Kolkata Knight Riders threw the biggest surprise of the Indian Premier League 2025 player auction as they bought Venkatesh Iyer for INR 23.75 crore. (Live Updates | More Cricket News)
The defending champions had already retained as many as six players ahead of the mega auction. Shockingly, they had released their captain Shreyas Iyer who on Sunday went to Punjab Kings for the second highest IPL pay cheque ever of INR 26.75 c🍷ror▨e.
Even without Iyer, KKR had a strong core of retained players. Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana were the six retained players for KKR.
At the auction, there biggest re🌌mains Venkatesh Iyer who they signed after an intense bidding war.
Check below the list of ꦐall players bought by KKR at th♛e player auction for the 2025 IPL so far.
KKR IPL 2025 Auction Players Bought
Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 23.75 crore
Anrich Nortje for Rs 6.50 crore
Quinton de Kock for Rs 3.60 crore
Rahmanullah Gurbaz for Rs 2 crore
Angkrish Raghuvanshi for Rs 3 crore
Vaibhav Arora for Rs 1.80 crore
Mayank Markande for Rs 30 lakh
Rovman Powell for Rs 1.50 crore
Manish Pandey for Rs 75 lakh
Spencer Johnson for Rs 2.80 crore
Luvnith Sisodia for Rs 30 lakh
Ajinkya Rahane for Rs 1.50 lakh
Anukul Roy for Rs 40 lakh
Moeen Ali for Rs 2 crore
Umran Malik for Rs 75 lakh
Rinku Singh
Varun Chakaravarthy
Sunil Narine
Andre Russell
Harshit Rana
Ramandeep Singh
The upcoming editi♚on of the Indian Premier League will start on March 14, 2025, with the final scheduled for May 25.
