The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is gearing up for the mega auction of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 as 1214 players have registered for it.
BCCI secretary Jay Shah, in an official press note, shared that the IPL Player Registration closed on January 20th 2022. “Total of 1,214 players (896 Indian and 318 overseas players) have signed up to be part of the IPL 2022 Player Auction,” the release said.
The two-day Mega Auction will see 10 Teams bidding for some of the finest talents in world cricket. The players’ list incorporates 270 capped, 903 uncapped and 41 Associate players.
The country-wise breakdown of 318 overseas players is listed below:
| COUNTRY | PLAYERS REGISTERED | COUNTRY | PLAYERS REGISTERED | |
| Afghanistan | 20 | Bhutan | 1 | |
| Australia | 59 | Namibia | 5 | |
| Bangladesh | 9 | Nepal | 15 | |
| England | 30 | Netherlands | 1 | |
| Ireland | 3 | Oman | 3 | |
| New Zealand | 29 | Scotland | 1 | |
| South Africa | 48 | UAE | 1 | |
| Sri Lanka | 36 | USA | 14 | |
| West Indies | 41 | |||
| Zimbabwe | 2 |
Total of 33 Players have been retained / picked ahead of the Player Auction. The existing 8 IPL Franchises have retained a total of 27 players while the 2 new IPL teams have picked 6 players ahead of the Auction.
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| CSK | DC | KKR | MI | PBKS |
| Ravindra Jadeja | Rishabh Pant | Andre Russell | Rohit Sharma | Mayank Agarwal |
| MS Dhoni | Axar Patel | Varun Chakaravarthy | Jasprit Bumrah | Arshdeep Singh |
| Moeen Ali | Prithvi Shaw | Venkatesh Iyer | Suryakumar Yadav | |
| Ruturaj Gaikwad | Anrich Nortje | Sunil Narine | Kieron Pollard | |
| RR | RCB | SRH | Team Ahmedabad | Team Lucknow |
| Sanju Samson | Virat Kohli | Kane Williamson | Hardik Pandya | KL Rahul |
| Jos Buttler | Glenn Maxwell | Abdul Samad | Rashid Khan | Marcus Stoinis |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | Mohammed Siraj | Umran Malik | Shubman Gill | Ravi Bishnoi |
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Most of the franchise owners feel that mega auctions have passed their sell-by-date and a team’s composition and balance gets severely compromised when there are auctions after every three years.
