A riveting set of two days ended in Bangalore with the culmination of the IPL 2022 mega auction, as all ten teams finalised their respective squads at the start of the league’s new three-year cycle. All ten teams went wholeheartedly for the players they would’ve eyed pre-auction and ended up making a very decent feast of reconstructing or compiling their squad afresh. Defending champions Chennai Super Kings bought back their pace bowling allrounder for sum of INR 14 crores with an evident intent of recreating the squad or the side that brought them great success in IPL 2021. With that in mind,…
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The two-day IPL 2022 Mega Auction ended on February 13 night in Bangalore, with all ten franchises finalising their squad for the forthcoming season. Indian cricketers Ishan Kishan and Deepak Chahar, who were bought on Day 1, ended the bidding war with the wealthiest contracts, while the likes of David Warner, Quinton de Kock, and Kagiso Rabada emerged the biggest steals at their prizes. Kishan bagged a contract worth INR 15.25 crores to be back with his team Mumbai Indians for IPL 2022. Similarly, Chennai Super Kings brought their pace allrounder Deepak back in the camp for a whopping sum of INR 14 crores. Making the winning bid after a highly intense set of bidding…
Former Pakistan skipper Shahid Afridi on February 13 announced a premature end to his stint in the Pakistan Super League PSL 2022, indicating that he is battling a lower-back injury and “serious pain”. The 41-year-old confirmed the development around his lower-back injury and his departure from the PSL 2022 via a YouTube video where he directly addressed his fans. Afridi, who was playing for defending champions Multan Sultans in PSL 2021, had been traded to Quetta Gladiators for PSL 2022. https://twitter.com/SAfridiOfficial/status/1492780664940281857?s=20&t=zHkG2P3Ox6iEcAEItX_nig Despite his honest intention to continue taking the field for Gladiators, Afridi declared his injury has become unsustainable and needs proper care and attention…
After a relatively quiet few hours on the second day of the Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction, five-time winners Mumbai Indians got into their own and made two major signings at the keenly followed bidding war in Bangalore. MI made winning bids for England pacer Jofra Archer and Singapore-born middle-order batter Tim David after an intense tussle with opposing franchises for the two cricketers. While they bagged Archer’s services for a sum of INR 8 crores, the franchise got David in their camp for INR 8.25 crores. The highly intense bidding war for Archer was the most interesting aspect of the second day in IPL…
England fast-bowler Stuart Broad said that his sacking from the team due to travel to the Caribbean for a three-match Test series in March was communicated to him via a phone call with the interim director of cricket Andrew Strauss. Broad’s former England captain conveyed the rationale behind the move taken by the stand-in selection committee to drop him and James Anderson, two of the nation’s leading Test wicket-takers ever, from the trip to West Indies. Credit: Reuters The 35-year-old quick has now expressed his bitter disappointment over the decision, indicating that the axing has had an effect on his mental…
The opening day of the two-part IPL 2022 mega auction saw a shocking incident in Bangalore, where auctioneer Hugh Edmeades fell from the dais in the middle of his duties. Edmeades collapsed from the stage unconscious during the bidding war for Sri Lankan allrounder Wanindu Hasaranga as the auction was immediately suspended. Credit: ICC The BCCI and the tournament’s governing council called for a halt on the proceedings, announcing a lunch break to ensure that Edmeades gets the much-needed medical attention. https://twitter.com/jackkztweet/status/1492421264320839687 The incident left everyone present inside the room shocked, with the millions of fans, who were glued to the auction…
Indian middle-order batter Shreyas Iyer became the most expensive pick among the marquee set of players available at the Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction on February 12. The 27-year-old attracted multiple bids but finally went to two-time winners Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping sum of INR 12.25 crores. With multiple teams eyeing a new skipper, Iyer was always expected to fetch big money at the auction in Bangalore. KKR, who released their captain Eoin Morgan, are now likely to put Iyer at the helm of affairs. The Indian cricketer brings with him solidity in the batting unit and…
Multan Sultans extended their winning streak in the Pakistan Super League to six matches with a Thursday’s victory over Peshawar Zalmi . Sultans dominated Zalmi, thumping them by a margin of 42 runs as the tournament resumed for the Lahore leg. With their win, the Sultans consolidated their position at the top of the six-team Pakistan Super League points table and piled on the problems for Zalmi, who are languishing at fifth with two wins and four losses. As it happened, Zalmi won the toss and opted to bowl first, hoping to restrict the Sultans down to a manageable score.…
590 cricketers will be up for grabs as ten Indian Premier League franchises enter the bidding war for the league’s much-anticipated mega auction for the 2022 edition of the tournament. Due to be held as a two-part event in Bangalore on February 12 and 13, the mega auction will offer the teams a chance to reconstruct their squad from the pool of unretained or unsigned 590 shortlisted cricketers. The pool of players available for the auction doesn’t include the total of 27 retentions that the longstanding eight franchises had made or the three pre-auction signings apiece that the two new entrants – Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans – did. Here is…
Ajinkya Rahane indicated a sense of displeasure for not being credited for some of the decisions he took as captain in helping India comeback from the disastrous ’36 all out’ to remarkably win the Test series 2-1 in Australia last winter. Rahane said “someone else” took the credit for the moves that were his brainchild as the team recovered from the ignominy of the loss in Adelaide’s D/N pink-ball Test and the absence of multiple stars, including their regular skipper Virat Kohli, to famously retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. India made an outstanding comeback in Melbourne with a victory after their embarrassing defeat at…