IPL 2022 Player Auction – 1214 Players signed up for IPL 2022 Mega Auction

IPL 2022 Auction: The IPL Player Registration closed on January 20^th 2022. Total of 1,214 players (896 Indian and 318 overseas players) have signed up to be part of IPL 2022 Auction. IPL 2022 edition is going to be the biggest in the history of IPL with it’s going to become a Mega Auction.

IPL 2022 Mega Auction Date

IPL 2022 Auction date is officially confirmed and announced on 23rd December 2021. BCCI has decided to held the IPL 2022 Mega Auction on February 12 and 13 at Bengaluru. Bangalore will be the venue for this mega event. It is expected to be a 2-day event scheduled for IPL 2022.

IPL Mega Auction 2022

The IPL event used to be in the form of a Mini Auction but now it is going to be a Mega Auction from IPL 2022. The two-day IPL Mega Auction will see 10 Teams bidding for some of the finest talents in world cricket. The players list incorporates 270 capped, 903 uncapped and 41 Associate players. The detailed list is as below:    

• Capped Indian (61 players)
• Capped International (209 players)
• Associate (41 players)
• Uncapped Indians who were a part of previous IPL seasons (143 players)
• Uncapped International who were a part of previous IPL seasons (6 players)
• Uncapped Indians (692 players)
• Uncapped Internationals (62 players)

Note: If every franchise were to have the maximum of 25 players in their squad, 217 players will be taken in the auction (of which up to 70 may be overseas players).

The country-wise breakdown of 318 overseas players is listed below:

IPL 2022 Retained Players

IPL 2022 auction purse swells to INR 90 crore

The salary purse for the IPL 2022 auction has been set at INR 90 crore per team, an increase from the IPL 2021 auction purse of 85 crore.

If one of the eight older franchises retains four players, they will be debited INR 16 crore for the first, INR 12 crore for the second, INR 8 crore for the third and INR 6 crore for the fourth – making for a total deduction of INR 42 crore.

For all ten franchises, the amounts for retaining either three, two or one player are the same.

If they retain three players then their slabs are: INR 15 crore, INR 11 crore and INR 7 crore, for a total of INR 33 crore.

If two players are retained, then the slabs are INR 14 crore and INR 10 crore, for a total of INR 24 crore.

For only one player, INR 14 crore will be deducted from a franchise’s auction purse.

For uncapped retained players, the amount deducted will be INR 4 crore, whether he is the only retained player or among a few.

Money Spent on Retention for IPL 2022 Players [Value in INR Crore]

Total of 33 Players have been retained / picked ahead of the Player Auction. The existing 8 IPL Franchises have retained a total of 27 players while the 2 new IPL teams have picked 6 players ahead of the Auction.

The Every IPL team spent on retaining their greatest players and prevented them from adding their names to the 2022 mega auction pool.

The list is as below:

IPL 2022 Auction Purse Value

IPL 2022 Auction Final list of Players with High Base Price

INR 2 Cr Base Price

Indian: Ambati Rayudu, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Devdutt Padikkal, Dinesh Karthik, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Krunal Pandya, Mohammed Shami, Ravichandran Ashwin, Robin Uthappa, Shardul Thakur, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suresh Raina, Umesh Yadav & Yuzvendra Chahal

Overseas: Adam Zampa, Adil Rashid, Ashton Agar, Chris Jordan, Craig Overton, David Warner, David Willey, Dwayne Bravo, Evin Lewis, Fabien Allen, Faf du Plessis, Imran Tahir, James Vince, Jason Roy, Josh Hazlewood, Kagiso Rabada, Lockie Ferguson, Marchant de Lange, Mark Wood, Matthew Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Mujeeb Zadran, Mustafizur Rahman, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Odean Smith, Pat Cummins, Quinton de Kock, Sam Billings, Saqib Mahmood, Shakib Al Hasan, Steve Smith &Trent Boult. 

INR 1.5 Cr Base Price

Indian: Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma & Washington Sundar

Overseas: Aaron Finch, Adam Milne, Alex Hales, Chris Lynn, Colin Ingram, Colin Munro, Dawid Malan, Eoin Morgan, Glenn Phillips, Jason Holder, Jimmy Neesham, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Richardson, Nathan Lyon, Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer & Tim Southee

INR 1 Cr Base Price

Indian: Ajinkya Rahane, Jayant Yadav, Kedar Jadhav, Kuldeep Yadav, Manish Pandey, Nitish Rana, Piyush Chawl, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan & Wriddhiman Saha

Overseas: Aiden Markram,  Andrew Tye,  Colin de Grandhomme,  Dan Lawrence,  D’Arcy Short, Devon Conway, James Faulkner,  Josh Philippe, Liam Livingstone, Marnus Labuschagne, Mitchell Santner, Mohammad Nabi, Moises Henriques, Ollie Pope, Rassie van der Dussen, Rilee Rossouw, Riley Meredith, Roston Chase, Sherfane Rutherford, Tabraiz Shamsi, Tymal Mills & Wanindu Hasaranga

IPL in India | Auction & Action

IPL 2022 will witness a mega auction with mega price tag in Bangalore, mega matches in Mumbai, and mega League in India for the 15 s. Defending Champion planned to host the first IPL 15 Match will be played in the M. A. Chidambaram, Chennai for CSK vs KKR. However, the venue for the opening match will be revised to Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai for the IPL 2022 in India.