Confirmed: IPL 2023 auction to be held on December 23
Right then, it’s here. It’s confirmed. Get out the calculators, put on your thinking hats, and bring on the banter. The IPL auction for the 2023 season is set to be held in Kochi on December 23, 2022 (Friday).
The groundwork is done. All the franchises have finalized their list of retained players. Each team will also have an additional INR 5 crore to spend at this auction, making the overall purse INR 95 crore. This includes the money left over from their previous auction purse and the value of the players they release.
A total of 991 players have registered for this mini auction, which includes 714 Indian and 277 overseas players. However, even if every franchise were to fill its squad up with 25 players, which is the limit, 87 players have the scope of being bought in the auction (of which up to 30 players can be overseas players).
List of players bought by MI during the non-mega auctions:
|
Year |
Players Bought |
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2009 |
JP Duminy, Kyle Mills, Mohammad Ashraful |
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2010 |
Kieron Pollard |
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2012 |
Herschelle Gibbs, Mitchell Johnson, RP Singh, Robin Peterson, Thisara Perera |
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2013 |
Glenn Maxwell, Ricky Ponting, Phillip Hughes, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Jacob Oram |
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2015 |
Pragyan Ojha, Mitchell McClenaghan, Hardik Pandya, Akshay Wakhare, Nitish Rana, Siddesh Lad, J Suchith, Aiden Blizzard, Abhimanyu Mithun, Aaron Finch |
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2016 |
Jos Buttler, Tim Southee, Nathu Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Kishore Kamath, Krunal Pandya, Deepak Punia |
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2017 |
Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Johnson, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, Saurabh Tiwary, Asela Gunaratne, Kulwant Khejroliya |
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2019 |
Lasith Malinga, Anmolpreet Singh, Barinder Sran, Pankaj Jaiswal, Rasikh Salam, Yuvraj Singh |
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2020 |
Chris Lynn, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Saurabh Tiwary, Mohsin Khan, Digvijay Deshmukh, Prince Balwant Rai |
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2021 |
Nathan Coulter-Nile, Adam Milne, Piyush Chawla, James Neesham, Yudhvir Singh, Marco Jansen, Arjun Tendulkar |
So we have a maximum of nine slots to fill (three overseas and five Indian players). The purse available with us is 20.55 crore INR.
Right then Paltan, put on your thinking hats and tell us who you think we should target to bring into our #OneFamily! There’s no shortage of big names for the taking.
