IPL 2025 Mega Auction: What time will it start today...?
What time will the IPL 2025 Mega Auction start today and where to watch live can be found in detail here. The day that all indian cricket fans have been eagerly waiting for has arrived. The mega auction to select players for the IPL 2025 season begins today (Nov. 24). It will be held in a grand manner at the Abadi Al Zohar Stadium in Jetta, a port city in Saudi Arabia. The IPL 2025 Mega Auction brings expectations and excitement equal to the IPL series. In that way, 46 players have been retained by all 10 teams after this mega auction. A team must have a minimum of 18 players and a maximum of 25 players. With 46 out of 250 players retained, up to 204 players can be taken in this mega auction. This includes 70 foreign players.
Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Mohammed Shami, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jos Buttler, Kagiso Rabada, Liam Livingston, David Miller, Mitchell Starc, a total of 12 key players will be auctioned in two sets. Although a total of more than 1500 people registered, a total of 577 players were finalized based on the recommendations of the teams. Like the last 2024 IPL mini-auction, this time mallika Sagar will be the one to auction the players. She has also been involved in auctions of series including Women's Premier League (WPL) and Pro Kabaddi. Out of the 577 players, 367 are indian players and 210 are foreign players. Since all these 577 players cannot be auctioned, the auction will be held in sets up to the 116th player and then it will be accelerated. The Accelerated Auction will be held twice. For the first accelerated auction, the players from the 117th to the 577th player will be auctioned based on the list provided by the teams. After this is done, the players who have not been taken in the auction till then and the players who have not been auctioned will be auctioned. A total of Rs 1,200 crore has been fixed for the 10 teams, at Rs 120 crore each. Currently, after retaining 46 players, the remaining 10 teams have Rs 641.50 crore. Up to 204 players are to be auctioned from this amount.

Who has how much money in their hands?
Punjab Kings have the highest amount of Rs 110.5 crore, RCB Rs 83 crore, and delhi Rs 73 crore. Similarly, rajasthan Royals have the lowest amount of Rs 41 crore, mumbai Indians Rs 45 crore, and Sunrisers hyderabad Rs 45 crore. gujarat and lucknow teams have Rs 69 crore each, chennai Super Kings Rs 55 crore, and kolkata team Rs 51 crore.
It has been reported that the IPL 2025 mega auction will begin only after the completion of the third day of the first Test match of the Border Gavaskar Trophy between australia and India. Accordingly, the Test match will end at 3.20 pm today according to indian time. Following this, the IPL mega auction will begin at 3.30 pm. The IPL mega auction will be held in two sessions on both days. The first session will be from 3.30 pm to 5 pm. Following this, a lunch break is scheduled from 5 pm to 5.45 pm.
Following that, the second session will start at 5.45 pm and will continue till 10.30 pm. It is also said that this accelerated auction may be held later than 10 pm today. The IPL 2025 mega auction can be watched for free on the jio Cinema OTT platform. It can also be watched on tv by subscribing to Star sports Network channels.