Dinesh Karthik [ Images ] topped the bidding in the fifth round of the players' auction in the DLF Indian Premier League [ Images ] after Delhi bought him for US $5,25,000 ahead of South African veteran Mark Boucher [ Images ].

Boucher, one of the top wicketkeepers in world cricket and renowned for his hard-hitting batting, was second-best in the fifth round after Bangalore purchased him for US $4,50,000 against his base price of US $2,00,000, the same as Karthik. His compatriot AB de Villiers [ Images ] was taken by Delhi for US $3,00,000.

Parthiv Patel [ Images ], who last played international cricket in October 2004, received a huge boost after India Cements-owned franchise Chennai bought him for US $3,25,000.

Pakistan's Kamran Akmal went for his base price of US $1,50,000, but Zimbabwe's pocket-sized keeper Tatenda Taibu had no takers and went into the reserve pool with likes of Glenn McGrath [ Images ] and Michael Hussey [ Images ].

Player	Country	Bought by Franchise	Price (in USD)	Base Price (USD)
Round 1 (Report)
MS Dhoni [ Images ]	India	Chennai	1.5 m	4,00,000
Adam Gilchrist [ Images ]	Australia [ Images ]	Hyderabad	7,00,000	3,00,000
M Muralitharan [ Images ]	Sri Lanka [ Images ]	Chennai	6,00,000	2,50,000
M Jayawardene [ Images ]	Sri Lanka	Mohali	4,75,000	2,50,000
Shane Warne [ Images ]	Australia	Jaipur [ Images ]	4,50,000	4,50,000
Shoaib Akhtar [ Images ]	Pakistan	Kolkata [ Images ]	4,25,000	2,50,000
Round 2 (Report)
Anil Kumble [ Images ]	India	Bangalore	5,00,000	2,50,000
Harbhajan Singh [ Images ]	India	Mumbai [ Images ]	8,50,000	2,50,000
Sanath Jayasuriya [ Images ]	Sri Lanka	Mumbai	9,75,000	2,50,000
Kumar Sangakkara [ Images ]	Sri Lanka	Mohali	7,00,000	2,50,000
Glenn McGrath	Australia	-	No bid	3,50,000
Mohammad Yousuf [ Images ]	Pakistan	-	No bid	3,30,000
Round 3 (Report)
Ricky Ponting [ Images ]	Australia	Kolkata	4,00,000	3,35,000
Brett Lee [ Images ]	Australia	Mohali	9,00,000	3,00,000
Andrew Symonds [ Images ]	Australia	Hyderabad	1.35m	2,50,000
Michael Hussey	Australia	-	No bid	2,50,000
Daniel Vettori [ Images ]	New Zealand [ Images ]	Delhi	6,25,000	2,50,000
Matthew Hayden [ Images ]	Australia	Chennai	3,75,000	2,25,000
Brendon McCullum [ Images ]	New Zealand	Kolkata	7,00,000	1,75,000
Jacob Oram [ Images ]	New Zealand	Chennai	6,75,000	2,00,000
Round 4 (Report)
Stephen Fleming [ Images ]	New Zealand	Chennai	3,50,000	3,50,000
Graeme Smith [ Images ]	South Africa [ Images ]	Jaipur	2,50,000	2,50,000
Herschelle Gibbs [ Images ]	South Africa	Hyderabad	5,75,000	2,50,000
Chris Gayle [ Images ]	West Indies [ Images ]	Kolkata	8,00,000	2,50,000
Shoaib Malik [ Images ]	Pakistan	Delhi	5,00,000	3,00,000
Shahid Afridi [ Images ]	Pakistan	Hyderabad	6,75,000	2,25,000
Younis Khan [ Images ]	Pakistan	Jaipur	2,25,000	2,25,000
Mohammad Asif [ Images ]	Pakistan	Delhi	6,50,000	2,25,000
Jacques Kallis [ Images ]	South Africa	Bangalore	9,00,000	2,25,000
Zaheer Khan [ Images ]	India	Bangalore	4,50,000	2,00,000
S Sreesanth [ Images ]	India	Mohali	6,25,000	2,00,000
Round 5
Dinesh Karthik	India	Delhi	5,25,000	2,00,000
AB de Villiers	South Africa	Delhi	3,00,000	2,00,000
Mark Boucher	South Africa	Bangalore	4,50,000	2,00,000
Parthiv Patel	India	Chennai	3,25,000	1,50,000
Kamran Akmal	Pakistan	Jaipur	1,50,000	1,50,000
Tatenda Taibu	Zimbabwe	-	No bid	1,25,000