The IPL 2025 Auction will be held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. This is the second year in a row that the Indian Premier League auction is being held outside of India, following last year’s auction in Dubai. This year there’s a mega auction. Let’s break it down for you to understand what is mega auction in IPL and how it is different from mini auction.

How is mega auction different from mini auction

In the Indian Premier League, there are two types of player auctions – mega auction and mini auction.

• Mega auctions happen every three years and are much bigger with respect to players up for grabs and teams need to fill more spots. Ahead of a mega auction, each team can only keep a few of their players. This year, the limit was up to six retentions.
• Mini auctions are smaller with relatively fewer players going under the hammer and teams only make minor adjustments to their squad. Ahead of mini auction, most of the teams can retain most of their players.

In this year’s mega auction, high-profile names such as Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer are back in the auction pool. Also, it is because of the mega auction and more players on offer that some teams can make their squad from the scratch. More player options and shuffle in rosters only add to the excitement.

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How many players have registered for IPL 2025 Auction?

A total of 1,574 players have signed up for the IPL 2025 mega auction, which includes 1,165 Indian players and 409 international players. Among these, there are 320 players with international capped cricketers, 1,224 uncapped players, and 30 players from Associate Nations.

Which high-profile players will go under the hammer in IPL 2025 Mega Auction?

Among the high-profile Indian players to go under the hammer are Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer, Ishan Kishan, Mohammed Shami, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Harshal Patel, R Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Devdutt Padikkal, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan and more.

The marquee overseas players that are up for grabs at IPL auction for IPL 2025 include Jos Buttler, Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow, Faf du Plessis, Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell, Kagiso Rabada, Tim David, Rachin Ravindra, David Miller, Devon Conway, Quinton de Kock, Marcus Stoinis, Liam Livingstone and more.

How many players will each team buy at IPL 2025 mega auction?

All IPL teams have to buy a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25. Forty-six players have already been retained ahead of IPL 2025 Auction and now there are 204 slots to fill. Among overseas players, there is a cap of eight foreign players per team and now there are 70 slots for overseas players at the auction.

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