IPL mega auction set to be held on Feb 7 and 8 in Bengaluru

The mega auction for the following edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is acutely anticipated. After the eight existing franchises shared their lost of retained players on November 30, the two new IPL teams as Lucknow and Ahmedabad will get an opportunity to pick three players each ahead of the mega auctions.

According to recent reports, the IPL 2022 mega auctions is set to be held in the garden city, Bengaluru on February 12th and 13th.

“Unless the COVID-19 situation worsens, we will have the IPL mega auction in India. The two-day event will be held on February 12 and 13 and like other years, we plan to hold it in Bengaluru. Preparations are underway,” a BCCI official told PTI.

Any semblance of KL Rahul, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Shikhar Dhawan, Suresh Raina, David Warner, Jonny Bairstow, Faf du Plessis, Dwayne Bravo, Sam Curran, Pandya siblings and numerous others have not been retained. Thus, everyone’s eyes will be on them before just as during the mega auctions.

The auction was supposed be held toward the beginning of January, 2022. Although, it has been deferred because of absence of lucidity in regards to the Ahmedabad franchise future since the time BCCI started an inquiry on CVC Capital Partners’ association with betting.

Then again, the RP Sanjiv Goenka Group owned Lucknow franchise are on a signing binge right now. They have effectively signed Andy Flower as the head coach, Gautam Gambhir as the mentor and named Vijay Dahiya as the assistant coach.