IPL 2025 Auction Highlights: Two-day auction ends with 182 players being bought for Rs 639.15 crore

Most expensive player: Rishabh Pant (Rs 27 crore, Lucknow Super Giants)

Total number of players sold: 182

Total number of overseas players sold: 62

‘Right To Match’ cards used: 8

Total money spent by the 10 franchises: Rs 639.15 crore.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar – Rs 10.75 crore to Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Deepak Chahar – Rs 9.25 crore to Mumbai Indians

Mukesh Kumar – Rs 8 crore to Delhi Capitals (RTM)

Akash Deep – Rs 8 crore to Lucknow Super Giants

Marco Jansen – Rs 7 crore to Punjab Kings

CSK – Rs 54.95 crore for 25 players (8 overseas)

MI – Rs. 44.8 crore for 23 players (8 overseas)

RCB – Rs. 82.25 crore 22 players (8 overseas)

KKR – Rs. 50.95 crore for 21 players (8 overseas)

SRH – Rs. 44.90 crore for 24 players (6 overseas)

RR – Rs. 40.7 crore for 20 players (6 overseas)

PBKS – Rs. 110.15 crore for 25 players (8 overseas)

DC – Rs. 72.8 crore for 23 players (7 overseas)

GT – Rs. 68.85 crore for 25 players (7 overseas)

LSG – Rs. 68.9 crore for 24 players (6 overseas)

Kulwant Khejroliya, meanwhile, goes to GT at his base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Also getting picked at his base price is Abhinandan Singh, who goes to RCB

South Africa’s Ottneil Baartman, meanwhile, remains unsold. As does Raj Limbani.

Arjun Tendulkar goes to Mumbai Indians for Rs 30 lakh! (Sachin! Sachin! chants follow at the venue)

Mumbai Indians also bid for South Africa’s LIzaad Williams at his base price of Rs 75 lakh!

Shivam Mavi remains unsold at Rs 75 lakh

CSK and PBKS have hit the squad limit of 25 players and are out of the auction, with the latter still having funds to buy one last uncapped Indian player. GT and LSG, on the other hand, having one slot each but Lucknow are as good as done with Rs 10 lakh left in their account.

RCB and MI are the only franchises with a balance in crores with RR have the smallest squad of all the teams so far with 18 players in their squad, although they have hit the minimum squad size and can go ahead with their current purchases and retentions.

CSK – Rs. 5 lakh; 0 slots

MI – Rs. 1.55 crore; 5 slots (1 overseas)

RCB – Rs. 2.35 crore; 6 slots (1 overseas)

KKR – Rs. 5 lakh; 4 slots (0 overseas)

SRH – Rs. 20 lakh; 5 slots (1 overseas)

RR – Rs. 90 lakh; 7 slots (2 overseas)

PBKS – Rs. 35 lakh; 0 slots

DC – Rs. 20 lakh; 2 slots (1 overseas)

GT – Rs. 45 lakh; 1 slots (1 overseas)

LSG – Rs. 10 lakh; 1 slots (1 overseas)

Looks like some franchises are still in need of a player or two. As a result of which there will be one more (and hopefully the last) round of auction.

The teams that are in need of players, with RR having as many as seven vacant slots, will need to submit names from the list of unsold players.

The Capitals acquire Vijay at his base price of Rs 30 lakh. Tiwari, however, gets a slight hike thanks to MI raising their paddle for him just once before backing out, resulting in DC buying him at Rs 40 lakh.

Nagaland’s Khrievitso Kense, however, is unsold.

Uncapped South African-born New Zealand batter Jacobs is acquired by Mumbai Indians at his base price.

Atit Sheth, however, remains unsold for now.

The Afghan all-rounder, who is yet to make an appearance in the world’s biggest T20 league, is bought by the Titans at his base price of Rs 75 lakh.

Raj Limbani, however, goes unsold.

Also getting bought at his base price is Ajay Mandal, who goes to Delhi Capitals.

No takers for Shivalik Sharma though. Neither for Australia’s Matthew Short, who is listed at Rs 75 lakh.

The South African pacer, who had made his IPL debut with Mumbai Indians, receives an opening bid from the Royals at his base price of Rs 75 lakh. Royal Challengers Bengaluru too raise their paddle and the two franchises take his price past the crore-mark, wtih RR standing firm till the end.

England’s Leus du Plooy, however, remains unsold.

Also getting picked at their base prices are Andre Siddharth and Rajvardhan Hangargekar, who join CSK and LSG at their base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Mumbai’s Tanush Kotian, however, remains unsold.

SRH make the first bid for Bedi and enter a mini-battle with CSK for the wicketkeeper-batter, with the Super Kings ultimately prevailing.

No takers for Harvik Desai, Arjun Tendulkar, Prince Chaudhary, Prashant Solanki and South Africa’s Dewald Brevis.

Roy gets a slight hike as Delhi Capitals raise their paddle just one before backing out.

Meanwhile, Pukhraj Mann remains unsold at Rs 30 lakh.

The Super Kings are the only ones to raise their paddle for the Karnataka leg-spinner who has been part of several franchises in the past, and they acquire him at his base price.

Gopal’s state-mate Mayank Agarwal however, remains unsold and that might have something to do with his base price of Rs 2 crore!

The Knight Riders are the only franchise bidding for Sisodia, and acquire him at his base price.

Piyush Chawla, however, remains unsold at Rs 50 lakh.

Right then… time for the final stretch in the IPL 2025 auction!

Devdutt Padikkal is the first player from the list of unsold players getting a second shot in the auction and Royal Challengers Bengaluru raise their paddle for him, buying him at his base price of Rs 2 crore!

David Warner and Anmolpreet Singh, however, remain unsold!

CSK – Rs. 1.2 crore; 3 slots (1 overseas)

MI – Rs. 1.85 crore; 6 slots (2 overseas)

RCB – Rs. 4.65 crore; 8 slots (1 overseas)

KKR – Rs. 5 crore; 9 slots (1 overseas)

SRH – Rs. 50 lakh; 6 slots (1 overseas)

RR – Rs. 2.4 crore; 8 slots (3 overseas)

PBKS – Rs. 65 lakh; 1 slots (0 overseas)

DC – Rs. 2.25 crore; 7 slots (2 overseas)

GT – Rs. 3.20 crore; 3 slots (3 overseas)

LSG – Rs. 1.45 crore; 4 slots (3 overseas)

The 10 franchises will be asked to submit 3-5 names from the players who have gone unsold so far, and those players will go under the hammer one last time in the IPL 2025 auction.

Stay tuned for more updates.

The Sunrisers make the opening bid for Malinga, who happens to be a right-arm pacer from Sri Lanka, much like the legendary pacer whom he shares his name with. RR join the bidding, and drive his price past the crore mark before backing out.

Umang Kumar, Digvijay Deshmukh and Yash Dabas are unsold!

Suryavanshi, the youngest player in the auction, has become a crorepati at the tender age of 13 – when a majority of kids his age would be happy to get a grand as pocket money!

DC make the opening bid for the opener who has made five First-Class appearances for Bihar and had struck a century in an U-19 Test against Australia in Chennai. RR decide to raise their paddle, and it becomes a bidding face-off between the two northern franchises, resulting in his price shooting past 1 crore, at which point Delhi back out!

No takers for Ripal Patel, Avinash Singh and Sanjay Yadav.

Also getting picked at his base price of Rs 30 lakh is Ramakrishna Ghosh, who gets picked by CSK. And Satyanaryana Raju, who goes to MI at the same price.

No takers for Raj Limbani, Shiva Singh, Anshuman Hooda, Dwaine Pretorious, Blessing Muzarabani, Brandon McMullen, Atit Sheth, Vijay Kumar, Roston Chase, Nathan Smith, Kyle Jamieson and Chris Jordan

Also getting sold at his base price is ex-KKR pacer Kamlesh Nagarkoti, who gets picked up by CSK.

No takers for Tejasvi Dahiya, Lance Morris and Ollie Stone.

MI open the bidding for the Australian pacer, but back out soon as Punjab Kings raise their paddle.

No takers for Dilshan Madushanka, Adam Milne, Lungi Ngidi, Will O’Rourke, Chetan Sakariya, Sandeep Warrier and Abdul Basith.

Michael Bracewell is the first player to go under the hammer after the interval, and he goes unsold! England’s Jamie Overton, however, goes to Chennai Super Kings at his base price of Rs 1.5 crore.

No takers for South Africa’s Ottniel Baartmen.