News All you need to know about the IPL mega auction 2025 – date, time, venue retention list, players to watch and more – on ESPNcricinfo
When is the IPL 2025 auction happening, and where?
The IPL 2025 action will take place on November 24 and 25, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. It’s being held overseas for only the second time – the 2024 auction was in Dubai. The exact start and end times for the auction is yet to be confirmed, so watch this space. This year, the IPL 2025 auction will clash with the third and fourth days of the Australia vs India Test in Perth.
Why is the IPL 2025 auction a ‘mega auction’?
Every three years, the IPL franchises undergo a reset of sorts. They are allowed to retain only a small number of players – a maximum of six this time – and must rebuild their squads at the mega auction. In other years, in between mega auctions, teams can retain as many players as they like before a ‘mini auction’, which takes place over the course of one day. Mega auctions take two days because the number of players up for bidding is much higher than at mini auctions.
So how many players are there in the IPL 2025 auction?
As many as 1574 players registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction but that list will be pruned after consultations between the IPL and the franchises. The final list for the auction will be shorter and is yet to be released, but it will include big-ticket players from India and overseas.
Will there be a marquee set of players like in the previous two mega auctions in 2018 and 2022?
There is no confirmation on that at present, but the IPL is likely to kick off the forthcoming auction with a set of marquee players.
Who are the big names expected to be in the IPL 2025 auction?
There are plenty. Among the Indian players, there’s Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Shami, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandy
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