Bengaluru: South Africa's little known Francois du Plessis made heads turn at the 2011 IPL Players's Auction when he was bought by Chennai Super Kings for $120,000, getting six times his base price.
The 26-year-old all-rounder, who has made for himself in English, evoked a lot of interest before the champions purchased him.
That turned out to be the last purchase in the regular round of the auction.
Infact, only five players were signed up in the second session, with the highest going to South African Alfonso Thomas and Australian James Pattinson, who fetched $100,000 each.
Each team will now be required to list names of the players they would like to sign up from the remaining unsold players, who will then come up for auction again.
A look at how the auction spanned after the lunch break:
Batsmen:
Ricardo Powell ($50,000) UNSOLD
Xavier Marshall (100,000) UNSOLD
Loots Bosman (50,000) UNSOLD
Lendl Simmons (50,000) UNSOLD
Thilan Samaraweera (100,000) UNSOLD
Jamie How (50,000) UNSOLD
Phillip Hughes (100,000) UNSOLD
Ramnaresh Sarwan (100,000) UNSOLD
Thilina Kandamby (50,000) UNSOLD
Mohammad Ashraful (50,000) UNSOLD
Hamilton Masakadza (50,000) UNSOLD
All-rounders:
Chamu Chibabha (50,000) UNSOLD
Hasantha Fernando (50,000) UNSOLD
Gayan Wijekoon (50,000) UNSOLD
Muthumudalige Pushpakumara (50,000) UNSOLD
Lee Carseldine (20,000) UNSOLD
Rayad Emrit (20,000) UNSOLD
Akalanka Ganegama (50,000) UNSOLD
Chintihka Jayasinghe (20,000) UNSOLD
Md. Mahmudullah (50,000) UNSOLD
Tinashe Panyangara (50,000) UNSOLD
Bowler:
Dammika Prasad (20,000) UNSOLD
Daryl Tuffey (100,000) UNSOLD
Stuart Clark (100,000) UNSOLD
Dilhara Lokuhettige (50,000) UNSOLD
Sajid Mahmood (50,000) UNSOLD
James Pattinson $100,000 (100,000) to KKR
Rory Kleinveldt (50,000) UNSOLD
Nuwan Zoysa (50,000) UNSOLD
Ian O'Brien (50,000) UNSOLD
Mitchell Starc (100,000) UNSOLD
Batsmen:
David Miller (100,000) UNSOLD
Adrian Barath (50,000) UNSOLD
Peter Ingram (50,000) UNSOLD
Darren Ganga (100,000) UNSOLD
Imrul Kayes (50,000) UNSOLD
Mahela Udawatte (50,000) UNSOLD
Junaid Siddique (50,000) UNSOLD
Joe Denly (200,000) UNSOLD
Mark Cosgrove (50,000) UNSOLD
Morne Van Wyk (50,000) UNSOLD
All-rounders
Glenn Maxwell (20,000) UNSOLD
Tom Smith (100,000) UNSOLD
Darren Stevens (200,000) UNSOLD
Nathan Reardon (20,000) UNSOLD
Naeem Islam (50,000) UNSOLD
Farhaan Behardein (50,000) UNSOLD
Colin de Grandhomme (20,000) UNSOLD
James Faulkner (100,000) UNSOLD
Dilruwan Perera (50,000) UNSOLD
Tim Armstrong (20,000) UNSOLD
Bowlers:
Yusuf Abdulla (100,000) UNSOLD
Isuru Udana (50,000) UNSOLD
Pedro Collins (100,000) UNSOLD
Mashrafe Mortaza (100,000) UNSOLD
Tyron Henderson (100,000) UNSOLD
Ajmal Shahzad (200,000) UNSOLD
Suranga Lakmal (50,000) UNSOLD
Alfonso Thomas $100,000 (50,000) to Pune
Peter George (100,000) UNSOLD
Michael Hogan (50,000) UNSOLD
Batsmen
Shahriar Nafees (100,000) UNSOLD
Kane Williamson (50,000) UNSOLD
Andrew Puttick (50,000) UNSOLD
Neil Broom (20,000) UNSOLD
Phil Jaques (50,000) UNSOLD
Vaughn Van Jaarsveld (50,000) UNSOLD
George Bailey $50,000 (50,000) to CSK
Tharanga Paranavitana (50,000) UNSOLD
Rob Nicol (50,000) UNSOLD
Usman Afzaal (50,000) UNSOLD
All-rounder
Anthony McGrath (50,000) UNSOLD
Angelo Perera(20,000) UNSOLD
Danza Hyatt (20,000) UNSOLD
Richard Cameron (20,000) UNSOLD
Andre Russel (20,000) UNSOLD
Steven Croft (20,000) UNSOLD
Aaron O'Brien (20,000) UNSOLD
Robert Frynlinck (50,000) UNSOLD
Wes Durston (50,000) UNSOLD
Kieran Noema-Barnett (20,000) UNSOLD
Doug Bracewell (20,000) UNSOLD