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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prasannaf" data-source="post: 9774366" data-attributes="member: 372"><a href="http://www.espncricinfo.com/indian-premier-league-2011/content/squad/495847.html" target="_blank">Kochi</a>            <img src="http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/122000/122017.2.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />                 Mahela Jayawardene was the most expensive foreign recruit     © AFP                              Enlarge                                         No. of players: 17 (7 Indian, 10 foreign)Money spent: $7.79 millionBig-ticket signing: Mahela Jayawardene ($1.5 million)Bargain buy: Brendon McCullum ($475,000)Eyebrow-raiser: Ravindra Jadeja ($950,000)Ones that got away: Gautam Gambhir (Kochi bid $2.3m), Yusuf Pathan (Kochi bid $2m), Uthappa (Kochi bid $2m)   Kochi have ten players capable of bowling four-over spells in a Twenty20  - four allrounders and six specialists - but their batting is thin,  especially in terms of home talent. Their two Indian batsmen - VVS  Laxman and Parthiv Patel - aren't deadly in the shortest format and at  the moment the bulk of the runs will have to come from the foreign  players. If that dependency doesn't change, it will hamper Kochi's  chances of fielding the overseas bowlers and allrounders they have bid  for. They were the first team to fill up their overseas slots.   Squad  Batsmen: Mahela Jayawardene ($1.5m), VVS Laxman ($400,000), Brad Hodge ($425,000), Owais Shah ($200,000), Michael Klinger ($75,000)Bowlers: Sreesanth ($900,000), RP Singh ($500,000), Muttiah  Muralitharan ($1.1m), Ramesh Powar ($180,000), Vinay Kumar ($475,000),  Steve O'Keefe ($20,000)Allrounders: Ravindra Jadeja ($950,000), Steven Smith ($200,000), Thisara Perera ($80,000), John Hastings ($20,000)Wicketkeepers: Brendon McCullum ($475,000), Parthiv Patel ($290,000)</blockquote>

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