Watching the much-awaited IPL 2025 auction was just like a thrilling blockbuster. With the participation of the 10 IPL franchises, it took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24th and 25th. The venue for this two-day event was Abady Al-Johar Arena, where all these franchises were allowed to reshape their squads. It was amazing for worldwide cricket fans as they got a chance to witness some record-breaking signings and several unexpected snubs.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction Highlights:
- A total of 577 players participated in the auction, comprising 367 Indian players and 210 overseas players.
- ₹30 lakh was the minimum base price, and ₹2 crore was set as the highest base price.
- Each team had a budget of ₹120 crore to build their squads, with a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25 players. Each team could add up to a maximum of 8 overseas players.
Biggest Buys of IPL 2025
- Rishabh Pant – With a whopping fee of ₹27 crore, Rishabh Pant from Lucknow Super Giants has worn the crown of being the most expensive player in IPL history.
- Shreyas Iyer – The second-highest bidder was Shreyas Iyer from Punjab Kings, who was sold for ₹26.75 crore.
- Jos Buttler – Gujarat Titans came forward to pick Jos Buttler for ₹15.75 crore, making him the most expensive overseas player.
- Rasikh Dar – Acquired by Royal Challengers Bangalore, Rasikh Dar became the most expensive uncapped player when he was sold for ₹6 crore.
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi – A rising player from Bihar, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, joined the IPL auction at a very young age—just 13 years old—when he was picked by Rajasthan Royals for ₹1.1 crore.
Squad Adjustments and Replacements
In the Sunrisers Hyderabad squad, Wiaan Mulder replaced Brydon Carse, who got injured in March.
In IPL 2025, we can expect high-octane action and fierce competition, with strong teams finalized and new talent joining the league. Let’s check out the full IPL squad details and player line-ups as the season unfolds!
Chennai Super Kings IPL 2025 Team
Remaining Budget: ₹5 lakh
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 7
Squad List:
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (India) – ₹18 crore
- Ravindra Jadeja (India) – ₹18 crore
- Matheesha Pathirana (Sri Lanka) – ₹13 crore
- Shivam Dube (India) – ₹12 crore
- MS Dhoni (India) – ₹4 crore
- Devon Conway (New Zealand) – ₹6.25 crore
- Rahul Tripathi (India) – ₹3.40 crore
- Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand) – ₹4 crore
- Ravichandran Ashwin (India) – ₹9.75 crore
- Syed Khaleel Ahmed (India) – ₹4.80 crore
- Noor Ahmad (Afghanistan) – ₹10 crore
- Vijay Shankar (India) – ₹1.20 crore
- Sam Curran – ₹2.40 crore
- Shaik Rasheed (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Anshul Kamboj (India) – ₹3.40 crore
- Mukesh Choudhary (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Deepak Hooda (India) – ₹1.70 crore
- Gurjapneet Singh (India) – ₹2.20 crore
- Nathan Ellis (Australia) – ₹1.25 crore
- Ramakrishna Ghosh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Jamie Overton – ₹1.50 crore
- Shreyas Gopal (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Vansh Bedi (India) – ₹55
- C Andre Siddarth (India) – ₹30 lakh
Delhi Capitals IPL 2025 Team List
Remaining Budget: ₹6.45 crore
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 6
Squad List:
- Axar Patel (India) – ₹16.50 crore
- Kuldeep Yadav (India) – ₹13.25 crore
- Tristan Stubbs (South Africa) – ₹10 crore
- Abishek Porel (India) – ₹4 crore
- Mitchell Starc (Australia) – ₹11.75 crore
- KL Rahul (India) – ₹14 crore
- Jake Fraser-Mcgurk (Australia) – ₹9 crore
- T Natarajan (India) – ₹10.75 crore
- Karun Nair (India) – ₹50 lakh
- Sameer Rizvi (India) – ₹95 lakh
- Ashutosh Sharma (India) – ₹3.80 crore
- Mohit Sharma (India) – ₹2.20 crore
- Faf du Plessis (South Africa) – ₹2 crore
- Mukesh Kumar (India) – ₹8 crore
- Darshan Nalkande (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Vipraj Nigam (India) – ₹50 lakh
- Dushmantha Chameera (Sri Lanka) – ₹75 lakh
- Donovan Ferreira – ₹75 lakh
- Ajay Mandal (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Manvanth Kumar (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Madhav Tiwari (India) – ₹40 lakh
- Tripurana Vijay (India) – ₹30 lakh
Gujarat Titans IPL 2025 Team
Remaining Budget: ₹15 lakh
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 7
Squad List:
- Rashid Khan (Afghanistan) – ₹18 crore
- Shubman Gill (India) – ₹16.50 crore
- Sai Sudharsan (India) – ₹8.50 crore
- Rahul Tewatia (India) – ₹4 crore
- Shahrukh Khan (India) – ₹4 crore
- Kagiso Rabada (South Africa) – ₹10.75 crore
- Jos Buttler (England) – ₹15.75 crore
- Mohammad Siraj (India) – ₹12.25 crore
- Prasidh Krishna (India) – ₹9.50 crore
- Nishant Sindhu (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Mahipal Lomror (India) – ₹1.70 crore
- Kumar Kushagra (India) – ₹65 lakh
- Anuj Rawat (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Manav Suthar (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Washington Sundar (India) – ₹3.20 crore
- Gerald Coetzee (South Africa) – ₹2.40 crore
- Arshad Khan (India) – ₹1.30 crore
- Gurnoor Brar (India) – ₹1.30 crore
- Sherfane Rutherford (West Indies) – ₹2.6 crore
- R Sai Kishore (India) – ₹2 crore
- Ishant Sharma (India) – ₹75 lakh
- Jayant Yadav (India) – ₹75 lakh
- Glenn Phillips (New Zealand) – ₹2 crore
- Karim Janat (Afghanistan) – ₹75 lakh
- Kulwant Khejroliya (India) – ₹30 lakh
Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹5 lakh
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 8
Squad List:
- Rinku Singh (India) – ₹13 crore
- Varun Chakaravarthy (India) – ₹12 crore
- Sunil Narine (West Indies) – ₹12 crore
- Andre Russell (West Indies) – ₹12 crore
- Harshit Rana (India) – ₹4 crore
- Ramandeep Singh (India) – ₹4 crore
- Venkatesh Iyer (India) – ₹23.75 crore
- Quinton de Kock (South Africa) – ₹3.60 crore
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan) – ₹2 crore
- Anrich Nortje (South Africa) – ₹6.50 crore
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi (India) – ₹3 crore
- Vaibhav Arora (India) – ₹1.80 crore
- Mayank Markande (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Rovman Powell (West Indies) – ₹1.50 crore
- Manish Pandey (India) – ₹75 lakh
- Spencer Johnson (Australia) – ₹2.80 crore
- Luvnith Sisodia (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Ajinkya Rahane (India) – ₹1.5 crore
- Anukul Roy (India) – ₹40 lakh
- Moeen Ali (England) – ₹2 crore
- Chetan Sakariya (India) – ₹75 lakh
Lucknow Super Giants IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹10 lakh
Available RTM cards: 1 (capped)
Overseas players: 6
Squad List:
- Nicholas Pooran (West Indies) – ₹21 crore
- Ravi Bishnoi (India) – ₹11 crore
- Mayank Yadav (India) – ₹11 crore
- Mohsin Khan (India) – ₹4 crore
- Ayush Badoni (India) – ₹4 crore
- Rishabh Pant (India) – ₹27 crore
- David Miller (South Africa) – ₹7.50 crore
- Mitchell Marsh (Australia) – ₹3.40 crore
- Aiden Markram (South Africa) – ₹2.00 crore
- Avesh Khan (India) – ₹9.75 crore
- Abdul Samad (India) – ₹4.20 crore
- Aryan Juyal (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Akash Deep (India) – ₹8 crore
- Himmat Singh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- M Siddharth (India) – ₹75 lakh
- Digvesh Singh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Shahbaz Ahmed (India) – ₹2.4 crore
- Akash Singh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Shamar Joseph (West Indies) – ₹75 lakh
- Prince Yadav (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Yuvraj Chaudhary (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Rajvardhan Hangargekar (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Arshin Kulkarni (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Matthew Breetzke (India) – ₹75 lakh
Mumbai Indians IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹20 lakh
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 8
Squad List:
- Jasprit Bumrah (India) – ₹18 crore
- Suryakumar Yadav (India) – ₹16.35 crore
- Hardik Pandya (India) – ₹16.35 crore
- Rohit Sharma (India) – ₹16.30 crore
- Tilak Varma (India) – ₹8 crore
- Trent Boult (New Zealand) – ₹12.50 crore
- Naman Dhir (India) – ₹5.25 crore
- Robin Minz (India) – ₹65 lakh
- Karn Sharma (India) – ₹50 lakh
- Ryan Rickelton (South Africa) – ₹1 crore
- Deepak Chahar (India) – ₹9.25 crore
- Mujeeb-ur-Rahman (Afghanistan) – ₹2 crore
- Will Jacks (England) – ₹5.25 crore
- Ashwani Kumar (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Mitchell Santner (New Zealand) – ₹2 crore
- Reece Topley (England) – ₹75 lakh
- Shrijith Krishnan (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Raj Bawa (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Satyanarayana Raju (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Bevon Jacobs (New Zealand) – ₹30 lakh
- Arjun Tendulkar (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Vignesh Puthur – ₹30 lakh
Punjab Kings IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹35 lakh
Available RTM cards: 3 (capped)
Overseas players: 8
Squad List:
- Shashank Singh (India) – ₹5.5 crore
- Prabhsimran Singh (India) – ₹4 crore
- Arshdeep Singh (India) – ₹18 crore
- Shreyas Iyer (India) – ₹26.75 crore
- Yuzvendra Chahal (India) – ₹18 crore
- Marcus Stoinis (Australia) – ₹11 crore
- Glenn Maxwell (Australia) – ₹4.20 crore
- Nehal Wadhera (India) – ₹4.20 crore
- Harpreet Brar (India) – ₹1.50 crore
- Vishnu Vinod (India) – ₹95 lakh
- Vijaykumar Vyshak (India) – ₹1.80 crore
- Yash Thakur (India) – ₹1.60 crore
- Marco Jansen (South Africa) – ₹7.00 crore
- Josh Inglis (Australia) – ₹2.60 crore
- Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand) – ₹2.00 crore
- Azmatullah Omarzai (Afghanistan) – ₹2.4 crore
- Harnoor Pannu (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Kuldeep Sen (India) – ₹80 lakh
- Priyansh Arya (India) – ₹3.80 crore
- Aaron Hardie (Australia) – ₹1.25 crore
- Suryash Shedge (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Musheer Khan (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Xavier Bartlett – ₹80 lakh
- Pyla Avinash (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Praveen Dubey (India) – ₹30 lakh
Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹30 lakh
Available RTM cards: 0
Overseas players: 6
Team List:
- Sanju Samson (India) – ₹18 crore
- Yashasvi Jaiswal (India) – ₹18 crore
- Riyan Parag (India) – ₹14 crore
- Dhruv Jurel (India) – ₹14 crore
- Shimron Hetmyer (West Indies) – ₹11 crore
- Sandeep Sharma (India) – ₹4 crore
- Jofra Archer (England) – ₹12.50 crore
- Mahesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka) – ₹4.40 crore
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka) – ₹5.25 crore
- Akash Madhwal (India) – ₹1.20 crore
- Kumar Kartikeya Singh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Nitish Rana (India) – ₹4.20 crore
- Tushar Deshpande (India) – ₹6.50 crore
- Shubham Dubey (India) – ₹80 lakh
- Yudhvir Charak (India) – ₹35 lakh
- Fazalhaq Farooqi (India) – ₹2 crore
- Vaibhav Suryavanshi (India) – ₹1.1 crore
- Kwena Maphaka (South Africa) – ₹75 lakh
- Ashok Sharma (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Kunal Singh Rathore (India) – ₹30 lakh
Royal Challengers Bengaluru IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹75 lakh
Available RTM cards: 2 (capped)
Overseas players: 8
Squad List:
- Virat Kohli (India) – ₹21 crore
- Rajat Patidar (India) – ₹11 crore
- Yash Dayal (India) – ₹5 crore
- Liam Livingstone (England) – ₹8.75 crore
- Phil Salt (England) – ₹11.50 crore
- Jitesh Sharma (India) – ₹11 crore
- Josh Hazlewood (Australia) – ₹12.50 crore
- Rasikh Dar (India) – ₹6 crore
- Suyash Sharma (India) – ₹2.60 crore
- Krunal Pandya (India) – ₹5.75 crore
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar (India) – ₹10.75 crore
- Swapnil Singh (India) – ₹50 lakh
- Tim David (Australia) – ₹3 crore
- Romario Shepherd (West Indies) – ₹1.5 crore
- Nuwan Thushara (Sri Lanka) – ₹1.6 crore
- Manoj Bhandage (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Jacob Bethell (England) – ₹2.60 crore
- Devdutt Padikkal (India) – ₹2 crore
- Swastik Chikara (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Mohit Rathee (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Abhinandan Singh (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Lungi Ngidi – ₹1 crore
Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2025 Squad
Remaining Budget: ₹45 lakh
Available RTM cards: 1 (uncapped)
Overseas players: 7
Squad List:
- Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa) – ₹23 crore
- Pat Cummins (Australia) – ₹18 crore
- Abhishek Sharma (India) – ₹14 crore
- Travis Head (Australia) – ₹14 crore
- Nitish Kumar Reddy (India) – ₹6 crore
- Mohammad Shami (India) – ₹10 crore
- Harshal Patel (India) – ₹8 crore
- Ishan Kishan (India) – ₹11.25 crore
- Rahul Chahar (India) – ₹3.2 crore
- Adam Zampa (Australia) – ₹2.4 crore
- Atharva Taide (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Abhinav Manohar (India) – ₹3.2 crore
- Simarjeet Singh (India) – ₹1.5 crore
- Zeeshan Ansari (India) – ₹40 lakh
- Jaydev Unadkat (India) – ₹1 crore
- Wiaan Mulder (South Africa) – ₹75 lakh
- Kamindu Mendis (Sri Lanka) – ₹75 lakh
- Aniket Verma (India) – ₹30 lakh
- Eshan Malinga (Sri Lanka) – ₹1.20 crore
- Sachin Baby (India) – ₹30 lakh