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IPL 2025 AUCTION

Hits & misses: Some young guns make

homecoming as veterans fail at auction

Mumbai batter Ajinkya Rahane returned to Kolkata Knight Riders for his base price of Rs 1.5 crore.

KKR CEO Venky Mysore gave a thumbs up to express his delight after securing Rahane for IPL 2025

OUR BUREAU
Dubai
he Indian Premier League
(IPL) 2025 mega auction
Tturned out to be a homecoming
for uncapped pacer Arjun Tendulkar
while Royal Challengers Bengaluru
managed to bolster their bowling unit
towards the end. Son of legendary
Sachin Tendulkar, Arjun came into
the mega auction once again, and
Mumbai Indians went on to acquire
him at his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
The five-time champions then
moved in swiftly for South Africa’s
Lizaad Williams at his base price of
Rs 75 lakh. MI also made a move for
Vignesh Puthur and remained suc-
cessful in their attempts by landing
him for his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
Rajasthan Royals added Kunal
Rathore to their roster by acquiring
him for his base price of Rs 30 lakh. No paddle went up for former Australia opener David Warner even this time, and he won’t be a part of the IPL 2025 (ANI)
The inaugural IPL title winners also
added Ashok Sharma to their squad
with a price tag of Rs 30 lakh. find any bidders for himself. He went Piyush Chawla, seasoned all-rounder camp suggested that they also raised
Capped Indian player pacer Shi- unsold and won’t be a part of the IPL Shardul Thakur and Bangalore boy the paddle, but the auctioneer said
vam Mavi, who featured for Kolkata 2025. Mayank Agarwal failed to get any bids she didn’t see the paddle.
Knight Riders, Gujarat Titans and The final player of the IPL 2025 for them and went in the list of unsold SRH opened the bid for Vansh
Lucknow Super Giants, failed to fetch mega auction, Mohit Rathee, ended players. Bedi from the Delhi Premier League,
a price tag for himself. up earning a move to the RCB with a Karnakata leg-spinner Shreyas but CSK joined the action to compete
Left-arm quick Kulwant Khejroli- price tag of Rs 30 lakh. Gopal secured a move to Chepauk af- with them. CSK managed to outbid
ya, who currently features for Madhya While several Indian veteran stars ter CSK bagged him for his base price SRH and secured Bedi for Rs 55 lakh.
Pradesh, went to Gujarat Titans for failed to find themselves a franchise, of Rs 30 lakh. New Zealand’s versatile Legendary Sachin Tendulkar’s
his base price of Rs 30 lakh. South Af- some stars found reprieve after being Glenn Phillips, who was called back in son Arjun Tendulkar, uncapped stars
rican pacer Ottneil Baartman didn’t re-introduced into the Indian Premier the mega auction, was picked up by Harvik Desai, Prince Choudhary and
see any bids being raised in his favour League (IPL) 2025 mega auction on Gujarat Titans for his base price of Rs Prashant Solanki found no interest
and remained unsold. Monday. Devdutt Padikkal, who ini- 2 crore. from franchises and remained unsold.
Right-arm medium-fast Abhi- tially went unsold, reappeared in the Mumbai batter Ajinkya Rahane KKR moved in swiftly for Moeen
nandan Singh was able to secure a mega auction and returned to Royal returned to Kolkata Knight Riders for Ali and Umran Malik and acquired
move to the M Chinnaswamy Stadi- Challengers Bengaluru for his base his base price of Rs 1.5 crore. KKR them for Rs 2 crore and Rs 75 lakh,
um after the Royal Challengers Ben- price of Rs 2 crore. CEO Venky Mysore gave a thumbs respectively.
galuru swept him away for a price tag However, no paddle went up for up to express his delight after securing SRH raised the paddle for Ker-
of Rs 30 lakh. former Australia opener David War- Rahane for IPL 2025. ala seasoned star Sachin Baby and
RCB then added another pacer ner even this time, and he won’t be a DC lifted the paddle for the ex- bagged his services for Rs 30 lakh.
to their roster by making a move for part of the IPL 2025. plosive keeper-batter Donovan Fer- Andre Siddarth, who went un-
South Africa’s crafty pacer Lungi Ngi- Bangalore boy Lunith Sisodia reira, who can also bowl, to acquire sold initially, was picked up by CSK
di for his base price of Rs 1 crore. became a Knight Rider after being him for Rs 75 lakh. for his base price of Rs 30 lakh. India
Under-19 pacer Raj Limbani, picked up by the defending champions Swastik Chikkara, the top-scor- off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin
who recently made his debut in the for his base price of Rs 30 lakh. An- er in the 2024 UPT20 league, moved has talked about him on his YouTube
Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, couldn’t molpreet Singh, veteran leg-spinner from DC to RCB for Rs 30 lakh. DC channel as a player to watch out for.

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