Top cricketers go to highest bidder
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Sport: On the eve of the great Indian Premier League auction, Paul Kelso in Mumbai surveys a fantasy made real
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India players agree central contracts for the first time, with top stars netting a basic salary of Â£59,000.
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Australia's Ricky Ponting is named cricketer of the year, ahead of England's Kevin Pietersen.
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What would you bid for these two auctioneers?
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Â· Andrew Hall (163 off 453 balls) scored his maiden Test century - his previous highest was an unbeaten 99 (off just 87 balls!) against England at Leeds in 2003.
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FACED with the prospect of losing the world&#39;s most in-form batsman, a bloke who knocked up 191 and 97 last start to take his runs tally for the year to 1426, most Test captains would be reaching for the headache tablets.
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Giants left fielder Barry Bonds&#39; 700th home run ball drew a top bid of $804,129 Wednesday after a 10-day online auction. There were 240 offers by the time Overstock.
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Brisbane: Glenn McGrath was getting ribbed by his Australian team-mates that his number of Test wickets was catching up to his Test runs: so he did something about it, posting his highest Test score.
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BRIDGETOWN (Barbados): A number of top West Indies players have ruled themselves out of consideration for Januaryâs one-day cricket series against Australia and Pakistan because of an ongoing contract dispute, cricket officials said on Wednesday.
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Top bidders put up a total of more than $2.4 billion in the opening round of the Federal Communications Commissionâs auction of coveted U.S. government-owned airwaves.
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The New York Yankees are comfortably the richest team in baseball. Their $180m annual wage bill is more than double that of most of their counterparts, and they have many of the game&#39;s most luminous stars in their line-up.
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The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the  first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of  New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red  Sox, is going on the auction block.
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Indian cricket could be set for a Â£173m windfall following the sale of TV rights for the national team's matches.
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Kevin Pietersen said there could be no question over his commitment to England following a hundred here Sunday which set up his side&#39;s bid for victory in the first Test against India at Lord&#39;s.
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LONDON - Manchester United have received a bid approach that boosted their shares yesterday and fanned talk that American sports tycoon Malcolm Glazer is planning a bid likely to top Â£650 million (S$2 billion).
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Sport: England batsman nominated for Test player, one-day player and cricketer of year at ICC awards.
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Andrew Hall&#39;s highest ever first class score underpinned a fine South African batting effort as the tourists reached 459 for seven at stumps on day two of the first Test with India.