A total of 1214 cricketers from across the globe will go under the hammer in the IPL 2022 mega auction, scheduled to take place in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13.
According to a press release issued by the BCCI, the list includes 270 capped, 903 uncapped and 41 associate players from 10 different countries.
Australia (59) has registered the most number of players for the upcoming auction, followed by South Africa (48) and West Indies (41). Apart from the usual nations in form of England, New Zealand, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, players from Nepal, the United States of America (USA), Ireland, and Zimbabwe have also registered themselves for the auction.
For all practical purposes, the list of players should be considered final. However, the BCCI has told the franchises that if they want any inclusions in the register list, they can send the names latest by January 25. Besides, each team has been given time until January 28 to send the final list of players that they want to be included in the auction.
Here’s the complete list for the top-three brackets:
- Rs 2 crore
Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Ambati Rayudu, Shardul Thakur, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Dinesh Karthik, Ishan Kishan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
David Warner, Shakib Al Hasan, Mujeeb Zadran, Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, Adam Zampa, Mustafizur Rahman, Sam Billings, Saqib Mahmood, Chris Jordan, Craig Overton, Adil Rashid, Jason Roy, James Vince, David Willey, Mark Wood, Trent Boult, Lockie Ferguson, Quinton de Kock, Marchant de Lange, Faf du Plessis, Kagiso Rabada, Imran Tahir, Fabian Allen, Dwayne Bravo, Evin Lewis, Odean Smith.
- Rs 1.5 crore
Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma, Washington Sundar, Aaron Finch, Chris Lynn, Nathan Lyon, Kane Richardson, Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales, Eoin Morgan, Dawid Malan, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Tim Southee, Colin Ingram, Shimron Hetmyer, Jason Holder, Nicholas Pooran.
- Rs 1 crore
Manish Pandey, Piyush Chawla, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Ajinkya Rahane, Nitish Rana, Wriddhiman Saha, Kedar Jadhav, Kuldeep Yadav, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Nabi, James Faulkner, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Riley Meredith, Josh Philippe, Liam Livingstone, Tymal Mills, Aiden Markram, Rilee Rossouw, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Wanindu Hasaranga, Roston Chase, Sherfane Rutherford, D’arcy Short, Andrew Tye, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner.
