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Indian Premier League's extravagant mega auction 2022 finally came to an end on Sunday (February 13) which saw franchisees breaking their banks to rope in their favourite players. From team India superstars and the future India greats to some of the brightest bigwigs of world cricket went under the hammer in the two-day affair. A whopping amount of INR 5,51,70,00,000 was spent where 207 players were sold. India's young gun Ishan Kishan hogged limelight as he remained the most expensive player in the IPL 2022 auction where Mumbai Indians grabbed him for a hefty INR 15.25 crore. Avesh Khan became the most expensive uncapped player in the history of IPL auction as he was sold for Rs 10 crore to Lucknow Super Giants. Deepak Chahar, with 4 teams locked in a big fight, was kept at CSK for INR 14 crore and with this he became the most expensive Indian bowler to be auctioned in the IPL history. Shahrukh Khan was sold for INR 9 crore to Punjab Kings from a base price of INR 40 lakh. Meanwhile, Liam Livingstone became the most expensive overseas player as he was roped in by Punjab Kings for INR 11.50 crore.
Let's have a look at the highlights which made headlines in the IPL 2022 mega auction:
Five most expensive players:
Ishan Kishan, INR 15.25 crore, Mumbai Indians
Deepak Chahar, INR 14 crore, Chennai Superkings
Shreyas Iyer, INR 12.25 crore, Kolkata Knightriders
Liam Livingstone, INR 11.50 crore, Punjab Kings
Shardul Thakur, INR 10.75 crore, Delhi Capitals
Five unknown million dollars arms:
Yash Dayal, INR 3.2 crore, Gujarat Titans
Vaibhav Arora, 2 crore, Punjab Kings
Prashant Solanki, INR 1.2 crore, Chennai Superkings
Tilak Varma, INR 2 crore, Mumbai Indians
Five most expensive batters:
Shreyas Iyer, INR 12.25 crore, Kolkata Knightriders
Shahrukh Khan, INR 9 crore, Punjab Kings
Shimron Hetmyer, INR 8.50 crore, Rajasthan Royals
Rahul Tripathi, INR 8.50 crore, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Shikhar Dhawan, INR 8.25 crore, Punjab Kings
Five most expensive bowlers:
Deepak Chahar, INR 14 crore, Chennai Superkings
Shardul Thakur, INR 10.75 crore, Delhi Capitals
Harshal Patel, INR 10.75 crore, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Prasidh Krishna, INR 10 crore, Rajasthan Royals
Lockie Ferguson, INR 10 crore, Gujarat Titans
Five most expensive all-rounders
Liam Livingstone, INR 11.50 crore, Punjab Kings
Wanindu Hasaranga, INR 10.75 crore, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Rahul Tewatia, INR 9 crore, Gujarat Titans
Jason Holder, INR 8.75 crore, Lucknow Super Giants
Washington Sundar, 8.75 crore, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Five most expensive wicketkeepers
Ishan Kishan, INR 15.25 crore, Mumbai Indians
Nicholas Pooran, INR 10.75 crore, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Quinton de Kock, INR 6.75 crore, Lucknow Super Giants
Dinesh Karthik, INR 5.50 crore, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Anuj Rawat, INR 3.4 crore, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Full squads of IPL 2022 teams:
Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Kagiso Rabada, Shahrukh Khan, Shikhar Dhawan, Jonny Bairstow, Odean Smith, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar, Prabhsimran Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Ishan Porel, Jitesh Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Writtick 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, Jagadeesha Suchith, Romario Shepherd, Sean Abbott, R Samarth, Shashank Singh, Saurabh Dubey, Vishnu Vinod, Glenn Phillips, 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 Cariappa, Obed Mccoy, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Shubham Garhwal, James Neesham, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Rassie Van Der Dussen, Daryl Mitchell.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Faf du Plessis, Mohammed Siraj, Dinesh Karthik, Anuj Rawat, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Deep, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Luvnith Sisodia, David Willey.
Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Dewald Brevis, Murugan Ashwin, Basil Thampi, Tilak Varma, Sanjay Yadav, Daniel Sams, Jofra Archer, Tymal Mills, Tim David, Riley Meredith, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, 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, Simarjeet Singh, Devon Conway, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Adam Milne, Subhranshu Senapati, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Chris Jordan, K Bhagath Varma.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer, Andre Russell, Nitish Rana, Venkatesh Iyer, Varun Chakaravarthy, 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, Aman Khan.
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, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ashwin Hebbar, Sarfaraz Khan, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhull, Rovman Powell, Pravin Dubey, Lungisani Ngidi, Tim Seifert, Vicky Ostwal.
Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul, Avesh Khan, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Krunal Pandya, Mark Wood, Quinton de Kock, Deepak Hooda, Manish Pandey, Ravi Bishnoi, Dushmantha Chameera, Krishnappa Gowtham, Ankit Rajpoot, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Karan Sharma, Evin Lewis, Mayank Yadav.
Gujarat Titans: Rashid Khan, Hardik Pandya, Lockie Ferguson, Rahul Tewatia, Shubman Gill, Mohammed Shami, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Abhinav Manohar, 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.
