New Delhi:
IPL Mega Auction’s 7 big points: At last that day has come, for which millions of lovers around the world have been eagerly waiting for a long time. While Sunday will be the third day of the first Test being played against Australia (Aus vs Ind), in the evening, the eyes of the fans will be on the two-day Mega Auction (Mega Auction 2025) to be held in Jeddah, United Arab Emirates (UAE). ) will be resting on. Overall, the next two days are going to be filled with a lot of curiosity from the fans’ point of view because these days the fans are going to shower money on their star cricketers. There is full hope that this time a new record of becoming the most expensive player in the history of IPL will be created. Let us know the special things about the two-day mega auction (IPL Mega Auction 2025):
1. Total number of players will participate
This time more than a thousand players had registered for the auction, but after the retrenchment by BCCI, now a total of 577 players will go through the process in the two-day auction. Of these, 367 are Indians and 210 are foreign players. Out of these, 3 players are from Associate countries. 318 Indian uncapped and 14 foreign uncapped players will participate in the auction.
2. This much space will be filled
While a total of 574 players will go through the auction process, a total of 204 spots will be filled across all ten teams. Out of these, 70 places are for foreign players. The highest base price for players is Rs 2 crore and 81 players are included in this bracket. At the same time, for the last several years, the base price of the lower order has been increased from Rs 20 to Rs 30 lakh. Among the marquee players, except David Milner, all others have kept their base price at Rs 2 crore. The South African lefty batsman has fixed his base price at Rs 1.50 crore.
3. This is the overall timing as per Indian time
The mega auction will be conducted in two phases on both days, which also includes a break of 45 minutes. The first session will run from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm. After this there will be lunch break from 5:00 to 5:45. Whereas, the second session will run from 5:45 pm to 10:30 pm.
4. Take a look at the list of murky players
List 1 List 2
Rishabh Pant KL Rahul
Shreyas Iyer Yuzvendra Chahal
jos buttler liam livingstone
Arshdeep Singh David Miller
Kagiso Rabada Mohammed Shami
Mitchell Starc Mohammed Siraj
5. Know about accelerated auction
Although more than 500 players will go through the overall auction process, they will go through the process in a piecemeal manner. BCCI has already informed all the franchises about the accelerated auction process. This phase will start from player number 117 and continue till the last number (577). The franchise will have to nominate the names of specific players from this group by 10 pm on the first day of the two-day process.
Once these players are auctioned, franchise teams will be asked to provide names of unsold or unauctioned players for the next round of the “Accelerated Process”.
6. The order of the auction will be like this
The auction will begin on Sunday with bidding for both sets of marquee players. After this, bidding will be held for the first set of capped players. This bracket includes batsmen, fast bowlers, wicketkeepers, spinners and all-rounders.
In the next round, uncapped players in these different categories will go through the process, then bidding will be held again on capped players. After these three rounds are over, “Accelerated Auction” will start.
7. Names of these players were included at the last moment
BCCI had earlier finalized the names of 554 players, but recently the names of England pacer Joffra Archer and America’s Indian-origin Saurabh Netrawalkar were included in the list. Whereas, the third name is of Mumbai wicketkeeper Hardik Tamore. Overall, the total number of players has now reached 577 including 367 Indians and 210 foreigners.
