IPL 2025 Mega Auction: All preparations have been made for the mega auction of IPL 2025. Every three years there is a mega auction in the IPL, where all the franchises come to prepare new squads, because the teams are allowed to retain very few players. This time, all teams have also been able to retain a maximum of 6 players with them. Faced with such a situation, now all franchises are going to have their eye on including more players in their team. Like the last time, this time too the fate of the players will be decided abroad where many big names from the world of cricket will be seen.
When and where will the IPL 2025 mega auction take place?
This time, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the venue for the IPL 2025 mega auction. The player auction will be held on November 24 and 25 at the Abadi Al Johar Arena in Jeddah. This auction will begin at 12:30 pm local time and 3:00 pm Indian time and will last for two days. At the same time, all auction attendees will stay at the Shangri-La Hotel, which is just 10 minutes from this venue.
Will the fate of how many players be decided?
A total of 1,574 players had registered for this auction. Of them, 574 players have been shortlisted by the IPL Governing Council. That means only 574 players will participate in the auction, of which 366 are Indians and 208 are foreigners. 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 this situation, all teams have already retained 46 players, so now only 204 spots can be filled during the auction.
Which team has more money?
This time, the purse of all the teams for the auction is 120 million rupees, of which the teams also spent some money to retain the players. In such a situation, you will now buy at the auction with the remaining money. Punjab Kings have the biggest purse as they have retained only 2 players. It will go up for auction for Rs 110.5 million. At the same time, Royal Challengers Bangalore has Rs 83 crore, Delhi Capitals has Rs 73 crore, Lucknow Super Giants-Gujarat Titans has Rs 69-69 crore, Chennai Super Kings has Rs 55 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders has Rs 51 crore Mumbai. Hyderabad Indians-Sunrisers have Rs 45 crore each and Rajasthan Royals have Rs 41 crore.
How many places are available for which team?
Currently there are 23 vacant spots in the Punjab Kings team, out of which 8 foreign players can be bought. Royal Challengers Bangalore will try to fill 22 spots, including 8 foreign players. Delhi Capitals have 21 slots (7 overseas), Lucknow Super Giants have 20 slots (7 overseas), Gujarat Titans have 20 slots (7 overseas), Chennai Super Kings have 20 slots (7 overseas), Kolkata Knight Riders have 20 slots (7 overseas), India have 19 slots (6 overseas), Mumbai Indians have 20 slots (8 overseas), Sunrisers Hyderabad have 20 slots (5 overseas) and Rajasthan Royals have 19 slots ( 7 foreigners) vacancies.
With which players will the auction begin?
The IPL 2025 mega auction will begin with the main player’s set. On this occasion, two sets of marquee players have been made. The names of Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Mitchell Starc are in the first group of notable players. While Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingstone, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj remained in the second set.
Apart from this, 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 International cricketers such as De Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Sam Curran and Jonny Bairstow will also be seen in this auction.
Squads of all teams before the mega auction
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (Rs 4 crore), Ravindra Jadeja (Rs 18 crore), Ruturaj Gaikwad (Rs 18 crore), Shivam Dubey (Rs 12 crore) Mathisha Pathirana (Rs 13 crore).
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (Rs 21 crore), Yash Dayal (Rs 5 crore), Rajat Patidar (Rs 11 crore).
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (Rs 16.5 million), Rashid Khan (Rs 18 million), B Sai Sudarshan (Rs 8.5 million), Rahul Tewatia (Rs 4 million) and Shahrukh Khan (Rs 4 million) of rupees).
Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine (12 Crore), Rinku Singh (13 Crore), Harshit Rana (4 Crore), Andre Russell (12 Crore), Ramandeep Singh (4 Crore) and Varun Chakraborty (12 Crore).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen (Rs 23 million), Pat Cummins (Rs 18 million), Abhishek Sharma (Rs 14 million), Travis Head (Rs 14 million), Nitish Kumar Reddy (Rs 6 million).
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (Rs 16.5 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (Rs 13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (Rs 10 crore), Abhishek Porel (Rs 4 crore).
Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (18 crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (18 crore), Riyan Parag (14 crore), Dhruv Jurel (14 crore), Shimron Hetmyer (11 crore), Sandeep Sharma (4 crore).
Lucknow Supergiants: Nicholas Puran (Rs 21 crore), Mayank Yadav (Rs 11 crore), Ravi Bishnoi (Rs 11 crore), Mohsin Khan (Rs 4 crore), Ayush Badoni (Rs 4 crore).
Kings of Punjab: Shashank Singh (5.5 million rupees), Prabhsimran Singh (4 million rupees).
Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah (18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (16.30 crore), Tilak Verma (8 crores).
