IPL 2022 draft players list possibility

 

New IPL Franchisees of Lucknow and Ahmedabad have chance now till 25^th December – 2021 to decide their draft players. All these new franchisees need to contact each player and try to negotiate with them directly. The selection should be from pool of players released by eight old franchisees last month. These new franchisees can draft either three (INR 33 Cr) or two (INR 24 Cr) or one player (INR 14 Cr). They will have same INR 90 Cr purse similar to other eight franchisees. New franchisees can draft maximum two Indian and one foreign player. Out of Indian player, it is not clear for uncapped player retention at INR 4 Cr price similar to eight franchisees have done recently.

The players approached by new franchisees can decide whether they need to accept draft or they need to be in auction pool. This makes draft process interesting. Every player wants to have good role, good price so they will not restrict themselves to draft decision. There will be tough negotiations from new franchisees to decide on players they want.

Various possibilities for Lucknow and Ahmedabad for draft retention will be as below:

Lucknow Franchisee:

Option-1 – Three players draft

KL Rahul	INR 15 Cr
Rashid Khan	INR 11 Cr
Shikhar Dhawan or Bhuvneshwar Kumar or Yujvendra Chahal	INR 7 Cr

 Option-2 – Two players draft

KL Rahul	INR 16 Cr
Shikhar Dhawan or Bhuvneshwar Kumar or Yujvendra Chahal	INR 8 Cr

 Option-3 – One player draft

KL Rahul

INR 14 Cr

 

Ahmedabad Franchisee:

Option-1 – Three players draft

David Warner	INR 15 Cr
Shreyas Iyer or R Ashwin or Yujvendra Chahal	INR 11 Cr
Krunal Pandya or Piyush Chawla or Shubman Gill or Ishan Kishan	INR 7 Cr

 Option-2 – Two players draft

David Warner or Shreyas Iyer	INR 16 Cr
R Ashwin or Yujvendra Chahal or Pat Cummins or Kagiso Rabada or Ishan Kishan	INR 8 Cr

 Option-3 – One player draft

David Warner or Shreyas Iyer

INR 14 Cr

There are various combinations possible. However, looking at the economical buy, player intention to be in draft or in auction, experience; above ideas are considered. This is completely a view point. Various possible players like Smith, Faf Du Plessis, Bravo, Stoinis, Starc, Pooran, Ben Stokes (subject to availability), Jofra Archer, Manish Pandey, Shami make draft process and mega auction 2022 very interesting.