The two-day IPL 2025 auction came to an end last evening, while many new records were made, some old records also got broken and it won’t be wrong to say that the last two days gave a lot of excitement and topics to discuss to cricket lovers.
A huge amount of Rs. 639.15 crore was spent by the 10 franchises on total 182 players, here are important highlights of the IPL 2025 auction:
Day 1: Record-Breaking Auction
Top Buys
Rishabh Pant: Lucknow Super Giants shattered records, buying him for ₹27 crore, making him the costliest IPL player ever
Shreyas Iyer: Sold to PBKS for ₹26.75 crore, briefly holding the record before Pant surpassed it
Venkatesh Iyer: Returned to KKR for ₹23.75 crore
Arshdeep Singh: PBKS retained him using the RTM card for ₹18 crore
Marquee Set 2 Highlights
Yuzvendra Chahal: Secured by PBKS for ₹18 crore
Jos Buttler: Acquired by GT for ₹15.75 crore
KL Rahul: Bought by DC for ₹14 crore
Kagiso Rabada: Signed by GT for ₹10.75 crore
Mohammed Shami: SRH picked him for ₹10 crore
Mohammed Siraj: Sold to GT for ₹12.25 crore
Overseas Stars
Trent Boult, Jofra Archer and Josh Hazlewood fetched ₹12.5 crore each for Mumbai Indians
Mitchell Starc: Purchased by DC for ₹11.75 crore, a significant drop from his previous ₹24.75 crore record
Uncapped Players Shine
Rasikh Salam Dar: Highest-paid uncapped player, secured by RCB for ₹6 crore
Nehal Wadhera: Purchased by PBKS for ₹4.20 crore
Abdul Samad: Bought by LSG for ₹4.20 crore
All-Rounders in Demand
Marcus Stoinis: PBKS signed him for ₹11 crore
Ravichandran Ashwin: Returned to CSK for ₹9.75 crore
Day 2 Highlights
Bhuvneshwar Kumar: The costliest buy on Day 2, sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for ₹10.75 crore
Deepak Chahar: Bought by RCB for ₹9.25 crore
Akash Deep: Purchased by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) for ₹8 crore
Mukesh Kumar: Acquired by Delhi Capitals (DC) for ₹8 crore
Marco Jansen: Secured by Punjab Kings (PBKS) for ₹7 crore
Notable Buys on Day 2
Krunal Pandya: RCB added him to their squad for ₹5.75 crore
Nitish Rana: Rajasthan Royals (RR) acquired him for ₹4.2 crore after no bids from Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Washington Sundar: Gujarat Titans (GT) signed him for ₹3.20 crore
Rovman Powell: Sold to KKR for his base price of ₹1.5 crore
Faf du Plessis: Delhi Capitals bagged him for ₹2 crore
Unsold Players
Big names like Kane Williamson, Prithvi Shaw, Shardul Thakur, David Warner and Mustafizur Rahman found no takers
Youngest IPL Player in History
Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a 13-year-old prodigy, became the youngest player to be picked in the history of the IPL. Rajasthan Royals secured him for ₹1.10 crore.
Check out the updated squad of each IPL franchise after mega-auction 2025:
Delhi Capitals:
Rajasthan Royals:
Kolkata Knight Riders:
Lucknow Super Giants:
Mumbai Indians:
Punjab Kings:
Chennai Super Kings:
Royal Challengers Bangalore:
Gujarat Titans:
Sunrisers Hyderabad:
Which is the strongest squad in your opinion?
