Sandeep, Sardar command top base price of Rs 15 lakh at HIL
TNN
NEW DELHI: Hockey India on Friday announced the base price of 246 players who will participate in the Hockey India League.
Indian captain Sardar Singh and drag-flicker Sandeep Singh are at top of the list with a base price of $ 27,800 (Rs 15 lakh each approx).
They are above three foreign players Jamie Dwyer, Moritz Fuertse and Teun de Nooijer whose base price is Rs 13.5 lakh. Players have been divided into 13 categories ranging from Rs 1.5 lakh to Rs 15 lakh. The auction is on Sunday.
HIL AUCTIONS: BASE PRICES
INDIANS
Rs 15 lakh: Sardar Singh, Sandeep Singh;
Rs 10 lakh (approx): Gurbaj Singh; Shivendra Singh
Rs 7.5 lakh (approx): Ignace Tirkey; V Raghunath; Danish Mujtaba; Gurvinder Chandi; SV Sunil; Sarvanjit Singh; Tushar Khandkar, S V Sunil
Rs 5 lakh (approx): Rupinder Pal Singh, Birendra Lakra, Kothajit Singh, Manpreet Singh, SK Uthappa, Yuvraj Walmiki, Nithin Thimmaiah
NOTABLE FOREIGN RECRUITS
Rs 13.5 lakh: Taeke Taekema; Glenn Turner (Both AUS); Oliver Korn (GER), Mohammad Imran, Mahmood Rashid (Both PAK), Pol Amat (ESP); Justin Reid Ross (SA)
Rs 11 lakh: Jaap Stockmann; Marcel Balkestein (Both NED); Mohammad Rizwan Sr (PAK); Simon Child (NZ); Austin Smith (SA); Mark Knowles, Joel Caroll, Luke Doerner (all from AUS)
Rs 13.5 lakh: Jamie Dwyer (Australia), Moritz Fuertse (Germany) and Teun de Nooijer (Netherlands);
Note: Silent bids will be placed for all six Marquee players. Each will get a contract worth at least 115 per cent of the highest successful bid for the player in the auction. However, if the silent bid is worth more than this amount, the player will be entitled to get the amount mentioned in the silent bid.