This is a list of all personnel changes for 2022 Indian Premier League (IPL).
Retirement Date Name IPL 2021 Team Age Ref.19 November 2021 AB de Villiers Royal Challengers Bangalore37 24 December 2021 Harbhajan Singh Kolkata Knight Riders4111 January 2022 Chris MorrisRajasthan Royals34
Pre-auction The BCCI set the deadline of 30 November 2021 for the IPL teams to submit the list of retained players.
Player retention With a total salary cap of INR 90 crore available at the mega auction for each team, the eight franchises were eligible to retain up to 4 players with a maximum of 3 Indians, 2 overseas players and 2 uncapped Indians. The new franchises (Lucknow Super Giants And Gujarat Titans), can pick up to three players each out of all released players from the existing 8 franchises. The franchises can pick up to 2 Indian players and 1 overseas player.
+Salary Cap of Retained Players (For Existing Franchises) And Picks (For New Franchises)No. of players retainedSalary Cap for retentionsTotal amount to be spent Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 443–2––1–––
The retained players were announced on 30 November 2021. The picks of the two new teams were announced on 22 January 2022.
PlayerNationalitySalaryChennai Super Kings Ravindra Jadeja MS Dhoni Moeen Ali Ruturaj GaikwadDelhi Capitals Rishabh Pant Axar Patel Prithvi Shaw Anrich NortjeGujarat Titans Hardik Pandya Rashid Khan Shubman GillKolkata Knight Riders Andre Russell Varun Chakravarthy Venkatesh Iyer Sunil NarineLucknow Super Giants KL RahulMarcus StoinisRavi BishnoiMumbai Indians Rohit Sharma Jasprit Bumrah Suryakumar Yadav Kieron PollardPunjab Kings Mayank Agarwal Arshdeep SinghRajasthan Royals Sanju Samson Jos Buttler Yashasvi JaiswalRoyal Challengers Bangalore Virat Kohli Glenn Maxwell Mohammed SirajSunrisers Hyderabad Kane Williamson Abdul Samad Umran Malik
Summary + Pre-Auction summary Team Retained Retained players salary cap Deduction Amount Funds Remaining Players Overseas Chennai41 Delhi41 Gujarat 3 1 Kolkata42 Lucknow 3 1 Mumbai41 Punjab2– Rajasthan31 Bangalore31 Hyderabad31 Maximum overseas players: 8; Squad size- Min:18 and Max:25; Budget:₹90 Crore
Auction The auction was conducted on 12 and 13 February 2022 in Bengaluru. A total of 600 players were selected for the auction. Prominent players like Aaron Finch, Martin Guptill, Suresh Raina, Shakib al Hasan, Eoin Morgan, Amit Mishra, Ishant Sharma and Andrew Tye went unsold.
Sold players