THIS star cricketer registers for IPL 2025 mega auction for first time in his 22-year career, will be available for Rs 15000000 base price

The IPL 2025 mega auction has received 1,574 registration and out of those 409 are overseas cricketers. The list of players for the auction will be trimmed after consultation with 10 franchise owners.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction have received a whopping 1,574 registrations to fill 2024 slots. The two-day event is set to take place in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia on November 24 and 25.

Among the 409 overseas cricketers who have registered for the mega auction, there is an unlikely name of veteran England pacer James Anderson. The Englishman has registered for an IPL auction for the first time in his 22-year career at the age of 42 years after retiring from international cricket earlier this year.

Anderson retired from Test cricket with 704 wickets in 188 Tests at an average of 26.45. He also picked up 269 ODI wickets in 194 matches. He has played in only 44 T20 matches in his career and picked up 41 wickets at an average of 32.14. The Lancashire pacer has registered for a base price of Rs 1.5 crore.

England’s record Test wicket-taker James Anderson has registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction 📝 pic.twitter.com/Gb17cUkKSN

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However, Anderson’s England captain Ben Stokes has chosen not to register for the mega auction. Stokes had opted out of IPL 2024 as well to manage his workload and fitness. During the Hundred in August earlier this year, Stokes had suffered a hamstring injury, which sidelined him for two months.

The extensive list of registered players, which will be trimmed after input from the franchises, includes all the marquee Indian players not retained by their teams. Among them, former captains Rishabh Pant (Delhi Capitals), KL Rahul (Lucknow Super Giants), and Shreyas Iyer (Kolkata Knight Riders) are listed with a base price of Rs 2 crore. Joining them are Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal, both released by Rajasthan Royals, and Mohammed Shami, who hasn’t played since the 2023 ODI World Cup final due to injuries.

Other Indian players at the maximum base price of Rs 2 crore include Khaleel Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Ishan Kishan, Mukesh Kumar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, and Umesh Yadav.

Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan, unsold in the last auction, have registered at a base price of Rs 75 lakh. Mitchell Starc, the most expensive player in IPL history after being bought for Rs 24.50 crore by Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in 2024, returns to the auction pool at a base price of Rs 2 crore. Jofra Archer, having played only five games for Mumbai Indians (MI) in 2023 due to injuries, is also listed at the same base price.

The list also features an unusual entrant, Italy’s Thomas Draca, who played in the Global T20 Canada and was recently picked by MI Emirates for the ILT20 in the UAE.

Franchises can build squads of up to 25 players, with 204 slots available at the auction after retaining 46 players across the ten teams. Each team has a total purse of Rs 120 crore, with Punjab Kings (PBKS) having the largest remaining purse (Rs 110.5 crore), followed by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) (Rs 83 crore) and Delhi Capitals (DC) (Rs 73 crore).

(with ANI inputs)