IPL auction: As the BCCI released list of over 1574 players who will go under the hammer, the base prices of players were also revealed. For example, big guns like KL Rahul , Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer have put themselves in the Rs 2 Cr-base price bracket. Senior cricketers like Yuzvendra Chahal and Ravichandran Ashwin – who were released by their franchises – have also put themselves in the same bracket. For the unaware, the minimum price a cricketer could set themselves is Rs 20 lakh, while the maximum remains at Rs 2 crore. In terms of surprise, Ben Stokes not available for the auction is a surprise as he has been an integral part of the Rajasthan Royals in the past.
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Among the 1574 players, 320 are capped players, 1,224 are uncapped players, and 30 players are from associate nations.
IPL 2025 Auctions Dates Announced
The mega auction ahead of the Indian Premier League 2025 will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24 and 25, the BCCI announced on Tuesday.
This is the second successive year the auction is being held overseas as Dubai hosted the previous one ahead of the IPL 2024.
The player registration officially closed on Monday and a total of 1,574 cricketers (1,165 Indian and 409 overseas) have been signed up for the auction, which will clash with the third and fourth day’s play of the first Test between India and Australia in Perth, which begins on November 22.
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NUMBERS DON’T LIE
The detailed list is as below: · Capped Indians (48 players)· Capped Internationals (272 players)· Uncapped Indians who were a part of previous IPL seasons (152 players)· Uncapped Internationals who were a part of previous IPL seasons (3 players)· Uncapped Indians (965 players)· Uncapped Internationals (104 players)
Note: With each franchise able to fill a maximum squad of 25 players, 204 slots will be up for grabs at the TATA IPL 2025 Player Auction.
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