Complete Guide to IPL 2025 Auction: Player List and Team Changes

On November 24 and 25, the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction took place in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

The IPL 2025 auction, which took place over two days at the Abady Al-Johar Arena, gave the ten IPL clubs a chance to assemble the core of their squads for the upcoming three seasons. As fans eagerly await the latest IPL news and updates, this auction has certainly become a major talking point.

Every three years, the IPL super auction gives clubs the opportunity to rotate their rosters and, if they so want, start again.

At the IPL 2025 auction, the 10 cricket clubs assembled to choose the top players from a pool of 577 players, 367 of whom were Indian and 210 of whom were foreign. As always, the IPL news and updates from the auction kept cricket fans on the edge of their seats, with teams making key decisions about their squads.

At the IPL 2025 super auction, a player's base price started at ₹30 lakh and went up to ₹2 crore.

Rishabh Pant became the most expensive player in IPL history when the Lucknow Super Giants paid ₹27 crore for him at the IPL 2025 auction. Shreyas Iyer, who was purchased by Punjab Kings for ₹26.75 crore, momentarily held the record. These significant moves were among the most talked-about in the IPL match news coverage.

Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a 13-year-old budding talent from Bihar, was the youngest player ever selected in the IPL auction when the Rajasthan Royals paid ₹1.1 million for him.

Early in March, Sunrisers Hyderabad's lineup saw the return of all-rounder Wiaan Mulder in place of injured Englishman Brydon Carse.

IPL 2025 Auction: The Most Expensive Players

• At LSG ₹27 crore, Rishabh Pant is the most costly player at the IPL 2025 auction.
• At GT ₹15.75 crore, Jos Buttler was the most expensive foreign player in the IPL 2025 auction.
• At LSG ₹27 crore, Rishabh Pant is the most expensive Indian player at the IPL 2025 auction.
• At the IPL 2025 auction, Rasikh Dar was the most expensive uncapped player (RCB paid ₹6 crore).

To put together a team of at least 18 and maybe 25 players for the 2025 Indian Premier League, each team was granted a total budget of ₹120 crore. There could be no more than eight foreign players on each team.

Chennai Super Kings IPL 2025 Squad

• Ruturaj Gaikwad (Retained)
• Shivam Dube (Retained)
• Ravindra Jadeja (Retained)
• Matheesha Pathirana (Retained)
• MS Dhoni (Retained)
• Devon Conway: 6.25 crore INR
• Rahul Tripathi: 3.4 crore INR
• Rachin Ravindra: 4 crore INR
• R Ashwin: 9.75 crore INR
• Khaleel Ahmed: 4.80 crore INR
• Noor Ahmed: 10 crore INR
• Vijay Shankar: 1.20 crore INR
• Sam Curran: 2.40 crore INR
• Shaik Rasheed: 30 lakh INR
• Anshul Kamboj: 3.40 Crore INR
• Mukesh Choudhary: 30 lakh INR
• Deepak Hooda: 1.70 crore INR
• Gurjapneet Singh: 2.20 crore INR
• Nathan Ellis: 2 Crore INR
• Jamie Overton: 1.50 Crore INR
• Kamlesh Nagarkoti: 30 Lakh INR
• Ramakrishna Ghosh: 30 Lakh INR
• Shreyas Gopal: 30 Lakh INR
• Vansh Bedi: 55 Lakh INR
• Andre Siddharth: 30 Lakh INR

Royal Challengers Bengaluru IPL 2025 Squad

• Virat Kohli (Retained)
• Rajat Patidar (Retained)
• Yash Dayal (Retained)
• Liam Livingstone: 8.75 crore INR
• Phil Salt: 11.50 crore INR
• Jitesh Sharma: 11 crore INR
• Josh Hazlewood: 12.50 crore INR
• Rasikh Dar: 6 crore INR
• Suyash Sharma: 2.60 crore INR
• Bhuvneshwar Kumar: 10.75 crore INR
• Krunal Pandya: 5.75 crore INR
• Swapnil Singh: 50 lakh INR
• Tim David: 3 crore INR
• Jacob Bethell: 2.6 Crore INR
• Romario Shepherd: 1.50 crore INR
• Nuwan Thushara: 1.60 crore INR
• Devdutt Padikal: 2 Crore INR
• Swastik Chikara: 30 Lakh INR
• Manoj Bhandage: 30 Lakh INR
• Lungi Ngidi: 1 Crore INR
• Abhinandan Singh: 30 Lakh INR
• Mohit Rathee: 30 Lakh INR
   

Mumbai Indians IPL 2025 Squad

• Jasprit Bumrah (Retained)
• Suryakumar Yadav (Retained)
• Hardik Pandya (Retained)
• Rohit Sharma (Retained)
• Tilak Varma (Retained)
• Trent Boult: 12.50 crore INR
• Naman Dhir: 5.25 crore INR
• Robin Minz: 65 lakh INR
• Karan Sharma: 50 lakh INR
• Deepak Chahar: 9.25 crore INR
• Ryan Rickelton: 1 crore INR
• Allah Ghazanfar: 4.80 crore INR
• Will Jacks: 5.25 crore INR
• Ashwani Kumar: 30 lakh INR
• Mitchell Santner: 2 crore INR
• Reece Topley: 75 lakh INR
• KL Shrijith: 30 Lakh INR
• Raj Angad Bawa: 30 Lakh INR
• Bevon Jacobs: 30 Lakh INR
• Venkata Penmetsa: 30 Lakh INR
• Arjun Tendulkar: 30 Lakh INR
• Lizaad Williams: 75 Lakh INR
• Vignesh Puthur: 30 Lakh INR

Kolkata Knight Riders IPL 2025 Squad

• Rinku Singh (Retained)
• Varun Chakravarthy (Retained)
• Sunil Narine (Retained)
• Andre Russell (Retained)
• Harshit Rana (Retained)
• Ramandeep Singh (Retained)
• Venkatesh Iyer: 23.75 crore INR
• Quinton de Kock: 3.60 crore INR
• Rahmanullah Gurbaz: 2 crore INR
• Anrich Nortje: 6.5 crore INR
• Angkrish Raghuvanshi: 3 crore INR
• Vaibhav Arora: 1.80 crore INR
• Mayank Markande: 30 lakh INR
• Rovman Powell: 1.50 crore INR
• Manish Pandey: 75 lakh INR
• Spencer Johnson: 2.80 crore INR
• Luvnith Sisodia: 30 Lakh INR
• Ajinkya Rahane: 1.5 Crore INR
• Anukul Roy: 40 Lakh INR
• Moeen Ali: 2 Crore INR
• Umran Malik: 75 Lakh INR

Punjab Kings IPL 2025 Squad

• Shashank Singh (Retained)
• Prabhsimran Singh (Retained)
• Arshdeep Singh : 18 crore INR
• Shreyas Iyer: 26.75 crore INR
• Yuzvendra Chahal: 18 crore INR
• Marcus Stoinis: 11 crore INR
• Glenn Maxwell: 4.20 crore INR
• Nehal Wadhera: 4.20 crore INR
• Harpreet Brar: 1.50 crore INR
• Vishnu Vinod: 95 lakh INR
• Vyshak Vijay Kumar: 1.80 crore INR
• Yash Thakur: 1.60 crore INR
• Josh Inglis: 2.60 crore INR
• Lockie Ferguson: 2.00 crore INR
• Marco Jansen: 7.00 crore INR
• Azmatullah Omarzai: 2.40 crore INR
• Sai Kishore: 2 Crore INR
• Harnoor Pannu: 30 Lakh INR
• Kuldeep Sen: 80 Lakh INR
• Priyansh Arya: 3.80 Crore INR
• Aaron Hardie: 1.25 Crore INR
• Musheer Khan: 30 Lakh INR
• Suryansh Shedge: 30 Lakh INR
• Pyla Avinash: 30 Lakh INR
• Pravin Dubey: 30 Lakh INR

Rajasthan Royals IPL 2025 Squad

• Sanju Samson (Retained)
• Yashasvi Jaiswal (Retained)
• Riyan Parag (Retained)
• Dhruv Jurel (Retained)
• Shimron Hetmyer (Retained)
• Sandeep Sharma (Retained)
• Jofra Archer: 12.50 crore INR
• Maheesh Theekshana : 4.40 crore INR
• Wanindu Hasaranga: 5.25 crore INR
• Akash Madhwal: 1.20 crore INR
• Kumar Kartikeya: 30 lakh INR
• Tushar Deshpande: 6.50 crore INR
• Nitish Rana: 1.20 crore INR
• Shubham Dubey: 80 lakh INR
• Yudhvir Singh: 35 lakh INR
• Fazalhaq Farooqi: 2 Crore INR
• Vaibhav Suryavanshi: 1.10 Crore INR
• Kwena Maphaka: 1.50 Crore INR
• Kunal Rathore: 30 Lakh INR
• Ashok Sharma: 30 Lakh INR

Delhi Capitals IPL 2025 Squad

• Axar Patel (Retained)
• Kuldeep Yadav (Retained)
• Tristan Stubbs (Retained)
• Abhishek Porel (Retained)
• Mitchell Starc: 11.75 crore INR
• KL Rahul: 14 crore INR
• Harry Brook: 6.25 crore INR
• Jake Fraser- Mcgurk: 9 crore INR
• T Natrajan: 10.75 crore INR
• Karun Nair: 50lakh INR
• Sameer Rizvi: 95 lakh INR
• Ashutosh Sharma: 3.80 crore INR
• Mohit Sharma: 2.20 crore INR
• Mukesh Kumar: 8 crore INR
• Faf Du Plessis: 2 crore INR
• Darshan Markande: 30 lah INR
• Vipraj Nigam: 50 Lakh INR
• Dushmantha Chameera: 75 Lakh INR
• Donovan Ferreira: 75 Lakh INR
• Ajay Mandal: 30 Lakh INR
• Manvanth Kumar: 30 Lakh INR
• Tripurana Vijay: 30 Lakh INR
• Madhav Tiwari: 40 Lakh INR

Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2025 Squad

• Heinrich Klaasen (Retained)
• Travis Head (Retained)
• Abhishek Sharma (Retained)
• Nitish Kumar Reddy (Retained)
• Pat Cummins (Retained)
• Mohammed Shami: 10 crore INR
• Harshal Patel: 8 crore INR
• Ishan Kishan: 11.25 crore INR
• Rahul Chahar: 3.20 crore INR
• Adam Zampa: 2.40 crore INR
• Atharva Taide: 30 lakh INR
• Abhinav Manohar: 3.20 crore INR
• Simarjeet Singh: 1.5 crore INR
• Zeeshan Ansari: 40 lakh INR
• Jaydev Unadkat: 1 Crore INR
• Brydon Carse: 1 Crore INR
• Kamindu Mendis: 75 Lakh INR
• Aniket Verma: 30 Lakh INR
• Eshan Malinga: 1.20 Crore INR
• Sachin Baby: 30 Lakh INR

Gujarat Titans IPL 2025 Squad

• Rashid Khan (Retained)
• Shubman Gill (Retained)
• Sai Sudharsan (Retained)
• Rahul Tewatia (Retained)
• Shahrukh Khan (Retained)
• Kagiso Rabada: INR 10.75 crore
• Jos Buttler: INR 15.75 crore
• Mohammed Siraj: INR 12.25 crore
• Prasidh Krishna: INR 9.50 crore
• Nishant Sidhu: 30 lakh INR
• Mahipal Lomror: 1.70 crore INR
• Kumar Kushagra: 65 lakh INR
• Anuj Rawat: 30 lakh INR
• Manav Suthar: 30 lakh INR
• Washington Sundar: 3.20 crore INR
• Gerald Coetzee: 2.40 crore INR
• Arshad Khan: 1.30 crore INR
• Gurnoor Brar: 1.30 crore INR
• Sherfane Rutherford: 2.60 crore INR
• Ishant Sharma: 75 lakh INR
• Jayant Yadav: 75 lakh INR
• Glenn Phillips: 2 Crore INR
• Matthew Breetzke: 75 Lakh INR
• Karim Jannat: 75 Lakh INR
• Kulwant Khejroliya: 30 Lakh INR

Lucknow Super Giants IPL 2025 Squad

• Nicholas Pooran (Retained)
• Ravi Bishnoi (Retained)
• Mayank Yadav (Retained)
• Ayush Badoni (Retained)
• Mohsin Khan (Retained)
• Rishabh Pant: 27 crore INR
• David Miller: 7.50 crore INR
• Aiden Markram: 2 crore INR
• Mitchell Marsh: 3.40 crore INR
• Avesh Khan: 9.75 crore INR
• Abdul Samad: 4.20 crore INR
• Aryan Juyal: 30 lakh INR
• Akash Deep: 8 crore INR
• Himmat Singh: 30 lakh INR
• M Siddharth: 75 lakh INR
• Digvesh Singh: 30 lakh INR
• Shahbaz Ahmed: 2.40 crore INR
• Akash Singh: 30 lakh INR
• Shamar Joseph: 75 lakh INR
• Prince Yadav: 30 Lakh INR
• Yuvraj Chaudhary: 30 Lakh INR
• Rajvardhan Hangargekar: 30 Lakh INR
• Arshin Kulkarni: 30 Lakh INR
• Matthew Breetzke: 75 Lakh INR

A maximum of five capped players and two uncapped Indians were allowed to be retained by the ten IPL clubs from their previous lineups ahead to the IPL 2025 mega auction. The total cost of the retained players is then reduced by the entire auction budget.

Teams who didn't use all six of their pre-auction retention may be able to match the highest price on any of their former players and keep them by using the remaining retention spots as Right to Match (RTM) cards during the auction.

For example, a team that retained four players won two RTM cards at the auction. The cap continued to apply to both capped and uncapped players.

With the biggest sum of ₹110.5 crore in the IPL 2025 auction, Punjab Kings could use RTM cards on four capped players and retain only two uncapped players.

In contrast, the first-ever IPL winners, the Rajasthan Royals, and the reigning champions, the Kolkata Knight Riders, had used up all of their pre-auction retention and had no RTM cards left. Their budgets were ₹41 crore and ₹51 crore, respectively.

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