IPL Auction 2022: 4 Players Who Have Played All The IPL Seasons But Will Not Be A Part Of IPL 2022
Published - 14 Feb 2022, 12:18 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 09:52 PM
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IPL 2022 auction saw some terrific signings in the two-day event that had some interruptions after the regular auctioneer Hugh Edmeades collapsed on the first day due to Postural Hypotension.
Ishan Kishan made a resounding comeback with the five-time IPL champions Mumbai Indians after the franchise snapped him up for a colossal amount of INR 15.25 crore.
The Jharkhand wicketkeeper-batter was the most expensive purchase in the high-profile event. Deepak Chahar was second on the list after CSK bought him for 14 crores.
A total of 204 players were sold in the span of two days aggregating a sum of 551.7 crores as 10 teams were left with content to build up a formidable squad.
However, there was also a disappointment as many great names didn’t manage to find a buyer like Suresh Raina, who scored 5528 runs from 205 IPL matches went unsold.
Raina played for Chennai Super Kings and remains to be their highest run-scorer in the tournament. The left-handed batter just missed one season in 2020 due to personal reasons.
Let us look at some of those players who played in the IPL for the last 14 years but won’t be playing in the tournament from the next edition onwards.
IPL Auction 2022: 4 Players Who Have Played All The IPL Seasons But Will Not Be A Part Of IPL 2022
4) Amit Mishra
Mishra remains to be the only player in the tournament to have claimed three hat-tricks. His first one came for Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) against Deccan Chargers in 2008.
He repeated the feat for Chargers against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in 2011 and two years later again did it for Sunrisers Hyderabad in 2013.
Mishra also became the first player for Delhi Capitals to play 100 IPL games during their opening game against CSK in IPL 2021. Mishra played for three franchises in the last 14 years – Delhi Capitals, Deccan Chargers and Sunrisers Hyderabad.
The Indian leg-spinner was just five wickets shy of surpassing Lasith Malinga’s tally to become the leading wicket-taker of the IPL.
3) Piyush Chawla
The 33-year-old leg-spinner is the fourth-highest wicket-taker in the tournament with 157 scalps from 165 matches.
Chawla was with Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) for the first six seasons and played 87 matches for them. Even though he hasn’t played for the team for the last eight years, he is still their leading wicket-taker with 84 wickets.
Chawla moved to Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014 and the very same year he hit the winning runs in the final against his previous franchise Kings XI Punjab.
Chawla turned the game on the final ball of the penultimate over as he pulled Mitchell Johnson over deep backward square-leg for a six.
The leg-spinner was with KKR for six years before he played his last two seasons for Chennai Super Kings (2020) and Mumbai Indians (2021).
2) Dhawal Kulkarni
Kulkarni has been an unsung hero for the amount of effort he has put in during his IPL career relishing the movement of the new ball for any side.
He spent his initial years for Mumbai Indians before moving to Rajasthan Royals in 2013 and played for them until the franchise was suspended in 2015 for a couple of years.
Kulkarni played for Suresh Raina-led Gujarat Lions for those two years where he also scripted his IPL career’s best bowling figures of 4/14 against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Qualifier 1 match of IPL 2016.
The Mumbai pacer returned to Mumbai Indians from Rajasthan Royals in 2019 after being traded ahead of the IPL 2020 auction.
Kulkarni played just two games in the last two seasons before he was released by the Mumbai franchise. Kulkarni went unsold in the IPL 2022 auction.
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1) AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers was the backbone of RCB’s batting line-up for a decade as he turned the match single-handedly on numerous occasions for his side.
De Villiers made 5162 runs from 170 IPL innings at the strike rate of 151.69 and hit 40 half-centuries and three hundreds in 14 seasons of the cash-rich league.
He started his IPL career for Delhi Daredevils in the first three seasons before making a long stint with RCB. He scored 133 from 59 balls against Mumbai Indians, tonking 19 fours and four sixes.
He holds the highest partnership of 229 with Virat Kohli against Gujarat Lions in IPL 2016.
