IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Complete 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 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 have an eye on including more players in their team. Like 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 IPL 2025 Mega Auction take place?
This time Jeddah, Saudi Arabia has been chosen as the venue for the IPL 2025 mega auction. The auction of players will be held on 24 and 25 November at Abadi Al Johar Arena in Jeddah. This 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 attending the auction will stay in Hotel Shangri-La, which is just 10 minutes away from this arena.
The fate of how many players will be decided?
A total of 1,574 players had registered for this auction. Out of these, 574 players have been shortlisted by the IPL Governing Council. That means only 574 players will be bid 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 now only 204 slots can be filled during the auction.
Which team has the most money?
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, she will now make purchases in the auction with the remaining purse. Punjab Kings has the biggest purse as they have retained only 2 players. It will come in the auction with Rs 110.5 crore. At the same time, Royal Challengers Bangalore have Rs 83 crore, Delhi Capitals have Rs 73 crore, Lucknow Super Giants-Gujarat Titans have Rs 69-69 crore, Chennai Super Kings have Rs 55 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders have Rs 51 crore. Mumbai Indians-Sunrisers Hyderabad have Rs 45 crore each and Rajasthan Royals have Rs 41 crore.
How many slots are available for which team?
There are currently 23 slots vacant in the Punjab Kings team, out of which they can buy 8 foreign players. Royal Challengers Bangalore will try to fill 22 slots 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 India have 19 slots (6 foreigners), Mumbai Indians have 20 slots (8 foreigners), Sunrisers Hyderabad have 20 slots (5 foreigners) and Rajasthan Royals have 19 slots (7 foreigners) vacant.
With which players will the auction start?
IPL 2025 mega auction will start with the marquee player set. This time two marquee player sets have been made. The names of Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Mitchell Starc are in the first set of marquee players. Whereas, Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingstone, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj have been kept 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 like De Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Sam Curran and Jonny Bairstow will also be seen in this auction.
Squads of all the teams before the mega auction
Chennai Super Kings: MS Dhoni (4 crore), Ravindra Jadeja (18 crore), Ruturaj Gaikwad (18 crore), Shivam Dubey (12 crore) Mathisha Pathirana (13 crore).
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (21 crore), Yash Dayal (5 crore), Rajat Patidar (11 crore).
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (16.5 crore), Rashid Khan (18 crore), B Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crore), Rahul Tewatia (4 crore) and Shahrukh Khan (4 crore).
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 (23 crore), Pat Cummins (18 crore), Abhishek Sharma (14 crore), Travis Head (14 crore), Nitish Kumar Reddy (6 crore).
Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel (16.5 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (10 crore), Abhishek Porel (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 Super Giants: Nicholas Puran (21 crore), Mayank Yadav (11 crore), Ravi Bishnoi (11 crore), Mohsin Khan (4 crore), Ayush Badoni (4 crore).
Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh (5.5 crore), Prabhsimran Singh (4 crore).
Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah (18 Crore), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 Crore), Hardik Pandya (16.35 Crore), Rohit Sharma (16.30 Crore), Tilak Verma (INR 8 Crore).
