Rishabh Pant is the new Nawab of IPL
Many big changes will be seen in the 10 teams of the 18th season of the Indian Premier League i.e. the IPL which will be played in the year 2025. This change will also be quite confusing for the fans because many players who were seen playing with the same team from their debut season until IPL 2024 will be seen in another team’s jersey next season. The biggest name in this is Team India’s star batsman Rishabh Pant, about whom there was a lot of discussion even before the mega auction. Earlier there were expectations regarding Pant that Delhi Capitals would include him in the team again using RTM, but Lucknow Super Giants made such an offer that they too had to take a step back. Now Pant will be seen in the jersey of Lucknow Super Giants, the franchise of the city of Nawabs, Lucknow.
Rishabh Pant becomes the most expensive player in IPL history
This time, the IPL Mega Auction was organized in the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 24 and 25, in which a total of 577 players were shortlisted. Of these, the first offers were made for star players. In such a situation, everyone was waiting for Rishabh Pant to say his name. When the auctioneer called his name, the first bid came from Chennai Super Kings. After this, Lucknow Super Giants entered the field and Pant’s price kept increasing continuously. During this time, CSK took a step back but RCB and then Sunrisers Hyderabad also tried to bring him into their team but Lucknow Super Giants forced them to take a step back by making an offer of Rs 20.75 crore.
As of here, Rishabh Pant was yet to become a part of Lucknow Super Giants in which Delhi Capitals decided to use RTM on him. After this, Lucknow increased their final prize directly to 27 crores, learning that all the franchises and fans sitting there were shocked and Delhi again decided to release Pant.
Most expensive players in the last three IPL auctions.
Lucknow Super Giants spent 22.7 per cent of their purse on Rishabh Pant.
Lucknow Super Giants were looking for a player for the upcoming IPL season who could shoulder the responsibility of captaining their team well and Rishabh Pant now looks fully fit. This time, a total purse of Rs 120 crore was given to all the teams for the mega auction, in which Lucknow spent 22.5 per cent of its purse on Pant. Before coming to the mega auction, Lucknow had retained 5 players after which they were left with just Rs 69 crore in their bag and out of this they spent Rs 27 crore just to include Pant in their team.
Lucknow Super Giants spent most of their purse on Rishabh Pant.
If we look at the last three IPL mega auctions, when they were organized in the year 2018, a purse of Rs 80 crore was given to all the franchises, in which Rajasthan Royals bought England star all-rounder Ben Stokes for 12.5. He bought it for Rs. crore on which he spent 15.63 per cent of his purse. In the mega auction of 2022, Mumbai Indians bought Ishan Kishan for Rs 15.25 crore, in which the purse of all franchises at that time was Rs 90 crore. In such a situation, Mumbai had spent 16.94 per cent of its portfolio on Ishaan. In such a situation, Rishabh Pant has left them all behind and set such a benchmark that all the fans will be waiting to see who will break it.
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Pant’s salary went from Rs 1.90 crore to Rs 27 crore in ten years.
Rishabh Pant had entered the IPL for the first time in the year 2016, the discussion had already started in Indian cricket about the aggressive style batsman Pant’s game, where he was seen as a replacement for Dhoni. In such a situation, in the year 2016, the Delhi Daredevils team bought Pant in an auction for Rs 1.90 crore. After this, next year also Pant played for Delhi with the same salary. Ahead of the 2018 mega auction, Delhi Daredevils, who renamed their team as Delhi Capitals, decided to retain Pant for Rs 8 crore. Just before the 2022 mega auction, Delhi Capitals doubled Pant’s salary to Rs 16 crore. Now if we look at Pant’s IPL salary in the mega auction of the year 2025, it will be directly 27 crores, in which it has increased by 25.10 crores from the year 2016 to 2015.
Rishabh Pant’s salary for every season since his IPL debut.
Rishabh Pant’s performance became the reason for his IPL salary
If we look at the new players who entered the IPL in the last decade, Rishabh Pant is counted among those players who not only established themselves in this biggest T20 league of world cricket but also made their way into international cricket from here . . If we look at Pant’s performance in IPL in the last 5 years, there has been continuous improvement, in which he has also taken up the responsibility of captaining Delhi Capitals. In the year 2019, Pant scored 488 runs in 16 matches, in which his strike rate was 162.66. The IPL 2020 season was nothing special for Pant with the bat and he managed to score only 343 runs in 14 matches.
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In the IPL 2021 season, Pant once again managed to perform brilliantly with the bat and while playing 16 matches, he scored 419 runs at an excellent average of 34.91. In the IPL 2022 season, Pant scored 340, while in the IPL 2024 season, in which he was in top form and returning to the field after almost a year and a half after suffering a serious injury in a car accident, he played 13 matches and scored 40.54. He scored 446 runs at an average where his strike rate was over 150 and also managed to play three half-century innings.
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Pant was the most expensive player in the last 5 IPL auctions.
Every year an auction is organized in the Indian Premier League, in which a mega auction is held after three seasons and a mini auction in between. If we look at the auctions of the last 5 seasons of IPL, Rishabh Pant has become the player who got the most among all. In the mini auction held in the year 2021, Rajasthan Royals bought Chris Morris for Rs 16.25 crore. After this, in the mega auction held in the year 2022, Mumbai Indians bought Ishan Kishan for 15.25 crores.
Most expensive players of the last 5 seasons in IPL.
Punjab Kings team surprised everyone by buying Sam Curran for Rs 18.5 crore in the 2023 mini auction but in the mini auction held a year later, Kolkata Knight Riders spent Rs 24.75 crore on Mitchell Starc . Now, Lucknow Super Giants spent Rs 27 crore on Rishabh Pant, who has become the most expensive player in the history of the IPL.
Most expensive players of the last 5 IPL seasons.
Apart from Pant, Iyer also fetched Rs 26.75 crore in the IPL 2025 mega auction.
Top 5 most expensive players of IPL 2025 season
This time, in the mega auction, the franchises spent a huge amount of money from their wallets on Indian players, in which, if you see, Indian players dominate among the top 3 most expensive players. While Rishabh Pant managed to get Rs 27 crore, Shreyas Iyer got a little less than Rs 26.75 crore, who will be seen playing for Punjab Kings next season. Venkatesh Iyer, who played an important role in helping Kolkata Knight Riders win the title in the last IPL season, was bought back by KKR in the mega auction for Rs 23.75 crore.
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