Sports Desk. The mega auction for IPL 2025 is going on. Initially bidding took place on 12 marquee players. This time the list of marquee players includes seven Indian and five foreign players. All these players are very popular in the cricket world, they have performed well in T20 cricket in the last few years. Of these, everyone’s eyes were on Rishabh Pant.
Pant (Rishabh Pant) was released by the Delhi Capitals team before the auction. It was certain that a big bid would be made on them and that is exactly what happened. LSG team bought Pant for Rs 27 crore. For the first time since 2016, Pant will be seen playing for a team other than Delhi. Pant has been in excellent form recently. He scored a lot of runs last year while returning after a car accident. Lucknow team can make him captain.
Pant has thus become the player sold at the highest price in IPL history. In this matter, he has left behind Shreyas Iyer who was sold for Rs 26.75 crore just a short time ago. Initially there was a war between Lucknow and RCB for Rishabh Pant. Pant had entered the auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore and within a short time his price had crossed Rs 10 crore. During this time Hyderabad also participated in the race.
On the auction table, Hyderabad owner Kavya Maran and Lucknow owner Sanjay Goenka kept bidding for Pant (Rishabh Pant) and soon the price crossed Rs 17 crore. Hyderabad and Lucknow did not stop here either and the bidding on Pant continued to increase. Lucknow bid Rs 20.75 crore for Pant and Hyderabad backed out. However Delhi used RTM. After this, Lucknow made an offer of Rs 27 crore for Pant and Delhi withdrew its hands.
