The Indian Premier League (IPL) is the world’s second-biggest sports league for making money, right after the NFL. It is organized by the BCCI, which is the wealthiest cricket board in the world. The IPL has a special two-month period, approved by the International Cricket Council (ICC), where no other international cricket matches happen.
One big reason players love the IPL is the money. Players earn much more here than in other cricket leagues. Even some players didn’t get enough money to play international games for their respective countries. The amount they get is decided in an auction, where teams bid on players. After every few years, a “mega auction” happens, where teams can only keep a few players after agreeing on their pay that amount gets deducted from their overall purse. In these mega auctions, teams have big budgets, which gives players a chance to earn a lot. There are also “mini auctions” every year before the season starts, where many players have a chance to join new teams and make more money.
There are rules set by the IPL for buying and selling players, and these rules can change over time. To know more about it, you can visit the 96.com for further information about the upcoming IPL auction for 2025 season. Here, we’ll cover everything about the IPL auction, which players are kept or released by teams, and other details about this cricket event.
What is the IPL Auction?
The IPL Auction is a big event which decides a lot of things for players and their teams. It’s an important event because teams can add players to make balance, sometimes they look for specific players replacements and try to improve their squads. The IPL management lists the players available, and teams place bids to buy them. IPL Auction for the 2025 season, will take place on November 24-25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
What makes this years IPL auction 2025 special?
This year’s auction is special because it’s a “Mega Auction.” Teams have a big budget of 150 crore rupees. Each team can keep up to 5 players from their current squad. The payment for these retained players is decided by the team and the players together. If a team keeps 5 players, they’ll have 75 crore rupees left to spend at the auction. There’s also a spending limit for foreign players.
On November 24-25, we’ll find out which players each team buys, what their strategies are, and who will play for which team. This year, a large number of players have registered for the auction—1,574 in total, including 1,165 Indian players and 409 players from other countries. You can know more about these players, stats, analysis and lot more at 96in com app.
IPL 2025 Squad Size, Salary Cap, and Available Slots
This is the list of numbers of players retained by the teams and available slots with money.
| Franchise | No. of Players | No. of Overseas Players | No. of Uncapped Players | RTM | Total Money Spent (INR Crore) | Salary Cap Available (INR Crore) | Available Slots | Overseas Slots |
| Chennai Super Kings | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 65 | 55 | 20 | 7 |
| Delhi Capitals | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 47 | 73 | 21 | 7 |
| Gujarat Titans | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 69 | 20 | 7 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 69 | 51 | 19 | 6 |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 69 | 20 | 7 |
| Mumbai Indians | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 45 | 20 | 8 |
| Punjab Kings | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9.5 | 110.5 | 23 | 8 |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 37 | 83 | 22 | 8 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 41 | 19 | 7 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 75 | 45 | 20 | 5 |
IPL Auction 2024 Players List With Price
Here’s a look at some top players retained by teams:
- Virat Kohli – RCB kept him for ₹21 Crore. There’s a question if he will be captain in the 2025 season.
- Jasprit Bumrah – MI retained him for ₹18 Crore. He’s valuable for any team as he can take wickets on any pitch.
- Rinku Singh – KKR retained him for ₹13 Crore.
- Axar Patel – DC kept him for ₹16.5 Crore. He’s useful as both a batter and bowler.
- Nicholas Pooran – A wicket-keeper batter with captain potential, retained by LSG for ₹21 Crore.
- Heinrich Klaasen – SRH retained this South African wicket-keeper batter for ₹23 Crore.
- Rashid Khan – The Afghan bowling all-rounder was retained by Gujarat Titans for ₹16 Crore.
- Shashank Singh – PBKS retained this uncapped Indian player for ₹5.5 Crore.
- Sanju Samson – RR kept their star wicket-keeper batter for ₹18 Crore.
Ruturaj Gaikwad – CSK retained him for ₹18 Crore, seeing him as a key player for the team.
IPL Auction 2024 Teams Players List
Here we got to know about the list of players released by their respective teams before the IPL 2025 season auction. These players will be a part of the Mega auction.
IPL Auction 2024 MI Players List
| Released Players |
| 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, Kwena Maphaka*, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Piyush Chawla, Akash Madhwal, Luke Wood*, Dilshan Madushanka*, Shreyas Gopal, Nuwan Thushara* |
Rajasthan Royals (RR) List of Players
| Released Players |
| 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*, Trent Boult*, Yuzvendra Chahal, Nandre Burger* |
IPL Auction 2024 CSK Players List
| Released Players |
| 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 (DC) Players List
| Released Players |
| 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* |
Punjab Kings (PBKS) List of Players
| Released Players |
| Shikhar Dhawan (retired), Jitesh Sharma, Jonny Bairstow*, Liam Livingstone*, Harpreet Bhatia, Rilee Rossouw*, Chris Woakes*, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Tanay Thyagarajan, Atharva Taide, Rishi Dhawan, Sam Curran*, Sikandar Raza*, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary, Harpreet Brar, Arshdeep Singh, Kagiso Rabada*, Nathan Ellis*, Rahul Chahar, Vidwath Kaverappa, Harshal Patel. |
Gujarat Titans (GT) Players List
| Released Players |
| 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, Manav Suthar, Spencer Johnson* |
Sunrisers Hyderabad List of Players
| Released Players |
| Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram*, Rahul Tripathi, Glenn Phillips*, Mayank Agarwal, Anmolpreet Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Marco Jansen*, Washington Sundar, Sanvir Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga*, Akash Singh, Shahbaz Ahamad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Fazalhaq Farooqi*, Jaydev Unadkat, T Natarajan, Umran Malik, Mayank Markande, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth. |
IPL Auction 2024 RCB Players List
| Released Players |
| 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, Mayank Dagar, Manoj Bhandage, Akash Deep, Alzarri Joseph*, Lockie Ferguson*, Mohammed Siraj, Tom Curran*, Reece Topley*, Himanshu Sharma, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Rajan Kumar. |
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Players List
| Released Players |
| 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*, Yash Thakur, Amit Mishra, Naveen ul Haq*, M Siddharth. |
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) List of Players
| Released Players |
| 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. |
IPL Retention List
Here is the list of players retained by the franchises for the upcoming 2025 season. While there are many big names released by their teams.
| Team | Player | Price (₹ Crore) |
| Chennai Super Kings | Ruturaj Gaikwad | 18 |
| Matheesha Pathirana | 13 | |
| Shivam Dube | 12 | |
| Ravindra Jadeja | 18 | |
| MS Dhoni | 4 | |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | Virat Kohli | 21 |
| Rajat Patidar | 11 | |
| Yash Dayal | 5 | |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | Rinku Singh | 13 |
| Varun Chakaravarthy | 12 | |
| Sunil Narine | 12 | |
| Andre Russell | 12 | |
| Mumbai Indians | Jasprit Bumrah | 18 |
| Suryakumar Yadav | 16.35 | |
| Hardik Pandya | 16.35 | |
| Rohit Sharma | 16.3 | |
| Tilak Varma | 8 | |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | Heinrich Klaasen | 23 |
| Pat Cummins | 18 | |
| Abhishek Sharma | 14 | |
| Travis Head | 14 | |
| Lucknow Super Giants | Nicholas Pooran | 21 |
| Ravi Bishnoi | 11 | |
| Mayank Yadav | 11 | |
| Mohsin Khan | 4 | |
| Rajasthan Royals | Sanju Samson | 18 |
| Yashasvi Jaiswal | 18 | |
| Riyan Parag | 14 | |
| Dhruv Jurel | 14 | |
| Gujarat Titans | Rashid Khan | 18 |
| Shubman Gill | 16.5 | |
| Delhi Capitals | Axar Patel | 16.5 |
| Kuldeep Yadav | 13.25 | |
| Tristan Stubbs | 10 |
IPL Auction 2024 Predictions
There are 1,574 players in the pool for the big IPL auction. Each team can only have 25 players in their squad for the season. Out of all players in the auction, 1,165 are from India, and 409 are from other countries.
Some of the top players to keep an eye on in this auction include –
- Yuzi Chahal – A leg-spinner who has taken the most IPL wickets and is very important in T20 cricket.
- M Siraj – A fast bowler from India who has been performing very well in recent years.
- Jos Buttler – An English wicket-keeper batter who led England to a T20 World Cup win in 2022.
- Kagiso Rabada – South African pacer, who is consistent with his bowling. There are chances that many franchises will go after him.
- Ishan Kishan – Indian Wicket keeper batter, who can open the innings and known for hitting the ball hard.
- Rishabh Pant – A wicket-keeper batter who has shown his skills as a captain for DC. He can lead the team and score lots of runs.
- Glen Maxwell – Aussie all-rounder, who can bat and bowl easily. Known for scoring quick runs.
- Shreyas Iyer – Few years back, he was the captain of DC and took the team to the finals. Last season, he led KKR to their third IPL title.
- KL Rahul – Promising and talented cricketer who can keep the wickets and captain the team as well.
Apart from all, countries like Afghanistan, England, Australia, South Africa, Bangladesh, New Zealand, Scotland, Sri Lanka, West Indies, Netherlands, Ireland, Italy, USA, UAE, have given their names for the auction. Mega auction for the IPL season 2025 will take place at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on November 24-25. Where we will find out, who will get how much money. By Singning up 96in.com app you can get all the news, stats, analysis, and predictions about teams and players.
