IPL 2025 Auction: 574 Players Up For Grabs as Pant, Iyer Featured in Top Bracket, Huge Name Dropped!

IPL 2025 has a lot of buzz before new season commences. mega auction has ded hype as several superstar cricketers have me mselves available to be a part of cash-rich cricket league. After teams me ir official retentions, 1574 Indian and overseas cricketers registered mselves for mega auction. BCCI and IPL have shortened list, with 500+ players available for grabs in auction, which is scheduled in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

BCCI Cut Shorts Players List To 574, T20 World Cup Sensation Surprisingly Dropped! 

BCCI reduced initial list of 1574 players to 574, with 366 Indians and 208 from outside India. All current Indian players are in top base price bracket, with Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Arshdeep Singh leing 574-player list with a top base price of Rs 2 crore. Apart from Pant, who is expected to be most expensive purchase at auction with a team like Punjab Kings looking to go distance with Rs 110.50 crore, or notable names include IPL winning captain Shreyas Iyer, India's most prolific T20I bowler Arshdeep Singh, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Avesh Khan.

England's Jos Buttler, along with his compatriots Harry Brook and Jonny Bairstow, has highest base price of Rs 2 crore. Retired pacer James Anderson has also me it to curtailed list and is priced at Rs 1.25 crore. www South Africa's Kagiso Raba, Anrich Nortje and Australia's Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, and Mitchell Starc are among top international players. Marco Jansen and Rachin Ravindra are also on list and are priced at Rs. 1.25 crore.

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Vaibhav Suryavanshi, a 13-year-old India U-19 cricketer from Bihar, is youngest among group, with a base price of Rs 30 lakh. Unmukt Chand,  former India U-19 World Cup winner who moved to United States, has also been named an Associate member nation player. However, US seamer Saurabh Nethravalkar, who received huge hype during T20 World Cup 2024, was not selected. Thomas Draca of Italy, who plays for MI Emirates, did not make cut eir.  

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[With PTI Inputs]