The mega auction sooner than the Indian Premier League 2025 could be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24 and 25, the BCCI supplied on Tuesday.
That is the second successive year the auction is being held out of the country as Dubai hosted the earlier one sooner than the IPL 2024.
The player registration officially closed on Monday and a whole of 1,574 cricketers (1,165 Indian and 409 out of the country) had been signed up for the auction, which is willing to conflict with the third and fourth day’s play of the first Test between India and Australia in Perth, which begins on November 22.
Every franchise could be in a space to invent a maximum squad of 25 gamers (alongside side respective retained gamers), and a whole of 204 slots could be up for grabs from the auction.
The listing comprises 320 capped gamers, 1,224 uncapped gamers and 30 gamers from the Affiliate International locations.
Amongst capped gamers, forty eight are from India. Furthermore, 965 uncapped gamers of the country can even be section of the auction.
This year’s auction will feature some excessive-profile India stars equivalent to Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Arshdeep Singh.
The ten franchises will collectively hang around ₹641.5 crore to use for the accessible 204 slots.
Out of those 204 slots, 70 are earmarked for out of the country gamers.
As of now, 46 gamers had been retained by the 10 franchises with cumulative expenditure of ₹558.5 crore.
Every franchise changed into once dispensed ₹120 crore to extinguish their squads nonetheless after the retention direction of, which changed into once supplied on October 31, Punjab Kings hang the largest purse — ₹110.5 crore.
The Punjab outfit retained just two uncapped gamers — Shashank Singh and Prabhsimran Singh for ₹9.5 crore.
Rajasthan Royals, below Sanju Samson, hang the smallest purse of ₹41 crore after keeping six gamers.
The Kolkata Knight Riders hang also retained six gamers nonetheless they’ve a final purse of ₹51 crore.
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(Edited by : Poonam Behura)
