IPL Mega Auction - Rich gets Richer | Arjun Tendulkar Sold to Mumbai Indians

 The 15th Season of Indian Premier League is All Set to commence from 2nd April 2022, this year there will be total 10 teams competing and will play total 74 Matches in 64 days, The Final Match of IPL 2022 will be played on 3rd June 2022. IPL Player Auction, The Most Trending Event has concluded on a high note with lots of surprises here we bring you the Major Highlights of the IPL Mega Auction.

Numbers Game
Total 204 Players got sold out of 600 Participating players and 107 were Indian players and remaining 67 players are from Overseas. The Franchises have spent total 551.7 Crore in 2 days of Auction event. There will be total 10 teams compete to win 1 Title. 2 new teams have been added this year which includes Gujarat Titans which will be led by Hardik Pandya & Lucknow Super Giants will be led by KL Rahul.

Arjun Tendulkar's Entry
on the Day 2 of this year's auction has seen the entry of Veteran Indian Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar's son Arjun Tendulkar. Arjun Brought by Mumbai Indians at the price of 30lakhs. Arjun is emerging as a pace bowler and has experience of Indian domestic Cricket tournament.

Most Expensive players
Ishan Kishan becomes the Most Expensive player priced at 15.25 crore rupees brought by Nita Ambani’s Franchise Mumbai Indians. Deepak Chahar becomes 2^nd Most expensive player priced at 14 crore rupees brought by MS Dhoni led Chennai Super Kings. Shreyas Iyer is on 3^rd Spot with 12.25 crore rupees brought by Shahrukh khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders. Apart from these 3 below are the most expensive player of IPL 2022 who are priced above 10 crore rupees.

Liam Livingstone – 11.50 crore Rupees Brought by Punjab Kings

Wanindu Hasaranga – 10.75 crore Rupees Brought by  Royal Challengers Bangalore

Harshal Patel – 10.75 crore Rupees Brought by Royal Challengers Bangalore

Nicholas Pooran – 10.75 crore Rupees Brought by Sunrisers Hyderabad

Shardul Thakur – 10.75 crore Rupees Brought by Delhi Capitals

Lockie Ferguson – 10 Rupees Brought by Gujarat Titans

Prasidh Krishna – 10 crore Rupees Brought by Rajasthan Royals

Above are 10 most expensive players apart from this there are total 108 players who all are priced over 1 crore rupees.

Impressive choice
The Auction Day is the most Stressful day for franchise owner as they have to continuedly fight for good players without overlooking their core strategies and this year Delhi capital Manages to make their way by making players choice pretty impressively. despite of losing a lot of their key players Delhi capital manages to get David Warner in the team for less then 7crore rupees as he was one of the most expensive player in last year’s game. David Warner and Pruthvi shaw is a good combination of Opening batsman as both are destructive in their game. Getting Mitchel marsh also for less then 7crore was a perfect buy and getting Sarfaraz Khan who is known for his wacky batting style in death overs is a great buy at his base price of 20lakhs.

 

Strategies behind Ishan Kishan & Deepak Chahar
Ishan Kishan is 24 aged Young batsman & current team India player is in good form and Kishan does his job done behind the wicket as well, he can contribute by winning match singlehandedly with his destructive batting and fast running between the wickets. With 48 crore available in Pocket Mumbai Indian’s can bet big on any player and that was Ishan Kishan.

CSK had to look out for seamer with swing and they found it in Deepak Chahar during recent matches against West indies. To pair with shardul Thakur in Opening spell of power play Deepak Chahar is a good choice in CSK’s Bowling department. If this pair manages to take early breakthroughs then CSK is not far from winning their fifth Title.  

Overall, it was a great auction event where rich players got richer and there are many talented Indian & Overseas player remained unsold. This is every years story but this year’s Interesting part is the two new teams has joined the race to win Their first IPL Title.