IPL 2022: List of players who have enrolled for the maximum base price for the mega auction

The 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL) mega auctions are set to take place on 12th and 13th February 2022 in Bangalore. As many as 590 players will go under the hammer and it would be intresting to see how the final squads will look like. As many as 48 players have registered their names in the highest bracket, which is INR 2 Crore.

This elite list includes some of the major names like Ravichandran Ashwin, David Warner, Steve Smith, Mark Wood, Ravichandran Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Ishan Kishan, Adam Zampa, Quinton De Kock, Faf du Plessis, and Dwayne Bravo.

20 players who have registered in the INR 1.5 Crore bracket include Amit Mishra, Washington Sundar, Jimmy Neesham, Tim Southee, Nicholas Pooran, and Eoin Morgan.

Piyush Chawla, Wanindu Hasaranga, and Marnus Labuschagne registered in the INR 1 Crore bracket

Bids of 34 players will start at INR 1 Crore bracket. They are Piyush Chawla, Marnus Labuschagne, Tymal Mills, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ajinkya Rahane, Aiden Markram, and Tabraiz Shamsi.

Meanwhile, the 15th edition of the IPL will be a 10-team affair, as two new IPL franchises, Ahmedabad and Lucknow have joined the fray. The two franchises have picked three players each in the draft ahead of the auctions.

While Ahmedabad opted for Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan, and Shubman Gill, the Lucknow franchise has opted for KL Rahul, Marcus Stoinis and Ravi Bishnoi. Notably, all teams were allotted a purse of INR 90 crore. As retentions were made ahead of the bidding event. the franchises will head into the auction with different purse amounts.

Players registered under INR 2 Crore bracket

Ravi Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Deepak Chahar, Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Ishan Kishan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Suresh Raina, Ambati Rayudu, Mohammed Shami, Shardul Thakur, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Ashton Agar, Nathan Coulter Nile, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa, Shakib Al Hasan, 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

Players registered under INR 1.5 Crore bracket

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.

Players registered under INR 1 Crore bracket

Piyush Chawla, Kedar Jadhav, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Manish Pandey, Ajinkya Rahane, Nitish Rana, Wriddhiman Saha, Kuldeep Yadav, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Nabi, James Faulkner, Moises Henriques, Marnus Labuschagne, Riley Meredith, Josh Philippe, D’Arcy Short, Andrew Tye, Dan Lawrence, Liam Livingstone, Tymal Mills, Ollie Pope, Devon Conway, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Aiden Markram, Rilee Rossouw, Tabraiz Shamsi, Rassie van der Dussen, Wanindu Hasaranga, Roston Chase, Sherfane Rutherford.