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IPL Auction notes: How teams embraced well-laid plans and mindful spending to assemble strong squads | Cricket News

IPL Auction notes: How teams embraced well-laid plans and mindful spending to assemble strong squads | Cricket News

IPL Auction 2025: Beyond a 17-year-old tournament witnessing a 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi become a crorepati and Ambala born Gurjapneet Singh who found a home at Tamil Nadu now donning the famous yellow jersey, the two-day IPL mega auctions saw teams tussle for the best talents and assemble a strong squad. In the past, franchises have come out of the auction table with plenty of unanswered questions and imbalanced squads. But at Jeddah they came up with well-laid plans and put together evenly matched squads on paper. The two most successful franchises with five titles each, they remained in total control, even as others scrambled around. Having retained their Indian core, Mumbai Indians as usual went big for an overseas pacer in Trent Boult and a new ball bowler in Deepak Chahar. For the rest, they relied on their scouting team, which helped them snap Ryan Rickelton and uncapped Kiwi Bevan-John Jacobs to lend lower-order firepower. In Will Jacks, they got their overseas top-order bat and finished another auction without going big on a spinner. Chennai …

Record Rs 639.15 crore spent, Rishabh Pant most expensive, bowlers steal show – India TV

Record Rs 639.15 crore spent, Rishabh Pant most expensive, bowlers steal show – India TV

Image Source : BCCI/IPL IPL mega auction 2025 in Jeaadh on November 25, 2025 The dust settled after a two-day non-stop action in the IPL mega auction 2025 in Jeaddh on November 24 and 25. Ten teams went all gun blazing to finalise their squads for the Indian Premier League 2025 season but it came at the cost of record-breaking Rs 639.15 crore. Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer were the biggest buys on day 1 while the experienced bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar emerged as the top pick on day 2 of the auction. As expected, Punjab Kings stole the show by signing three marquee players as they built their team from scratch. Lucknow Super Giants made Rishabh the most expensive player in the tournament history by splashing Rs 27 crore, just 25 lakh more than what Punjab Kings spent for Shreyas. Kolkata Knight Riders then stunned the fans by scorching Rs 23.75 crore to re-sign batting all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer. After the above trio, Arshdeep Singh and Yuzvendra Chahal, India’s top two all-time leading wicket-takers in T20Is, …