IPL's astonishing $12.5 million snub for Aussies

Glenn Maxwell is the lone Australian to person been retained by his IPL squad for the 2022 competition.

Maxwell, who averaged 42.75 with the bat successful 15 games past season, was retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore for a interest of $2 million.

And portion his big-money contract is 1 to marvel at, the 33-year-old adjacent play volition alternatively instrumentality location adjacent to $500,000 little from what helium earned successful 2021.

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Meanwhile, the likes of chap Australian stars who were besides connected large contracts past play - David Warner ($2.3m) Pat Cummins ($3.16m), Jhye Richardson ($2.48m), Steve Smith ($389,000), Nathan Coulter-Nile ($885,000), Riley Meredith ($1.4 million) Marcus Stoinis ($980,000), Dan Christian ($850,000) - were each dumped by their franchises.

Glenn Maxwell (Getty)

It's expected the unretained Australians volition inactive gully plentifulness of involvement astatine the upcoming IPL auction, particularly with the contention expanding to 10 teams.

Lucknow and Ahmedabad are the caller 2 franchises joining successful play 2022.

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IPL teams tin prime a maximum of 4 players to beryllium retained, of which lone 2 tin travel from overseas portion the remainder indispensable travel done the auction.

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Warner, who contempt winning subordinate of the tourney astatine the caller T20 World Cup, endured a brutal 2021 run with Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The 35-year-old was dropped and axed arsenic skipper of the squad this season.

Despite averaging an unthinkable 69.20 with the bat successful 2019, Warner's IPL numbers person dipped since, averaging 39.14 successful 2020 and conscionable 24.37 this year.

Every subordinate retained:

Chennai Super Kings: Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Moeen Ali, Ruturaj Gaikwad.

Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant, Axar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy, Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narine.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Kieron Pollard.

Punjab Kings: Mayank Agarwal, Arshdeep Singh.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Umran Malik.

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