The IPL 2025 auction entered its second day with heightened excitement, as franchises made their final bids to secure the best talent for the upcoming season. The first day of the auction had already witnessed some major buys, and Day 2 saw the intensity rise, with teams refining their strategies to finalize their squads. Here’s a look at the major developments and key signings from the second day of the auction:
1. Major Signings and Surprises
Day 2 of the IPL 2025 auction was filled with unexpected twists, with a number of exciting players being bought at premium prices. As expected, many teams focused on strengthening their bowling attacks and bolstering their middle-order batting options.
- Fast Bowlers in Demand: Teams like Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings targeted fast bowlers with the potential to perform across various conditions. Players like Mark Wood (England) and Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand) were among the most sought-after, with bidding wars escalating for their services.
- All-Rounders Take Center Stage: The importance of versatile players who can turn a match on its head was evident, with franchises like Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore securing star all-rounders. Players like Shivam Dube and Dwayne Bravo were picked up to provide both batting depth and critical bowling options.
2. Emerging Talent Steals the Spotlight
While established stars were commanding high bids, uncapped Indian players with promising domestic performances also caught the eye. Several young players from the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and other domestic leagues were picked up at attractive prices.
- Young Guns: Players like Rajat Patidar, Prithvi Shaw, and Shahrukh Khan were among the exciting young talents who made waves during Day 2 of the auction. Their domestic records made them hot properties for franchises looking to inject youthful energy into their squads.
3. Teams Bolstering Their Core
Day 2 was also about rounding off the team compositions and securing players who could add depth in crucial match situations. Teams like Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad targeted players who could serve as solid backups or thrive in pressure situations.
- Strategic Buys: With the IPL 2025 shaping up to be a competitive season, many teams focused on building a well-balanced squad. Versatile players who can adapt to different formats, such as Moeen Ali and Glenn Maxwell, were prioritized to ensure teams had all-round options for different match conditions.
4. High-Profile Misses
As with every auction, there were also some surprises, with a few expected big-ticket players remaining unsold. These omissions often lead to interesting speculation, but the IPL is known for its unpredictable nature, and some of these players may find success in later seasons or in other leagues.
Remaining Picks and Purse-:
| Team | Remaining Picks | Remaining Purse | Remaining RTMs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chennai Super Kings | 0 (1 Overseas) | ₹ 0.05 Cr | 0 |
| Delhi Capitals | 2 (1 Overseas) | ₹ 0.2 Cr | 0 |
| Gujarat Titans | 0 (1 Overseas) | ₹ 0.15 Cr | 0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 4 (0 Overseas) | ₹ 0.05 Cr | 0 |
| Lucknow Super Giants | 1 (2 Overseas) | ₹ 0.1 Cr | 0 |
| Mumbai Indians | 2 (0 Overseas) | ₹ 0.20 Cr | 0 |
| Punjab Kings | 0 (0 Overseas) | ₹ 0.35 Cr | 3 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 5 (2 Overseas) | ₹ 0.30 Cr | 0 |
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | 3 (1 Overseas) | ₹ 0.75 Cr | 2 |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 5 (1 Overseas) | ₹ 0.20 Cr | 1 |
Current Squads (Pre-Auction)-:
| Chennai Super Kings | Delhi Capitals | Gujarat Titans | Kolkata Knight Riders | Lucknow Super Giants |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruturaj Gaikwad (c) (₹ 18 Cr) | Axar Patel (₹16.5 Cr) | Shubman Gill (c) (₹16.25 Cr) | Rinku Singh (₹13 Cr) | Nicholas Pooran (₹ 21 Cr) |
| Ravindra Jadeja (₹ 18 Cr) | Kuldeep Yadav (₹13.25 Cr) | Rashid Khan (₹ 18 Cr) | Varun Chakravarthy (₹ 12 Cr) | Ravi Bishnoi (₹ 11 Cr) |
| Matheesha Pathirana (₹ 13 Cr) | Tristan Stubbs (₹ 10 Cr) | B Sai Sudharsan (₹ 8.50 Cr) | Sunil Narine (₹ 12 Cr) | Mayank Yadav (₹ 11 Cr) |
| Shivam Dube (₹ 12 Cr) | Abishek Porel (₹ 4 Cr) | Rahul Tewatia (₹ 4 Cr) | Andre Russell (₹ 12 Cr) | Mohsin Khan (₹ 4 Cr) |
| MS Dhoni (₹ 4 Cr) | Mitchell Starc (₹ 11.75 Cr) | M Shahrukh Khan (₹ 4 Cr) | Ramandeep Singh (₹ 4 Cr) | Ayush Badoni (₹ 4 Cr) |
| Devon Conway (₹ 6.25 Cr) | KL Rahul (₹ 14 Cr) | Kagiso Rabada (₹ 10.75 Cr) | Harshit Rana (₹ 4 Cr) | Rishabh Pant (₹ 27 Cr) |
| Rahul Tripathi (₹ 3.40 Cr) | Harry Brook (₹ 6.25 Cr) | Jos Buttler (₹ 15.75 Cr) | Venkatesh Iyer (₹ 23.75 Cr) | David Miller (₹ 7.5 Cr) |
| Rachin Ravindra (₹ 4 Cr) | Jake Fraser-McGurk (₹ 9 Cr) | Mohammed Siraj (₹ 12.25 Cr) | Quinton de Kock (₹ 3.60 Cr) | Aiden Markram (₹ 2 Cr) |
| Ravichandran Ashwin (₹ 9.75 Cr) | T Natarajan (₹ 10.75 Cr) | Prasidh Krishna (₹ 9.5 Cr | Rahmanullah Gurbaz (₹ 2 Cr) | Mitchell Marsh (₹ 3.4 Cr) |
| S Khaleel Ahmed (₹ 4.8 Cr) | Karun Nair (₹ 50 L) | Nishant Sindhu (₹ 30 L) | Anrich Nortje (₹ 6.5 Cr) | Avesh Khan (₹ 9.75 Cr) |
| Noor Ahmed (₹ 10 Cr) | Sameer Rizvi (₹ 95 L) | Mahipal Lomror (₹ 1.7 Cr) | Angkrish Raghuvanshi (₹ 3 Cr) | Abdul Samad (₹ 4.2 Cr) |
| Vijay Shankar (₹ 1.2 Cr) | Ashutosh Sharma (₹ 3.8 Cr) | Kumar Kushagra (₹ 65 L) | Vaibhav Arora (₹1.8 Cr) | Aryan Juyal (₹ 30L) |
| Sam Curran (₹2.4 Cr) | Mohit Sharma (₹2.2 Cr) | Anuj Rawat (₹ 30 L) | Mayank Markande (₹30 L) | Akash Deep (₹ 8 Cr) |
| Sheikh Rasheed (₹ 30 L) | Faf du Plessis (₹ 2 Cr) | Manav Suthar (₹ 30 L) | Rovman Powell ( ₹ 1.5 Cr) | Himmat Singh (₹ 30 L) |
| Anshul Kamboj (₹ 3.4 Cr) | Mukesh Kumar (₹ 8 Cr) | Washington Sundar ( ₹ 3.2 Cr) | Manish Pandey (₹ 75 L) | M Siddharth (₹ 75 L |
| Mukesh Chaudhary (₹ 30 L) | Darshan Nalkande (₹ 30 L) | Gerald Coetzee ( ₹ 2.4 Cr) | Spencer Johnson (₹ 2.8 Cr) | Digvesh Singh (₹ 30 L) |
| Deepak Hooda (₹1.7 Cr) | Vipraj Nigam ( ₹ 50 L) | M Arshad Khan (₹ 1.3 Cr) | Lavneeth Sisodiya (₹ 30 L) | Shahbaz Ahmed (₹ 2.4 Cr) |
| Gurjapneet Singh ( ₹ 2.2 Cr) | Dushmantha Chameera (₹ 75 L) | Gurnoor Singh Brar (₹ 1.3 Cr) | Ajinkya Rahane (₹ 1.5 Cr) | Akash Singh (₹ 30 L) |
| Nathan Ellis (₹ 2 Cr) | Donovan Ferreira (₹ 75 L) | Sherfane Rutherford (₹ 2.6 Cr) | Anukul Roy (₹ 30 L) | Shamar Joseph (₹75 L) |
| Kamlesh Nagarkoti (₹30 L) | Ajay Mandal (₹ 30 L) | R Sai Kishore (₹ 2 Cr) | Moeen Ali (₹ 2 Cr) | Prince Yadav (₹ 30 L) |
| Ramkrishna Ghosh (₹30 L) | Manvanth Kumar L (₹30 L) | Ishant Sharma (₹ 75 L) | Umran Malik (₹ 75 L) | Yuvraj Chaudhary (₹30 L) |
| Shreyas Gopal (₹ 30 L) | Tripurana Vijay (₹30 L) | Jayant Yadav ( ₹ 75 L) | Rajvardhan Hangargekar (₹ 30 L) | |
| Vansh Bedi (₹ 55 L) | Madhav Tiwari (₹ 40 L) | Glenn Phillips (₹ 2 Cr) | Arshin Kulkarni (₹ 30 L) | |
| Andre Siddharth (₹ 30 L) | Karim Janat (₹ 75 L) | Matthew Breetzke (₹ 75 L) | ||
| Kulwant Khejroliya (₹ 30 L) |
| Mumbai Indians | Punjab Kings | Rajasthan Royals | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Sunrisers Hyderabad |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hardik Pandya (c) (₹16.35 Cr) | Shashank Singh (₹ 5.5 Cr) | Sanju Samson (c) (₹ 18 Cr) | Virat Kohli (₹ 21 Cr) | Pat Cummins (c) (₹ 18 Cr) |
| Jasprit Bumrah (₹ 18 Cr) | Prabhsmiran Singh (₹ 4 Cr) | Yashasvi Jaiswal (₹ 18 Cr) | Rajat Patidar (₹ 11 Cr) | Heinrich Klaasen (₹ 23 Cr) |
| Suryakumar Yadav (₹16.35 Cr) | Arshdeep Singh (₹ 18 Cr) | Dhruv Jurel (₹ 14 Cr) | Yash Dayal (₹ 5 Cr) | Abhishek Sharma (₹14 Cr) |
| Rohit Sharma (₹16.30 Cr) | Shreyas Iyer (₹26.75 Cr) | Riyan Parag (₹ 14 Cr) | Liam Livingstone (₹ 8.75 Cr) | Travis Head (₹ 14 Cr) |
| Tilak Varma (₹ 8 Cr) | Yuzvendra Chahal (₹ 18 Cr) | Shimron Hetmyer (₹ 11 Cr) | Phil Salt (₹ 11.5 Cr) | Nitish Kumar Reddy (₹ 6 Cr) |
| Trent Boult (₹ 12.5 Cr) | Marcus Stoinis (₹ 11 Cr) | Sandeep Sharma (₹ 4 Cr) | Jitesh Sharma (₹11 Cr) | Mohammed Shami (₹ 10 Cr) |
| Naman Dhir (₹ 5.25 Cr) | Glenn Maxwell (₹ 4.20 Cr) | Jofra Archer (₹ 12.5 Cr) | Josh Hazlewood (₹ 12.5 Cr) | Harshal Patel (₹ 8 Cr) |
| Robin Minz (₹ 65 L) | Nehal Wadhera (₹ 4.2 Cr) | Maheesh Theekshana (₹ 4.4 Cr) | Rasikh Dar (₹ 6 Cr) | Ishan Kishan (₹ 11.25 Cr) |
| Karn Sharma (₹ 50 L) | Harpreet Brar (₹ 1.5 Cr) | Wanindu Hasaranga (₹ 5.25 Cr) | Suyash Sharma (₹ 2.6 Cr) | Rahul Chahar (₹ 3.2 Cr) |
| Ryan Rickleton (₹ 1 Cr) | Vishnu Vinod (₹ 95 L) | Akash Madhwal (₹ 1.2 Cr) | Krunal Pandya (₹ 5.75 Cr) | Adam Zampa (₹ 2.4 Cr) |
| Deepak Chahar (₹ 9.25 Cr) | Vyshak Vijaykumar (₹1.8 Cr) | Kumar Kartikeya (₹ 30 L) | Bhuvneshwar Kumar ( ₹ 10.75 Cr) | Atharva Taide (₹ 30 L) |
| Allah Ghazanfar (₹ 4.8 Cr) | Yash Thakur (₹1.6 Cr) | Nitish Rana (₹ 4.2 Cr) | Swapnil Singh (₹ 50 L) | Abhinav Manohar (₹3.2 Cr) |
| Ashwani Kumar ( ₹ 30 L) | Marco Jansen (₹ 7 Cr) | Tushar Deshpande ( ₹ 6.5 Cr) | Tim David (₹ 3 Cr) | Simarjeet Singh (₹1.5 Cr) |
| Mitchell Santner ( ₹ 2 Cr) | Josh Inglis (₹ 2.6 Cr) | Shubham Dubey (₹ 30 L) | Romario Shepherd (₹ 1.5 Cr) | Zeeshan Ansari (₹ 40 L) |
| Reece Topley ( ₹ 75 L) | Lockie Ferguson (₹ 2 Cr) | Yudhvir Singh ( ₹ 35 L) | Nuwan Thusara (₹ 1.6 Cr) | Jaydev Unadkat (₹ 1 Cr) |
| Srijit Krishnan ( ₹ 30 L) | Azmatullah Omarzai (₹2.4 Cr) | Fazalhaq Farooqi ( ₹ 2 Cr) | Manoj Bhandage ( ₹ 30L) | Brydon Carse ( ₹ 1 Cr) |
| Raj Angad Bawa (₹ 30 L) | Harnoor Pannu (₹ 30 L) | Vaibhav Suryavanshi (₹ 1.10 Cr) | Jacob Bethell ( ₹ 2.6 Cr) | Kamindu Mendis ( ₹ 75 L) |
| Will Jacks (₹ 5.25 Cr) | Kuldip Sen ( ₹ 80 L) | Kwena Maphaka (₹ 1.5 Cr) | Devdutt Padikkal (₹ 2 Cr) | Aniket Verma (₹ 30 L) |
| V Satyanarayana Raju (₹ 30 L) | Priyansh Arya ( ₹ 3.8 Cr) | Kunal Rathore (₹ 30 L) | Swastik Chikara (₹ 30 L) | Eshan Malinga (₹1.2 Cr) |
| Bevon Jacobs (₹ 30 L) | Aaron Hardie ( ₹ 1.25 Cr) | Ashok Sharma (₹ 30 L) | Lungi Ngidi (₹ 1 Cr) | Sachin Baby (₹ 30 L) |
| Arjun Tendulkar (₹ 30 L) | Musheer Khan (₹ 30 L) | Abhinandan Singh (₹ 30 L) | ||
| Lizaard Williams (₹ 75 L) | Suryansh Shegde (₹30 L) | Mohit Rathee (₹ 30 L) | ||
| Vignesh Puthur (₹ 30 L) | Xavier Bartlett (₹ 80 L) | |||
| P Avinash (₹30 L) | ||||
| Pravin Dubey (₹ 30 L) |
