-Vinay Kumar
The BCCI on Tuesday, February 1, released a list of a total of 590 Indian and foreign players for the mega auction of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022). This list also includes the list of ‘marquee players’.
It is worth noting that in the upcoming IPL Mega Auction-2022 held in Bengaluru on February 12 and 13, the names of 10 players are included in the marquee set. In those 10 players, names of greats like Shreyas Iyer, ‘Gabbar’ Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner to Faf du Plessis are registered.
Know what is the ‘marquee set’ of players
It is worth noting that the group of star players is called ‘Marquee Set’. This set consists of the players most of the franchises are interested in buying the team at the auction. Remind you that, IPL management makes a list of star cricketers in every auction. The names of 4 Indian and 6 foreign players are registered in the marquee set of the auction. Obviously, these 10 players in the mega auction will be the eyes of all the franchise team management. The players included in the marquee set have a base price of Rs 2 crore.
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Shreyas Iyer, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan will be the contenders for the captaincy
Shreyas Iyer, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan, who are included in the marquee set, can also be good contenders for the captaincy of the batting team. Mumbai’s young batsman Shreyas Iyer has handled the captaincy of ‘Delhi Capitals DC’ in an excellent way in the IPL. Remind you that under his captaincy, he led Delhi Capitals (DC) to the final in IPL 2020. Australian cricket opener David Warner made Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) the champion in the IPL 2016 season under his captaincy. Left arm batsman Shikhar Dhawan also captained Sunrisers Hyderabad.