Sports Desk:

The IPL 2025 Player Auction will be held overseas for the second successive year after Jeddah in Saudi Arabia was chosen as the venue for the event scheduled to be held on 24 and 25 November.

The BCCI confirmed the dates and the venue while also revealing that 1574 players have registered for the auction.

Of the registered players, 1165 are Indians with the other 409 making up the overseas players. These include 30 from Associate nations. South Africa and Australia lead the list with 91 and 76 registrations respectively.

The mega auction will clash with the opening Test of India’s tour of Australia for the Border Gavaskar Trophy. The Perth Test will kick off on November 22 and as a result, the auction will clash with Day 3 and 4 of the Test match.

Following the retentions that were confirmed on October 31, a total of 204 slots (70 overseas) are available for the ten teams to fill during the auction with each franchise allowed to have a maximum of 25 players in their squad.

Having retained just two uncapped players, Punjab Kings will enter the auction with the biggest purse (110.5 Cr). Rajasthan Royals will have the smallest purse (41 Cr) after they opted to retain six players with five of them being capped.

Source : Cricbuzz