IPL franchises shaped up teams with intense bidding war

The mega auction of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 has just ended yesterday. 10 franchises have bought players worth Rs 551.70 crore in the two-day auction, which was held on February 12 and 13 in Bengaluru. 8 teams that participated in the previous edition got the opportunity to retain their favourite players. And the two new teams have done agreements with three players to be part of their cohort. All the franchises have bought cricketers from the auction and arranged their teams with them.

Among all Indian cricketers enlisted in the mega auction, India lefty batter Ishan Kishan has been sold to Mumbai Indians with INR 15.25 cr. His countrymen Deepak Chahar (CSK-INR 14 cr) and Shreyas Iyer (KKR-INR 12.25 cr) got the second and third highest bid respectively. England all-rounder batsman, Liam Livingstone has been the highest overseas buy in the mega auction of this year’s IPL, he got snapped up by Punjab kings with INR 11.25 cr. Let’s have a look at the final list of the players roped up by the teams.

Mumbai Indians:

Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kisan, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Dewald Brevis, Murugan Ashwin, Basil Thampi, Tilak Verma, Sanjay Yadav, Daniel Sams, Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Arshad Khan, Rahul Buddhi, Anmolpreet Singh, Hrithik Shokeen, Ramandeep Singh, Aryan Juyal, Arjun Tendulkar and Fabian Allen.

Chennai Super Kings:

Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dwayne Bravo, Shivam Dube, Robin Uthappa, Tushar Deshpande, KM Asif, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Simerjeet Singh, Adam Milne, Shuvranshu Senapati, Mukesh Chowdhury, Prashant Solanki, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, C Hari Nishanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan and K Bhagath Varma.

Royal Challengers Bangalore:

Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Hershel Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazelwood, Faf du Plessis, Mohammad Siraj, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendroff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Millind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Luvnith Sisodia, and David Willey.

Delhi Capitals:

Rishabh Pant, Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Anrich Nortje, David Warner, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Srikar Bharat, Kuldeep Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman, Mandeep Singh, Sarfaraz Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ashwin Hebbar, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungi Ngidi, Tim Seifert and Vicky Ostwal.

Punjab Kings:

Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Kagiso Rabada, Shahrukh Khan, Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Odean Smith, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Prabhsimran Singh, Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Sandeep Sharma, Ishan Porel, Jitesh Sharma, Vaibhav Arora, Hrithik Chatterjee, Baltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell.

Sunrisers Hyderabad:

Kane Williamson, Nicholas Pooran, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, Abdul Samad, T Natarajan, Kartik Tyagi, Umran Malik, Aiden Markram, Shreyas Gopal, Priyam Garg, Sean Abbott, Romario Shepherd, Jagdeesha Suchith, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, and Fazalhaq Farooqi.

Rajasthan Royals:

Sanju Samson, Prasidh Krishna, Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Trent Boult, Devdutt Padikkal, Yuzvendra Chahal, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Navdeep Saini, KC Kariyappa, Obed McCoy, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldeep Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie van der Dussen, and Daryl Mitchell.

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Varun Chakravarthy, Shivam Mavi, Pat Cummins, Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane, Sheldon Jackson, Anukul Roy, Rasikh Dar, Baba Indrajith, Chamika Karunaratne, Abhijeet Tomar, Pratham Singh, Ashok Sharma, Sam Billings, Alex Hales, Tim Southee, Ramesh Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Umesh Yadav, and Aman Khan.

Gujarat Titans:

Rashid Khan, Hardik Pandya, Lockie Ferguson, Rahul Tewatia, Shubman Gill, Mohammad Shami, Ravi Sai Kishore, Abhinav Sadarangani, Jason Roy, Jayant Yadav, Vijay Shankar, Dominic Drakes, Noor Ahmad, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Pradeep Sangwan, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Gurkeerat Singh, Varun Aaron, and B Sai Sudharsan.

Lucknow Super Giants:

KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Krunal Pandya, Mark Wood, Quinton de Kock, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, Ravi Bishnoi, Dushmanta Chameera, Krishnappa Gotham, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Manan Vohra, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Karan Sharma, Evin Lewis, and Mayank Yadav.