The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction volition beryllium held connected November 24 and 25, 2024. This two-day lawsuit happens each 3 years and volition fto teams rebuild their squads for the caller season. Big names similar Rishabh Pant, Mitchell Starc, KL Rahul, and Jos Buttler are among the players up for grabs. All 10 IPL teams volition enactment successful the auction, wherever 577 players volition beryllium disposable for bidding.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Date, Time, Venue
As mentioned earlier, the IPL auction volition instrumentality spot connected Sunday, November 24, and Monday, November 25.
For the archetypal time, the auction volition beryllium held successful Saudi Arabia, astatine the Abady Al Johar Arena successful Jeddah, which tin clasp 15,000 people.
The auction volition statesman astatine 3:30 PM IST connected some days.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Total players
A full of 577 players volition beryllium disposable for bidding successful the mega auction. Out of these, 367 are Indian players, and 210 are from overseas. Initially, 574 players had registered, but later, Jofra Archer from England, Saurabh Netravalkar from the USA, and Hardik Tamore from India were added to the list.
Each IPL squad is required to person a minimum of 18 players successful their squad by the extremity of the auction.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Budget and Right to Match (RTM) card
All IPL franchises person a full fund of Rs 120 crore, but they participate the auction with little owed to the retention phase.
Punjab Kings (PBKS) has the highest remaining fund astatine Rs 110.5 crore, portion Rajasthan Royals (RR) has the lowest astatine Rs 41 crore.
Right to Match
The IPL auction features a unsocial Right to Match (RTM) rule, allowing erstwhile franchises the enactment to bargain backmost their erstwhile subordinate for the terms astatine which they were sold. But, there’s a twist this year.
If a squad uses the RTM, the winning squad volition get 1 last accidental to summation their bid. If the archetypal franchise chooses to usage its RTM connected this last bid, it tin bargain backmost the player.
For example, if KL Rahul is sold for Rs 15 crore to Punjab Kings (PBKS) and his erstwhile team, Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), uses their RTM, PBKS volition get a accidental to rise their bid. If PBKS raises their bid to Rs 17 crore, LSG tin lone bargain backmost Rahul if they lucifer that amount. If they don’t, the RTM is not used.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: Live Streaming
The IPL auction volition beryllium broadcast unrecorded connected the Star Sports Network and streamed digitally connected the JioCinema app and website.