IPL 2022 Auction: Top 5 highest paid active batsmen in IPL 2021– The Indian Premier League (IPL) is well-known for the money involved and the big sums made by the players playing the league. But do you know who is the most paid active batsman in the IPL? Before the mega auction for the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League begins, you need to look at the list of top-paid active batsmen. InsideSport in this article looks at the top 5 highest paid active batsmen during the 14th edition of the Indian T20 League i.e, IPL 2021. Follow InsideSport.IN for more updates
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Virat Kohli
IPL 2021 Salary: Rs.17 crore
IPL 2021 Team: Royal Challengers Bangalore
Total IPL Salary: Rs.143.2 crore
Virat Kohli is just not a cricketer anymore, he is a whole brand. He is one of the most successful and loved players across the globe. He is touted as one of the greatest batsmen ever to hold the bat. In his career, he has all the accolades to his name. Although his IPL stint has been of a kind that he will surely want to undo. He is the only player to feature for a single franchise since the inception of the league.
MS Dhoni
IPL 2021 Salary – 15 Crore
IPL 2021 Team- Chennai Super Kings
Total IPL salary- 152.8 Cr
IPL Moneyball Rank- 1
Mahendra Singh Dhoni is an Indian international cricketer who captained the Indian national team in limited-overs formats from 2007 to 2016 and in Test cricket from 2008 to 2014. He is the only captain in the history of Cricket to win all ICC trophies.
IPL 2022 Auction: Top 5 highest paid active batsman in IPL 2021
Rohit Sharma
IPL 2021 Salary: Rs.15 crore
IPL 2021 Team: Mumbai Indians
Total IPL Salary: Rs.146.6 crore
Rohit Sharma is the most successful IPL captain surpassing MS Dhoni. Ever since Rohit Sharma took the command in his hand in 2013 for the Mumbai Indians, he has guided the Mumbai Indians to the shore of champions 5 times in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020. As a batsman also, Rohit Sharma has been quite successful.
David Warner
IPL 2021 Salary: Rs.12.5 crore
IPL 2021 Team: Sunrisers Hyderabad
Total IPL Salary: Rs.71 crore
The Australian southpaw has been another overseas player who receives immense love from Indian fans. He has been leading the Sunrisers Hyderabad side for many years and also managed to win the coveted title of IPL in 2016. He first started his IPL career with the then Delhi Daredevils and then went to play for SRH. Ever since his arrival at the SRH camp, he has evolved completely as a player and had some memorable moments.
IPL 2022 Auction: Top 5 highest paid active batsman in IPL 2021
Suresh Raina
IPL 2021 Salary: Rs.11 crore
IPL 2021 Team: Chennai Super Kings
Total IPL Salary: Rs.110.7 crore
Second retained player by CSK ahead of the IPL Auction 2018, Suresh Raina is a visual treat for the spectators in this shortest format of the game. A solid striker of the ball, he possesses the rare quality of performing well under pressure. Batting in the top order, Raina has mastered the art of finishing games. The left-handed batsman is also a part-time off-break bowler who often provides that crucial breakthrough at the right time. To add to his talent with the bat and the ball, Raina is a livewire on the field with good reflexes.
Manish Pandey
IPL 2021 Salary – 11 Crore
IPL 2021 Team- Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Total IPL salary- Rs.51.7 crore
An incredible batsman at the top of the order, Manish Pandey boasts of a rich repertoire of strokes up his sleeves and can destroy any bowling line-up with his deft strokeplay. Pandey, before joining the SRH franchise climbed up the ladder in the KKR franchise alongside the likes of Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa and has learned his craft from the best.
IPL 2022 Auction: Top 5 highest paid active batsman in IPL 2021
NOTE: The above analysis has been done using InsideSport’s Moneyball, a tool to calculate the professional salaries of the players in Indian domestic tournaments, especially the players participating in IPL.
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