The full list of players short-listed for the auctions has been released. It includes 130 capped players, 219 uncapped players and two from Associate Nations.

Out of these, 230 are Indians and 121 foreigners. The list was trimmed down from the original list of 714 cricketers who had given their names for the IPL auctions.

29 Australian capped cricketers have been short-listed for the auction. They are followed by players from India (26), West Indies (20), South Africa (18), Sri Lanka (16), New Zealand, (9), England (7) and Bangladesh (5).

Yuvraj Singh, Kevin Pietersen, Ashish Nehra, Shane Watson, Ishant Sharma, Sanju Samson, Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Binny and Dhawal Kulkarni are among the cricketers who have been listed with a base price of Rs 2 Crore (the highest base price bracket).

Yuvraj, who was left out of Delhi Daredevils, had fetched the highest price in the last two IPL auctions. Having returned to the national fold ahead of the ICC World T20, he is likely to attract a high bid in the upcoming auction.

Delhi Daredevils, who have released some of their biggest buys from the previous season – Yuvraj Singh and Angelo Mathews have the heaviest purse going into the auction – Rs 37.15 crore. They are followed by Sunrisers Hyderabad, who have Rs 30.15 crore going into the auction. The two new franchises – Rising Pune Super Giants and Rajkot are joint-third on the list with Rs 27 crore each in their kitty.

Kings XI Punjab (Rs 23 crore), Royal Challengers Bangalore (Rs 21.625 crore) and Kolkata Knight Riders (Rs 17.95 crore) follow them on the list. Defending champions Mumbai Indians, seem settled with the unit that played last year. They released 10 players from the contract list and have Rs 14.405 crore going into the auction.

T20 captain Lasith Malinga is the only Sri Lankan retained by a franchise (Mumbai Indians) in the IPL.

Sri Lanka players –

Mahela Jayawardene, Lahiru Thirimanne, Nuwan Kulasekera, Ajantha Mendis, Sachitra Senanayake, Dushmantha Chameera, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Thisara Perera, Jeevan Mendis, Dilruwan Perera, Shehan Jayasuriya, Dasun Shanaka, Milinda Siriwardana, Isuru Udana, Dilshan Munaweera, Seekkuge Prasanna

Guptill went within a whisker of breaking the world record for the fastest ODI 50 and was close to scoring one of the fastest centuries when New Zealand wrapped up the game.

New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum said Guptill was “superb” while Sri Lanka skipper Angelo Mathews described his side’s performance as “embarrassing” and “pathetic”.

After being dropped off the first ball he faced, Guptill went on the warpath with a brutal assault that included nine fours and eight sixes.

For Sri Lanka, it was a humiliating performance after they expressed a desire to gain some pride from being thrashed in the first ODI by seven wickets when New Zealand knocked off the 189-run target with 29 overs to spare.

Instead of getting better they went backwards, being dismissed for 117 in 27.4 overs.

“It was embarrassing. Once again a pathetic display by the whole batting unit,” Mathews said.

“We just couldn’t handle it. It didn’t swing or seam or bounce. It was just bad shot selection.”

Guptill set about demolishing the Sri Lanka attack.

He took 14 off one over by Nuwan Kulasekera and 26 off the next over from Dushmantha Chameera as he raced to 46 from 12 deliveries.

His momentum was briefly arrested by some well-placed Kulasekera yorkers and it took another five balls for Guptill to reach his 50, one behind the world record of 16 held by South African AB de Villiers.

“I got a couple of yorkers and couldn’t quite get it. But I’ll take the not out and a win than the fastest 50 and getting out,” he said.

Guptill did, however, break the New Zealand record for the fastest 50, going one better than McCullum’s best.

‘Good for batting’

McCullum did not open the New Zealand innings after injuring himself when he crashed into the fence while trying to cut off a boundary.

Instead Tom Latham took up the opening duties and hit the winning run to be unbeaten on 17 from 20 balls while Guptill had faced 30 for his 93 not out.

De Villiers also holds the record for the fastest ODI century, achieving the target in 31 balls in the same innings that he set the fastest 50 record against the West Indies in Johannesburg in January.

Monday’s entire game took exactly 36 overs for New Zealand to go 2-0 up in the five-match series.

When he won the toss and elected to bat, Sri Lanka’s Mathews described the pitch as “good for batting”.

But his batsmen were unable to handle Matt Henry, New Zealand’s chief destroyer in the first match who again took four wickets.

He struck first in the fourth over when Tillakaratne Dilshan was caught at first slip by Ross Taylor for seven, and the wickets tumbled regularly from there.

Sri Lanka still looked capable of posting a respectable score when they reached 81-5 in the 18th over but they then lost three wickets for no runs to be 81-8.

Kulasekara, who struggled at the start of his innings when he was dropped twice and won an appeal against an lbw decision, went on to top-score for Sri Lanka with 19.

For New Zealand, Henry took four for 33 and Mitchell McClenaghan three for 32. AFP

The loss was Sri Lanka ninth at this venue in 10 matches, the solitary win coming in 2012 against Pakistan by 16 runs. It was at this venue that Sri Lanka lost the World T20 final to West Indies in 2012.

The win gave Darren Sammy’s West Indies team their first success of a five-week tour that saw them lose the Test series (0-2) and the ODI series (0-3).

Sammy’s pre-match wish to return home with a win was fulfilled by fast bowlers Ravi Rampaul and Man of the Match Dwayne Bravo who between them took seven wickets as Sri Lanka suffered a batting collapse losing nine wickets for 46 runs after being strongly placed at 93-1 in the 13th over. West Indies bowled and fielded brilliantly to defend their total of 162 and dismissed Sri Lanka for 139 off the final ball of the match.

Top scorer for Sri Lanka was veteran opener Tillakaratne Dilshan with 52 off 38 balls. Shehan Jayasuriya made 30 but the rest of the batting disappointed as the West Indies tightened their grip on the game following the dismissal of Dilshan at 102 in the 14th over. Rampaul’s double strike in the 14th over pegged Sri Lanka back and they kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Rampaul sent back Dinesh Chandimal for one and Dilshan both caught in the deep before Bravo got into the act to ensure there was no late recovery by the Lankans.

Lasith Malinga and Nuwan Kulasekera kept things tight for the first four overs conceding just 17 runs when the first bowling – Sachitra Senanayake brought a flurry of runs and got West Indies moving into top gear. Johnson Charles dismissed without scoring at Pallekele greeted Senanayake by clobbering him for 22 runs off his first over inclusive of three sixes and one four.

Dushmantha Chameera also suffered the same fate going for 22 in his first over where he was unlucky to have Fletcher (16) dropped at cover by Shehan Jayasuriya. The batting power play produced 61 runs off the first six overs.

Jayasuriya however offset the lapse in the following over with a brilliant piece of fielding on the fine leg boundary to run out Marlon Samuels for one with a direct hit.

With Fletcher and Charles looking extremely dangerous in their partnership which had raised 62 off 6.2 overs it was the man with the golden arm Milinda Siriwardana whom skipper Lasith Malinga had to turn to for the breakthrough. Siriwardana trapped both openers lbw off successive overs to check the West Indies run flow. When Dushmantha Chameera had Andre Russell caught at deep fine leg by Dinesh Chandimal West Indies were 97-4 in the 12th over.

Contributions of 31 and 34 not out from Dwayne Bravo and Denesh Ramdin respectively gave West Indies a decent total of 162 to defend.

A slim and fit Malinga bowling with his usual fire and Siriwardana were the pick of the Lankan bowlers claiming two wickets apiece.

The Sri Lanka players wore yellow arm bands as a mark of respect to Most Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera.