Biggest earning cricketers, complete squads of 10 franchises; hits and misses!

A total of 204 players were picked by the 10 franchise after shelling out a total of Rs 55170 cr during the enthralling twoday IPL 2022 mega auction with Ishan Kishan Rs 1525 cr Deepak Chahar Rs 14 cr and Shreyas Iyer Rs 1225 cr emerging as topthree earners ahead of the exciting 15th season of the cashrich leagueThe likes of Ishan Chahar and Shreyas earned big bucks on Saturday while Sunday belonged to Liam Livingstone Rs 1150 cr Tim David Rs 825 cr and Jofra Archer Rs 8 crAfter the culmination of the mega auction IANS takes a look at the squad of every franchise and what their team did well and where the gaps areChennai Super KingsRetained players Ravindra Jadeja MS Dhoni Moeen Ali and Ruturaj GaikwadPlayers bought at Auction Robin Uthappa Dwayne Bravo Ambati Rayudu Deepak Chahar KM Asif Tushar Deshpande Shivam Dube Maheesh Theekshana Rajvardhan Hangargekar Simarjeet Singh Devon Conway Dwaine Pretorius Mitchell Santner Adam Milne Subhranshu Senapati Mukesh Choudhary Prashant Solanki C Hari Nishaanth N Jagadeesan Chris Jordan K Bhagath VarmaThe MSDhoni led CSK managed to keep a large part of their core together They have multiple players who can bat deep and bowl as well courtesy allround talent As always a team not to be taken lightlyDelhi CapitalsRetained players Rishabh Pant Axar Patel Prithvi Shaw and Anrich NortjePlayers bought at Auction David Warner Mitch Marsh Shardul Thakur Mustafizur Rahman Kuldeep Yadav Ashwin Hebbar Kamlesh Nagarkoti KS Bharat Sarfaraz Khan Mandeep Singh Syed Khaleel Ahmed Chetan Sakariya Lalit Yadav Ripal Patel Yash Dhull Rovman Powell Pravin Dubey Lungisani Ngidi Tim Seifert Vicky OstwalDelhi have got superb firepower in their batting lineup and a solid bowling attack of five bowlers where three can batGujarat TitansRetained players Shubman Gill Hardik Pandya and Rashid KhanPlayers bought at Auction Jason Roy Mohammad Shami Lockie Ferguson Abhinav Sadarangani Rahul Tewatia Noor Ahmad R Sai Kishore Dominic Drakes Jayant Yadav Vijay Shankar Darshan Nalkande Yash Dayal Alzarri Joseph Pradeep Sangwan David Miller Wriddhiman Saha Matthew Wade Gurkeerat SinghGujarat have some proven matchwinners in the playing XI but they will need outstanding seasons from both Hardik Pandya and Rashid KhanKolkata Knight RidersRetained players Andre Russell Sunil Narine Venkatesh Iyer and Varun ChakravarthyPlayers bought at Auction Pat Cummins Nitish Rana Shreyas Iyer Shivam Mavi Sheldon Jackson Ajinkya Rahane Rinku Singh Anukul Roy Rasikh Dar Baba Indrajith Chamika Karunaratne Abhijeet Tomar Pratham Singh Ashok Sharma Sam Billings Alex Hales Tim Southee Ramesh Kumar Mohammad Nabi Umesh Yadav Aman KhanKolkatas batting looks a bit thin and their batters need to perform in unison to win matches However their bowling could still win them gamesLucknow Super GiantsRetained players KL Rahul Ravi Bishnoi and Marcus StoinisPlayers bought at Auction Quinton de Kock Manish Pandey Jason Holder Deepak Hooda Krunal Pandya Mark Wood Avesh Khan Ankit Rajpoot K Gowtham Dushmanta Chameera Shahbaz Nadeem Manan Vohra Mohsin Khan Ayush Badoni Kyle Mayers Karan Sharma Evin Lewis Mayank YadavLucknow have a potent first playing XI and they also have good backups Their batting has variety and depth same goes with the bowlingMumbai IndiansRetained players Rohit Sharma Kieron Pollard Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar YadavPlayers bought at Auction Ishan Kishan Dewald Brevis Basil Thampi Murugan Ashwin Jaydev Unadkat Mayank Markande N Tilak Varma Sanjay Yadav Jofra Archer Daniel Sams Tymal Mills Tim David Riley Meredith Mohammad Arshad Khan Ramandeep Singh Anmolpreet Singh Rahul Buddhi Hrithik Shokeen Arjun Tendulkar Aryan Juyal Fabian AllenDespite lacking Jofra Archers services for 2022 Mumbai made the big purchases at the end and have once again built a solid Its not as aweinspiring as the 20182021 version was but its still strongPunjab KingsRetained players Mayank Agarwal and Arshdeep SinghPlayers bought at Auction Shikhar Dhawan Kagiso Rabada Jonny Bairstow Rahul Chahar Shahrukh Khan Harpreet Brar Prabhsimran Singh Jitesh Sharma Ishan Porel Liam Livingstone Odean Smith Sandeep Sharma Raj Bawa Rishi Dhawan Prerak Mankad Vaibhav Arora Writtick Chatterjee Baltej Dhanda Ansh Patel Nathan Ellis Atharva Taide Bhanuka Rajapakse Benny HowellPunjab had the biggest purse coming in and they made it count by picking a powerpacked batting order In addition their bowling has variety and depthRajasthan RoyalsRetained players Sanju Samson Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos ButtlerPlayers bought at Auction R Ashwin Trent Boult Shimron Hetmyer Devdutt Padikkal Prasidh Krishna Yuzvendra Chahal Riyan Parag KC Cariappa Navdeep Saini Obed McCoy Anunay Singh Kuldeep Sen Karun Nair Dhruv Jurel Tejas Baroka Kuldip Yadav Shubham Garhwal James Neesham Nathan CoulterNile Rassie van der Dussen Daryl MitchellRajasthan who had a superb Day 1 at the auction seem to have a good playing XI on the field with the batting particularly looking good The bowling has some outstanding names too with the only possible grey area being the death bowlingRoyal Challengers BangaloreRetained players Virat Kohli Glenn Maxwell and Mohammed SirajPlayers bought at Auction Faf du Plessis Harshal Patel Wanindu Hasaranga Dinesh Karthik Anuj Rawat Shahbaz Ahamad Akash Deep Josh Hazlewood Mahipal Lomror Finn Allen Sherfane Rutherford Jason Behrendorff Suyash Prabhudessai Chama Milind Aneeshwar Gautam Karn Sharma Siddharth Kaul Luvnith Sisodia David WilleyThe Royal Challengers have plenty of quality bowling options and have a batting lineup that runs deepish tooSunrisers HyderabadRetained players Kane Williamson Umran Malik and Abdul SamadPlayers bought at Auction Washington Sundar Nicholas Pooran T Natarajan Bhuvneshwar Kumar Priyam Garg Rahul Tripathi Abhishek Sharma Kartik Tyagi Shreyas Gopal Jagadeesha Suchith Aiden Markram Marco Jansen Romario Shepherd Sean Abbott R Samarth Shashank Singh Saurabh Dubey Fazalhaq Farooqi Glenn Phillips Vishnu VinodThey overloaded on bowling options and also have a middleorder featuring Williamson Markram and PooranThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for the dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the contents in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever