BCCI has announced the final draft of 590 players who have been shortlisted for the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League.
Among the 590 players, 228 are capped players, 355 are uncapped players and 7 belong to Associate Nations. As many as 48 players have registered themselves in the Rs 2 crore bracket which is the highest reserve price There are 20 players in the Rs 1.5 crores bracket and 34 players in Rs 1 crore bracket.
The Players in the Rs 2 crore price bracket list are:
Ravichandran Ashwin, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami, Devdutt Padikkal, Suresh Raina, Robin Uthappa, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Ambati Rayudu, Deepak Chahar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Dinesh Karthik Trent Boult, Pat Cummins, Quinton de Kock, Faf du Plessis, Kagiso Rabada, David Warner, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Dwayne Bravo, Jason Roy, Sam Billings, Matthew Wade, Lockie Ferguson, Josh Hazlewood, Mustafizur Rahman, Mark Wood, Imran Tahir, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Adam Zampa, Evin Lewis, Jofra Archer, James Vince, Marchant De Lange, Saqib Mahmood, Ashton Agar, Craig Overton, David Willey, Chris Jordan, Adil Rashid, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Mitchell Marsh.
The players in the Rs 1.5 crore bracket are:
Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Washington Sundar, Jonny Bairstow, Nicholas Pooran, Amit Mishra, Aaron Finch, David Malan, Eoin Morgan, James Neesham, Ishant Sharma, Alex Hales, Chris Lynn, Glenn Phillips, Adam Milne, Usman Khawaja, Louis Gregory, Kane Richardson, Tim Southee, Colin Munro.
The 1 crore bracket list comprises of:
David Miller, Manish Pandey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammad Nabi, Nitish Rana, Wriddhiman Saha, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Kuldeep Yadav, Marnus Labuschagn, Aiden Markram, Ajinkya Rahane, Liam Livingstone, Odean Smith, Jayant Yadav, Piyush Chawla, Tabraiz Shamsi, Devon Conway, Rassie Van Der Dussen, Sherfane Rutherford, Daniel Sams, Mitchell Santner, Joshua Phillippe, Tymal Mills, Andrew Tye, Rilee Rossouw, Roston Chase, Moises Henriques, Riley Meredith, Kedar Jadhav, Colin de Grandhomme, James Faulkner, D'Arcy Short.
The BCCI has also announced the following 10 players as the marquee players for the upcoming IPL.
The list goes on:
Ravi Ashwin.
Pat Cummins.
Quinton de Kock.
Trent Boult.
Shikhar Dhawan.
Faf du Plessis.
Shreyas Iyer.
Kagiso Rabada.
David Warner.
Mohammed Shami.
Notably all these players have registered at the base price of Rs 2 crores.
The IPL Auction 2022 is set to take place on February 12th and 13th at Bengaluru. It will be conducted by Hugh Edmaedes for the fourth consecutive time.
The IPL 2022 will be a 10 team affair this time round with 2 new teams from Lucknow and Ahmadabad joining the roster. As many as 30 players have been retained by the 10 franschsies ahead of the IPL Auctions.
Veteran T20 Players like Chris Gayle, Ben Stokes, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Joe Root have made themselves unavailable for the auctions whereas Jofra Archer who decided to skip the IPL auction initially have made himself available for the auctions.
S. Sreesanth who completed the ban imposed on him by BCCI has registered for the auctions at a base price of Rs 50 Lakhs.
Imran Tahir is the oldest player to have registered for the IPL auctions at the age of 42. Noor Ahmad, the 17 year old U19 spinner from Afghanistan is the youngest player in the IPL auctions.
The U19 stars of Indian U19 World Cup Triumph too find themselves at the auction table with the likes of Yash Dhull, Harnoor Singh, Sk Rasheed, Vicky Ostwal etc.
Overall it is going to be a mega event with the fate of many global stars on the line vouching for that exclusive IPL contract.
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