3 Indian Cricketers Who Could Be The Most Expensive Buys In IPL 2025 Auction

KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma during the IPL 2024 season (X.com)

As the anticipation builds for the IPL 2025 Mega Auction, franchises are gearing up to make big moves, especially to secure some top Indian talents. The league’s growing stature has prompted the stocks of Indian players to skyrocket over the last few years. 

Moreover, considering next year’s IPL 2025 season will be preceded by a mega auction, numerous senior Indian cricketers expected to go under the hammer might even fetch astronomical bids from franchises.

While franchises are yet to formalize any retention strategies, here at OneCricket, we speculate on three potential Indian players who can go big at the IPL 2025 mega auction.

3 Indian Players Who Can Go Big At IPL 2025 Mega Auction:

3. KL Rahul

LSG captain KL Rahul during IPL 2024 season (BCCI)

Former Punjab Kings captain KL Rahul joined the Lucknow Super Giants franchise as its first-ever leader in 2022. Under his leadership, the LSG reached two successive playoffs in their first two seasons before crashing to a seventh-place finish in 2024. Following LSG’s 10-wicket defeat to SRH in 2024 at Hyderabad, Rahul was spotted receiving a seemingly heavy scolding from franchise owner Sanjeev Goenka near the boundary.

While the aforementioned incident drew widespread attention from cricket enthusiasts across the nation, it also raised several speculations among fans regarding the cricketer’s LSG future. With a maximum allowance of four retentions and two RTMs being a huge possibility for all franchises at the moment, it is safe to assume that LSG might well be parting ways with KL Rahul ahead of this year’s mega auction.

Regardless, Rahul remains a prolific run-accumulator in the IPL as an opening batter, and his productive batting will likely land him a huge contract for an eagerly awaited franchise.

2. Harshit Rana

Harshit Rana played a key role in KKR's IPL 2024 win (X.com)

Young fast bowler Harshit Rana played an influential role in Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) remarkable title win in IPL 2024. The 22-year-old paceman picked up 19 wickets from just 13 matches at an average of 20.16. He even picked up match-winning figures of 2-24 in the final against runners-up SRH by dismissing dangermen Nitish Kumar Reddy and Heinrich Klaasen.

While Rana’s performance warrants retention at KKR, the franchise will likely have its share of retained players fulfilled owing to the mega auction’s limitations. The KKR team management will already be considering the retention of fellow key players like Shreyas Iyer, and Mitchell Starc as well as franchise zealots Sunil Narine and Andre Russell, among others.

1. Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma in action for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2024 (X.com)

Mumbai Indians decade-long skipper and five-time IPL winning captain Rohit Sharma was stripped off his leadership role in favor of Hardik Pandya before this year’s IPL 2024 season. Regardless, the cricketer came up clutch with the bat throughout the tournament by tallying 417 runs from 14 matches at a splendid average of over 32. He even bashed a century and a half-century in the process and charted his runs at a strike rate of 150.

Soon after the IPL 2024 season, several emerging reports indicated that Sharma’s association with Mumbai Indians franchise will likely conclude later this year. Be that as it may, numerous existing IPL franchises are ready to set the cash registers ringing at the auction for the dashing opening batter. Franchises like Punjab Kings and CSK, in particular, are in dire need of a new captain as players like Shikhar Dhawan and MS Dhoni head into the twilight stages of their playing careers.

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