590 Cricketers Will Go Under The Hammer
(The Quiver): The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 mega auction will take place in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13,as announced the BCCI on Tuesday. 590 cricketers are set to go under the hammer during the two-days mega auction. This will be the 15th season of the IPL and some of the biggest stars of world cricket will be coming together to light up the prestigious tournament.
Amongst 590 players who have registered for the auction, 228 are capped players, 355 are uncapped players and 7 belong to Associate Nations. A total of 370 Indian players and 220 overseas players will be up for grabs. There will be 47 players from Australia – the most among all overseas nations – followed by West Indies (34) and South Africa (33).
A fierce battle to acquire the services of some of the finest Indian cricketing talent is to begin among the IPL Team owners when the cricketers like – Shreyas Iyer, Shikhar Dhawan, R Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Ishan Kishan, Ajinkya Rahane, Suresh Raina, Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav, etc, will go under the hammer in the upcoming mega auction 2022 .
