The IPL mega auction was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on 24 and 25 November from 3:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. Players like Shardul Thakur, Prithvi Shaw, and Mayank Agarwal remained unsold. Bhuvneshwar Kumar became part of Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 10.75 crore. During this period, all the 10 IPL teams bought a total of 182 players by spending Rs 639.15 crore. On the first day of the auction, so much money was spent on 3 players that all the records of IPL history were broken.
Ten IPL teams spent Rs 639.15 crore on 182 players in two days. Eight RTMs were used. 120 players from India were sold, while 62 foreign players were included in the squad by the IPL teams. Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer were the two most expensive players. Lucknow bought Rishabh Pant for Rs 27 crore, and Shreyas was bought by Punjab Kings for Rs 26.75 crore. The five most expensive players of the auction were Indians.
This time 5 IPL teams are looking for a captain. These IPL teams are Delhi Capitals (DC), Punjab Kings (PBKS), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). All have filled their squads. All the IPL teams can soon announce their captain.
Know which players have entered your favourite IPL teams
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Retained- Rituraj Gaikwad (18 crores), Mathisha Pathirana (13 crores), Shivam Dubey (12 crores), Ravindra Jadeja (18 crores) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (4 crores).
Bought- Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Rachin Ravindra, R. Ashwin, Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Vijay Shankar, Sam Curran, Sheikh Rashid, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Chaudhary, Deepak Hooda, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth.
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Retained- Hardik Pandya (16.35 crores), Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crores), Rohit Sharma (16.30 crores), Jaspreet Bumrah (18 crores) and Tilak Verma (8 crores).
Bought- Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Robin Minj, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Will Jacks, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Krishnan Srijit, Raj Angad Bawa, Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizad Williams, Vignesh Puthur
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Retained- Sunil Narine (12 crores), Rinku Singh (13 crores), Andre Russell (12 crores), Varun Chakraborty (12 crores), Harshit Rana (4 crores) and Ramandeep Singh (4 crores).
Bought- Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Enrique Norkia, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Lavneet Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Umran Malik.
Delhi Capitals (DC)
Retained- Axar Patel (16.50 crores), Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crores), Tristan Stubbs (10 crores), and Abhishek Porel (4 crores).
Bought- Mitchell Starc, KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Jake Fraser-McGurk, T. Natarajan, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmantha Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manwant Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.
Punjab Kings (PBKS)
Retained- Shashank Singh (₹ 5.5 crore) and Prabhsimran Singh (₹ 4 crore).
Bought- Arshdeep Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Nehal Wadhera, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Marco Jansen, Josh Inglis, Lockie Ferguson, Azmatullah Umarzai, Harnoor Singh, Kuldeep Sen, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardy, Mushir Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Payla Avinash, Praveen Dubey.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Retained- Virat Kohli (21 crores), Rajat Patidar (11 crores) and Yash Dayal (5 crores).
Bought- Liam Livingstone, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Tushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathi.
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Retained- Nicholas Pooran (21 crores), Mayank Yadav (11 crores), Ravi Bishnoi (11 crores), Ayush Badoni (4 crores) and Mohsin Khan (4 crores).
Bought- Rishabh Pant, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Himmat Singh, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke.
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Retained- Sanju Samson (18 crores), Yashasvi Jaiswal (18 crores), Riyan Parag (14 crores), Dhruv Jurel (14 crores), Shimron Hetmyer (11 crores) and Sandeep Sharma (4 crores).
Bought- Jofra Archer, Mahesh Tikshna, Vanindu Hasaranga, Akash Madhawal, Kumar Karthikeyan, Nitish Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Fazlahak Farooki, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Quena Mafaka, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Retained- Pat Cummins (18 crores), Heinrich Klaasen (23 crores), Abhishek Sharma (14 crores), Travis Head (14 crores) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (6 crores).
Bought- Mohammed Shami, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Tayde, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjit Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Brydon Carse, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Ishan Malinga, Sachin Baby.
Gujarat Titans (GT)
Retained- Shubman Gill (16.5 crores), Rashid Khan (18 crores), Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crores), Shahrukh Khan (4 crores) and Rahul Tewatia (4 crores).
Bought- Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Nishant Sindhu, Mahipal Lomror, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Arshad Khan, Gurnur Brar, Sherfane Rutherford, Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips, Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya.
Now Shreyas Iyer is expected to captain Punjab Kings in IPL 2025, while Rishabh Pant is likely to lead Lucknow Super Giants. Leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal also dominated the auction, which was bought by Punjab Kings for Rs 18 crore. On the other hand, former Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul will now play for Delhi Capitals, who was bid for Rs 14 crore.
Let us tell you that this time Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Faf du Plessis were not retained by their teams. All of them captained their respective IPL teams in the last season of IPL. But the big thing is that the old IPL teams of these players could include them in their teams again by using the Right to Match (RTM) card.
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