IPL 2025 auction full list: 574 players, 366 Indians; 13-year-old Vaibhav youngest
Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Arshdeep Singh are among the 81 players with a top base price of Rs 2 crore
The BCCI has released the final list for the IPL 2025 auction, and 574 players, including a 13-year-old Indian, will go under the hammer in Saudi Arabia's Jeddah on November 24 and 25.
Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, and Arshdeep Singh are among the 81 players with a top base price of Rs 2 crore.
13-year-old in auction list
Thirteen-year-old India U-19 cricketer Vaibhav Suryavanshi from Bihar is the youngest among the lot at Rs 30 lakh base price.
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The BCCI on Friday (November 15) pruned the initial list of 1,574 players down to 574 out of which 366 are Indians and 208 from overseas. All the current India players are in top base price bracket.
Apart from Pant, set to be the costliest buy at the auction with a team like Punjab Kings aiming to go the distance with Rs 110.50 crore in its kitty, the other big names include IPL-winning captain Iyer, India's most prolific T20I bowler Arshdeep, Rahul, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Avesh Khan.
There are 81 players in the top bracket while 27 are in Rs 1.5 crore category. There are 18 in the Rs 1.25 crore category while 23 have priced themselves at Rs 1 crore.
Jos Buttler of England also enjoys the top base price bracket of Rs 2 crore along with countrymen Harry Brook and Jonny Bairstow while the retired James Anderson, at Rs 1.25 crore base price, has made it to the curtailed list despite T20 not being his strongest format.
48 capped Indians
The biggest names in the top bracket from overseas are Kagiso Rabada, Anrich Nortje from South Africa, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, and Mitchell Starc from Australia. Marco Jansen and Rachin Ravindra are priced at Rs 1.25 crore.
There are 48 capped Indians while 193 are capped overseas players in the final list.
Former India U-19 World Cup winning skipper Unmukt Chand, who has migrated to the United States, has made the cut as Associate member nation player while seamer Saurabh Nethravalkar, who was a revelation during T20 World Cup, wasn't shortlisted.
Italy's Thomas Draca, who plays for MI Emirates, also didn't make the cut.
Here is the full list of players who will go under the hammer at the IPL 2025 auction
