English cricketer Liam Livingstone was the most expensive overseas buy in the two-day mega Indian Premier League auction.
But famed names at home such as Cheteshwar Pujara, Suresh Raina and Amit Mishra went unsold. Mumbai Indians spent Rs 8 crore on Jofra Archer even as the English pacer won't play in the 15th edition of the game owing to injury.
Two West Indians, Odean Smith and Romario Shepherd, were heavily bid on before being picked up by Punjab Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad, respectively.
Here's the complete list of the top 10 buys in the two-day auction, players who found no bidders and how the squads look like...
Top 10 Most Expensive Buys In The Two-Day Auction
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(Photo: Indian Premier League/Twitter)
Ishan Kishan - Mumbai Indians: Rs 15.25 crore
Deepak Chahar - Chennai Super Kings: Rs 14 crore
Shreyas Iyer - Kolkata Knight Riders: Rs 12.25 crore
Liam Livingstone - Punjab Kings: Rs 11.5 crore
Shardul Thakur - Delhi Capitals: Rs 10.75 crore
Harshal Patel - Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rs 10.75 crore
Wanindu Hasaranga - Royal Challengers Bangalore: Rs 10.75 crore
Nicholas Pooran - Sunrisers Hyderabad: Rs 10.75 crore
Lockie Ferguson - Gujarat Titans: Rs 10 crore
Avesh Khan - Lucknow Super Giants: Rs 10 crore
Players That Went Unsold
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(Photo: Indian Premier League/Twitter)
Youngsters such as Shivam Dubey and Khaleel Ahmed bagged Rs 4 crore and Rs 5.25 crore over the weekend, while Suresh Raina, dubbed as 'Mr. IPL', Shakib Al Hasan and Sheldon Cottrell remained unsold.
Players Who Couldn't Invite Bids
With a Rs 2-crore base price:
Suresh Raina
Steve Smith
Shakib Al Hasan
Adam Zampa
Adil Rashid
With a Rs 1.5-crore base price:
Eoin Morgan
Ishant Sharma
Dawid Malan
Aaron Finch
Colin Munro
With a Rs 1-crore base price:
Marnus Labuschagne
Piyush Chawla
Andrew Tye
Who Bought Whom?
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(Photo: Indian Premier League/Website)
A total Rs 551.7 crore was spent by the end of the two-day mega auction. 204 players were sold to 10 teams, of which 67 were overseas.
How The Squads Look Like
Chennai Super Kings
MS Dhoni
Ravindra Jadeja
Moeen Ali
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Robin Uthappa
Dwayne Bravo
Ambati Rayudu
Deepak Chahar
C Hari Nishaanth
N Jagadeesan
KM Asif
Tushar Deshpande
Shivam Dube
Chris Jordan
Maheesh Theekshana
Rajvardhan Hangargekar
Simarjeet Singh
Devon Conway
Dwaine Pretorius
Mitchell Santner
Adam Milne
Subhranshu Senapati
Mukesh Choudhary
Prashant Solanki
K Bhagath Varma
Delhi Capitals
Rishabh Pant
Prithvi Shaw
Axar Patel
Anrich Nortje
David Warner
Mitchell Marsh
Mustafizur Rahman
Shardul Thakur
Kuldeep Yadav
Ashwin Hebbar
Sarfaraz Khan
Kamlesh Nagarkoti
KS Bharat
Mandeep Singh
Syed Khaleel Ahmed
Lungisani Ngidi
Chetan Sakariya
Yash Dhull
Vicky Ostwal
Ripal Patel
Lalit Yadav
Rovman Powell
Tim Seifert
Pravin Dubey
Gujarat Titans
Hardik Pandya
Rashid Khan
Shubman Gill
Mohammed Shami
David Miller
Jason Roy
Wriddhiman Saha
Matthew Wade
Lockie Ferguson
Abhinav Sadarangani
Rahul Tewatia
Noor Ahmad
R Sai Kishore
Dominic Drakes
Vijay Shankar
Jayant Yadav
Darshan Nalkande
Yash Dayal
Alzarri Joseph
Pradeep Sangwan
Varun Aaron
Gurkeerat Singh
B Sai Sudharsan
Kolkata Knight Riders
Andre Russel
Venkatesh Iyer
Sunil Narine
Varun Chakravarthy
Pat Cummins
Shreyas Iyer
Mohammad Nabi
Nitish Rana
Sam Billings
Umesh Yadav
Shivam Mavi
Sheldon Jackson
Ajinkya Rahane
Rinku Singh
Anukul Roy
Alex Hales
Rasikh Dar
Tim Southee
Baba Indrajith
Chamika Karunaratne
Abhijeet Tomar
Aman Khan
Ramesh Kumar
Pratham Singh
Ashok Sharma
Lucknow Super Giants
KL Rahul
Marcus Stoinis
Ravi Bishnoi
Quinton de Kock
Manish Pandey
Jason Holder
Deepak Hooda
Krunal Pandya
Mark Wood
Avesh Khan
Ankit Singh Rajpoot
K Gowtham
Dushmanta Chameera
Shahbaz Nadeem
Manan Vohra
Mohsin Khan
Ayush Badoni
Kyle Mayers
Evin Lewis
Mayank Yadav
Karan Sharma
Mumbai Indians
Rohit Sharma
Kieron Pollard
Suryakumar Yadav
Jasprit Bumrah
Ishan Kishan
Dewald Brevis
Anmolpreet Singh
Basil Thampi
Murugan Ashwin
Jaydev Unadkat
Mayank Markande
N Tilak Varma
Sanjay Yadav
Jofra Archer
Daniel Sams
Tymal Mills
Tim David
Ramandeep Singh
Aryan Juyal
Fabian Allen
Riley Meredith
Rahul Buddhi
Hrithik Shokeen
Mohd. Arshad Khan
Arjun Tendulkar
Punjab Kings
Mayank Agarwal
Arshdeep Singh
Shikhar Dhawan
Kagiso Rabada
Jonny Bairstow
Rahul Chahar
Harpreet Brar
Shahrukh Khan
Jitesh Sharma
Prabhsimran Singh
Ishan Porel
Liam Livingstone
Odean Smith
Sandeep Sharma
Raj Angad Bawa
Rishi Dhawan
Nathan Ellis
Prerak Mankad
Atharva Taide
Vaibhav Arora
Bhanuka Rajapaksa
Benny Howell
Writtick Chatterjee
Baltej Dhanda
Ansh Patel
Rajasthan Royals
Sanju Samson
Jos Buttler
Yashasvi Jaiswal
R Ashwin
Trent Boult
Shimron Hetmyer
Devdutt Padikkal
Prasidh Krishna
Yuzvendra Chahal
Riyan Parag
KC Cariappa
James Neesham
Nathan Coulter-Nile
Navdeep Saini
Kuldeep Sen
Karun Nair
Rassie Van Der Dussen
Daryl Mitchell
Obed Mccoy
Dhruv Jurel
Tejas Baroka
Kuldip Yadav
Shubham Garhwal
Anunay Singh
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Virat Kohli
Glenn Maxwell
Mohammad Siraj
Faf Du Plessis
Wanindu Hasaranga
Harshal Patel
Dinesh Karthik
Josh Hazlewood
Shahbaz Ahamad
Anuj Rawat
Akash Deep
Karn Sharma
Mahipal Lomror
Finn Allen
Sherfane Rutherford
Jason Behrendorff
Siddharth Kaul
Suyash Prabhudessai
Luvnith Sisodia
Chama Milind
Aneeshwar Gautam
David Willey
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Kane Williamson
Abdul Samad
Umran Malik
Washington Sundar
Nicholas Pooran
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
T Natarajan
Priyam Garg
Rahul Tripathi
Abhishek Sharma
Vishnu Vinod
Kartik Tyagi
Shreyas Gopal
Jagadeesha Suchith
Aiden Markram
Marco Jansen
Romario Shepherd
Glenn Phillips
Fazalhaq Farooqi
Sean Abbott
R Samarth
Shashank Singh
Saurabh Dubey
IPL Auction Memes
The 2022 IPL mega auction saw a significant change in teams compared to previous seasons.
For one, in IPL 2019, during a game between the then Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals, R Ashwin had dismissed Jos Buttler at the non-striker's end, sparking a huge debate. Now they will play from the same team.
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(Photo: Sixer App Page/Instagram)
Fans were disappointed as Suresh Raina failed to invite bids.
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(Photo: B.Tech Students Ikkada Meme Page/Instagram)
Fans compared Mumbai Indians' Jofra Archer-Jasprit Bumrah duo to football veterans Ronaldo and Messi.
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(Photo: Cricket Updates Meme Page/Instagram)
What's Next?
BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. (Photo: Indian Premier League/Website)
BCCI Secretary Jay Shah. (Photo: Indian Premier League/Website)
The 15th edition of the IPL will be known as Tata IPL after Tata Group replaced Chinese mobile phone maker Vivo to be the title sponsor.
The matches will start in April, as has tentatively been decided by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
While the venues haven't been confirmed yet, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah told ANI that he is keen to conduct the game in India. "I can tell you that we will leave no stone unturned in ensuring that IPL stays in India," he told ANI on Jan. 22.