Jeddah, November 26 (IANS). The mega auction for the IPL 2025 season has been completed and every franchise has prepared their squads. Rishabh Pant was the limelight of the auction, who was bought by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore. This is the highest amount received by any player so far. Whereas, 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has become the youngest player in the history of the tournament. He was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.10 crore.
Ahead of IPL 2025, 10 teams spent Rs 639.15 crore to sign 182 players, including 62 foreigners, in the auction.
Apart from Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer were bought by Punjab Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders for a whopping price of Rs 26.75 crore and Rs 23.75 crore respectively.
Among other players, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal were bought from Punjab Kings for the same price of Rs 18 crore each while Jos Buttler was bought by Gujarat Titans for Rs 15.75 crore.
After the auction, all 10 teams look very strong. It is very difficult to say who will be weak and who will be strong. All the team leaders sitting at the auction table had done a lot of homework, which was visible during the auction. Especially the franchises of Lucknow, Delhi and Rajasthan showed great care in the selection of players. All teams have to play home and away matches. In such a situation, some teams will be strong at home, while some can create havoc by going to other’s homes, but one thing is certain that some teams with new captain, coach and players are going to make a strong comeback this time. Whereas the old champion teams would also like to maintain their dominance.
All 10 teams of IPL 2025:
Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Naman Dheer, Robin Minnes, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Will Jacks, Ashwini Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley. , Srijit Krishnan, Raj Angad Bava, Venkat Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Lizad Williams, Vignesh Puthur, Suryakumar Yadav.
Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vishak, Yash Thakur, Marco Jensen, Josh Inglis, Lockie Ferguson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Kuldeep Sen. , Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardy, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Payla Avinash, Praveen Dubey, Nehal Vadhera.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathi.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Mohammed Shami, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Tayde, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat. , Brayden Carse, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Ishan Malinga, Sachin Baby.
Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dubey, Mathisha Pathirana, Noor Ahmed, Ravichandran Ashwin, Devon Conway, Syed Khalil Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Sam Curran, Sheikh Rashid, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Chaudhary, Deepak Hooda, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishnan Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth.
Delhi Capitals: KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar. , Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmantha Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manwant Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari.
Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill (captain), Jos Buttler, B Sai Sudarshan, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Mahipal Lomror, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Mohammad Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Sherfane Rutherford, R. Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips, Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya.
Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Himmat Singh, M Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz. Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hungergekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Mathew Britzke.
–IANS
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