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    Top 10 Most Expensive Wicket Keeper in IPL 2022 Mega Auction

    Most Expensive Wicket Keeper in IPL 2022: Ishan Kishan is the most Expensive Wicket Keeper in IPL 2022 Mega Auction. Five times IPL champion Mumbai Indians invest a whopping INR 15.25 crores over the young batsman who has been released by MI ahead of the auction.

    In the recently concluded IPL 2022 Mega Auction, Ishan Kishan holds the top position in the list of most expensive players in IPL 2022 Mega Auction.

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    Before IPL 2022 Mega Auction, almost every cricket experts predict that Ishan Kishan would be the most expensive player of this mega auction. As expected MI for the first time roped a player for more than INR 10 crores in an auction.

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    Most Expensive Wicket Keeper in IPL 2022 Mega Auction

    Player IPL 2022 Team Price Nationality
    Ishan Kishan
    MI INR 15.25 crores India
    Nicholas Pooran
    SRH INR 10.75 Crores West Indies
    Jonny Bairstow
    PBKS INR 6.75 crores England
    Quinton de Kock
    LSG INR 6.75 Crores South Africa
    Ambati Rayudu
    CSK INR 6.75 crores India
    Dinesh Karthik
    RCB INR 5.50 crores India
    Anuj Rawat RCB INR 3.40 crores India
    Matthew Wade
    Gujarat Titans INR 2.40 Crores Australia
    KS Bharat DC INR 2 crores India
    Sam Billings
    KKR INR 2 crores England

    Ishan Kishan

    Bought for a whopping INR 5.5 crore, Ishan, who played 14 games in 2018, played seven in 2019, scoring just 101 runs with an average of 16.83.

    Ishan Kishan was the top run-getter for Mumbai Indians in the 2020 season, scoring 516 runs at an average of 57.33 and later went on to make his International T20 debut where he scored a fearless fifty.

    Ishan Kishan
    Ishan Kishan

    In the 2021 edition of the tournament, Kishan scored 241 runs from playing 10 matches of the season.

    Year Mat Runs HS Avg BF SR 100 50 4s 6s
    Career 61 1452 99 28.47 1,065 136.33 0 9 121 74
    2021 10 241 84 26.77 180 133.88 0 2 21 10
    2020 14 516 99 57.33 354 145.76 0 4 36 30
    2019 7 101 28 16.83 100 101 0 0 8 4
    2018 14 275 62 22.91 184 149.45 0 2 22 17

    Nicholas Pooran

    The southpaw from Trinidad is amongst an elite group of players that includes Clive Lloyd, Viv Richards, Brian Lara and a few others to score a century in the World Cup for West Indies.

    In February 2017, he was bought by the Mumbai Indians team for the 2017 Indian Premier League for INR 30 lakhs but didn’t play any match in the whole season. Pooran went unsold in the 2018 IPL auction after setting his base price at INR 50 lakhs.

    Nicholas Pooran
    Nicholas Pooran

    In December 2018, he was bought by the Kings XI Punjab in the player auction for the 2019 Indian Premier League for 4.2 crores. Pooran had an excellent IPL 2020 season as he scored a total of 353 runs in the 14 matches he played in the season.

    In the 2022 IPL Auction, Pooran was bought by the Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹10.75 crores.

    Nicholas Pooran Batting Stats
    YEAR MAT RUNS HS AVE S/R 100s 50s 4s 6s
    Career 33 606 77 v SRH 22.44 154.98 0 2 35 44
    2021 12 85 32 v RR 7.72 111.84 0 0 3 5
    2020 14 353 77 v SRH 35.3 169.71 0 2 23 25
    2019 7 168 48 v KKR 28 157 0 0 9 14

     

    IPL 2022 Mega Auction Top Buys – Overview

    Category Player Price in IPL 2022 Auction Team
    Most Expensive Player Ishan Kishan INR 15.25 crores MI
    Most Expensive Batter Shreyas Iyer INR 12.25 crores KKR
    Most Expensive Bowlers Deepak Chahar 14 crores CSK
    Most Expensive All-rounder Liam Livingstone INR 11.5 crores PBKS
    Most Expensive Wicketkeeper Ishan Kishan INR 15.25 crores MI
    Most Expensive overseas player Liam Livingstone INR 11.5 crores PBKS
    Most Expensive Uncapped player Avesh Khan INR 10 crores LSG
    Most Expensive capped player Ishan Kishan INR 15.25 crores MI
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