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IPL Mega Auction, Venkatesh Iyer: ‘Fill my bag…’, after Rinku Singh, KKR surprised this player by buying him for Rs 23.75 crore.

Venkatesh Iyer, IPL Mega Auction: KKR has once again surprised in the IPL Mega Auction. In the last IPL, KKR shook the world by buying Mitchell Starc for Rs 24.75 crore. At the same time, now in this auction, Kolkata Knight Riders have surprised by buying Venkatesh Iyer (Venkatesh Iyer Price, IPL 2025 Auction) for Rs 23.75 crore. That means KKR has now changed the fortunes of Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh Iyer’s base price in IPL mega auction was Rs 2 crore. KKR was the first to bid on Venkatesh, after which Lucknow also started bidding. After these two, Bengaluru started bidding to buy Venkatesh Iyer, after which there was panic among the franchises.

The battle between Bengaluru and KKR to buy Venkatesh became interesting. Both the franchises started showering money on this player and in the end KKR won. KKR pacified Bengaluru by bidding Rs 23.75 crore and finally KKR included Venkatesh Iyer in their team. Venkatesh Iyer has now become the third most expensive Indian player in IPL history after Pant and Iyer.

Most expensive Indian buys in IPL auction history

Rishabh Pant- 27 crores (Lucknow Supergiants)
Shreyas Iyer- 26.75 crores (Punjab Kings)
Venkatesh Iyer – 23.75 crores-(KKR, 2025)
Arshdeep Singh – 18 crores – (PBKS, 2025)
Yuvraj Singh- 16 crores
Ishan Kishan 15.25 crores
Gautam Gambhir- 14.90 crores

Talking about the IPL career of Venkatesh Iyer (Cricket Player India), this all-rounder has scored 1326 runs in 50 matches and has also succeeded in taking three wickets in his name. Apart from this, Iyer has played two ODI and 9 T20 International matches for India. Venkatesh Iyer has played 115 matches in his overall T-20 career so far and has scored 2705 runs, apart from this he has been successful in taking 42 wickets in T-20.

Venkatesh Iyer made KKR the champion in 2024

Venkatesh Iyer single-handedly made KKR the champion in the final of IPL 2024. In the final, Venkatesh scored unbeaten 52 runs in 26 balls and played an important role in making the team champion.

KKR also changed the fate of Rinku Singh

While KKR had given 24.75 crores to Starc in the last IPL auction, this time it has surprised Venkatesh by giving 23.75 crores. By doing this, KKR has definitely changed the fate of Venkatesh, whereas, KKR has also made Rinku Singh a millionaire by keeping him continuously with their team. This time KKR has retained Rinku in their team for Rs 13 crores.

KKR’s team so far is as follows
Rinku Singh (13 Crore), Varun Chakraborty (12 Crore), Sunil Narine (12 Crore), Andre Russell (12 Crore), Ramandeep Singh (4 Crore), Harshit Rana (4 Crore), Venkatesh Iyer – (Base price- 2 Crore, sold- 23.75 crore)


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