What happens to Unsold Players in IPL auction: List of unsold players in IPL auction 2022

Unsold Players in IPL auction: Three high-profile players have remained unsold in the first round of Indian Premier League 2022 auction.

Indian Premier League 2022 mega auction has witnessed the selling of 20 players across eight teams before the lunch break. Each of the 10 marquee players was successful in finding a buyer ahead of the 15th season of the IPL.

The first two hours of the auction witnessed many bidding wars as teams didn’t easily give up on their preferred players. With Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad yet to buy a player, fans can expect them to end this surprising strategy by actively participating in the auction in the rest of the day.

India batter Shreyas Iyer’s decision of entering the auction reaped fruits for him as Kolkata Knight Riders spent as many as INR 12.25 crore to acquire his services. India pacer Harshal Patel, highest wicket-taker of IPL 2022, has rejoined Royal Challengers Bangalore after they splurged INR 10.75 crore to buy him.

What happens to Unsold Players in IPL auction?

Former India batter Suresh Raina, South Africa batter David Miller and Australia batter Steven Smith are the three unsold players till now. While Raina and Smith had put themselves in the highest base price category of INR 2 crore, Miller was registered at a base price of INR 1 crore.

Raina, IPL’s highest run-scorer for a long time, not finding a bidder has it in it to be disappoint his fans. Having said that, it is the nature of the beast and is nothing new. The IPL auction has witnessed many high-profile players remaining unsold in the auction in the past as well.

As far as the future of these unsold players are concerned, franchises have the option of recalling these players at the end of the day or auction or during the accelerated round. Hence, all has not ended for the aforementioned trio for now.

Even if unsold players don’t find a buyer during the accelerated round, they can be used as injury replacements as the season progresses. A biggest example of the same is Royal Challengers Bangalore including veteran West Indies batter Chris Gayle as a replacement after no one bought him in the auction.

List of unsold players in IPL auction 2022

Suresh Raina.

Steven Smith.

Adil Rashid.

Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Imran Tahir.

Amit Mishra.

Rajat Patidar.

Mohammed Azharuddeen.

Vishnu Solanki.

Manimaran Siddharth.

Sandeep Lamichhane.

Dawid Malan.

Marnus Labuschagne.

Eoin Morgan.

Saurabh Tiwary.

Aaron Finch.

Cheteshwar Pujara.

Ishant Sharma.

Sheldon Cottrell.

Tabraiz Shamsi.

Qais Ahmad.

Ish Sodhi.

Piyush Chawla.

Himmat Singh.

Sachin Baby.

Virat Singh.

Harnoor Singh.

Himanshu Rana.

Ricky Bhui.

Vasu Vats.

Yash Thakur.

Arzan Nagwaswalla.

Mujtaba Yousuf.

Akash Singh.

Charith Asalanka.

George Garton.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

Ben McDermott.

Reece Topley.

Andrew Tye.

Sandeep Warrier.

Tanmay Agarwal.

Tom Kohler-Cadmore.

Sameer Rizvi.

Atharv Ankolekar.

Apoorv Wankhade.

Prashant Chopra.

Ben Dwarshius.

Pankaj Jaswal.

Yuvraj Chudasama.

Midhun Sudhesan.

Martin Guptill.

Roston Chase.

Ben Cutting.

Pawan Negi.

Dhawal Kulkarni.

Kane Richardson.

Laurie Evans.

Hayden Kerr.

Saurabh Kumar.

Shams Mulani.

Dhruv Patel.

Atit Sheth.

David Wiese.

Kennar Lewis.

BR Sharath.

Sushant Mishra.

Blessing Muzarabani.

Kaushal Tambe.

Mukesh Kumar Singh.

Ninad Rathva.

Amit Ali.

Lalit Yadav.

Ashutosh Sharma.

Moises Henriques.

Akeal Hosein.

Scott Kuggeleijn.

Utkarsh Singh.

Matheesha Pathirana.

Colin Munro.

Shivank Vashishth.

Gerald Coetzer.

Pratyush Singh.

Shubham Sharma.

Chinntla Reddy.

Bharat Sharma.

Duan Jansen.

Khizar Dafedar.

Rohan Rana.

Rohan Kadam.

Rahul Chandrol.

Kulwant Khejroliya.

Akash Madhwal.