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IPL 2025 Mega Auction Dates Announced, 1574 Players Registered

November 6, 2024

IPL is a platform from where new stars get a chance to show their ability. Through this league, the fortunes of many players have been seen shining overnight and they have got a call from the national team on the basis of their strong performance.

Cricket fans also wait a lot for IPL. Recently the venue of IPL 2025 mega auction was announced. This time the IPL 2025 auction is to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For the first time in history, an auction is going to be held there. It is to be organized on 24th November and 25th November, in which many big players are ready to be auctioned. This time something is going to happen in the IPL auction, which has never happened in the last 18 seasons.

IPL Auction

✍️ 1574 Player Registrations

🧢 320 capped players, 1,224 uncapped players, & 30 players from Associate Nations

🎰 204 slots up for grabs

🗓️ 24th & 25th November 2024

📍 Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Read all the details for the upcoming #TATAIPL Mega Auction 🔽🤩

— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) November 5, 2024

Actually, IPL started from the year 2008 and since then a total of 17 seasons have been played. Till date, it has not happened in the auction of these 17 IPL seasons that Italian players have entered the IPL auction, but now this is going to happen in the IPL 2025 mega auction.

The player from Italy who has registered his name for the IPL 2025 auction is Thomas Draca. Thomas Draca has played four T20 International matches for Italy so far. Apart from this, he participated in the Global T20 Canada League. Thomas played for the Brampton Wolves in the tournament.

Apart from this, former Australian Test cricketer Joe Burns can also be in the IPL 2025 mega auction, who recently shifted to Italy with the aim of qualifying the team for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Joe Burns has played 23 test matches for Australia.

Most Indian players

This time a maximum of 1165 players from India have given their names for the auction. The number of foreign players who have registered is 409. Among these, South Africa has the highest number of 91. Players from 320 capped, 1224 uncapped and 30 associate countries have registered. BCCI had told earlier That the players who register for the mega auction will be able to give their names again for the mini auction next year.

How many players from which country

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Let us tell you that a total of 1574 players have registered in the mega auction of IPL 2025, which includes 1165 Indian and 409 foreign players. There are 48 capped (experienced) players among Indian players, While there are 1117 uncapped (new) players. This time South Africa is the foreign country participating in the auction with the maximum number of players, with a total of 91 players registered.

South Africa 91
Australia 76
England 52
New Zealand 39
west indies 33
Sri Lanka 29
Afghanistan 29
bangladesh 13
Netherlands 12
America 10
ireland 9
zimbabwe 8
canada 4
scotland 2
Italy 1
uae 1

Players Registration

Capped Indian players: 48
Capped international players: 272
Uncapped Indian players with prior IPL experience: 152
Uncapped international players who already have IPL experience: 3
Uncapped Indian players: 965
Uncapped International players: 104

10 Franchises

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This year’s auction is very big, with India’s top players like Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Arshdeep Singh. Profile stars are going to join. The 10 franchises together have around RS 641.5 crore to spend for 204 slots.
Will be RS. Of these 204 slots, 70 are earmarked for foreign players. So far, 10 franchises have retained 46 players,
Whose total expenditure is RS 558.5 crore.

Mumbai Indians (MI)