IPL auction 2025 review, IPL 2025 squads

Despite overlapping with the exciting and thrilling Australia vs India Border Gavaskar Trophy 1st Test match, the Indian Premier League (IPL auction 2025) turned out to be really successful to a great extent. Interestingly, the two-day IPL 2025 mega auction was a sensational record-breaking spectacle where a massive total of INR 639.15 crore were spent in the proceedings. Rishabh Pant IPL 2025 price was the biggest highlight of the auction as the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) bought the swashbuckling wicket-keeper batsman at a mammoth amount of INR 27 Crore while Shreyas Iyer IPL 2025 salary worth INR 26.75 also broke off the records after the Punjab Kings secured the services of the former IPL 2024-title winning skipper. 

IPL auction 2025 highlights

Incidentally, as many as 21 players got themselves a bid of INR 10 crore or more at the IPL 2025 auction as compared to only 11 during the previous IPL mega auction in 2022. The newly modified Right To Match (RTM) rule definitely brought some significant changes to the strategies and dynamics at the auction this year. According to this rule, the highest bidder for a certain cricketer had the option to increase their bid to an amount of their choice and the previous franchise had to match it, in order to retain that player through the RTM card. The likes of Rishabh Pant, Arshdeep Singh and Naman Dhir were some of the major beneficiaries of this provision. 

While talking about rest of the IPL auction and its highlights, uncapped fast bowler Rasikh Salam Dar IPL 2025 price started from his base price of INR 30 Lakh and the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) eventually took him home at an amount worth INR 6 crore. On the other hand, as many as 14 South African cricketers were bought by a total of 8 different teams in the IPL 2025 mega auction which stood out to be the maximum number while talking about the overseas players as compared to 13 Aussie cricketers being sold at the event. 

The other major highlight from the IPL mega auction 2025 was Venkatesh Iyer IPL 2025 price going as high to an astonishing amount worth INR 23.75 crore. The Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) shelled out this massive money to secure the services of the big-hitting all-rounder. During KKR's exceptional title-winning IPL 2024 campaign, Iyer smashed a brilliant total of 370 runs at an impressive strike-rate of close to 160. Eventually, all of the 10 IPL franchises were satisfied with their respective buys and managed to fill their required spots at the two-day IPL auction 2025. 

“For us, it was about trying to keep our core. We’ve retained six players and brought back 2-3 others from last year. That was always the plan," stated KKR CEO Venkyu Mysore. 

IPL 2025 squads

Chennai Super Kings squad

Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni, Devon Conway, Rahul Tripathi, Rachin Ravindra, R. Ashwin, Khaleel Ahmed, Noor Ahmad, Vijay Shankar, Sam Curran, Shaik Rasheed, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Deepak Hooda, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth.

Kolkata Knight Riders squad

Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Anrich Nortje, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Ajinkya Rahane, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali, Umran Malik.

Sunrisers Hyderabad squad

Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Mohammad Shami, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Brydon Carse, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Eshan Malinga, Sachin Baby.

Punjab Kings squad

Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, 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 Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Kuldeep Sen, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardie, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Pyla Avinash, Pravin Dubey.

Delhi Capitals squad

Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, 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, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.

Lucknow Super Giants squad

Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, 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.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru squad

Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal, Liam Livingstone, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee.

Rajasthan Royals squad

Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Maheesh Theekshana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya, Nitish Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma.

Mumbai Indians squad

Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Naman Dhir, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Will Jacks, Ashwani Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Krishnan Shrijith, Raj Angad Bawa, Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizaad Williams, Vignesh Puthur.

Gujarat Titans squad

Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Nishant Sindhu, Mahipal Lomror, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Sherfane Rutherford, Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips, Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya.