All posts tagged: KL Rahul IPL Auction 2025

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 …

IPL Auction 2025: KL Rahul sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore | Cricket News

IPL Auction 2025: KL Rahul sold to Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore | Cricket News

IPL Auction 2025: KL Rahul was bought by the Delhi Capitals for Rs 14 crore at the IPL Mega Auction on Sunday. Four teams seemed to be all in for the former captain of Lucknow Super Giants but DC had the last laugh. Kolkata Knight Riders opened the bidding for Rahul at his base price of Rs 2 crore before RCB jumped in. The Bengaluru franchise dropped out at the Rs 10.75 crore mark. Chennai Super Kings was the other team in contention before Capitals zeroed in on the 32-year-old. Although last season there seemed to have seen a dip in Rahul’s performance, his records in the tournament are not to be ignored. The classy yet explosive opener boasts a total of 4683 runs in the tournament, playing with a strike rate of 134.61. He has four centuries to his name and a high score being 132* in 2020, the season in which he also won the Orange Cap. Though out-of-favour from the Indian side in T20Is, Rahul has amassed 2265 runs in international colours, …