IPL 2022 Mega Auction is likely to be held in January-February and each team has already started making strategies for it. Next year IPL will have ten teams instead of 8. BCCI will announce two new teams on October 25.
VIVO IPL 2021 is going on which will end on 15th October, Before the mega auction, each franchise will measure the performance of the players who will do well this season. Till last season, each team could retain five players, this time it will probably be 3 or 4, in which case teams will retain only those who could be game-changer and have the ability to win.
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Although the performance of any player is not the same in every match, but there are few players in every team who are consistently performing well for their team, it is a different matter whether the team wins or not. Here we will talk about the four players of Punjab Kings who can be retained by the team before the mega auction.
IPL 2022 Retention: 4 Players Punjab Kings Might Retain Ahead Of Mega Auction
KL Rahul
The captain of Punja Kings, KL Rahul, will be the first player the team management will retain. He is one of the players who has scored heavily since the last two seasons. Last year he has scored 670 runs in 14 matches and won the orange cap.
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Though his team is not performing well, Rahul continuously making runs. KL Rahul is a match-winner on any day, and his captaincy skills have also improved with time. He has scored 3069 runs in 91 matches to date. Rahul is a part of team India’s squad for the T20 World cup 2021.
Mayank Agarwal
Mayank Agarwal, like his opening partner KL Rahul has been phenomenal at the top of the order for Punjab Kings. He has played a few match-winning knocks. He holds the key at the top of the order, playing attacking cricket and dismantling the bowlers.
The team management will like to retain him ahead of IPL 2022 mega auction. In this season Mayank scored 332 runs in 9 matches.
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Deepak Hodda
Deepak Hodda is one of the underrated batsmen of IPL but he has proved his worth in the team repeatedly. Coming down the order, he has shown excellent skills to rotate the strike and hit boundaries with ease. He has the ability to take wickets when a team needed. In 79 matches he has scored 782 runs and 9 wickets.
With vast experience, Deepak Hodda will entice the team management to retain him ahead of IPL 2022 mega auction.
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Chris Gayle
The universal boss Chris Gayle is one of the veterans of the IPL. After joining Punjab, he has played in the middle-order and has scored good runs. He is a very experienced player, and IPL 2022 may be the last time we see Gayle playing in the IPL. The team management will like to retain him to have a good balance in the team. Gayle has scored 4965 runs in 142 matches and also took 18 wickets.
