IPL Auction 2025: Will Shreyas Iyer’s SMAT century on eve of mega auction stir a bidding war in Jeddah?

Despite an all-format snub, the out-of-favour India batter proved conscionable a time earlier the IPL 2025 Mega Auction successful Jeddah, that helium would beryllium a unit to reckon with and would beryllium a large asset, irrespective of the squad that volition clasp retired the paddle for him.  

Defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) made a astonishing determination by dropping Iyer from a afloat platform of six retentions. Should they privation to bring backmost the skipper who led them to their 3rd title, KKR volition person to rotation retired caller bids aft exhausting the enactment of utilizing a Right-to-Match (RTM) paper astatine the auction table.

After missing the entirety of IPL 2023 owed to wounded concerns, Iyer returned with 351 runs successful 14 matches during KKR’s waltz to the title. The 29-year-old had a rocky commencement to the home season, bagging 3 ducks successful 5 matches crossed the Duleep Trophy and the archetypal circular of the Ranji Trophy.

Iyer was speedy to bounce backmost to signifier arsenic helium cracked consecutive hundreds successful the consequent Ranji rounds, including a career-best 233 against Odisha. Iyer smote 21 boundaries successful his latest ton, including 10 sixes.

Though helium has yet to people an IPL ton, Iyer has struck 3 hundreds successful the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, the joint-most for immoderate batter. Coupled with his instrumentality to signifier and enactment qualities, the Mumbai mainstay volition perchance origin a immense bidding warfare arsenic determination are aggregate teams entering this auction vying for a caller captaincy candidate.

Iyer is listed astatine a basal terms of Rs 2 crore successful the archetypal acceptable of marguee players.