England Test captain Ben Stokes is not in the list of 1,574 players, while his former teammate James Anderson, Italian quick Thomas Draca and Indian-born American medium pacer Saurabh Netravalkar have registered for the IPL mega auction to be held in Jeddah on November 24. 25.

The list, which will be narrowed down after the franchises provide their inputs, includes all the prominent Indian players who were released from their teams, including Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal.

Each of these five cricketers has been listed at a base price of Rs 2 crore.

India quick Mohammed Shami, who has been out of action due to various injuries since last November, was also released by his former team Gujarat Titans and has been priced at Rs 2 crore like left-arm pacer Arshdeep Singh.

Among the other Indian players in the list with the maximum base price of Rs 2 crore are Khaleel Ahmed, Mukesh Kumar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Deepak Chahar, Ishan Kishan and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

This list also includes Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj, Devdutt Padikkal, Krunal Pandya, Harshal Patel, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Washington Sundar and Umesh Yadav.

India batsmen Sarfaraz Khan and Prithvi Shaw, who went unsold in the last IPL auction, were registered at the base price of Rs 75 lakh each.

Stokes, who had decided to skip the last season of the IPL to manage his workload and focus on his fitness, also opted out of the 2025 edition.

Anderson, 42, who retired from Test cricket earlier this year, registered for the IPL for the first time. The veteran pacer last played a T20 10 years ago in 2014. He has never competed in a global franchise T20 league. It has a base price of Rs 1.25 crore.

Netravalkar, who rose to fame thanks to his stupendous performance for the USA during the T20 World Cup earlier this year, has also prepared to go under the hammer in Jeddah. Oracle Software Engineer has a base price of Rs 30 lakh.

Australian ace Nathan Lyon, who went unsold in previous auctions, also entered the fray with a base price of Rs 2 crore.

Australian pacer Mitchell Starc, who was the most expensive buy in the last IPL auction at a price of Rs 24.50 crore, is back in the mix for this year’s auction with a base price of Rs 2 million. rupees.

English quick Jofra Archer, who last played in the 2023 edition, is also listed for the same base price.

Draca becomes the first Italian player to register

Medium pacer Thomas Draca became the first Italian player to sign up for the IPL. The 24-year-old has played four T20 Internationals since making his debut for Italy in June this year.

He impressed with his recent performance in the Global T20 Canada in August. Draca was the second highest wicket-taker of the tournament with 11 wickets to his name in six innings at an average of 10.63 and economy of 6.88.

The Italian pacer was recently signed by Mumbai Indians-owned MI Emirates for the upcoming ILT20 season in the UAE.

Draca has been registered at prices as low as Rs 30 lakh in the off-road category.

With up to six players allowed to be retained ahead of the mega auction, IPL teams can field a squad of 25 players each and 204 slots will be available after 10 teams together retain 46 players.

Each team will have a total purse of Rs 120 crore as Punjab Kings have Rs 110.5 crore available, followed by Royal Challengers Bengaluru with Rs 83 crore, Delhi Capitals with Rs 73 crore and Gujarat Titans with 69 million rupees.

Lucknow Super Giants will also have Rs 69 crore in their purse, while five-time winners Chennai Super Kings will have Rs 55 crore.

Last year’s winners Kolkata Knight Riders will enter the auction with Rs 51 crore, while five-time champions Mumbai Indians will have Rs 45 crore, last year’s runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad will have Rs 45 crore. and Rajasthan Royals will have 41 crores. .