IPL Auction LIVE: After Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer went for records of INR 27 crore and INR 26.75 crore to LSG and PBKS, respectively, KL Rahul was sold to the Delhi Capitals for INR 14 crore.
Live IPL Auction: KL Rahul, who is going to the Delhi Capitals for ₹14 crore, was the final player available in Marquee set 2. GT purchased Mohammed Siraj for INR 12.25 crore. The most costly acquisition made in Round 2 was Yuzvendra Chahal, who cost Punjab Kings ₹18 crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad purchased Mohammed Shami, the first choice of the second round, for ₹10 crore. For ₹7.5 crore, his former GT colleague David Miller was sold to the Lucknow Super Giants. With the Gujarat Titans paying ₹12.25 crore for the quick bowler, Mohammed Siraj also struck it rich. In Round 2, Shami was selected first, followed by David Miller, a former GT colleague.
To put it mildly, the mega auction got off to a great start as Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer became the two most costly purchases in IPL history. While Punjab Kings acquired Shreyas Iyer for an incredible ₹26.75 crore, Rishabh Pant found a new home with the Lucknow Super Giants for an incredible ₹27 crore. Jos Buttler joined the Gujarat Titans for ₹15.75 crore, and Mitchell Starc joined the Delhi Capitals for ₹11.75 crore. Using the RTM card, Punjab Kings was able to retain Arshdeep Singh for ₹18 core.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) is ready to have its epic mega-auction of players, so get your calculators and paddles out of the closet, open your purse strings if you own a team, prepare your team sheets, and make sure the pen you're going to use has ink in it. Plotlines, subplots, more plots within the subplots, and storylines even in locations you thought were drama-free are all present in this auction. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia is hosting the IPL 2025 big auction.
First, the fundamentals. Over the course of tonight and tomorrow, 574 players will be sold. Of these, 193 are players with international caps and 48 are Indian cap holders. There were 1574 players who had signed up for the auction at first, and roughly 1000 players were removed from the final roster. There are 208 foreign players and 366 Indian players overall. Unmukt Chand, a name that some or many Indian fans would recognize, is one of only three players from associate nations that made the final roster. Before the sale, the 10 teams kept a total of 46 players. In effect, this means that just 204 spots need to be filled. A franchise may have as many as 25 players in their squad, of which not more than eight can be from overseas.
Sets for Marquees
Given that this is a mega-auction, many of the players up for sale are, to put it mildly, well-known brands. For instance, despite being the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and leading them to their first championship last year, Shreyas Iyer has not been retained. This implies that the captain of the defending champions is up for grabs. I think it's a huge problem.
Two Marquee Sets of six each have been formed from these well-known players. In these sets, seven of the twelve players are Indian. Jos Buttler, Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Kagiso Rabada, and Rishabh Pant make up Set 1. Set 2 includes David Miller, Liam Livingstone, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, and KL Rahul. The base price for each of them is Rs. 2 crore. During the first 1.5 hours of today, these players will be put up for auction.
The RTM rule is back, but with a twist.
After appearing last in the 2018 season's auction, the Right To Match (RTM) card returns in this one. For those who are unaware, teams can utilize the card to bring back players they were unable to keep. For instance, if RCB is successful in bidding for a player who played for CSK the previous season, the latter can utilize the RTM card to retrieve the player for the amount that RCB paid for him at auction. However, there is a change this year that wasn't there at first. Using our example once more, RCB has the option to increase their winning price if they still desire the player. In such scenario,
However, keep in mind that not all teams can use this card. Prior to this auction, sides were permitted to keep up to six players, and those who did so are not permitted to utilize the RTM card today or tomorrow. In particular, KKR and RR are unable to exercise the option because they have already used up all six of their players.
Information about the handbags that are available
A 20% increase over the previous year, each franchise began the auction with a total purse of ₹120 crore. However, teams have previously retained players while spending varied amounts of this total purse. Having only kept two uncapped players, Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh, Punjab Kings enter the auction with the largest prize, a staggering ₹110.5 crore. With a ₹41 crore purse, RR has the smallest. It's important to keep in mind that PBKS has by far the largest purse, and that RCB's ₹83 crore, which came in second, is more in line with the current season. In any case, the complete list of franchisees and their available purses is as follows:
Rangers of Punjab: ₹110.5 crore
₹83 crore for Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Capitals of Delhi: 73 crore
Titans of Gujarat: ₹69 crore
₹69 crore for the Lucknow Super Giants
₹55 crore for Chennai Super Kings
₹51 crore for the Kolkata Knight Riders
Indians of Mumbai: ₹45 crore
₹45 crore for Sunrisers Hyderabad
Royals of Rajasthan: ₹41 crore
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