IPL 2025 Mega Auction Dates Confirmed! This time is extra special!
The indian Premier League 2025 Mega Auction is scheduled to be held in Jeddah, saudi arabia on november 24 and 25. The work for this is going on intensively. The IPL 2025 Mega Auction is scheduled to be held on november 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Board of Control for cricket in india is actively looking at the work for this. With the first Test between india and australia scheduled to begin on november 22 in Perth, the auction will be held on the third and fourth days of the Test. A total of 1,574 players are expected to participate in this auction. Out of which 1165 are indians and 409 are foreign soldiers. In this year's auction, many more indian star players are going to be featured in the auction. Important players like rishabh pant, KL Rahul, and shreyas iyer are in the auction. They were not retained by delhi Capitals, lucknow Supergiants, and kolkata Knight Riders.
This will be the second IPL auction to be held outside India. The last 2024 IPL mini-auction was held in Dubai. The registration period for players to participate in this year's auction ended on november 4. A total of 320 capped players, 1224 uncapped players, and 30 Associate Nations players from across the world will participate in the auction. Each team retains 4-5 players before the auction starts. 10 teams have retained 46 players at a total cost of Rs 558.5 crore. The players will be bought for Rs 641.5 crore in the auction. A total of Rs.120 crore was allotted to each team. Some teams retain 4 players and some teams retain 5 players. The punjab Kings team will retain only 2 players and come to the auction with Rs.110.5 crores.
Punjab has retained only two uncapped players, shashank Singh and Prabsimran Singh, for Rs 9.5 crore. This will knock out many important players in the auction. rajasthan Royals still have an auction purse of Rs 41 crore. kolkata Knight Riders have a balance of Rs.51 crore. rajasthan Royals did not retain their two key spinners Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. They are auctioned at a base price of Rs 2 crore. Also, england fast bowler james Anderson has also registered his name in the auction for Rs 1.25 crore. Anderson, who retired from international cricket this year, took over as England's bowling coach.
Mohammed shami has not been retained by gujarat Titans since the 2023 ODI world cup final in november last year due to injury. On the other hand, in the 2024 mini-auction, Mitchell Starc was bought for Rs 24.50 crore and was not retained. Also young indian bowlers like Khalil Ahmed, deepak Chahar, venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Ishan Kishan, mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasith Krishna, D Natarajan, Devdut Padkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, mohammed siraj and umesh yadav will also be included in the auction. Each IPL team can field a total of 25 players in their squad.