IPL 2025 Auction Day 2

One of the gala events of the cricketing world  - the Indian Premier League (IPL) mega auction - takes centre stage for the second day in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday.

Live updates for IPL 2025 Auction Day 2:

- English players Adil Rashid, Ben Duckett, Moeen Ali go unsold

- Mustafizur Rahman, Umesh Yadav, Naveen-ul-Haq go unsold

- Ishant Sharma sold for ₹75 lakh to Gujarat Titans

- KKR buy former GT pacer Spencer Johnson for ₹2 crore

- Will Jacks goes to Mumbai Indians for ₹5.25 crore

- RCB buy explosive Australian batter Tim David for ₹3 crore

- Sherfane Rutherford goes to Gujarat Titans for ₹2.60 crore

- Anshul Kamboj costs Chennai Super Kings ₹3.40 crore

- Gujarat Titans buy Arshad Khan for ₹1.30 crore 

- Mumbai Indians buy Afghan bowler Allah Ghazanfar for ₹4.80 crore

- LSG buy India’s ace pacer Akash Deep for ₹8 crore

- Punjab Kings buy Lockie Ferguson for ₹2 crore

- Deepak Chahar sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹9.25 crore

- Delhi Capitals buy Mukesh Kumar for ₹8 crore

- RCB buy Bhuvneshwar Kumar for ₹10.75 crore

- Gerald Coetzee bought by Gujarat Titans for ₹2.40 crore 

- RR buy Tushar Deshpande for ₹6.50 crore

- Punjab Kings buy Australian WK-batter Josh Inglis at ₹2.60 crore

- Mumbai Indians buy South African WK-batter Ryan Rickleton for ₹1 crore

- Rajasthan Royals buy Nitish Rana for ₹4.20 crore

- Krunal Pandya goes to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹5.75 crore

- Punjab Kings buy South African pacer Marco Jansen for ₹7 crore

- Washington Sundar sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹3.20 crore

- India’s much-regarded openers Rahane, Agarwal, Prithvi Shaw go unsold

- Delhi Capitals buy Faf Du Plessis for ₹2 crore

- KKR buy Rovman Powell for ₹1.5 crore

- NZ batters Kane Williamson, Glenn Philips go unsold

The auction started from 3.30 pm IST on Monday.

In Sunday’s rally event, a whopping business of ₹467.95 crore took place, which involved 72 players being auctioned to the 10 squads in fray.

Slots and purse available for each franchise:

Punjab Kings, who have made a staggering expenditure of ₹88 crore on the first day of the auction, will hold a remaining purse of ₹22.5 crore to fill 13 spots in their squad.

Chennai Super Kings spent ₹39.40 crore and are left with ₹15.60 crore, Gujarat Titans spent ₹51.50 crore and are left with ₹17.50 crore, Lucknow Super Giants spent ₹54.15 crore and are left with ₹14.85 crore, Mumbai Indians spent ₹18.90 crore and are left with ₹26.10 crore, Sunrisers Hyderabad spent ₹39.85 crore and are left with ₹5.15 crore.

Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bengaluru spent ₹52.35 crore and are left with ₹30.65 crore, Delhi Capitals spent ₹59.20 crore and are left with ₹13.80 crore, while Kolkata Knight Riders spent ₹40.95 crore and are left with ₹10.05 crore, and Rajasthan Royals spent ₹23.65 crore and are left with ₹17.35 crore.

IPL 2025 Mega Auction

With months of off-field strategy and rigorous scouting, it will all come down to pure business as 10 franchises would look to get the best possible squads for the 2025 season and beyond.

This year’s IPL auction moved to Saudi Arabia for the first time this year, with two days of affairs taking place in the Abady Al Johar Arena in Jeddah. 

In all, 577 players including 367 Indians and 210 overseas will be testing their fate to fill the maximum of 204 slots (70 overseas) available for the upcoming season.

Among Indian players, 48 are capped and the remaining are uncapped professionals while 197 capped overseas and 12 uncapped foreign players will be up for grabs. This year, three players from Associate nations will also test their luck.

(With inputs from syndicated feed)