The IPL 2022 auction went underway in Bengaluru, as the first day of the two-day event began on February 12, 2022. More than 590 players are slated to go under the hammer with two new franchises, Lucknow Super Giants and Gujarat Titans, making their first appearance in the auction.

The marquee set of players saw Shreyas Iyer getting the biggest bid from Kolkata Knight Riders at INR 12.25 crs. Kagiso Rabada for an INR 9.25 cr bid from Punjab Kings, who also got Shikhar Dhawan for INR 8.25 crs.

The next set of players in the IPL 2022 auction was capped batters and below are the outcomes of the bidding process.

The biggest surprise of this set was that former India batter and one of the chief architects of Chennai Super Kings’ success Suresh Raina went unsold. The left-handed batter has 5528 runs in 205 IPL matches but failed to garner interest by any of the 10 franchises.

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Apart from him, David Miller and Steve Smith also went unsold. Manish Pandey, the first name out in this set was bought by Lucknow Super Giants for INR 4.60 crs.

The biggest earners in this set were opener Devdutt Padikkal, who was bought by Rajasthan Royals for INR 7.75 crs, and Shimron Hetmyer who joined him at Rajasthan for INR 8.50 crs.

Jason Roy was bought by Gujarat Titans for his base price, while Robin Uthappa was bought back by CSK for his base price as well.

Here are the results:

Manish Pandey (Base Price INR 1 cr)- Sold to Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)-  INR 4.60 crs

Shimron Hetmyer (Base Price INR 1.5 crs)- Sold to Rajasthan Royals (RR)- INR 8.50 crs

Robin Uthappa (Base Price INR 2 crs)- Sold to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) - INR 2 crs

Jason Roy (Base Price INR 2 crs)- Sold to Gujarat Titans (GT)- INR 2crs

David Miller (Base Price INR 1cr)- Unsold

Devdutt Padikkal (Base Price INR 2 crs)- Sold to Rajasthan Royals (RR) - INR 7.75 crs

Suresh Raina (Base Price INR 2 crs)-  Unsold

Steve Smith (Base Price INR 2 crs)- Unsold