IPL Auction 2022 Live Updates: Liam Livingstone most expensive overseas buy this auction; Ajinkya Rahane joins KKR – Firstcricket News, Firstpost

IPL Auction 2022 Live Updates: SOLD – Odean Smith to Punjab Kings for 6 crore
Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings start off the bidding battle and go up till 1.9 crore before SRH jump in and take the bidding war forward with PBKS. aT 3.6 crore, RR jump in to make if 3.80 crore and they battle it out with SRH but PBKS revive their interest and they go head to head with SRH and win the bid at 6 crore

Preview: A mind-boggling Rs 388.10 crore was spent on Day 1 of the 2022 IPL mega auction on 74 players including 20 overseas cricketers. Mumbai Indians for the first time in history broke the bank and went for a bid of over Rs 10 crore as they bought Ishan Kishan for Rs 15.25 crore — the most expensive buy of the day.

A total of 10 players were bought for over Rs 10 crore, which has been the highest in a single edition of the auction. Lucknow Super Giants have been the biggest spenders so far as they have splashed out Rs 83.10 crore so far on 11 players. Punjab Kings so far have only spent Rs 61.35 crore out of their total purse on 11 players.

IPL Auction 2022, List of Players Live Updates, day2

The second biggest purchase of the day was Deepak Chahar who went back to Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14 crore. Shreyas Iyer was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 12.25 crore.

Shardul Thakur (Rs 10.75 crore – Delhi Capitals), Wanindu Hasaranga (Rs 10.75 crore – Royal Challengers Bangalore), Harshal Patel (Rs 10.75 crore – Royal Challengers Bangalore), Nicholas Pooran (Rs 10.75 crore – Sunrisers Hyderabad), Lockie Ferguson (Rs 10 crore – Gujarat Titans), Prasidh Krishna (Rs 10 crore – Rajasthan Royals) and Avesh Khan (Rs 10 crore – Lucknow Super Giants) were the other players to break the 10-crore mark.

The bargain deals of the day were IPL legend David Warner going for Rs 6.25 crore to Delhi Capitals and Quinton de Kock joining Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 6.75 crore.

Indian domestic players also made good money, Riyan Parag’s went for Rs 3.80 crore to Rajasthan Royals, while Abhinav Manohar’s got a Rs 2.60 crore deal from Gujarat Titans after doing well in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy.

South Africa’s U-19 World Cup star Dewald Brevis who is also called the ‘Baby AB’ was brought by Mumbai Indians for Rs 3 crore.

After snapping up some of the biggest names on Day 1, franchises will look to complete their squads by making required purchases on Day 2 of the 2022 IPL mega auction. Some exciting names including Liam Livingstone, Tymal Mills and Lungi Ngidi are yet to go under the hammer and that should make for another blockbuster auction day.

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