The winter is here, and so is the sports season! If you have been eagerly waiting to find out which player will be the highest auction player for IPL season 2025, your wait is finally over today. The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction is scheduled to take place on November 24 and 25, 2024. The teams are preparing to rebuild their entire roster for the IPL 2025 season.?
This year the mega auction is planned to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, at the Abady Al-Johar Arena. The IPL mega auction is a two-day event that happens once every three years, and there are anticipations that a list of huge players like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Ravichandran Ashwini, Yuzvendra Chahal, Shreyas Iyer, Mohammed Shami, Glenn Maxwell, Jos Buttler, and Phil Salt are going to be the most grabbed ones at the auction today.?
The 10 IPL franchises will take part in the auction today, in which a maximum of 577 players will enter the bidding process.?
The interesting catch this year is going to be the retention of the players, as the Punjab Kings will have to decide to go for a major overhaul in the 2025 auction. However, they have the highest purse of INR 110.5 crore, while on the other hand, the five-time IPL champion Mumbai Indians will want to be among the top-performing teams in the tournament.?
As already mentioned above, the IPL auction will be held on Sunday, November 24, 2024, and November 25, 2024, Monday.?
For the first time, the venue for the IPL auction is going to be held in Saudi Arabia, in the Abady AL-Johar Arena in the city of Jeddah. The capacity of the arena is 15,000 people.?
The 2025 IPL mega auction will start at 3.30 PM IST on both Sunday and Monday.?
According to reports, each IPL franchise has a budget of Rs 120 crore for the 2025 auction. Among the teams, Punjab Kings (PBKS) leads with the highest purse of Rs 110.5 crore, while Rajasthan Royals (RR) has a minimum of Rs 41 crore.?
You can watch the IPL 2025 auction live on your television sets on the Star Sports Network. Apart from this, the auction is also going to be streamed live on the JioCinema app and website.?