
CHENNAI: Day 2 of Mega Auction was a delight for fast bowlers. The top 5 maxmimum spent picks were spent on the pacers. Starting with Bhuvneshwar Kumar who was sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for Rs 10.75 crore, the biggest buy of the day. Deepak Chahar, former Chennai player, was bought by their arch-rivals Mumbai Indians (MI) for Rs 9.25 crore. Other big fast bowler buys has been Akash Deep for Rs 8 crore to Punjab Kings (PBKS) and Tushar Deshpande for Rs 6.50 crore to Rajasthan Royals (RR).
History was also made with 13-year-old, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, becoming the youngest ever player to be sold at an IPL Auction. He was bought by Rajasthan Royals for Rs 1.1 crore.
Meanwhile, Mumbai also made an absolute steal by buying another CSK player Mitchell Santner at the base price of Rs 2 crore.
In addition to this, South Africa all-rounder Marco Jansen has been the most expensive buy so far for Punjab Kings at Rs 7 crore.
The RCB also went hard for Krunal Pandya and brought him for 5.75 crore. Sam Curran on the other hand returned to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) for 2.40 crore.
Big names including Shardul Thakur, Kane Williamson, Prithvi Shaw has gone unsold in the IPL 2025 Mega Auction.
Here is a look at the remaining purse of each team:
Chennai Super Kings - 15.60 cr
Mumbai Indians - 26.10 cr
Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 30.65 cr
Kolkata Knight Riders - 10.05 cr
Lucknow Super Giants - 14.85 cr
Gujarat Titans - 17.50 cr
Sunrises Hyderabad - 5.15 cr
Punjab Kings - 22.50 cr
Rajasthan Royals - 17.35 cr
Delhi Capitals - 13.80 cr
The bidding war on Day 2 is about to start in few minutes
Not just for Ravi Ashwin, its going to be homecoming for Sam Curran as well with CSK
The auction will resume at 5:30 pm
CSK - Rs 13.20 cr
MI - Rs 11.05 cr
RCB - Rs 14.15 cr
KKR - Rs 8.55 cr
SRH - Rs 5.15 cr
RR - Rs 6.65 cr
PBKS - Rs 10.90 cr
DC - Rs 3.80 cr
GT - Rs 11.90 cr
LSG - Rs 6.85 cr
Punjab brought him at 90 L. Gt exercised their RTM and Punjab raised the amount to 2 CR. GT accepts the player and retains him
The 13-year-old has found a place in Rajasthan team, becoming the youngest player ever to play IPL