After many days of waiting, the action of IPL 2025 Mega Auction was finally seen and what an exciting and surprising day the very first day proved to be. Since the retention, various speculations were being made about the players, some of them proved to be correct and some surprisingly brought completely different results. Star Indian wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant broke all the old records. Lucknow Super Giants made the highest bid of Rs 27 crore for him.
Apart from this, Punjab Kings, which entered the auction with the highest amount of money, also spent the highest amount. On the first day, which team bought how many players, how much was spent and how many players were bid on, we will tell you the complete highlights –
Big highlights of the first day
- On the first day of the mega auction, a total of 84 players including marquee, capped and uncapped players were bid, out of which 72 players were bought by different franchises. Every franchisee was successful in opening their account on the first day. Whereas 12 players did not find any buyer.
- All 10 franchises came to the auction table with a total purse of Rs 641 crore and Rs 467.95 crore was spent on buying 72 players on the first day itself. Now on the second day, the remaining players will be bought with a budget of around Rs 133 crore.
- On the first day itself, bids worth more than Rs 20 crore were made on 3 players, out of which Rishabh Pant (27 crore – LSG) proved to be the most expensive. Whereas Shreyas Iyer (26.75 crore – Punjab Kings) and Venkatesh Iyer (23.75 crore – Kolkata Knight Riders) also collected high amount.
- Punjab Kings bought left arm fast bowler Arshdeep Singh and leg spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for Rs 18 crore each. With this, both of them became the most expensive Indian bowlers in the history of IPL auction.
- No buyers were found for 12 players on the first day, out of which 2 names were the most surprising – David Warner and Jonny Bairstow. These greats of Australia and England will be under watch for the next day.
- Punjab Kings spent the maximum of Rs 88 crore on the first day. The franchise itself bought the maximum 10 players. Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals also bought 9 players each.
- Whereas Mumbai Indians, which came with only Rs 45 crore, spent the least on only 4 players and spent the least on Rs 18.90 crore. Whereas Rajasthan, which had the smallest budget of Rs 41 crore, bought 5 players and spent Rs 23.65 crore.
- The most expensive foreign player on the first day of the auction was England captain Jos Buttler, who was bought by Gujarat Titans for Rs 15.75 crore.
Which team bought how many players?
Chennai Super Kings (7)
R Ashwin (9.75 crore), Devon Conway (6.25 crore), Rahul Tripathi (3.40 crore), Rachin Ravindra (4 crore), Khaleel Ahmed (4.80 crore), Noor Ahmed (10 crore), Vijay Shankar (1.2 crore)
Auction purse remaining – 15.60 crores
Delhi Capitals (9)
Mitchell Starc (11.75 crore), KL Rahul (14 crore), Harry Brook (6.25 crore), Jake Fraser McGurk (9 crore), T Natarajan (10.75 crore), Karun Nair (50 lakh), Sameer Rizvi (95 lakh), Ashutosh Sharma (3.80 crores), Mohit Sharma (2.20 crores)
Auction purse remaining – 13.80 crores
Gujarat Titans (9)
Jos Buttler (15.75 crore), Kagiso Rabada (10.75 crore), Mohammed Siraj (12.25 crore), Prasidh Krishna (9.50 crore), Nishant Sindhu (30 lakh), Mahipal Lomrod (1.7 crore), Kumar Kushagra (65 lakh), Anuj Rawat (30 lakhs), Manav Suthar (30 lakhs).
Auction purse remaining – 17.50 crores
Kolkata Knight Riders (7)
Venkatesh Iyer (23.75 crore), Quinton de Kock (3.60 crore), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (2 crore), Enrique Norkhia (6.50 crore), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (3 crore), Vaibhav Arora (1.80 crore), Mayank Markandey (30 lakh).
Auction purse remaining – 10.05 crores
Lucknow Super Giants (7)
Rishabh Pant (27 crore), Avesh Khan (9.75 crore), David Miller (7.5 crore), Aiden Markram (2 crore), Mitchell Marsh (3.40 crore), Abdul Samad (4.20 crore), Aryan Juyal (30 lakh)
Auction purse remaining – 14.85 crores
Mumbai Indians (5)
Joffra Archer (12.5 crore), Naman Dheer (5.25 crore), Robin Minz (65 lakh), Karn Sharma (50 lakh)
Auction purse remaining – 26.10 crores
Punjab Kings (10)
Arshdeep Singh (18 crore), Shreyas Iyer (26.75 crore), Yuzvendra Chahal (18 crore), Marcus Stoinis (11 crore), Glenn Maxwell (4.20 crore), Nehal Vadhera (4.20 crore), Vishnu Vinod (95 lakh), Vijaykumar. Vaishak (1.80 crore), Yash Thakur (1.60 crore), Harpreet Brar (1.50 crore).
Auction purse remaining – 22.50 crores
Rajasthan Royals (5)
Joffra Archer (12.50 crore), Mahish Tikshana (4.40 crore), Wanindu Hasaranga (5.25 crore), Akash Madhwal (1.20 crore), Kumar Karthikeya Singh (30 lakh)
Auction purse remaining – 17.35 crores
Royal Challengers Bangalore (6)
Liam Livingston (8.75 crore), Phil Salt (11.50 crore), Jitesh Sharma (11 crore), Josh Hazlewood (12.50 crore), Rasikh Salam (6 crore), Suyyash Sharma (2.6 crore).
Auction purse remaining – 30.65 crores
Sunrisers Hyderabad (8)
Mohammed Shami (10 crore), Harshal Patel (8 crore), Ishan Kishan (11.25 crore), Rahul Chahar (3.20 crore), Adam Zampa (2.40 crore), Atharva Taide (30 lakh), Abhinav Manohar (3.20 crore), Simarjeet Singh (1.50 crore)
Auction purse remaining – 5.15 crores
