Chennai Super Kings, captain- Ruturaj Gaikwad

Ahead of the mega auction at Jeddah, CSK had retained five players. They retained Ruturaj Gaikwad the captain of the ship for the highest price at Rs 18 crore, retained Shivam Dube for Rs 12 crore, retained Ravindra Jadeja again for Rs 18 crore, also they retained Matheesha Pathirana the overseas fast bowler from Sri Lanka for Rs 13 crore and finally they retained their biggest star MS Dhoni for Rs 4 crore as an uncapped player. Therefore going into the mega auction CSK had a total purse of Rs 55 crore and they had the option of one Right to Match card at the auction. Going into the auction, there was talks about CSK going for Rishabh Pant as a successor of MS Dhoni but this didn’t happen. Instead CSK went for Rachin Ravindra and got him for 4 crore and CSK went for trusted opening batter and overseas wicketkeeper in Devon Conway and got him for 6.25 crore. One of the talking point after the auction was R. Ashwin returned to his home team after CSK got him for Rs 9.75 crore. At the end CSK got what they wanted but given the T20 dynamics and competitiveness nowadays, CSK could have gone for an explosive batter. 

Full squad 2025:

Indian players: Ruturaj Gaikwad(c), MS Dhoni, Ayush Mhatre, Shaik Rasheed, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Anshul Kamboj, Khaleel Ahmed, R. Ashwin, K Nagarkoti, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tripathi, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Urvil Patel, Andre Siddarth C.

Overseas players: Sam Curran, Dewald Brevis, Noor Ahmad, Matheesha Pathirana, Jamie Overton, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Nathan Ellis

Mumbai Indians, captain- Hardik Pandya.

Ahead of the mega auction the talking point was whether MI will retain Rohit Sharma or not after what has transpired last year. But all these were speculation as MI retained the Mumbaikar Rohit Sharma for Rs 16.30 crore. MI had retained their star core players. Captain Hardik Pandya was retained for Rs 16.35 crore, prime bowler Jasprit Bumrah was retained for Rs 18 crore, star batsman Suryakumar Yadav was retained for Rs 16.35 crore and Tilak Verma was retained for Rs 8 crore as an uncapped player. Going into the auction MI had a total purse of Rs 45 crore. In the auction MI had some smart buys. They bought back the experienced left arm New Zealander Trent Boult for Rs 12.5 crore. Bumrah and Boult will be a deadly combination for MI. MI have also got Deepak Chahar for Rs 9.25 crore. They bought the explosive England batsman Will Jacks for just Rs 5.25 crore. MI have also got the experienced New Zealand spinner for a cheap amount of Rs 2 crore. Overall,the squad looks balanced.

Full Squad 2025:

Indian players:  Hardik Pandya ©, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Raj Bawa, Jasprit Bumrah, Arjun Tendulkar, Krishnan Shrijith, Robin Minz, Ashwani Kumar, Karn Sharma, Satyanarayana Raju, Deepak Chahar, Raghu Sharma.

Overseas players: Bevon Jacobs, Will Jacks, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Ryan Rickelton, Reece Topley, Mujeeb Ur Rahman.

Kolkata Knight Riders, captain- Ajinkya Rahane

Ahead of the mega auction KKR had retained six players. Surprisingly they let go the winning captain Shreyas Iyer, the explosive England opener Phil Salt, the Aussie pacer Mitchell Starc. Instead they trusted the two West Indian Sunil Narine and Andre Russell and retained them for Rs 12 crores respectively. They have also shown faith in Rinku Singh as he was retained for Rs 13 crore. Varun Chakravarthy was retained for Rs 12 crore. And KKR had retained Harshit Rana and Ramandeep Singh for 4 crores respectively as the uncapped players. Going into the auction, KKR had Rs 51 crore in their total purse. KKR had a terrible performance at the auction. They bought back Venkatesh Iyer for a whopping amount of Rs 23.74 crore and raised many eyebrows. They got Quinton De Kock for Rs 3.6 crore. But De Kock is past his prime, and he has retired from International cricket. After going unsold in the first round of the auction, experienced batsman Ajinkya Rahane was bought by KKR for Rs 1.50 Cr. Later on he was announced as the captain of the team.

Full Squad 2025: 

Indian players: Ajinkya Rahane ©, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh,  Varun Chakravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Luvnith Sisodia, Mayank Markande, Chetan Sarkariya.

Overseas players: Rahmanuallah Gurbaz, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell,  Moeen Ali, Rovman Powell, Anrich Nortje, Spencer Johnson, Quinton De Kock.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru, captain- Rajat Patidar

Ahead of the mega auction, RCB has retained three players. Star Batsman Virat Kohli was retained for Rs 21 crore, Rajat Patidar was retained for Rs 11 crore and Yash Dayal was retained for Rs 5 crore. RCB had a total amount of Rs 83 Crore going into the mega auction. In the auction RCB had some smart buys. They bought Phil Salt, Tim David and Liam Livingstone. They have also bought the experienced swing bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. 

Full Squad 2025

Indian players: Rajat Patidar ©, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chikara, Krunal Pandya, Manoj Bhandage, Swapnil Singh, Mohit Rathee, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Yash Dayal, Abhinandan Singh.

Overseas players: Tim David, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Lungi Ngidi, Nuwan Thushara

Rajasthan Royals, captain- Sanju Samson

Ahead of the auction, there was a major talking point whether Rajasthan Royals will retain the likes of Jos Buttler and Yuzi Chahal or not. Surprisingly they released both of them. RR have retained Yashasvi Jaiswal and Sanju Samson for Rs 18 crores respectively. They retained young Indian batters Riyan Parag and Dhruv Jurel for 14 crores respectively. They retained Shimron Hetmyer for Rs 11 crore and Sandeep Sharma for Rs 4 crore as the uncapped player. Rajasthan had a total amount of Rs 41 crore going into the auction. Like KKR, RR too didn't have a good auction. They bought players like Nitish Rana, Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer and Tushar Deshpande who are not proven match winners yet. 

Full Squad 2025

Indian players: Sanju Samson ©, Riyan Parag, Yashavi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Nitish Rana, Dhruv Jurel, Kunal Singh Rathore, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Tushar Deshpande, Kumar Kartikeya, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma

Overseas players: Wanindu Hasaranga, Kwena Mapwal, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jofra Archer.

Lucknow Super Giants, captain: Rishabh Pant

Lucknow Super Giants were in the headlines before the auction as they released KL Rahul, their captain. Lucknow retained five players. Nicholas Pooran for Rs 11 crores, Ravi Bishnoi for Rs 11 crores, Mayank Yadav for Rs 11 crore and Ayush Badoni and Mohsin Khan for Rs 4 crores respectively as the uncapped players. In the auction, Rishabh Pant was the headline as he was the most expensive player bought  in the entire IPL history. He was bought for Rs 27 Crore. 

Full Squad

Indian players: Rishabh Pant ©, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahamad, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Aryan Juyal, Himmat Singh, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Ayush Badoni, Shardul Thakur, Avesh Khan, Akash Deep, M. Siddarth, Digvesh Singh, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Ravi Bishnoi

Overseas players: Aiden Markram, David Miller, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Shamar Joseph, Matthew Breetzke.

Delhi Capitals, captain: Axar Patel

Ahead of the auction, Delhi Capitals have retained Axar Patel for Rs 16.50 crore, Kuldeep Yadav for Rs 13.25 crore, Tristan Stubbs for Rs 10 crore and Rs 4 crore for Abhishek Porel as the uncapped player. Delhi Capitals had Rs 73 crore purse remaining going into the auction. Delhi have bought some great players. They bought the likes of KL Rahul, Faf Du Plessis, Mitchell Starc and Mohit Sharma. 

Full Squad

Indian players:  Axar Patel,(c) K.L Rahul, Asutosh Sharma, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Sameer Rizvi, Darshan Nalkande, Vijpraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, T. Natrajan, Mohit Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Kuldeep Yadav

Overseas players: Faf Du Plessis, Donovan Ferreira, Tristan Stubbs, Mitchell Starc, Dushmantha Chameera.

Sunrisers Hyderabad, captain: Pat Cummins

Last year’s runner up Sunrisers Hyderabad retained their top players who performed last year. Sunrisers have retained explosive South African batsman Heinrich Klaasen for a whopping Rs 23 Crore, retained the skipper Pat Cummins for Rs 18 crore, Abhishek Sharma for Rs 14 crore, Travis Head for Rs 14 crore and Nitish Reddy for Rs 6 crore. Sunrisers had a total purse of Rs 45 crore going into the auction. In the auction SRH has made some decent Indian buys like Ishan Kishan, Mohammad Shami and Rahul Chahar. 

Full Squad

Indian players: Ishan Kishan, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Aniket Verma, Sachin Baby, Smaran Ravichandran, Harshal Patel, Harsh Dubey, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammad Shami, Rahul Chahar, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat.

Overseas players: Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Kamindu Mendis, Wiaan Mulder, Eshan Malinga. 

Punjab Kings, captain- Shreyas Iyer

Ahead of the mega auction, Punjab Kings have only retained two players. Shashank Singh for Rs 5.5 crore and local Punjab player Prabhsimran Singh for Rs 4 crore as the uncapped player. Therefore Punjab has the most amount of money of Rs 110.15 crore in the purse. They have bought some fine players like Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzi Chahal, Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis and Lockie Ferguson. 

Full Squad

Indian players: Shreyas Iyer, © Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Pyla Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Harpreet Brar, Priyansh Arya, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Kuldeep Sen, Pravin Dubey.

Overseas players: Josh Inglis, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Aaron Hardie, Glenn Maxwell, Lockie Ferguson, Xavier Bartlett.

Gujarat Titans, captain- Shubhman Gill

Ahead of the mega auction, Gujarat Titans have retained Rashid Khan for Rs 18 Crore, captain Subhman Gill for Rs 16.50 crore, Sai Sudharsan for Rs 8.50 crore and Rahul Tewatia and Shahrukh Khan for 4 crores respectively as the uncapped players. GT had left a total purse of Rs 69 crore going into the auction. In the auction, GT bought the dynamic Jos Buttler for Rs 15.75 crore. Apart from Buttler GT got Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj and Prasidh Krishna. Overall the squad looks balanced and well settled.

Full Squad

Indian players: Shubhman Gill ©, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Mahipal Lomror, Washington Sundar, Mohd. Arshad Khan, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Sai Sudharsan,  Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Manav Suthar, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Ishant Sharma, Kulwant Khejroliya.

Overseas players:  Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Rashid Khan, Gerald Coetzee, Dasun Shanaka, Karim Janat, Sherfane Rutherford.