IPL Auction 2025: The mega auction for the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) is going on in Saudi Arabia. In which, like every time, this year too a lot of money is being showered on the players. While every franchise wants to bring a good player in their team, today’s Ox has destroyed all the old records in IPL history. Lucknow Super Giants franchise has included Rishabh Pant in its team by buying it for Rs 27 crore. With this, Pant has become the most expensive player in the history of IPL.
Pant, who captained Delhi Capitals last season, had entered the auction this season with a base price of Rs 2 crore. Sunrisers Hyderabad also paid Rs. for Pant. A bid of Rs 20.50 crore was received. Finally, LSG has taken the highest bidder Pant in their team.
Like Rishabh Pant, today money has been showered on Shreyas Iyer, who led the Kolkata Knight Riders team to the title in Oxford last season. Punjab Kings franchise has bought Shreyas Iyer for Rs 26.75 crore. The base price of Shreyas Iyer was also Rs 2 crore, in which the Royal Challengers Bangalore team also showed interest in buying. Ultimately the KKR franchise won.
Apart from this, if we look at the other 3 most expensive players today, there is Venkatesh Iyer who was bought by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 23.75 crore. Yuzvendra Chahal, who was bought by Punjab Kings franchise for Rs 18 crore. With this, Chahal has also become the most expensive Indian spin bowler. Apart from this, fast bowler Arshdeep has been retained by Punjab Kings team for Rs 18 crore using RTM.
This is the talk of today’s most expensive player, now if we look at the most expensive player in the history of IPL, then two of today’s players are also competing in it. In which Rishabh Pant (27 crores) and Shreyas Iyer (26.75 crores) are at first and second place.
Whereas in the last season the highest bid for Mitchell Starc was Rs 24.75 crores. Due to which he became the most expensive player in IPL history. Last season, Pat Cummins was also bought by Oxon for Rs 20.50 crore. Now this record is in the name of Pant.
Before this, players like Sam Curran for Rs 18.5 crore in 2023, Ishan Kishan for Rs 15.25 crore in 2022, Chris Morris for Rs 16.25 crore in 2021, Pat Cummins for Rs 15.5 crore in 2020, Yuvraj Singh for Rs 16 crore in 2015 have been the most expensive. However, new records continue to be made every year.
