Day 1 of the Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction is set to get underway in a few hours’ time in Bengaluru. Two new teams Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants will join the existing eight franchises. Meanwhile the BCCI have added a total of 10 names to the auction register on the eve of the IPL 2022 mega auction, taking the number to players in the list to 600.
However, 10 players are kept in the marquee category with a base price ofΒ βΉ2 crore. The list includes four Indian cricketers and six. The list of Indian marquee players includes Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami and Ravichandran Ashwin. The list of foreign marquee players includes Faf Du Plessis, David Warner, Pat Cummins, Quinton de Kock, Kagiso Rabada and Trent Boult.
The other players who are in the two crore bracket are Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, David Miller, Suresh Raina, Jason Roy, Steve Smith, Robin Uthappa, Shakib Al Hasan, Mitchell Marsh, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Sam Billings, Dinesh Karthik, Ambati Rayudu, Matthew Wade, Deepak Chahar, Lockie Ferguson, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mustafizur Rahman, Shardul Thakur, Mark Wood, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adil Rashid, Imran Tahir, Adam Zampa, Mujeeb Zadran, Chris Jordan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Evin Lewis, Jofra Archer, James Vince, Marchant de Lange, Saqib Mahmood, Ashton Agar, David Willey, Craig Overton.
The bidding wars are just around the corner and the excitement is reaching its peak as we gear up for the action-packed two days of the Indian Premier League 2022 Player Auction in Bengaluru.