IPL 2025 Player Auction List Announced, IPL Mega Auction: Three captains in the first set, 2 world champions in the second, which players will be bid first – ipl mega auction 2025 player auction list announced know everything rishabh pant shreyas iyer shami kl rahul details
Seven big Indian names in auction
Among the seven big Indian players to be seen in the auction, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant and Arshdeep Singh are included in the first set of six marquee players. The names of KL Rahul, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami and Mohammed Siraj are in the second set. Among the five foreign names is Australia’s left-arm fast bowler Mitchell Starc, who broke the record for the highest bid in the IPL auction ahead of the 2024 season.
Which giants are in Set-2?
England’s white ball format captain Jos Buttler, England all-rounder Liam Livingstone, South Africa’s power-hitter David Miller and South Africa’s fast Kagiso Rabada are also in Set-2. This is the first time since the 2018 auction that marquee players have been placed in two different sets. The 10 marquee players of 2022 were grouped together.IPL mega auction set
Set-1 – Buttler, Shreyas, Pant, Rabada, Arshdeep and Starc.
Set-2 – Chahal, Livingstone, Miller, KL Rahul, Shami and Siraj.
Set-3 – Brook, Conway, Fraser-McGurk, Markram, Padikkal, Tripathi and Warner
KKR-RR retained all the players
Talking about retention, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals are the only franchises which have retained a maximum of six players each. This means that both these players will not have the Right to Match card. Punjab Kings (PBKS) will have four RTMs, while Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) will have three and Delhi Capitals (DC) will have two. Chennai Super Kings (CSK), Gujarat Titans (GT), Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Mumbai Indians (MI) will have only one RTM.
366 Indian players out of 574 players
Of the 574 players in the auction, 366 are Indians and 208 are foreigners. The three from the associate teams are: Ali Khan and former India Under-19 captain Unmukt Chand (both USA) and Brandon McMullen (Scotland). Of the 330 uncapped players, 318 are Indians and 12 are foreigners. A total of 204 slots remain to be filled in the 10 teams, out of which 70 players can be foreigners.
This time this big name will not be seen
The auction will begin on November 24 at 1pm local time (3.30pm IST). Among the big names missing from the list of 574 players is England’s fast bowler Joffra Archer, who recently returned to action after a long injury. Mumbai Indians (MI) spent Rs 8 crore on Archer in the IPL 2022 mega auction. He was then struggling with elbow surgery, but was unable to get fit and had to miss the season without playing any matches. Archer had chosen a base price of Rs 2 crore for himself in the auction list.
42 year old Anderson is the oldest and 13 year old Vaibhav is the youngest.
England’s experienced bowler and 42-year-old James Anderson, who last played a T20 match in 2014, has also got himself registered for the IPL auction this time for Rs 1.25 crore. He will be the oldest player in the auction. If any team selects him, Anderson will play IPL for the first time. The youngest player is left-handed batsman Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who at the age of just 13 has played five first-class matches for Bihar and three youth Test matches for the Indian Under-19 team. Last month he also scored a century against Australia Under-19.
