The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction will be held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. 574 players have been shortlisted for this mega auction. For this auction, 1,574 players had registered, but one thousand players were excluded from the final list. In any case, of the 574 preselected players, only a maximum of 204 players can be sold. This time a total of Rs 641 million remains in the purse of the 10 teams.
The final will be played that day.
Out of this mega auction came a big update regarding the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). IPL 2025 will begin on March 14 and the final match will be played on May 25. The complete IPL match schedule will be released later.
In the list of 574 players shortlisted for the IPL auction, there are 81 players whose base price is Rs 2 crore. While the base price of 27 players has remained at Rs 1.5 million. Apart from these, players with a base price of Rs 1.25, 1 crore, 75 lakh, 50 lakh, 40 lakh and 30 lakh are also included in the list.
This time, big players like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Shreyas Iyer, Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal will enter the auction. All of them have also been listed for Rs 2 crore. While the list of foreign players includes stars like Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Jos Buttler, David Warner, James Anderson, Trent Boult, Faf du Plessis.
Punjab Kings will have the highest amount of Rs 110.5 crore in the IPL auction. Punjab had retained only two players (Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh) before the auction. On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore has Rs 83 crore left in its purse, which is the second highest. Rajasthan Royals will have the lowest purse (Rs 41 crore) in the auction.
The pending portfolios of all the teams
Kings of Punjab: 110.5 million rupees
Royal Challengers Bangalore: 83 crores
Delhi Capitals: 73 Crores
Lucknow Supergiants: 69 Crore
Gujarat Titans: 69 Crore
Chennai Super Kings: Rs 55 crore
Kolkata Knight Riders: 51 Crore
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 45 crores
Mumbai Indians: 45 crores
Rajasthan Royals: 41 crores
IPL Player Retention List
Gujarat Titans (GT)
– Shubman Gill (16.5 crores)
– Rashid Khan (18 crores)
– Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crores)
– Shahrukh Khan (4 crores)
– Rahul Tewatia (4 crores)
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
– Nicholas Pooran (21 crores)
– Mayank Yadav (11 crores)
– Ravi Bishnoi (11 crores)
– Ayush Badoni (4 crores)
– Mohsin Khan (4 crores)
Mumbai Indians (MI)
– Hardik Pandya (Rs 16.35 crore)
– Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crores)
– Rohit Sharma (Rs 16.30 crore)
– Jasprit Bumrah (18 crores)
– Tilak Verma (8 crores)
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
– Rituraj Gaikwad (18 crores)
– Mathisha Pathirana (13 crores)
– Shivam Dubey (12 crores)
– Ravindra Jadeja (18 crores)
– Mahendra Singh Dhoni (4 crores)
Sunrise Hyderabad (SRH)
– Pat Cummins (18 million rupees)
– Heinrich Klaasen (23 million rupees)
– Abhishek Sharma (14 crores)
– Travis Head (14 Crores)
– Nitish Kumar Reddy (6 crores)
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
– Virat Kohli (21 crores)
– Rajat Patidar (11 crores)
– Yash Dayal (5 crores)
Delhi Capitals (DC)
– Akshar Patel (Rs 16.50 crore)
– Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crores)
– Tristan Stubbs (10 million rupees)
– Abhishek Porel (4 crores)
Calcutta Knights Riders (KKR)
– Sunil Narine (12 crores)
– Rinku Singh (13 crores)
– Andre Russell (12 crores)
– Varun Chakraborty (12 crores)
– Harshit Rana (4 Crores)
– Ramandeep Singh (4 crores)
Kings of Punjab (PBKS)
– Shashank Singh (5.5 crores)
– Prabhsimran Singh (4 crores)
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
– Sanju Samson (18 crores)
– Yashasvi Jaiswal (18 crores)
– Riyan Parag (14 crores)
– Dhruv Trevally (14 Crore)
– Shimron Hetmyer (11 million rupees)
– Sandeep Sharma (4 Crore)
