IPL 2025 mega auction: A busy day of the IPL 2025 mega auction concluded with a total number of 72 players getting sold on Day 1 of the bidding war in Jeddah. As many as 84 players went under the hammer of auctioneer Mallika Sagar with franchises splashing a total of 467.95 crore combined on the opening day of the two-day auction event.
Rishabh Pant broke the record of the most expensive player in IPL auction history as he was roped in for a hefty sum of Rs 27 crore by Lucknow Super Giants. IPL-winning captain Shreyas Iyer was roped in by Punjab Kings for Rs 26.75 crore and he is now set to assume the leadership role. Another skipper, KL Rahul, was also up for grabs in the auction. He was roped in by Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore.
Here are the squads of all 10 teams after Day 1 of the mega auction:
Chennai Super Kings
Players purchased on Day 1: Devon Conway (Rs 6.25 crore), Rahul Tripathi (Rs 3.40 crore), Rachin Ravindra (RTM at Rs 4 crore), Ravichandran Ashwin (Rs 9.75 crore), Khaleel Ahmed (Rs 4.80 crore), Vijay Shankar (Rs 1.20 crore), Noor Ahmad (Rs 10 crore)
Retained: Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni
Kolkata Knight Riders
Players purchased on Day 1: Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 23.75 crore), Quinton de Kock (Rs 3.60 crore), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Rs 2 crore), Anrich Nortje (Rs 6.50 crore), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (Rs 3 crore), Vaibhav Arora (Rs 1.80 crore), Mayank Markande (Rs 30 lakh)
Retained: Rinku Singh, Varun Chakaravarthy, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh
Mumbai Indians
Players purchased on Day 1: Trent Boult (Rs 12.50 crore), Naman Dhir (RTM at Rs 5.25 crore), Robin Minz (Rs 30 lakh), Karn Sharma (Rs 50 lakh)
Retained: Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma
Punjab Kings
Players bought: Shreyas Iyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur
Players retained: Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh
Gujarat Titans
Players purchased on Day 1: Jos Buttler (Rs 15.75 crore), Kagiso Rabada (Rs 10.75 crore), Mohammed Siraj (Rs 12.25 crore), Prasidh Krishna (Rs 9.50 crore), Mahipal Lomror (Rs 1.70 crore), Kumar Kushagra (Rs 65 lakh), Nishant Sindhu (Rs 30 lakh), Anuj Rawat (Rs 30 lakh), Manav Suthar (Rs 30 lakh)
Retained: Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan
Rajasthan Royals
Players bought: Jofra Archer, Wainindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh
Players retained: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma,
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Players purchased on Day 1: Liam Livingstone (Rs 8.75 crore), Phil Salt (Rs 11.5 crore), Jitesh Sharma (Rs 11 crore), Josh Hazlewood (Rs 12.50 crore), Rasikh Dar (Rs 6 crore), Suyash Sharma (Rs 2.60 core)
Retained: Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Players bought: Ishan Kishan, Mohammad Shami, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjeet Singh
Players retained: Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klassen, Nitish Reddy
Delhi Capitals
Players bought: KL Rahul, Harry Brook, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, T Natrajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma
Players retained: Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav,
Lucknow Super Giants
Players bought: Rishabh Pant, David Miller, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal
Players retained: Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bisnoi
