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IPL 2025 Mega Auction: All cricket fans are waiting for the big player auction for IPL 2025. However, now IPL has announced it. In a statement from its official X handle on Tuesday, the IPL said that the mega auction will be held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Most South African players registered
According to the information given by IPL, till November 4, 1574 players have registered for the mega auction. 1165 Indian and 409 international players are included. These include players from 30 allied countries. South African players have done the maximum registration for IPL. Their number is said to be 91.
46 players were retained
On October 31, all the franchises released the retention list before the mega auction. The 10 teams retained a total of 46 players. After this 204 players have become vacant. More than 1500 players will try their luck in the auction of these places.
Read: IPL 2025 Retention List: Who Retained, Retained List Here; Before the mega auction, all 10 teams have submitted the list of players to be retained to BCCI, due to which
Big money in the purse of Punjab Kings
is leftPunjab Kings retained only two players and left out stalwarts like Arshdeep Singh. The team management paid Shashank Singh Rs. 5.5 crore and Prabhasimran Singh Rs. Rs 4 crore have been kept. In this way a total of Rs 9.5 crore was spent. Now Rs 110.5 crore are left in their purse and Punjab also has four Right to Match cards (RTM).
Mega auction will coincide with India-Australia test
The date of the mega auction coincides with the first Test match to be played between India and Australia. The first Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy will be played between the two teams in Perth from 22 to 26 November. The future of many players is at stake in IPL 2025. This time, Indian stars like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer will also enter the auction, who have not been retained by their teams. Arshdeep Singh and Ishan Kishan will also participate in the auction. Recently all the franchises released their retention lists, but all eyes will be on these five players in the auction.