All preparations are done for the mega auction of IPL 2025. Every three years, there is a mega auction in IPL, where all the franchises come to prepare new squads because the teams are allowed to retain very few players. This time also all the teams have been able to retain a maximum of 6 players with them. In such a situation, now all the franchises are going to keep an eye on including more than one player in their team. Like last time, this time also the fate of the players will be decided abroad, where many big names of the world of cricket will be seen.
This time Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the venue for the IPL 2025 mega auction. The players will be auctioned on 24th and 25th November at the Abadi Al Johar Arena in Jeddah. The auction will start at 12.30 pm local time and 3.00 pm Indian time, which will last for two days. At the same time, all the people participating in the auction will stay at Hotel Shangri-La, which is just 10 minutes away from this arena.
A total of 1,574 players had registered for this auction. Out of these, 574 players have been shortlisted by the IPL Governing Council. This means that bids will be placed on only 574 players in the auction, out of which 366 are Indian and 208 are foreign players. At the same time, a team can include a maximum of 25 players in its squad and it is also necessary to make a squad of at least 18 players. In such a situation, all the teams have already retained 46 players, due to which only 204 slots can be filled during the auction.
This time the purse of all the teams for the auction is Rs 120 crore, out of which the teams have also spent some money in retaining the players. In such a situation, they will now make purchases in the auction with the remaining purse. Punjab Kings has the biggest purse, because they have retained only 2 players. They will come to the auction with Rs 110.5 crore. At the same time, Royal Challengers Bangalore has Rs 83 crore, Delhi Capitals has Rs 73 crore, Lucknow Super Giants-Gujarat Titans have Rs 69-69 crore, Chennai Super Kings has Rs 55 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders has Rs 51 crore, Mumbai Indians-Sunrisers Hyderabad have Rs 45-45 crore and Rajasthan Royals has Rs 41 crore.
Punjab Kings team currently has 23 slots vacant, out of which it can buy 8 foreign players. Royal Challengers Bangalore will try to fill 22 slots including 8 foreign players. Delhi Capitals has 21 slots (7 foreign), Lucknow Super Giants has 20 slots (7 foreign), Gujarat Titans has 20 slots (7 foreign), Chennai Super Kings has 20 slots (7 foreign), Kolkata Knight Riders has 19 slots (6 foreign), Mumbai Indians has 20 slots (8 foreign), Sunrisers Hyderabad has 20 slots (5 foreign) and Rajasthan Royals has 19 slots (7 foreign) vacant.
The IPL 2025 mega auction will start with the marquee player set. This time two marquee player sets have been created. The first set of marquee players includes Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Mitchell Starc. At the same time, Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingstone, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj have been kept in the second set.
Apart from this, international cricketers like Ishan Kishan, R Ashwin, Harshal Patel, Khalil Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Faf du Plessis, Devon Conway, Tim David, Rachin Ravindra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Sam Curran and Jonny Bairstow will also be seen in this auction.
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (4 crores), Ravindra Jadeja (18 crores), Ruturaj Gaikwad (18 crores), Shivam Dubey (12 crores) Mathisha Pathirana (13 crores).
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (21 crores), Yash Dayal (5 crores), Rajat Patidar (11 crores).
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (16.5 crores), Rashid Khan (18 crores), B Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crores), Rahul Tewatia (4 crores) and Shahrukh Khan (4 crores).
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine (12 crores), Rinku Singh (13 crores), Harshit Rana (4 crores), Andre Russell (12 crores), Ramandeep Singh (4 crores) and Varun Chakraborty (12 crores).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen (23 crores), Pat Cummins (18 crores), Abhishek Sharma (14 crores), Travis Head (14 crores), Nitish Kumar Reddy (6 crores).
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (16.5 crores), Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crores), Tristan Stubbs (10 crores), Abhishek Porel (4 crores).
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (18 crores), Yashasvi Jaiswal (18 crores), Riyan Parag (14 crores), Dhruv Jurel (14 crores), Shimron Hetmyer (11 crores), Sandeep Sharma (4 crores).
Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran (21 crores), Mayank Yadav (11 crores), Ravi Bishnoi (11 crores), Mohsin Khan (4 crores), Ayush Badoni (4 crores).
Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh (5.5 crores), Prabhsimran Singh (4 crores).
Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah (INR 18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (INR 16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (INR 16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (INR 16.30 crore), Tilak Verma (INR 8 crore).
