JUST IN - Kl Rahul in Lucknow for 17 Crore, Stoinis for 9.2 Crore and Bishnoi got 4 Crore from Lucknow.

OFFICIAL Salary of Ahmedabad's 3 draft picks:

Hardik Pandya - 15cr.
Rashid Khan - 15cr.
Shubman Gill - 8cr.

Remaining purse for Mega Auction - 52cr.

Hardik Pandya and Kl Rahul announced as Captain of Ahmedabad and Lucknow respectively.

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Lucknow Mentor Gautam Gambhir further added that he thinks role of Captain give you more freedom to play your natural game and we'll expect same from KL Rahul as Lucknow Captain.

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BCCI President denied reports saying BCCI wanted to issue show-cause notice to Virat Kohli saying "it was all false".

IPL 2022 Mega Auction Players List who have set their Base price of 2 Crore Rupees.
Total of 49 Players, 17 Indians & 32 Overseas have registered themselves for 2 Crore Base Price.

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Shahrukh Khan and Avesh Khan have set their base price 20 Lakh INR for IPL 2022 Mega Auction.

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Sreesanth set his base price of 50 Lakh for the IPL 2022 mega auction.

Mitchell Starc, Chris Gayle, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes and Joe Root aren't available for IPL 2022.
Sam Curran & Chris Woakes are also players likely to miss IPL 2022.

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AB de Villiers & Chris Gayle 💔

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BCCI planning to start IPL a week before from starting date with hosting entire tournament in Maharashtra.

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BCCI wants to hold IPL in India with Maharashtra as preferred place, starting from 27 March.
UAE & SA are backup option but not in consideration as of now.
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OFFICIAL - 3 ODIs vs West Indies will be in Ahmedabad & T20I at Eden Garden, Kolkata.

All Teams have got 28 January as the deadline to shortlist names of the players for Mega Auction after 1214 players in total have registered.

Shoaib Akhtar - "Everybody knows what happened with Virat (Virat vs BCCI). He captained for 6-7 years. I was not in favor of his captaincy. I just wanted him to keep scoring 100, 120 runs. If I had been in his place, I would not have even married."

शोएब अख्तर - "विराट ने छह-सात साल कप्तानी की। मैं उसकी कप्तानी के पक्ष में नहीं था। मैं चाहता था वह बस 100, 120 रन बनाता रहे। वह सिर्फ अपनी बल्लेबाजी पर तवज्जो दे। मैं उसकी जगह होता तो शादी भी नहीं करता। मैं बस सिर्फ रन बनाता।"

In a recent video shared by Shreyas Iyer, we can see Kl Rahul discussing IPL 2022 Mega Auction Plans with Shardul Thakur & Yuzi Chahal. 👀

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Pakistan Player Mohammad Rizwan won ICC Men's T20I Cricketer of the year award for 2021.

TOSS - India won the toss and elected to bowl first.

When asked about bidding in Mega Auction for Quinton De Kock, RCB Head Coach Sanjay Bangar said let's see what happens in Mega Auction. 👀

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