Ashraful also unsold

It turned out to be a rather subdued start to the prcoeedings after the lunch break with all the batsmen on offer not being taken up by any of the franchises.

Ricardo Powell, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Lendl Simmons and Xavier Marshall of West Indies, South Africa's Loots Bosman, Sri Lanka's Thilan Samaraweera and Thilina Kandamby, Jamie How of New Zealand, Australia's Phillip Hughes, Bangladesh's Mohammad Ashraful, Hamilton Masakadza of Zimbabwe, were unsold.

The group of all-rounders, who followed, also went unsold:
Chamu Chibabha and T Payangara of Zimbabwe, Sri Lankans Hasantha Fernando, Gayan Wijekoon, M Pushpakumara, A Ganegama, C Jayasinghe, Rayad Emrit of West Indies, Australia's Lee Carseldine, and M Mahmudullah of Bangladesh.