The auction for next year’s Indian Premier League, IPL 2025 will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 24 and 25 of this month. BCCI announced this yesterday.

This is the second successive year the auction is being held overseas as Dubai hosted the previous one ahead of the IPL 2024. A total of 1,574 cricketers with 1,165 Indian and 409 overseas have been signed up for the auction this time.

Each franchise will be able to form a maximum squad of 25 players (including respective retained players) and a total of 204 slots will be up for grabs from the auction. The 10 franchises will collectively have around 641.5 crore rupees to spend for the available 204 slots.