IPL 2022 Auction Live Updates: List of players sold on first day of IPL mega auction
Bengaluru, Feb 12: The following is the list of players sold on the first day of the IPL 2022 mega auction here on Saturday:
Ishan Kishan - Mumbai Indians for Rs 15.25 crore
Deepak Chahar - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 14 crore
Shikhar Dhawan - Punjab Kings for Rs 8.25 crore
R Ashwin - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 5 crore
Pat Cummins - Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 7.25 crore
Kagiso Rabada - Punjab Kings for Rs 9.25 crore
Trent Boult - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 8 crore
Shreyas Iyer - KKR for Rs 12.25 crore
Mohammed Shami - Gujarat Titans for Rs 6.75 crore
Harshal Patel - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 10.75 crore
Faf du Plessis - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 7 crore
Quinton De Kock - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 6.75 crore
Avesh Khan - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 10 crore
David Warner - Delhi Capitals for Rs 6.25 crore
Manish Pandey - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 4.50 crore
Shimron Hetmyer - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 8.50 crore
Robin Uthappa - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 2 crore
Jason Roy - Gujarat Titans for Rs 2 crore
Devdutt Padikkal - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 7.75 crore
Deepak Hooda - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 5.75 crore
Dwayne Bravo - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 4.4 crore
Nitish Rana - Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 8 crore
Wanindu Hasaranga - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 10.75 crore
Jason Holder - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 8.75 crore
Washington Sundar - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 8.75 crore
Krunal Pandya - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 8.75 crore
Mitchell Marsh - Delhi Capitals for Rs 6.50 crore
Ambati Rayudu - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 6.75 crore
Jonny Bairstow - Punjab Kings for Rs 6.75 crore
Dinesh Karthik - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 5.50 crore
Nicholas Pooran - SRH for Rs 10.75 crore
T Natarajan - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 4 crore
Prasidh Krishna - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 10 crore
Lockie Ferguson - Gujarat Titans for Rs 10 crore
Josh Hazlewood - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 7.75 crore
Mark Wood - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 7.50 crore
Bhuvneshwar Kumar - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 4.20 crore
Shardul Thakur - Delhi Capitals for Rs 10.75 crore
Mustafizur Rahman - Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore
Kuldeep Yadav - Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore
Rahul Chahar - Punjab Kings for Rs 5.25 crore
Yuzvendra Chahal - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 6.50 crore
Abhinav S - Gujarat Titans for Rs 2.6 crore
Dewald Brevis - Mumbai Indians for Rs 3 crore
Ashwin Hebbar - Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakh
Rahul Tripathi - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 8.50 crore
Sarfaraz Khan - Delhi Capitals for Rs 20 lakh
Riyan Parag - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 3.80 crore
Abhishek Sharma - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 6.50 crore
Shahrukh Khan - Punjab Kings for Rs 9 crore
Shivam Mavi - Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 7.25 crore
Rahul Tewatia - Gujarat Titans for Rs 9 crore
Kamlesh Nagarkoti - Delhi Capitals for Rs 1.1 crore
Harpreet Brar - Punjab Kings for Rs 3.80 crore
Shahbaz Ahmed - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 2.4 crore
K S Bharat - Delhi Capitals for Rs 2 crore
Anuj Rawat - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 3.4 crore
Prabhsimran Singh - Punjab Kings for Rs 50 lakh
Sheldon Jackson - Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 60 lakh
Jitesh Sharma - Punjab Kings for Rs 20 lakh
Basil Thampi - Mumbai Indians for Rs 30 lakh
Kartik Tyagi - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 4 crore
Akash Deep - Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 20 lakh
KM Asif - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 20 lakh
Ishan Porel - Punjab Kings for Rs 25 lakh
Tushar Deshpande - Chennai Super Kings for Rs 20 lakh
Ankit Singh Rajpoot - Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 50 lakh
Noor Ahmad - Gujarat Titans for Rs 30 lakh
Murugan Ashwin - Mumbai Indians for Rs 1.6 crore
KC Cariappa - Rajasthan Royals for Rs 30 lakh
Shreyas Gopal - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 75 lakh
J Suchith - Sunrisers Hyderabad for Rs 20 lakh
R Sai Kishore - Gujarat Titans - Rs 3 crore
Players who went unsold (day 1 of auction): Suresh Raina, Imran Tahir, David Miller, Steve Smith, Shakib Al Hasan, Mohammed Nabi, Sam Billings, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Umesh Yadav, Adam Zampa, Amit Mishra, Adil Rashid, Anmolpreet Singh, C Hari Nishaanth, N Jagadeesan, Mohammed Azharudeen, Manimaran Siddharth, Sandeep Lamichhane.
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Putin meets Iran's FM Araghchi, says Russia ready to do its best to help bring peace to West Asia
Moscow (PTI): Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Monday met Russian President Vladimir Putin, who hailed the Iranian people for fighting bravely and heroically for their sovereignty and said Moscow is ready to do its best to help bring peace to West Asia as soon as possible.
Araghchi, who held talks with Omani and Pakistani leadership before arriving in Russia, met Putin in St. Petersburg and thanked him for supporting Iran, state-owned TASS news agency reported.
"Russia is ready to do everything in its power to ensure that peace in the Middle East is achieved as soon as possible," Putin said during his meeting with Araghchi, which was also attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
Revealing that he received a message from Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei last week, Putin asked Araghchi to convey his "gratitude for this message and best wishes for his health and well-being."
He praised the Iranian people for fighting "bravely and heroically" for their sovereignty, Iran's state-run PRESS TV reported.
"We really hope that, based on the courage and desire for independence, the Iranian people, under the guidance of the new leader, will weather this difficult period of trials and peace will come,” Putin said.
He also stressed that Russia “intends to maintain” its strategic relations with Iran.
Araghchi said that the world witnessed Iran’s strength in countering the US during the recent war, and that the Islamic Republic is a "stable and powerful establishment."
"With their courage, the Iranian people succeeded in resisting the US aggression and will be able to endure it,” he said.
He said that it became clear that Iran has “great friends and allies” like Russia, and conveyed “warmest greetings” from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian to the Russian leader.
Araghchi said relations between Moscow and Tehran represent a “strategic partnership at the highest level” and will continue to develop "regardless of circumstances."
"We are grateful to you for the solid and strong positions in support of the Islamic Republic of Iran," he said.
Foreign Minister Lavrov said that the talks between President Putin and the Iranian Foreign Minister were "useful and constructive."
Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov later said that Russia is "ready to provide any good offices, any mediation services that are acceptable to the parties."
"We will be ready to do everything so that ultimately peace ensues, guaranteed peace, and that there is no return to hostilities," Peskov was quoted as saying by TASS.
He was asked how Moscow can assist in future negotiations on the Iranian settlement.
Araghchi arrived in Russia after his whirlwind trip to Islamabad, which, according to him, was “very productive” and involved “good consultations" with Pakistan's Army Chief Field Marshal Asim Munir, amid uncertainty over the second round of peace talks to resolve the war in West Asia.
"We held good consultations with our friends in Pakistan. The trip was successful. We assessed the outcome of our recent (meetings) and discussed in what direction and under what conditions talks can move on,” Araghchi said in a video posted on his Telegram channel upon his arrival in St Petersburg.
Referring to the second round of talks between the US and Iran to resolve the conflict in West Asia, Araghchi said: "Developments have taken place in the negotiations."
"Despite some progress in earlier rounds, the talks failed to reach their objectives due to the Americans' approach, the excessive demands they made, and the wrong approaches they adopted. Therefore, it was necessary to consult with our friends in Pakistan to review the latest situation,” Iran's official news agency IRNA quoted him as saying.
He said that the trip to Pakistan was a good opportunity to review developments related to the US-Israeli war against Iran, expressing confidence that “these consultations and coordination between the two countries will be highly significant.”
Araghchi arrived at St. Petersburg's Pulkovo Airport early Monday, where he was welcomed by Russian officials and Iran’s ambassador to Russia, Kazem Jalali, the report said.
The first round of peace talks between Iran and the US, held on April 11 and 12, failed to bring the desired result for the parties to the conflict.
The Iranian minister arrived in Islamabad for the second time on Sunday after a short visit to Oman, where he held talks with Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said on security in the Strait of Hormuz and diplomatic efforts to end the Iran-US conflict.
After Araghchi left Pakistan for Oman on Saturday, President Donald Trump announced that US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner would no longer be going to Islamabad for talks with Iran, contending that Washington held all the cards on the matter.
Trump on Sunday reiterated that the US and Iranian officials can talk by phone for a peace solution to the conflict.
On Tuesday, Trump extended the two-week ceasefire with Iran indefinitely to give Tehran more time to prepare a unified proposal to end the war, just hours before the truce was set to expire.
The war began when the US and Israel jointly attacked Iran on February 28, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several top commanders. The retaliation by the Islamic Republic extended the war to the entire Gulf region.
