IPL 2022 Mega Auction: List Updated to 600, 10 Under-19 World Cup Players Included

The IPL 2022 Mega Auction will start on February 12 and end on February 13. This is the first major IPL mega auction after a decade, with many players expected to fetch massive prices. It is reported that a total of 97 players will go under the hammer on Saturday. Following that, the rest of the elite players will be finished on Sunday afternoon. After that, there will be an accelerated auction for the remaining players.

Initially, it was reported that 590 players will go under the hammer. Now, according to an ESPNCricinfo report, there will be a total of 600 players. The reason – 10 players including Under-19 World Cup stars have been added. This includes seven Indian players and three Australian players. All of them are in the Rs 20 lakh base price category. These include Agnivesh Ayachi, Hardik Tamore, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mihir Hirwani, Monu Kumar, Rohan Rana, Sairaj Patil. The three Australians are Aaron Hardie, Lance Morris, Nivethan Radhakrishnan in the revised list.

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Ayachi was part of the Punjab Kings set-up last IPL while Mihir Hirwani is the son of former India legspinner Narendra Hirwani.

Deepak Hooda Base Price Increased, Silent Tie-breaker Rule in Effect in IPL 2022

The other update was that Deepak Hooda’s base price was now increased to Rs 75 lakhs. This is because prior to the release of the auction list, Hooda was an uncapped player. But, he played one game against the West Indies, and thus, he became a capped India player. The IPL 2022 Mega Auction will begin at 12 PM but the build-up will start from 11 PM.

However, this IPL 2022 Mega Auction will see the ‘Silent Tie-breaker’ rule come into play. This rule actually has been in effect since 2010. The IPL has put caps on the maximum number of bids for a player. Now, this rule will only come into play if the entire purse of the franchise gets exhausted. If the team’s final bid for a player gets matched by another franchise but they do not have the money, then the ‘Silent Tiebreaker’ rule will come into play. The concerned teams will have to submit a written bid to the BCCI mentioning the prize.

The bid would include the prize they would pay for a player beyond the last bid they put forward. The amount mentioned would be deposited to the BCCI outside the purse balance. In the past, teams have bought Kieron Pollard and Ravindra Jadeja in this way.