IPL Mega Auction, 2025 in which we will talk about what is IPL and where it is played and in recently, the players who have selected for 2025 IPL. I will let you know the most expensive players, all squad of the franchises and the players who remain unsold in this season.

The IPL has not only become a grand cricket league but also grabs a global attention towards itself. In every season top T20 cricket players of all over the world compete each other in Indian premier league.
During this season every country’s cricket ceremony is discontinued because many important players become busy in playing for IPL. IPL is a T20 cricket league. It was started by the BCCI ( Board of Control for Cricket in India) in 2007. Since 2007 every year IPL is held in India.

It is an event which comes before the IPL season. it excites all the cricket fans every year. it auction is an important part of IPL in which teams buy their players to choose their squad and this act of binding process makes an mega auction.
In IPL auction teams (franchises) take bids to buy their players according to their strategy. It is a like talent market where only famous international cricket player can be available. apart from this, domestic players, young players and hidden gems try their luck to selected in mega auction.
In the bidding process of mega auction players are divided in major categories.

Batsmen
Bowlers
All-rounders
Wicket-keepers

This auction has been a very exciting and competitive in which franchises have made a big decision to make their teams perfect. It was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 5th and 6th. it’s been a very important for the teams because they were trying to strengthen their squad and trying to find those players who can play match winning crickets. we have seen slightly different stance of franchises who bid large amount of money for the Indian players comparison abroad.
this auction has been turning point for Indian players as well as foreigners. where many famous players has been unsold like Ken Williamson, David warner and so on which was not expected.

The IPL franchises mostly bid they amount for the Indian players in this season and it seems strange. In which Rishabh Pant has become most expensive player in IPL 2024 mega auction as well in IPL history. last year the most expensive player was Michel Starc with the amount of 24.75cr as an Australian player.

Top 10 most expensive players at IPL 2025 Auction:

No.	PLAYERS	TEAM NAME	PRICE (Rupee)
1.	Rishabh Pant	LSG	27cr
2.	Shreyas Iyer	PBKS	26.75cr
3.	Venkatesh Iyer	KKR	23.75cr
4.	Arshdeep Singh	PBKS	18cr
5.	Yuzvendra Chahal	PBKS	18cr
6.	Jos Buttler	GT	15.75cr
7.	KL Rahul	DC	14cr
8.	Trent Boult	MI	12.50cr
9.	Josh Hazlewood	RCB	12.50cr
10.	Jofra Archer	RR	12.50cr

Below are the players’ lists who are will play IPL 2025:

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Virat Kohli	₹21 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
2	Rajat Patidar	₹11 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
3	Yash Dayal	₹5 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
4	Liam Living.	₹8.75 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
5	Phil Salt	₹11.50 crore	England	Auction	Wicket K./bat.
6	Jitesh Sharma	₹11 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
7	Josh Hazel..	₹12.50 crore	Australia	Auction	Bowler
8	Rasikh Dar	₹6 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
9	Suyash Sharma	₹2.60 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Krunal Pandya	₹5.75 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
11	Bhuvneshwar Kumar	₹10.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
12	Swapnil Singh	₹50 lakh	Indian	RTM	All-rounder
13	Tim David	₹3 crore	Australia	Auction	All-rounder
14	Romario Shepherd	₹1.5 crore	West Indies	Auction	All-rounder
15	Nuwan Thushara	₹1.6 crore	Sri Lanka	Auction	Bowler
16	Manoj Bhandage	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
17	Jacob Bethell	₹2.60 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
18	Devdutt Padikkal	₹2 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
19	Swastik Chikara	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
20	Mohit Rathee	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
21	Abhinandan Singh	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
22	Lungi Ngidi	₹1 crore	Overseas	Auction	Bowler

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	CATEGORY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Jasprit Bumrah	₹18 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
2	Suryakumar Yadav	₹16.35 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
3	Hardik Pandya	₹16.35 crore	Indian	Retained	All-rounder
4	Rohit Sharma	₹16.30 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
5	Tilak Varma	₹8 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
6	Trent Boult	₹12.50 crore	New Zealand	Auction	Bowler
7	Naman Dhir	₹5.25 crore	Indian	RTM	All-rounder
8	Robin Minz	₹65 lakh	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
9	Karn Sharma	₹50 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Ryan Rickelton	₹1 crore	South Africa	Auction	Batter
11	Deepak Chahar	₹9.25 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
12	Allah Ghazanfar	₹4.80 crore	Afghanistan	Auction	Bowler
13	Will Jacks	₹5.25 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
14	Ashwani Kumar	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
15	Mitchell Santner	₹2 crore	New Zealand	Auction	All-rounder
16	Reece Topley	₹75 lakh	England	Auction	Bowler
17	Shrijith Krishnan	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
18	Raj Bawa	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
19	Satyanarayana Raju	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
20	Beavon Jacobs	₹30 lakh	New Zealand	Auction	Batter
21	Arjun Tendulkar	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
22	Lizard Williams	₹75 lakh	South Africa	Auction	Bowler
23	Vignesh Puthur	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	CATEGORY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Rinku Singh	₹13 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
2	Varun Chakaravarthy	₹12 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
3	Sunil Narine	₹12 crore	West Indies	Retained	All-rounder
4	Andre Russell	₹12 crore	West Indies	Retained	All-rounder
5	Harshit Rana	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
6	Ramandeep Singh	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
7	Venkatesh Iyer	₹23.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
8	Quinton de Kock	₹3.60 crore	South Africa	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
9	Rahmanullah Gurbaz	₹2 crore	Afghanistan	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
10	Anrich Nortje (South Africa)	₹6.50 crore	Overseas	Auction	Bowler
11	Angkrish Raghuvanshi	₹3 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
12	Vaibhav Arora	₹1.80 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
13	Mayank Markande	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
14	Roman Powell	₹1.50 crore	West Indies	Auction	Batter
15	Manish Pandey	₹75 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
16	Spencer Johnson	₹2.80 crore	Australia	Auction	Bowler
17	Luvnith Sisodia	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
18	Ajinkya Rahane	₹1.5 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
19	Anukul Roy	₹40 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
20	Moen Ali	₹2 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
21	Umran Malik	₹75 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Ruturaj Gaikwad	₹18 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
2	Ravindra Jadeja	₹18 crore	Indian	Retained	All-rounder
3	Mahesh Pathirana	₹13 crore	Sri Lanka	Retained	Bowler
4	Shivam Dube	₹12 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
5	MS Dhoni	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter/Wicketkeeper
6	Devon Conway (New Zealand)	₹6.25 crore	New Zealand	Auction	Batter
7	Rahul Tripathi	₹3.40 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
8	Rachin Ravindra (New Zealand)	₹4 crore	Overseas	RTM	All-rounder
9	Ravichandran Ashwin	₹9.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Syed Khaleel Ahmed	₹4.80 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
11	Noor Ahmad	₹10 crore	Afghanistan	Auction	Bowler
12	Vijay Shankar	₹1.20 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
13	Sam Curran	₹2.40 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
14	Shaik Rasheed	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
15	Anshul Kamboj	₹3.40 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
16	Mukesh Choudhary	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
17	Deepak Hooda	₹1.70 crore	India	Auction	Batter
18	Gurjapneet Singh	₹2.20 crore	India	Auction	Bowler
19	Nathan Ellis	₹1.25 crore	Australia	Auction	Bowler
20	Ramakrishna Ghosh	₹30 lakh	India	Auction	All-rounder
21	Kamlesh Nagarkoti	₹30 lakh	India	Auction	Bowler
22	Jamie Overton	₹1.50 crore	Overseas	Auction	All-rounder
23	Shreyas Gopal	₹30 lakh	India	Auction	Bowler
24	Vansh Bedi	₹55 lakh	India	Auction	Batter
25	C Andre Siddarth	₹30 lakh	India	Auction	Batter

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Axar Patel	₹16.50 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
2	Kuldeep Yadav	₹13.25 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
3	Tristan Stubbs	₹10 crore	South Africa	Retained	Batter
4	Abishek Porel	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter/Wicketkeeper
5	Mitchell Stark	₹11.75 crore	Australia	Auction	Bowler
6	KL Rahul	₹14 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter/Wicketkeeper
7	Harry Brook	₹6.25 crore	England	Auction	Batter
8	Jake Fraser-Mcgurk	₹9 crore	Australia	RTM	Batter
9	T Natarajan	₹10.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Karun Nair	₹50 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
11	Sameer Rizvi	₹95 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
12	Ashutosh Sharma	₹3.80 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
13	Mohit Sharma	₹2.20 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
14	Faf du Plessis	₹2 crore	South Africa	Auction	Batter
15	Mukesh Kumar	₹8 crore	Indian	RTM	Bowler
16	Darshan Nalkande	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
17	Vipraj Nigam	₹50 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
18	Dushmantha Chameera	₹75 lakh	Sri Lanka	Auction	Bowler
19	Donovan Ferreira	₹75 lakh	Overseas	Auction	Batter
20	Ajay Mandal	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
21	Manvanth Kumar	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
22	Madhav Tiwari	₹40 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
23	Tripurana Vijay	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Nicholas Pooran	₹21 crore	West Indies	Retained	Wicketkeeper/Batter
2	Ravi Bishnoi	₹11 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
3	Mayank Yadav	₹11 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
4	Mohsin Khan	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
5	Ayush Badoni	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
6	Rishabh Pant	₹27 crore	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
7	David Miller	₹7.50 crore	South Africa	Auction	Batter
8	Mitchell Marsh	₹3.40 crore	Australia	Auction	All-rounder
9	Aiden Markram	₹2.00 crore	South Africa	Auction	Batter
10	Avesh Khan	₹9.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
11	Abdul Samad	₹4.20 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
12	Aryan Juyal	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
13	Akash Deep	₹8 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
14	Himmat Singh	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
15	M Siddharth	₹75 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
16	Devesh Singh	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
17	Shahbaz Ahmed	₹2.4 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
18	Akash Singh	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
19	Shamar Joseph	₹75 lakh	West Indies	Auction	Bowler
20	Prince Yadav	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
21	Yuvraj Chaudhary	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
22	Raj Vardhan Hangargekar	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
23	Arshin Kulkarni	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
24	Matthew Breetzke	₹75 lakh	Overseas	Auction	Batter

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Shashank Singh	₹5.5 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
2	Prabhsimran Singh	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
3	Arshdeep Singh	₹18 crore	Indian	RTM	Bowler
4	Shreyas Iyer	₹26.75 crore	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
5	Yuzvendra Chahal	₹18 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
6	Marcus Stoinis	₹11 crore	Australia	Auction	All-rounder
7	Glenn Maxwell	₹4.20 crore	Australia	Auction	All-rounder
8	Nehal Wadhera	₹4.20 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
9	Harpreet Brar	₹1.50 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
10	Vishnu Vinod	₹95 lakh	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
11	Vijaykumar Vyshak	₹1.80 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
12	Yash Thakur	₹1.60 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
13	Marco Jansen	₹7.00 crore	South Africa	Auction	All-rounder
14	Josh Inglis	₹2.60 crore	Australia	Auction	Batter
15	Lockie Ferguson	₹2.00 crore	New Zealand	Auction	Bowler
16	Azmatullah Omarzai	₹2.4 crore	Afghanistan	Auction	All-rounder
17	Harnoor Pannu	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
18	Kuldeep Sen	₹80 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
19	Priyansh Arya	₹3.80 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
20	Aaron Hardie	₹1.25 crore	Australia	Auction	All-rounder
21	Suryash Shedge	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
22	Musheer Khan	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
23	Xavier Bartlett	₹80 lakh	Overseas	Auction	Bowler
24	Pyla Avinash	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
25	Praveen Dubey	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Rashid Khan	₹18 crore	Afghanistan	Retained	Bowler
2	Shubman Gill	₹16.50 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
3	Sai Sudharsan	₹8.50 crore	Indian (capped)	Retained	Batter
4	Rahul Tewatia	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	All-rounder
5	Shahrukh Khan	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
6	Kagiso Rabada	₹10.75 crore	South Africa	Auction	Bowler
7	Jos Buttler	₹15.75 crore	England	Auction	Batter
8	Mohammad Siraj	₹12.25 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
9	Prasidh Krishna	₹9.50 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Nishant Sindhu	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
11	Mahipal Lomror	₹1.70 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
12	Kumar Kushagra	₹65 lakh	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
13	Anuj Rawat	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
14	Manav Suthar	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
15	Washington Sundar	₹3.20 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
16	Gerald Coetzee	₹2.40 crore	South Africa	Auction	Bowler
17	Arshad Khan	₹1.30 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
18	Gurnoor Brar	₹1.30 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
19	Sherfane Rutherford	₹2.6 crore	West Indies	Auction	Batter
20	R Sai Kishore	₹2 crore	Indian	RTM	All-rounder
21	Ishant Sharma	₹75 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
22	Jayant Yadav	₹75 lakh	Indian (capped)	Auction	All-rounder
23	Glenn Phillips	₹2 crore	New Zealand	Auction	All-rounder
24	Karim Janat	₹75 lakh	Afghanistan	Auction	All-rounder
25	Kulwant Khejroliya	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Sanju Samson	₹18 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter/Wicketkeeper
2	Yashasvi Jaiswal	₹18 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
3	Riyan Parag	₹14 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter
4	Dhruv Jurel	₹14 crore	Indian	Retained	Batter/Wicketkeeper
5	Shimron Hetmyer	₹11 crore	(West Indies	Retained	Batter
6	Sandeep Sharma	₹4 crore	Indian	Retained	Bowler
7	Jofra Archer	₹12.50 crore	England	Auction	Bowler
8	Mahesh Theekshana	₹4.40 crore	Sri Lanka	Auction	Bowler
9	Wanindu Hasaranga	₹5.25 crore	Sri Lanka	Auction	Bowler
10	Akash Madhwal	₹1.20 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
11	Kumar Kartikeya Singh	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
12	Nitish Rana	₹4.20 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
13	Tushar Deshpande	₹6.50 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
14	Shubham Dubey	₹80 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
15	Yudhvir Charak	₹35 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
16	Fazalhaq Farooqi	₹2 crore	Overseas	Auction	Bowler
17	Vaibhav Suryavanshi	₹1.1 crore	Indian	Auction	Batter
18	Kwena Maphaka	₹75 lakh	South Africa	Auction	Bowler
19	Ashok Sharma	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
20	Kunal Singh Rathore	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter

SERIAL	PLAYERS	PRICE	COUNTRY	STATUS	ROLE
1	Heinrich Klaasen	₹23 crore	South Africa	Retained	Batter
2	Pat Cummins	₹18 crore	Australia	Retained	Bowler
3	Abhishek Sharma	₹14 crore	Indian	Retained	All-rounder
4	Travis Head	₹14 crore	Australia	Retained	Batter
5	Nitish Kumar Reddy	₹6 crore	Indian	Retained	All-rounder
6	Mohammad Shami	₹10 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
7	Harshal Patel	₹8 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
8	Ishan Kishan	₹11.25 crore	Indian	Auction	Wicketkeeper/Batter
9	Rahul Chahar	₹3.2 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
10	Adam Zampa	₹2.4 crore	Australia	Auction	Bowler
11	Atharva Taide	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
12	Abhinav Manohar	₹3.2 crore	Indian	Auction	All-rounder
13	Simarjeet Singh	₹1.5 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
14	Zeeshan Ansari	₹40 lakh	Indian	Auction	Bowler
15	Jaydev Unadkat	₹1 crore	Indian	Auction	Bowler
16	Brydon Carse	₹1 crore	England	Auction	All-rounder
17	Kamindu Mendis	₹75 lakh	Sri Lanka	Auction	All-rounder
18	Aniket Verma	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter
19	Eshan Malinga	₹1.20 crore	Sri Lanka	Auction	Bowler
20	Sachin Baby	₹30 lakh	Indian	Auction	Batter

So we are eagerly waiting for the IPL 2025 matches which are going to be held. It will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 24th of March and the final match will be played on 25th of May. total 577 players are participating in this Grand League.