IPL 2022 Auction Highlights: Ishan Kishan, Deepak Chahar, Shreyas Iyer strike it rich; Avesh Khan enters 10 cr club

Thank you so much for joining us on this live coverage! We will see you on Day 2 as it's time for a much-neede break. Until then, this is Shivansh Gupta bidding you goodbye! CIAO!

(Special shoutout to my colleague Ameya Barve for his help)

Chennai's new additions: Robin Uthappa (2 Cr), Ambati Rayudu (6.75 Cr), Deepak Chahar (14 Cr), KM Asif (0.20 Cr), Tushar Deshpande (0.20 Cr), Dwayne Bravo (4.40 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 20.45 Cr

Bangalore's buys: Faf du Plessis (7 Cr), Dinesh Karthik (5.50 Cr), Anuj Rawat (3.40 Cr), Akash Deep (0.20 Cr), Harshal Patel (10.75 Cr), Wanindu Hasaranga (10.75 Cr), Josh Hazlewood (7.75 Cr), Shahbaz Ahmed (2.40 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 9.25 Cr

Kolkata's new players: Shreyas Iyer (12.25 Cr), Sheldon Jackson (0.60 Cr), Pat Cummins (7.25 Cr), Nitish Rana (8 Cr), Shivam Mavi (7.25 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 12.65 Cr

Punjab's buys: Shikhar Dhawan (8.25 Cr), Jonny Bairstow (6.75 Cr), Prabhsimran Singh (.60 Cr), Jitesh Sharma (0.20 Cr), Kagiso Rabada (9.25 Cr), Rahul Chahar (5.25 Cr), Ishan Porel (0.25 Cr), Shahrukh Khan (9 Cr), Harpreet Brar (3.8 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 28.65 Cr

Hyderabad's additions: Nicholas Pooran (10.75 Cr), Priyam Garg (0.20 Cr), Rahul Tripathi (8.5 Cr), T Natarajan (4 Cr), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (4.2 Cr), Kartik Tyagi (4 Cr), Shreyas Gopal (0.75 Cr), J Suchith (0.20 Cr), Washington Sundar (8.75 Cr), Abhishek Sharma (6.5 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 20.15 Cr

Lucknow's buys: Quinton de Kock (wk) (6.75 Cr), Manish Pandey (4.60 Cr), Mark Wood (7.5 Cr), Avesh Khan (10 Cr), Ankit Rajpoot (0.50 Cr), Jason Holder (8.75 Cr), Deepak Hooda (5.75 Cr), Krunal Pandya (8.25 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 6.90 Cr

Gujarat's new players: Jason Roy (2 Cr), Abhinav Sadarangani (2.6 Cr), Mohammed Shami (6.25 Cr), Lockie Ferguson (10 Cr), Noor Ahmad (0.30 Cr), R Sai Kishore (3 Cr), Rahul Tewatia (9 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 18.85 Cr

MI were relatively quite today, adding just four players to the roster.

Mumbai's purchases: Ishan Kishan (15.25 Cr), Dewald Brevis (3 Cr), Basil Thampi (0.30 Cr), Murugan Ashwin (1.60 Cr)

Purse Remaining: 27.85 Cr

Rajasthan Royals also had quite a busy day at the office. 

Rajasthan's buys: Shimron Hetmyer (8.50 Cr), Devdutt Padikkal (7.75 Cr), Trent Boult (8 Cr), Prasidh Krishna (10 Cr), Yuzvendra Chahal (6.5 Cr), KC Kariappa (0.30 Cr), Ravichandran Ashwin (5 Cr), Riyan Parag (3.80 Cr).

Remaining purse: 12.15 Cr

Delhi Capitals and Rajasthan Royals were excellent today. 

Delhi's buys: David Warner (6.25 Cr), Ashwin Hebbar (0.20 Cr), Sarfaraz Khan (0.20 Cr), KS Bharat (2 Cr), Mustafizur Rahman (2 Cr), Kuldeep Yadav (2 Cr), Mitchell Marsh (6.50 Cr), Shardul Thakur (10.75 Cr), Kamlesh Nagarkoti (1.1 Cr).

They still have ₹16.50 cr remaining in the purse.

What an eventful day it was! Bidding wars, uncapped players making it big, top Indian talents fetching huge sums and players finding new homes… we've seen it all.

Sandeep Lamichhane, the final player of the day, is unsold for now. And that concludes the first day of the mega auction. What a day it's been!

We get to our last player of the day! Applause for Charu Sharma, who has orchestrated things after Hugh Edmeades' unfortunate collapse.

- Sai Kishore (base price 20 lakh) is up next… Both CSK and DC are interested!

- PBKS enter the race! The figure is now 1.70 cr.

- Here come Gujarat! Wait a minute… SRH are also interested. The required figure is now ₹3 cr.

- R Sai Kishore bought by Gujarat Titans for ₹3 cr!

Jagadeesha Suchith heads to SRH for ₹20 lakh

RR back out as Rajasthan get a leg-spinner in their squad. Shreyas Gopal sold for ₹75 lakh.

Shreyas Gopal has sparked a bidding war between RR and SRH. 

- KC Cariappa is up next and MI are interested to buy another leg-spinner.

- RR eventually buy Cariappa for ₹30 lakh.

M Siddharth finds no buyers. He goes unsold on Day 1.

MI desperately wanted a leg-spinner after Chahal & Chahar and they have bought Ashwin for ₹1.6 cr

- M Ashwin (Base price 20 lakh) is up next… and MI are interested.

- He has performed well in the Syed Mushtaq Ali and SRH have also entered the race to buy Ashwin.

Afghanistan's Noor Ahmed sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹30 lakh.

Ankit Rajpoot heads to the Lucknow franchise for 50 lakh.