The wicketkeeper's list started with Matthew Wade going unsold on Day 1 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 meg auction in Bengaluru. He was the first capped wicketkeeper who was going up for sale, but unfortunately, there were no takers for the Australia wicketkeeper.
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A look at the other players on this list: Wriddhiman Saha and Sam Billings go unsold as well.
The next on the list was Ambati Rayudu, who had kept his base price at 2 Cr. The bid began with a fight between Chennai and Hyderabad. However, his former team CSK buyback Ambati Rayudu for Rs 6.75 crore.
Wicketkeeper-batter Ishan Kishan drew a huge bid between Mumbai and Punjab. Gujrat came in later on and the bid went on for a while. The youngster had set his base at 2 Cr and was sold to Mumbai for 15.25 Cr.
After the tiring bid of Kishan, it moved on to Jonny Bairstow who had set his base price at 1.50 Cr. With the to and fro on, Punjab got his services for 6.75 Cr.
Indian wicketkeeper-batter Dinesh Karthik started the bid between Bangalore and Chennai. With his base price at 2 Cr, he was sold for 5.50 Cr to RCB.
As for Nicholas Pooran, who set his base price at 1.50 Cr, the bidding war began between Chennai and Hyderabad. Kolkata too joined the wagon, but Hyderabad was persistent and brought him for 10.75 Cr.
A total of 600 cricketers are set to go under the hammer during the two-day mega auction in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13. Of the total pool, 229 are capped players, 364 are uncapped players and seven belong to the Associate Nations.
