IPL 2025 Auction, Day 1 LIVE Updates: Full list of sold, unsold players; Rishabh Pant becomes most expensive player ever at 27 crore

Sportstar presents the full list of sold and unsold players—batters, bowlers, all-rounders, and wicketkeepers—in the IPL 2025 auction.

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Rishabh Pant became the most expensive player ever to be sold at an Indian Premier League auction after the Lucknow Super Giants acquired the wicketkeeper-batter’s services for Rs. 27 crore.

Earlier, the title-winning captain of IPL 2024, Shreyas Iyer, had broken the all-time record, going for Rs. 26.75 crore to Punjab Kings at the auction. Delhi Capitals and PBKS were involved in an epic battle to acquire the batter’s services.

Meanwhile, Arshdeep Singh became the first player to go under the hammer from the marquee set. The India bowler initiated a bidding war between Chennai Super Kings, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Sunrisers Hyderabad, DC and Gujarat Titans before Punjab exercised its Right to Match option at Rs. 18 crore.

The day one of the Indian Premier League Player Auction will witness names of 84 cricketers – the first 12 sets – being called by the auctioneer Mallika Sagar.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed the sequence in a communication after Saturday night’s pre-auction briefing. It confirmed that the opening day will see a 30-minute break and two breaks of 15 minutes each during the proceedings.

It means that besides the marquee players, only one set each of capped and uncapped players will go under the hammer on Sunday.

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With the revised base prices, doubts were raised about incremental bid amounts by the franchises during the briefing. The BCCI clarified that while the incremental bids between Rs. 1 crore and Rs. 2 crore will be Rs. 10 lakh, for a base price of Rs. 1.25 crore, the second bid will be Rs. 1.30 crore (The second bid gets rounded off to the nearest decimal).

The incremental bids are the same as last year: Rs. five lakh (Up to 1 crore), Rs. 10 lakh (1 to 2 crore), Rs. 20 lakh (2 to 5 crore) and Rs. 25 lakh (5 crore onward).

Here is the full list of players (sold and unsold) at the IPL 2025 Auction

SOLD PLAYERS

BATTERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹) - Selling Price (in ₹) - Team

Shreyas Iyer - 2 crore - 26.75 crore - Punjab Kings

BOWLERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹) - Selling Price (in ₹) - Team

Arshdeep Singh - 2 crore - 18 crore - Punjab Kings (RTM)

Kagiso Rabada - 2 crore - 10.75 crore - Gujarat Titans

Mitchell Starc - 2 crore - 11.75 crore - Delhi Capitals

ALL-ROUNDERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹) - Selling Price (in ₹) - Team

TBA

WICKETKEEPERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹) - Selling Price (in ₹) - Team

Jos Buttler - 2 crore - 15.75 crore - Gujarat Titans

Rishabh Pant - 2 crore - 27 crore - Lucknow Super Giants

UNSOLD PLAYERS

BATTERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹)

TBA

BOWLERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹)

TBA

ALL-ROUNDERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹)

TBA

WICKETKEEPERS

READ AS --> Player Name - Base Price (in ₹)

TBA