With less than a week left for the IPL mega auction, cricket experts have started picking names of players who they think will earn big bucks at the IPL 2022 mega auction to be held in Bengaluru. With the addition of two new teams to IPL’s roster, several big names are up for grabs with ten teams keen on signing some of the biggest names in world cricket. An IPL auction is known to change the lives of many cricketers financially, and former Indian opener Aakash Chopra named a few players whom he thinks will earn a fortune.
Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan, two youngsters who are expected to feature in India’s white-ball teams for several years, are expected to be among the top 5 most expensive buys at the auction.
Chopra also picked the two batsmen in the list of his players who will create headlines at the auction and said these players will be laughing their way to the banks.
“Indians are going to have a field day, they’ll be laughing their way to the banks. Ishan Kishan will be expensive and Shreyas Iyer will be expensive. So, watch out for Indians like Deepak Chahar, Harshal Patel, Avesh Khan, Yuzi Chahal, Rahul Chahar. Cumulatively, if you put Chahar brothers together, I think that family will take most money on this auction day,” Chopra said on Star Sports Show Game Plan: IPL Auction Special.
Lucknow and Ahmedabad, two new franchises have named KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya as the skippers of their teams.
Former Indian pacer Ajit Agarkar reckons the two teams are now almost on the same page compared to the other eight franchises having picked some big names from the players’ draft.
“Yes, I think so- I think to a large extent you have got some of the big names like say, Hardik Pandya, KL Rahul those sorts of names that you have been able to retain, which was not the case before when the two new teams had come earlier which was a lot harder on those new teams. So, I am not sure if it’s even-stevens at the moment. It’s a good thing but you still have to build now for the future for more teams, older teams are able to only retain their four players which is never easy to say for the likes of Mumbai Indians or some of the stronger teams because they have more than four players that they would have wanted to retain. But yes, it is going to be about who gets the best Indians and who makes the use of that in the auction and eventually build your team around it,” Agarkar said.
