The suspense is over. BCCI has announced that the mega auction for the Indian Premier League 2025 will be held on November 24 and 25 in Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah.

After the Dubai 2024 auctions, this is the second time when the auctions are held outside the country

4^th November was the last date for player entries into the auction pool.

Readers should know that this is a mega auction, not a mini auction which was not a popular option this year as few franchises did not want to part ways with their players.

Apart from the players retained, all the other players will now go back into the auction pool and may look at an option to play for a new team.

While there some of the teams have kept their RTM (Right to match) card option available and have the option to buy back a player

To Know more about the Auction rules and changes, please read our article earlier published

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Teams have already started to prepare for the auction like building new coaching and support staff before the Mega Auction.

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The 10 teams will be eyeing the available 204 slots in the team in the IPL 2025 mega auction

Saudi Arabia is slowly becoming the new sporting capital of the world. With their recent success in venturing into franchise football, there is hope that the oil-rich country will invest in cricket in the near future. This could be the reason why the IPL auction is set to take place in Jeddah on November 24 and 25.

1,574 cricketers (1,165 Indian and 409 overseas) have been signed up for the auction.

As of now, a total of 46 players have been retained by the 10 franchises.

After adjusting the amount for the retained players, Punjab Kings have the biggest purse of Rs 110 crs. and will have the maximum freedom to go for some key players.

Rajasthan Royals, have the smallest purse of Rs 41 crs.  They need to now manage their balance players in this purse. They have already retained 6 players.

Following are the available resources for each franchise to bid for players to make up their squad. Each team can make a maximum squad of 25 players.

The auction list includes 320 capped players, 1,224 uncapped players, and 30 players from the Associate Nations.

Who are the players to look out for and which teams are desperate to buy some key players into their side?

Expect a bidding war in this Mega Auction. Indian Internationals, former IPL captains and International T20 superstars are all up for grabs.

Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Glen Maxwell, Killer Miller and many are going under the hammer.

SuperSports team have handpicked 10 players who would break the bank this year.

1. Rishabh Pant

• Expected Bid: 25 Crore(and maybe upwards)
• Teams interested: Punjab Kings, RCB, CSK

2. KL Rahul
   • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
   • Teams interested: RCB, Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals

3. Yuzvendra Chahal
   • Expected Bid: 18- 20 Crores
   • Teams interested: RCB, Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indians

3. Rachin Ravindran
   • Expected Bid: 12- 15 Crores
   • Teams interested: CSK, RCB, Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals

3. Jake Fraser-McGurk
   • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
   • Teams interested: Punjab Kings, Mumbai Indians, RCB, Delhi Capitals, Sunrisers Hyderabad

3. Glen Maxwell
   • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
   • Teams interested: Punjab Kings, RCB, Delhi Capitals

3. Ishan Kishan
   • Expected Bid: 18 Crores +
   • Teams interested: Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals

3. Shreyas Iyer
   • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
   • Teams interested: Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings

3. David Warner
   • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
   • Teams interested: CSK, Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals, Mumbai Indians

10. Jos Butler
    • Expected Bid: 15- 18 Crores
    • Teams interested: KKR, RCB, Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals

Quick reference :

List of Players Released by Franchises:

Chennai Super Kings: Ajay Mandal, Ajinkya Rahane, Deepak Chahar, Devon Conway*, Maheesh Theekshana*, Mitchell Santner*, Moeen Ali*, Mukesh Choudhary, Nishant Sindhu, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Shaik Rasheed, Simarjeet Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Rachin Ravindra*, Shardul Thakur, Daryl Mitchell*, Sameer Rizvi, Mustafizur Rahman*, Avanish Rao Aravelly.

Delhi Capitals: Anrich Nortje*, David Warner* (retired), Ishant Sharma, Lalit Yadav, Mitchell Marsh*, Mukesh Kumar, Pravin Dubey, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Vicky Ostwal, Yash Dhull, Harry Brook*, Ricky Bhui, Kumar Kushagra, Rasikh Dar, Jhye Richardson*, Sumit Kumar, Shai Hope*, Swastik Chhikara, Jake Fraser-McGurk*

Gujarat Titans: BR Sharath, Abhinav Manohar, Sandeep Warrier, Gurnoor Brar, Darshan Nalkande, David Miller*, Jayant Yadav, Joshua Little*, Kane Williamson*, Matthew Wade*, Mohammad Shami, Mohit Sharma, Noor Ahmad*, Sai Kishore, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha, Azmatullah Omarzai*, Umesh Yadav, Sushant Mishra, Kartik Tyagi.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer, Rahmanullah Gurbaz*, Nitish Rana, Sherfane Rutherford*, Phil Salt*, KS Bharat, Manish Pandey, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Suyash Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar*, Dushmantha Chameera*, Sakib Hussain, Vaibhav Arora, Mitchell Starc*, Chetan Sakariya.

Lucknow Super Giants: KL Rahul, Devdutt Padikkal, Quinton de Kock*, Ashton Turner*, Deepak Hooda, Krishnappa Gowtham, Krunal Pandya, Kyle Mayers*, Marcus Stoinis*, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Prerak Mankad, Yudhvir Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, David Willey*, Shivam Mavi, Shamar Joseph*, Matt Henry*.

Mumbai Indians: Dewald Brevis*, Ishan Kishan, Harvik Desai, Tim David*, Vishnu Vinod, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohammad Nabi*, Romario Shepherd*, Shams Mulani, Nehal Wadhera, Gerald Coetzee*, Anshul Kamboj, Naman Dhir, Shivalik Sharma.

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (retired), Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow*, Liam Livingstone*, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw*, Chris Woakes*, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Tanay Thyagarajan, Atharva Taide.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Faf du Plessis*, Anuj Rawat, Dinesh Karthik (retired), Suyash S Prabhudessai, Will Jacks*, Saurav Chauhan, Glenn Maxwell*, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Cameron Green*, Swapnil Singh.

Rajasthan Royals: Jos Buttler*, Kunal Rathore, Donovan Ferreira*, Rovman Powell*, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore*, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tanush Kotian, Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Keshav Maharaj*.

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram*, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips*, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Marco Jansen*, Washington Sundar.