Indian Premier League 2025 Player Mega Auction Dates Announced The auction will take place on 24th and 25th November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction event will be held at the Abadi Al Johar Arena (also known as the Benchmark Arena) in Jeddah.
Accommodation arrangements for players and others will be made at Hotel Shangri-La, 10 minutes away from here. The IPL authority has said that its operations team will remain in touch with all players and other staff for visa and logistical requirements.
The auction will be held in Jeddah
All 10 franchises announced their list of retained players. After this everyone was waiting for the announcement of the auction dates. Crores of cricket fans were waiting for this moment. Now after the announcement of the dates, everyone is waiting to know which franchise bids how much for which player. Before the official announcement of the date and place of the auction, it was being said that the auction would be held in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. But the auction will be held in Jeddah.
10 franchises will bid on players
Let us tell you that this year's auction is very big, in which high profile stars of India like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Arshdeep Singh are going to participate. The 10 franchises will have a total of Rs 641.5 crore for 204 slots. Of these 204 slots, 70 have been kept for foreign players. So far, the 10 franchises have retained 46 players, with a total cost of Rs 558.5 crore.
List of retained players for IPL 2025
Gujarat Titans (GT)
- Shubman Gill (16.5 crores)
- Rashid Khan (18 crores)
- Sai Sudarshan (8.5 crores)
- Shahrukh Khan (4 crores)
- Rahul Tewatia (4 crores)
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
- Nicholas Puran (21 crores)
- Mayank Yadav (11 crores)
- Ravi Bishnoi (11 crores)
- Ayush Badoni (4 crores)
- Mohsin Khan (4 crores)
Mumbai Indians (MI)
- Hardik Pandya (16.35 crores)
- Suryakumar Yadav (16.35 crores)
- Rohit Sharma (16.30 crores)
- Jasprit Bumrah (18 crores)
- Tilak Verma (8 crores)
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
- Ruturaj Gaikwad (18 crores)
- Matisha Pathirana (13 crores)
- Shivam Dubey (12 crores)
- Ravindra Jadeja (18 crores)
- Mahendra Singh Dhoni (4 crores)
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
- Pat Cummins (18 crores)
- Heinrich Klaasen (23 crores)
- Abhishek Sharma (14 crores)
- Travis Head (14 crores)
- Nitish Kumar Reddy (6 crores)
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
- Virat Kohli (21 crores)
- Rajat Patidar (11 crores)
- Yash Dayal (5 crores)
Delhi Capitals (DC)
- Akshar Patel (16.50 crores)
- Kuldeep Yadav (13.25 crores)
- Tristan Stubbs (10 crores)
- Abhishek Porel (4 crores)
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
- Sunil Narayan (12 crores)
- Rinku Singh (13 crores)
- Andre Russell (12 crores)
- Varun Chakraborty (12 crores)
- Harshit Rana (4 crores)
- Ramandeep Singh (4 crores)
BCCI has changed the retention rules
The Board of Control for Cricket in India has recently announced new rules regarding retention. According to this, a franchise can retain a maximum of 6 players. If a team has retained less than 6 players, then in that case the franchise will have the opportunity to use the Right to Match (RTM) card during the auction.