IPL Mega Auction - A Complete Overview Of 2 Days Of Intense Drama

IPL Mega Auction 2022 - Final Team Squads & Highlights

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The IPL 2022 Mega Auction Highlights & Team Squads: The mega auction was a roller coaster ride with many twists and turns. After eventful two days, the 10 IPL franchises have gathered an exciting bunch of players who are all set to play in the highly competitive league. Nearly 300 out of 600 players went under the hammer in two days and 235 found a bid for themselves to participate in the IPL 2022. 

The two days saw exciting buying and selling of players but there were also a few nervous moments on the first day when Auctioneer Hugh Edmeads had a health emergency and Charu Sharma had to fill in for him for the rest of the Auction. 

Ishan Kishan turned out to be the most expensive player in IPL 2022 Auction after Mumbai Indians had to win a bidding war to finally get the wicketkeeper batter for INR 15.25 Crore. The next most expensive was another Indian player - Deepak Chahar, who was bought back by Chennai Super Kings for INR 14 Crores. 

Liam Livingstone turned out to be the most expensive foreign player. Punjab Kings bought the England allrounder for INR 11.5 Crores. Wanindu Hasaranga was the next most expensive foreign buy as Royal Challengers Bangalore had to pay INR 10.75 Crore to win the bidding war for the Sri Lankan allrounder. 

Avesh Khan found some massive interest from the franchises and ended up being the most expensive uncapped player for this season - INR 10 Crores. The fast bowler was bought by Lucknow Super Giants. Australia's Tim David turned out to be the most expensive uncapped foreign player. The allrounder was bought by Mumbai Indians for INR 8.25 Crore. 

One of the moments of this year's Auction was Mumbai saving up for Jofra Archer knowing the England fast bowler won't be available for IPL 2022. Archer was bought for INR 8 Crore and will be teaming up with Jasprit Bumrah next year. 

Notable players who went unsold in this year's Auction were Mr. IPL Suresh Raina, Shakib Al Hasan, Steve Smith, Imran Tahir, and Eoin Morgan

Five teams namely Chennai Super Kings, Punjab Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals, and Mumbai Indians bought all the allotted 25 players in the auction while Delhi Capitals finished with 24 players. 

Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans bought 22 players, Sunrisers Hyderabad 23, and Lucknow Super Giants got 21 players for this season of the IPL. 
Only Lucknow finished full INR 90 Crores purse. Delhi, Mumbai, and Hyderabad finished the INR 10 Lakhs in the purse. Punjab had the most purse left at the end of the Auction - INR 3.45 Crores despite buying 25 players. 

IPL 2022 Full Squads 

Chennai Super Kings - Ruturaj Gaikwad, Devon Conway, Moeen Ali, Ambati Rayudu, Shivam Dube, MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Deepak Chahar, R Hangargekar, Dwayne Bravo, Adam Milne, Robin Uthappa, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Simarjeet Singh, Dwaine Pretorius, Mitchell Santner, Subranshu Senapati, Mukesh Chowdhary, Prashant Solanki, C Hari Nishaanth, Narayan Jagadeeshan, Chris Jordan, Bhagat Varma

Royal Challengers Bangalore - Faf du Plessis, Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik, Wanindu Hasaranga, Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Josh Hazlewood, Akash Deep, Finn Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff, Suyash Prabudessai, Chama Milind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Luvnith Sisodia, David Willey

Mumbai Indians - Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav, N Tilak Varma, Tim David, Kieron Pollard, Daniel Sams, Sanjay Yadav, Murugan Ashwin, Jasprit Bumrah, Tymal Mills, Dewald Brevis, Basil Thampi, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Riley Meredith, Jofra Archer, Arshad Khan, Anmolpreet Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Rahul Buddhi, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Aryan Juyal, Fabian Allen

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

Lucknow Super Giants - KL Rahul, Quinton de Kock, Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Marcus Stoinis, Jason Holder, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gowtham, Avesh Khan, Mark Wood, Ravi Bishnoi, Ankit Rajpoot, Dushmanta Chameera, Shahbaz Nadeem, Manan Vohra, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Kyle Mayers, Karan Sharma, Evin Lewis, Mayank Yadav

Punjab Kings - Shikhar Dhawan, Mayank Agarwal, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Raj Angad Bawa, Shah Rukh Khan, Odean Smith, Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Ishan Porel, Sandeep Sharma, Rishi Dhawan, Prerak Mankad, Vaibhav Arora, Wrirrick Chatterjee, Bhaltej Dhanda, Ansh Patel, Nathan Ellis, Atharva Taide, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Benny Howell

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

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

Rajasthan Royals - Jos Buttler, Devdutt Padikkal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna, Trent Boult, KC Cariappa, Navdeep Saini, Shubham Garhwal, Anunay Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Karun Nair, Dhruv Jurel, Tejas Baroka, Kuldip Yadav, Varun Aaron, Jimmy Neesham, Rassie van der Dussen, Obed McCoy

Gujarat Titans - Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha, Shubman Gill, Vijay Shankar, Abhinav Manohar, Hardik Pandya, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Yash Dayal, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami, Noor Ahmad, Dominic Drakes, Jayant Yadav, Darshan Nalkande, R Sai Kishore, Alzarri Joseph, Pradeep Sangwan, David Miller, Matthew Wade, Gurkeerat Singh, B Sai Sudharshan