IPL 2025 auction: time, date and everything else you need to know I ESPNcricinfo

When will the IPL 2025 auction take place and where?

Why is the IPL 2025 auction a ‘mega auction’?

Every three years, IPL franchises go through a reboot of sorts. They can only retain a small number of players – this time a maximum of six – and must rebuild their squads at the mega-auction. In other years, between mega-auctions, teams can retain as many players as they want before a ‘mini-auction’, which takes place over the course of one day. Mega auctions take two days because the number of players bidding is much greater than in mini auctions.

So how many players are there in the IPL 2025 auction?

Will there be a striking set of players like in the two previous mega-auctions in 2018 and 2022?

Yes, there are actually two sets of notable players right at the beginning of the auction. Expect teams to bid fiercely for these players. The first set of outstanding players contains: Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh and Mitchell Starc. the second set of signs contains Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingstone, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj

Who are the other big names in the IPL 2025 auction?

There are many. Among the Indian players are Ishan Kishan, R Ashwin, Harshal Patel, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Umesh Yadav and many others.

The international list includes David Warner, Glenn Maxwell, Faf du Plessis, Devon Conway, Tim David, Rachin Ravindra, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow and many more.

What will the bidding be like?

The main players will be the first to compete, separated into two groups of six each. The next round of names to come up will be capped players, divided into sets based on their specialization: batsmen, all-rounders, wicketkeeper-batsmen, fast bowlers and spin bowlers. This will be followed by a round of uncapped players, divided based on their specialization. After player #116 (subject to schedules), the auction will enter its accelerated phase, covering all players from 117 to 574.

After that, franchises will be asked to submit names of unsold players from the full list who will once again go up for bidding in yet another accelerated phase.

How much money do teams have to build their squads in the IPL 2025 auction?

Each team has a total purse of INR 120 crore, but some of this has already been spent on retaining players ahead of the IPL 2025 auction. Punjab Kings have the biggest purse – INR 110.5 crore – to spend in the mega auction, followed by Royal Challengers Bengaluru, which has INR 83 crore, Delhi Capitals (INR 73 crore), Gujarat Titans (INR 69 crore), Lucknow Super Giants (INR 69 crore) Chennai Super Kings (INR 55 crore), Kolkata Knight Riders (INR 51 crore), Mumbai Indians (INR 45 crore), Sunrisers Hyderabad (INR 45 crore) and Rajasthan Royals (INR 41 crore).

And how many players can teams buy in the IPL 2025 mega auction?

Each franchise’s squad size is a maximum of 25 (minimum size is 18) and there are ten teams – so a maximum of 250 players in total. Forty-six players have already been signed by teams, leaving a maximum of 204 spots left to fill during the IPL 2025 auction. Each team can have a maximum of eight foreign players, so there are 70 spots for foreign players in the auction.

Why do teams have a varying number of spots to fill in the IPL 2025 auction?

Mumbai Indians
Retained Players: Jasprit Bumrah (INR 18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (INR 16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (INR 16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (INR 16.30 crore), Tilak Varma (INR 8 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: 1
RTM Eligible Players: One uncapped player

Sunrise in Hyderabad
Retained Players: Heinrich Klaasen (INR 23 crore), Pat Cummins (INR 18 crore), Abhishek Sharma (INR 14 crore), Travis Head (INR 14 crore), Nitish Kumar Reddy (INR 6 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: 1
RTM Eligible Players: One uncapped player

Super Kings of Chennai
Retained Players: Ruturaj Gaikwad (INR 18 crore), Ravindra Jadeja (INR 18 crore), Matheesha Pathirana (INR 13 crore), Shivam Dube (INR 12 crore), MS Dhoni (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: 1
Players eligible for RTM: An international or uncapped player

Royal Challengers from Bengaluru
Players retained: Virat Kohli (INR 21 crore), Rajat Patidar (INR 11 crore), Yash Dayal (INR 5 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) options at auction: 3
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and two capped players, or three capped players

Capitals of Delhi
Retained Players: Axar Patel (INR 16.50 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (INR 13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (INR 10 crore), Abishek Porel (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: 2
Players eligible for RTM: One uncapped player and one capped player, or two capped players

Knights Knights of Calcutta
Retained Players: Rinku Singh (INR 13 crore), Varun Chakravarthy (INR 12 crore), Sunil Narine (INR 12 crore), Andre Russell (INR 12 crore), Harshit Rana (INR 4 crore), Ramandeep Singh (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: None
RTM Eligible Players: None

Rajasthan Royalty
Retained Players: Sanju Samson (INR 18 crore), Yashasvi Jaiswal (INR 18 crore), Riyan Parag (INR 14 crore), Dhruv Jurel (INR 14 crore), Shimron Hetmyer (INR 11 crore), Sandeep Sharma (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: None
RTM Eligible Players: None

Gujarat Titans
Retained Players: Rashid Khan (INR 18 crore), Shubman Gill (INR 16.50 crore), Sai Sudharsan (INR 8.50 crore), Rahul Tewatia (INR 4 crore), Shahrukh Khan (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options at Auction: One
Players eligible for RTM: One international player

Lucknow Supergiants
Retained Players: Nicholas Pooran (INR 21 crore), Ravi Bishnoi (INR 11 crore) Mayank Yadav (INR 11 crore), Mohsin Khan (INR 4 crore), Ayush Badoni (INR 4 crore)
Right to Match (RTM) Options in Auction: 1
RTM eligible players: One international player

Kings of the Punjab
Retained players: Shashank Singh (INR 5.5 million), Prabhsimran Singh (INR 4 million)
Right to Match (RTM) options at auction: 4
Players eligible for RTM: Four capped players

What does this Right-to-Match option mean in the IPL 2025 auction?

IPL teams have been allowed to retain up to six players this time – of which a maximum of five can be capped and a maximum of two can be uncapped. The six can be held immediately before the auction, or they can be repurchased using Right-to-Match (RTM) options at the auction, or a combination of both.

So this is how RTM options work: If a player was bought by another franchise in the mega auction, the franchise he was a part of in IPL 2024 can step in at the end of the bidding process and buy back his player using the RTM option corresponding to the bid. higher. After that, the franchise that made the winning bid will have another opportunity to increase the bid to whatever amount they desire. In this case, the player’s previous team will have to match the increased bid to buy back their player.

Having retained just two players, PBKS has the most RTM options (four) in the auction. RCB, who signed three players, have three while Delhi Capitals, who signed four players, have two. Five teams – MI, CSK, GT, SRH and LSG – have signed five players each and have only one RTM option in the auction, while RR and KKR have no RTM options.

Of course, there is no limit to the number of players a franchise can buy back if they make the highest bids during normal auction bidding.