun Nair	Batsman	₹75,00,000
Unmukt Chand	Batsman	₹65,00,000
Iqbal Abdullah	All-Rounder	₹65,00,000
Deepak Hooda	Bowler	₹40,00,000
Dishant Yagnik	Wicket Keeper	₹30,00,000
Kevon Cooper	All-Rounder	₹30,00,000
Vikramjeet Malik	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Ankit Nagendra Sharma	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Rahul Tewatia	All-Rounder	₹10,00,000
Ankush Bains	Wicket Keeper	₹10,00,000
Amit Mishra	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Pravin Tambe	Bowler	₹10,00,000

 Royal Challengers Bangalore

Player	Type	Price Paid
Yuvraj Singh	All-Rounder	₹14,00,00,000
Mitchell Starc	Bowler	₹5,00,00,000
Albie Morkel	All-Rounder	₹2,40,00,000
Varun Aaron	Bowler	₹2,00,00,000
Ashok Dinda	Bowler	₹1,50,00,000
Parthiv Patel	Wicket Keeper	₹1,40,00,000
Muttiah Muralitharan	Bowler	₹1,00,00,000
Ravi Rampaul	Bowler	₹90,00,000
Nic Maddinson	Batsman	₹50,00,000
Harshal Patel	Bowler	₹40,00,000
Vijay Zol	Batsman	₹30,00,000
Abu Nechim Ahmed	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Sachin Rana	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Shadab Jakati	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Sandeep Warrier	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Tanmay Mishra	Batsman	₹10,00,000
Yogesh Takawale	Wicket Keeper	₹10,00,000
Yuzvendra Singh Chahal	Bowler	₹10,00,000

 Sunrisers Hyderabad

Player	Type	Price Paid
David Warner	Batsman	₹5,50,00,000
Amit Mishra	Bowler	₹4,75,00,000
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	Bowler	₹4,25,00,000
Aaron Finch	Batsman	₹4,00,00,000
Karn Sharma	Bowler	₹3,75,00,000
Darren Sammy	All-Rounder	₹3,50,00,000
Ishant Sharma	Bowler	₹2,60,00,000
Irfan Pathan	All-Rounder	₹2,40,00,000
Moises Henriques	All-Rounder	₹1,00,00,000
KL Rahul	Batsman	₹1,00,00,000
Parveez Rasool	All-Rounder	₹95,00,000
Jason Holder	Bowler	₹75,00,000
Venugopal Rao	Batsman	₹55,00,000
Naman Ojha	Wicket Keeper	₹50,00,000
Brendan Taylor	Wicket Keeper	₹30,00,000
Prasanth Parameswaran	Bowler	₹30,00,000
Amit Paunikar	Wicket Keeper	₹20,00,000
Ashish Reddy	Bowler	₹20,00,000
Srikkanth Anirudha	Batsman	₹20,00,000
Ricky Bhui	Batsman	₹10,00,000
Chama Milind	Bowler	₹10,00,000
Manprit Juneja	Batsman	₹10,00,000

FACTS ABOUT GEORGIA SPORTS HALL of FAME

• The 43,000 square-foot Georgia Sports Hall of Fame is the largest state sports hall of fame in the country.
• Over 1,000 artifacts are on display in the museum. The GSHF has over 3,000 artifacts in its entire collection. Artifacts are displayed on a rotating basis.

• The Paralympic exhibit is the largest and most comprehensive collection on the 1996 Paralympic Games in the United States.
• The Georgia Sports Hall of Fame officially houses the sterling silver bowls awarded to the men’s and women’s champion at the annual Masters Water Ski Tournament.

• The bow-tie worn by Savannah native Mills Lane while refereeing the Evander Holyfield vs. Mike Tyson “bite-fight” is on display.

• Electrical Statistics: -4.5 miles of conduit -24.5 mile of wire or nearly the same distance from Macon to Forsyth, Georgia -815 light fixtures – 63 different types.

• 230,000 bricks were used in construction of the Hall of Fame.

• Nearly 245 tons of steel were used in the construction of the Hall of Fame.

• Glass statistics: -2,513 square-feet of glass -7,591 lbs of glass

SPORTS DRINKS

Sports Drinks are designed to deliver a balanced amount of carbohydrate and fluid to allow an athlete to simultaneously rehydrate and refuel during exercise.  According to various expert position stands, to provide rapid delivery of fluid and fuel and to maximise gastric tolerance and palatability.

Sports drinks should be within a compositional range of 4-8% (4-8 g/100 ml) carbohydrate and 23-69 mg/100mL (10-30 mmol/L) sodium (American College of Sports Medicine et al. 2007).

For situations which require a high rate of delivery to the muscle of newly ingested carbohydrates, drinks containing “multiple transportable carbohydrates” - a blend of carbohydrates such as glucose and fructose which use different intestinal transporters - may overcome the usual limitation of gut uptake of carbohydrate.

Studies show that such mixtures are effective in increasing muscle oxidation of carbohydrate consumed during exercise compared with glucose-based products.

Replacement of electrolytes, particularly sodium, is useful for maintaining the thirst drive.  Sodium concentrations of ~ 10-25 mmol/L enhance the palatability and voluntary consumption of fluids consumed during exercise.   

 Sodium concentrations higher than those typically provided in commercial sports drinks are needed to restore fluid balance and reduce urine losses during the reversal of moderate-severe dehydration.   They may also be needed to replace sweat sodium losses during exercise in situations of high losses (e.g. salty sweaters, prolonged exercise) 

Protein or amino acids (2% or 2 g/100 ml) can be found in a small number of commercially available sports drinks. Some studies show that sports drinks providing protein/amino acids are superior to carbohydrate-electrolyte drinks in enhancing performance or recovery in specific exercise situations (e.g. prolonged exercise).  The case for consuming protein during recovery after exercise is strong and can be achieved by a range of sports products and everyday foods other than sports drinks.  The benefits of consuming protein during exercise on performance of exercise are contentious.  

The taste and temperature of sports drinks are also important factors in meeting hydration goals. Studies show that athletes more closely match fluid intake to sweat losses when offered flavoured sports drinks compared to water (Minehan et al. 2002). Cool fluids are generally more palatable for athletes who are exercising in hot conditions or have become hot though the heat gain associated with high-intensity exercise. 

SPORT (or sports) is all forms of usually competitive physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical ability and skills while providing entertainment to participants, and in some cases, spectators. Hundreds of sports exist, from those requiring only two participants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals.

Sports is generally recognised as activities which are based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with the largest major competitions such as the Olympic Games admitting only sports meeting this definition, and other organisations such as the Council of Europe using definitions precluding activities without a physical element from classification as sports. However, a number of competitive, but non-physical, activities claim recognition as mind sports. The International Olympic Committee (through ARISF) recognises both chess and bridge as bona fide sports, and SportAccord, the international sports federation association, recognises five non-physical sports, although limits the amount of mind games which can be admitted as sports.

Sports are usually governed by a set of rules or customs, which serve to ensure fair competition, and allow consistent adjudication of the winner. Winning can be determined by physical events such as scoring goals or crossing a line first, or by the determination of judges who are scoring elements of the sporting performance, including objective or subjective measures such as technical performance or artistic impression.

In organised sport, records of performance are often kept, and for popular sports, this information may be widely announced or reported in sport news. In addition, sport is a major source of entertainment for non-participants, with spectator sports drawing large crowds to venues, and reaching wider audiences through sports broadcasting.

According to A.T. Kearney, a consultancy, the global sporting industry is worth up to $620 billion as of 2013.

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