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IPL auction 2025 – How the teams stack up after day one of the mega auction

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November 25, 2024

IPL auction 2025 - How the teams stack up after day one of the mega auction

Mumbai Indians

Large takeaway on Sunday: Purchased solely 4 gamers on day one of many public sale, taking their squad power to only 9, the bottom together with RCB. They solely have one abroad participant in Boult.

What they want on Monday: Opening companion for Rohit, one other wicketkeeper, lower-middle order batters, extra quick bowlers and spinners

SQUAD
Batters: Suryakumar Yadav (retained), Rohit Sharma (retained), Tilak Varma (retained)
Wicketkeepers: Robin Minz
Allrounders: Naman Dhir (spin; RTM), Hardik Pandya (tempo; retained)
Spinners: Karn Sharma
Quick bowlers: Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah (retained)

Purse remaining 26.1 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: None
Slots remaining 16/25 (7 abroad)

Chennai Tremendous Kings

Large takeaway on Sunday: Purchased again Conway and Ravindra. Strengthened spin assault with Ashwin and Noor.

What they want on Monday: Quick bowlers and middle-order batters

SQUAD
Batters: Rahul Tripathi, Ruturaj Gaikwad (retained)
Wicketkeepers: Devon Conway, MS Dhoni (retained)
Allrounders: R Ashwin (spin), Rachin Ravindra (spin; RTM), Vijay Shankar (seam), Ravindra Jadeja (spin; retained), Shivam Dube (tempo; retained)
Spinners: Noor Ahmad
Quick bowlers: Khaleel Ahmed, Matheesha Pathirana (retained)

Purse remaining 15.6 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: None
Slots remaining 13/25 (4 abroad)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Large takeaway on Sunday: Purchased six gamers however nonetheless have solely 9 gamers within the squad. Spent large on Salt, Jitesh, Hazlewood and Rasikh.

What they want on Monday: Center-order batters, back-up opener and fast-bowling and spin assist.

SQUAD
Batters: Virat Kohli (retained), Rajat Patidar (retained)
Wicketkeepers: Jitesh Sharma, Phil Salt
Allrounders: Liam Livingstone (spin)
Spinners: Suyash Sharma
Quick bowlers: Rasikh Salam, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal (retained)

Purse remaining 30.65 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: 3
Slots remaining 16/25 (5 abroad)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Large takeaway on Sunday: SRH made robust additions to their tempo assault, and in addition picked up Kishan as a robust Indian wicket-keeper, which they did not have final season

What they want on Monday: Center-order and back-up batters, and an offspinner

SQUAD
Batters: Abhinav Manohar, Travis Head (retained)
Wicketkeepers: Atharva Taide, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen (retained)
Allrounders: Abhishek Sharma (spin; retained), Nitish Kumar Reddy (tempo; retained)
Spinners: Adam Zampa, Rahul Chahar
Quick bowlers: Simarjeet Singh, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Shami, Pat Cummins (retained)

Purse remaining 5.15 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: 1
Slots remaining 12/25 (4 abroad)

Kolkata Knight Riders

Large takeaway on Sunday: Purchased again 4 gamers from their title-winning squad, after retaining six, however needed to spend INR 23.75 crore for Venkatesh Iyer. They have already got most of their first XI in place

What they want on Monday: A middle-order batter for the primary XI and back-ups for different slots.

SQUAD
Batters: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh (retained)
Wicketkeepers: Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz
Allrounders: Venkatesh Iyer (tempo), Andre Russel (tempo; retained), Sunil Narine (spin; retained), Ramandeep Singh (tempo; retained)
Spinners: Mayank Markande, Varun Chakravarthy (retained)
Quick bowlers: Vaibhav Arora, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana (retained)

Purse remaining 10.05 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: None
Slots remaining 12/25 (3 abroad)

Lucknow Tremendous Giants

Large takeaway on Sunday: Wanted a captain and spent a document INR 27 crore to purchase Pant.

What they want on Monday: An Indian opening choice, an abroad quick bowler, and extra spinners

SQUAD
Batters: Aiden Markram, David Miller, Ayush Badoni (retained)
Wicket-keepers: Rishabh Pant, Aryan Juyal, Nicholas Pooran (retained)
Allrounders: Adbul Samad (spin) Mitchell Marsh (tempo)
Spinners: Ravi Bishnoi (retained)
Quick bowlers: Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav (retained), Mohsin Khan (retained)

Purse remaining 14.85 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: None
Slots remaining 13/25 (4 abroad)

Delhi Capitals

Large takeaway on Sunday: Picked up Rahul as a possible captain, explosive batters in Fraser-McGurk and Brook, and Starc and Natarajan to spearhead their tempo division, which was weak final season. Most of their first XI is in place already

What they want on Monday: A back-up spinner, back-up batters, and extra fast-bowling choices

SQUAD
Batters: Jake Fraser-McGurk (RTM) Harry Brook, Karun Nair, Tristan Stubbs (retained)
Wicket-keepers: KL Rahul, Abishek Porel (retained)
Allrounders: Ashutosh Sharma (spin), Sameer Rizvi (spin), Axar Patel (spin; retained)
Spinners: Kuldeep Yadav (retained)
Quick bowlers: Mohit Sharma, T Natarajan, Mitchell Starc

Purse remaining 13.8 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: 1
Slots remaining 12/25 (4 abroad)

Rajasthan Royals

Large takeaway on Sunday: RR wanted bowlers and so they bought quite a lot of them – Hasaranga, Theekshana, Archer, Madhwal and Kartikeya – regardless of not shopping for any of the primary 36 gamers on day one.

What they want on Monday: Prime and middle-order batters, and back-up quick bowlers

SQUAD
Batters: Yashasvi Jaiswal (retained), Shimron Hetmyer (retained)
Wicket-keepers: Sanju Samson (retained), Dhruv Jurel (retained)
Allrounders: Riyan Parag (spin; retained)
Spinners: Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Kumar Kartikeya
Quick bowlers: Jofra Archer, Akash Madhwal, Sandeep Sharma (retained)

Purse remaining 17.35 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: None
Slots remaining 14/25 (4 abroad)

Gujarat Titans

Large takeaway on Sunday: Scored three marquee gamers in Buttler, Siraj and Rabada, and later purchased Prasidh to additional strengthen tempo shares.

What they want on Monday: Some confirmed T20 pedigree within the middle-order, skilled Indian spinner to companion Rashid, and back-up tempo choices.

SQUAD
Batters: Shubman Gill (retained), Sai Sudharsan (retained), Rahul Tewatia (retained)
Wicket-keepers: Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat
Allrounders: Mahipal Lomror (spin), Nishant Sindhu (tempo), Rashid Khan (spin; retained), Shahrukh Khan (spin; retained)
Spinners: Manav Suthar
Quick bowlers: Prasidh Krishna, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj

Purse remaining 17.5 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: 1
Slots remaining 11/25 (5 abroad)

Punjab Kings

Large takeaway on Sunday: Had the largest purse initially of the public sale – INR 110.5 crore – and so they purchased probably the most gamers on day one: ten. PBKS bought a probable captain in Shreyas, purchased again Arshdeep, bought an skilled spinner in Chahal, and two Australian allrounders in Stoinis and Maxwell

What they want on Monday: Opening choices, and extra quick bowlers, particularly a few abroad choices

SQUAD
Batters: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh (retained)
Wicket-keepers: Vishnu Vinod, Prabhsimran Singh (retained)
Allrounders: Harpreet Brar (spin), Glenn Maxwell (spin), Marcus Stoinis (seam)
Spinners: Yuzvendra Chahal
Quick bowlers: Yash Thakur, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Arshdeep Singh (RTM)

Purse remaining 22.5 CR (out of INR 120 CR)
Proper-to-match remaining: 3
Slots remaining 13/25 (6 abroad)