A total of 1,574 players will participate in the IPL 2025 mega auction today and tomorrow in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
The player pool consists of 1,165 Indian players and 409 overseas players, of which 320 players are capped, 1,224 are uncapped, and 30 are from Associate Nations. A total of 204 slots are available across the ten IPL franchises, with a maximum squad size of 25 players per team.
The list of sold players will be updated once the auction begins.
Earlier in October, the teams had announced their retained players and used up a little amount from their Rs 120 crore wallet.
Now, Punjab Kings (PBKS) is left with the highest purse with ₹110.5 crore, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have ₹73 crore and ₹83 crore, followed by Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Gujarat Titans (GT) with ₹69 crore each. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) have ₹55 crore remaining, while Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad have ₹45 crore each. Rajasthan Royals, meanwhile, have the smallest purse of ₹41 crore. The Right-To-Match (RTM) Card Returns in IPL Auction
The RTM card, used in earlier auctions, is back with a new twist: Teams can bid to reclaim a player from their 2024 squad. If the previous team matches the winning bid, the bidding team gets one final chance to raise the price further without any limit.
Teams were allowed to retain up to 6 players using RTM and direct retention. Only 5 capped players and 2 uncapped players can be retained.
Interestingly, teams like KKR and RR, which have already retained 6 players, cannot use RTM cards.
Complete List of retained players
- Mumbai Indians: Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma
- Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh
- Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni
- Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal
- Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel
- Gujarat Titans: Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan
- Lucknow Super Giants: Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni
- Punjab Kings: Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Nitish Kumar Reddy
