Published: Feb 14, 2014, 09:32 AM (IST)
Edited: Sep 14, 2014, 06:17 PM (IST)
Thursday saw Day Two of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2014 auction. Again, there were a few surprises along the way as some well-known names went unsold and some went at a higher price than expected. Arunabha Sengupta continues to provide highlights of the auction action through the unique medium of limericks
The O’Brien Brothers – unsold
Two Irishmen (not Pat and Mike)
Were subject of a joke they didn’t like
Thought all would be ravin’
About brothers Niall and Kevin
But both were told “go ’n take a hike”
Karn Sharma – 3.5 crores
An unheralded young man called Karn
Seldom had made many a head turn
To buy him the Sunrisers
Proved they were not misers
Big holes in their pockets did they burn
Mahela Jayawardane and other Sri Lankans
Mahela that great man from Ceylon
Did not sell and hence set the tone
Many from his isle
Couldn’t make a pile
But were happy that none did so alone
Kuldeep Yadav – the young Chinaman bowler
An Indian bowling Chinaman is odd
A five-for versus Nepal team slipshod
But if you had the fear
That he’s too peculiar
KKR thinks he’s precious gift from God
Shilpa Shetty’s absence
The South Africa Australia Test
Was cricket at its absolute best
Yet, to see auction we willed
And ended unfulfilled
Shilpa didn’t turn up with that waist
(Arunabha Sengupta is a cricket historian and Chief Cricket Writer at CricketCountry. He writes about the history and the romance of the game, punctuated often by opinions about modern day cricket, while his post-graduate degree in statistics peeps through in occasional analytical pieces. The author of three novels, he can be followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/senantix)
