IPL Auction 2025 Build-up Highlights: 577 players up for grabs as 10 teams look to fill 204 slots

The accelerated auction will begin once the first 116 players on the list have been presented. Ricky Bhui, listed as the 117th player, features in the second batch of uncapped batters.

This stage of the auction will proceed in two phases. In the first, franchises can nominate players numbered 117 to 574 to be included in the bidding process. The second phase will focus on unsold or unpresented players from the entire pool of 574, allowing franchises to bring them back into contention.

Also, take a look at the money that was spend by them for retention and the remaining purse of all 10 IPL franchises for the 2025 mega auction.

“I wanted to start fresh, I wanted to explore my options and I wanted to go and play where I could find some freedom, where the team atmosphere could be something lighter. Sometimes you need to move away and find something good for yourself,” Rahul told Star Sports.

“I have been out of the T20 team for a while and I know where I stand as a player and I know what I need to do to get back, so I’ll look forward to this IPL season to give me that platform where I can go back and enjoy my cricket and my aim is to obviously get back into the Indian T20 team,” he added.

MI retained players: Jasprit Bumrah (Rs 18 crore) Hardik Pandya (c) (Rs 16.35 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (Rs 16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (Rs 16.3 crore), Tilak Varma (Rs 8 crore).

MI purse remaining: Rs 45 crore

RTM options left for MI: 1

LSG retained players: Nicholas Pooran (Rs 21 crore), Mayank Yadav (Rs 11 crore), Ravi Bishnoi (Rs 11 crore), Ayush Badoni (Rs 4 crore), Mohsin Khan (Rs 4 crore)

LSG purse remaining: Rs 69 crore

RTM options left: 1

Delhi Capitals

DC retained players: Axar Patel (Rs 16.5 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (Rs 13.25 crore), Abhishek Porel (Rs 4 crore) and Tristan Stubbs (Rs 10 crore).

DC purse remaining: Rs 73 crore

RTM options left for DC: 2

KKR’s retained players: Rinku Singh (Rs 13 crore), Varun Chakravarthy (Rs 12 crore), Sunil Narine (Rs 12 crore), Andre Russell (Rs 12 crore), Harshit Rana (Rs 4 crore) and Ramandeep Singh (Rs 4 crore).

KKR’s released players: Shreyas Iyer (c), Nitish Rana, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Phil Salt, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, KS Bharat, Chetan Sakariya, Mitchell Starc, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sherfane Rutherford, Manish Pandey, Allah Ghazanfar, Dushmantha Chameera, Sakib Hussain, Jason Roy, Gus Atkinson, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Purse remaining: Rs 51 crore

RTM options left: 0

GT’s retained players: Rashid Khan (Rs 18 crore), Shubman Gill (c) (Rs 16.5 crore), B Sai Sudharsan (Rs 8.5 crore), Rahul Tewatia (Rs 4 crore) and M Shahrukh Khan (Rs 4 crore).

GT’s released players: David Miller, Matthew Wade, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Abhinav Manohar, Darshan Nalkande, Vijay Shankar, Jayant Yadav, Noor Ahmad, Sai Kishore, Joshua Little, Mohit Sharma, Azmatullah Omarzai, Umesh Yadav, Gurnoor Brar, Kartik Tyagi, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson, Sandeep Warrier, BR Sharath, Mohammed Shami, Robin Minz, Sushant Mishra.

Purse remaining: Rs 69 crore

RTM options left: 1

Punjab Kings retained just two uncapped players and have 3 slots to fill with a remaining purse of Rs 110.5 crore. Here’s a look at how PBKS performed in the retention.

PBKS’s retained players: Shashank Singh (Rs 5.5 crore) and Prabhsimran Singh (Rs 4 crore).

Full list of PBKS’s released players: Shikhar Dhawan, Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Livingstone, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw, Chris Woakes, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Tanay Thyagarajann, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran, Sikandar Raza, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada, Nathan Ellis, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel.

Purse remaining: Rs 110.5 crore

RTM options left for PBKS: 4

Overall 81 players are part of the highest category which is the Rs 2 crore base price, but only 12 of them are part of the marquee list and they will be auctioned at the start of the auction.

Marquee List 1: Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Jos Buttler (England), Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) and Mitchell Starc (Australia).

Marquee List 2: Yuzvendra Chahal, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Liam Livingstone (England), David Miller (South Africa).

Here’s a look at the RTM card available with each IPL team, the number of players they retained and the split between Indian and overseas retentions.

The IPL teams were allowed to retain six players each and while only two franchises — RR and KKR — took that option, most of the franchises have spent the majority of their money but not PBKS who have Rs 110.5 crore to spend. RCB still has Rs 83 crore in the bank.

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