IPL 5 auction: Chennai Super Kings buy Ravindra Jadeja for whopping $2 million in tie-breaker

NEW DELHI: Dashing wicketkeeper-batsman Brendon McCullum was the first to be auctioned as he was bought for $900,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders followed by the Indian all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who was clinched by Chennai Super Kings for whopping $2 million in the tie-breaker.  Who got whom | Batsmen | Bowlers | All-rounders | Wicket-keepers  Meanwhile, KKR co-owner Shah Rukh Khan tweeted: Feel shy sitting on auction table with all the bigwigs...so waiting outside and enjoying a cuppa coffee & brendon return to team...  Royal Challengers Bangalore bought seamer R Vinay Kumar, who had a base price $100,000, for $1 million.  Fast bowler RP Singh, who had a base price of $200,000, was bought by Mumbai Indians for $600,000.  Jadeja,...

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Sahara withdraws Indian cricket team sponsorship and Pune Warriors ownership

NEW DELHI: In a surprise development, the Indian cricket team's longtime sponsor Sahara India on Saturday ended financial ties with theBCCI and also pulled out of the IPL by withdrawing from Pune Warriors' ownership just hours before the players' auction. Sahara, which has been the team sponsor for 11 years, signed a renewed agreement with the BCCI on July 1, 2010 till December 31, 2013. Sahara was paying Rs 3.34 crore per Test match, one-day international and Twenty20 international under the new terms. "...after an 11-year journey as sponsors, we can say with surety that cricket has become very rich. Many rich people are there to support cricket with a strong will to do so. So, with absolute peace of mind we can exit from cricket under BCCI and are...

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Agneepath Movie Review

Karan Malhotra's 'Agneepath' is definitely a visual spectacle but do we have an appetite for a three-hour-long revenge saga complete with blood, gore and heightened melodrama any more?Rajeev Masand in his review commends the acting but rightly points out that it's 'over-indulgent':Debutant director Karan Malhotra's re-telling of Mukul Anand's 1990 vendetta movie 'Agneepath' is a glossy, well-acted production. Compared to recent 'mass entertainers' that tend to lazily sacrifice story and plot for retro-style action and star appeal, this remake rolls along like a well-oiled machine. And yet, after watching three hours of stabbing, gunfire,...

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