IPL 2025 Auction Day 2: Bhuvneshwar Kumar biggest buy of Day 2, 13-year-old Suryavanshi creates history

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Apart from Buttler, GT also went for Kagiso Rabada in the Marquee Set and got him. "Very happy to have Jos Buttler in our side. He can bat anywhere, he can keep as well, he can help Shubman also," Parthiv Patel, GT's assistant coach, said. "We wanted to buy our No. 1 bowler and No. 1 batter from the marquee set and we have both."

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Jos Buttler's time with the Royals has come to an end and he will now be playing for LSG next season. Now the England captain's form has been up and down but if he is at his best, that makes GT's top order too good to be true.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: He captained RCB the last two seasons but he captained teams wearing the CSK yellow in other leagues. Du Plessis's best T20 years seem to have come since he stopped playing for South Africa. He in fact finished last year with his highest strike rate in an IPL season. Back to RCB or back to CSK looks like the most likely outcome of this auction for him.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Avesh Khan's bumper bid was among the surprises on Day 1. Coming in with a base price of INR 2 crore, LSG went after their man straightaway. They were initially challenged by PBKS and then by RR and finally, he went back to LSG for INR 9.75 crore.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Some significant names need to be ticked off the list today. Here are the ones that qualify as household names, for one reason or the other: Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kane Williamson, Faf du Plessis, Daryl Mitchell, Rovman Powell, Sam Curran, Marco Jansen, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Keshav Maharaj, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: That is what the LSG representatives had to say yesterday. "No matter how much you plan, things don't always work out like that," Shashwat Goenka, the LSG owner, said. "This [getting Pant for 27 crore] was very well to our plan. It wasn't really a magic number, we just wanted a number so that the RTM doesn't get exercised."

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Like yesterday, the auction process starts at 3.30pm IST today. The first set will be No.13 and there are some big names on offer, like Rovman Powell, Kane Williamson, Sam Curran, Bhuvneshwar Kumar to name a few. The normal bidding process will be from Player No.85, who is Mayank Agarwal, to Player No. 116 in Set 17, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth of Sri Lanka. After that we have a break and then the accelerated auction process begins.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: So 84 players went under the hammer yesterday. 72 of them were sold and shelled out INR 467.95 crore.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: About 493 players remain in the auction pool but not all of them will go under the gavel today. That's because we will start the accelerated auction process today. In the end, about 72 players will be sold today.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: R Ashwin followed MS Dhoni to Rising Pune Supergiant after CSK were slapped with a two year ban before IPL 2016. He then he became captain of the Punjab Kings in 2018 and 2019. His biggest legacy from that time is probably bringing the 'Mankad' question into mainstream and almost normalising it in some spheres, and rightly so.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Before he became a giant of spin bowling in Test cricket, Ashwin initially made his way into the minds of general households in India as a precocious talent playing for CSK.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Nope, that ain't no typo. It was an expected outcome that came in an unexpected manner. It had looked like LSG had made the winning bid at INR 20.75 crore. However, LSG then shot it straight up to INR 27 crore and well, that was that.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: RCB have the biggest purse left: ₹30.65 crore, while Sunrisers Hyderabad have the lowest: ₹5.15 crore. For full list of purse left by all franchises. Mumbai Indians have 26.10 cr, CSK have 15.6 cr, KKR have 10.05 cr, LSG have 14.85 cr, RR have 17.35 cr, PBKS have 22.5 cr, Gujarat Titans got 17.5 cr and Delhi Capitals left with ₹13.8 cr.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: GO ON, Have a say! Which of the following picks knocked the bejesus out of you?

- KL Rahul ( ₹ ₹14 crore)

- Shreyas Iyer ( ₹26.75 crore)

- Venkatesh Iyer ( ₹23.75 crore)

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Away from the IPL Auction, India are killing it in Perth, now having reduced Australia to 104/5 at Lunch on Day 4. Mohammed Siraj has three wickets, two of which came this morning: Usman Khawaja and Steve Smith. Australia still need a mammoth 430 runs to win

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Prithvi Shaw has been among the most talked-about cricketers. And unfortunately, not for the nice things. Once again, discipline and fitness issues have crept in. Once a solid part of the DC set-up, the franchise released him, and understandably so. Can he turn it around today? On his best days, he is unstoppable, but those days have become increasingly rare.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Although most of the big names were taken yesterday, Day 2 has its fair share of star power, starting with Sam Curran - one of the most expensive players historically at the Auction. There are more, such as Faf du Plessis, Ajinkya Rahane, Prithvi Shaw, Kane Williamson, Steve Smith, Sam Curran, Marco Jansen, Gerald Coetzee, Krunal Pandya, Washington Sundar, Shardul Thakur.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Jofra Archer no longer has injury concerns, was a defiant message by Rajasthan Royals, who got the England pacer back for ₹12.50 crore.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Mumbai Indians made a huge mistake when they let go Trent Boult ahead of the IPL 2022 Auction. And perhaps they realised it too. Hence, when the opportunity was provided, they were quick to grab hold of the New Zealand. Add him to their fast-bowling line-up and MI appear tough to beat on paper.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: There've been plenty of reunions on Day 1 of the IPL Auction, but none sweeter than Ravichandran Ashwin heading to Chennai Super Kings for ₹9.75 crore. Ashwin is 38, but CSK realise he is still a potent threat in T20Is, especially on Indian pitches.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: So as it turns out, Jos Buttler will represent a fresh franchise at next year's IPL. Having played for Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan Royals in the past, England's limited-overs captain will be playing under Shubman Gill at the Gujarat Titans. Imagine Gill and Buttler opening. That's a sight no bowler would want to see.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Well, well, well! The answer is no. Sanjay Manjrekar, very infamously, recently said that he doesn't think Mohammed Shami will go for big bucks at the auction, given his recent history of injuries - Shami did not play the IPL. But how wrong could he have been? LALA bowled a stunning spell in the Ranji Trophy and the Sunrisers Hyderabad saw that, spending ₹10 crore to get him on board.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: Yuzvendra Chahal, the most successful bowler in the history of IPL with 205 wickets is headed to Punjab Kings. Always an asset in the IPL, Chahal will undoubtedly be the franchise's leading spinner come the IPL 2025.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: India's most successful T20I bowler, left-arm quick Arshdeep Singh was always going to be a favourite, and boy, did he live up to that moniker or what? He was the joint fourth-costliest buy at the IPL Auction on Day 1. If you wanna know who the other one was? Read the post above.

IPL Auction LIVE Updates: A total of 3 RTM Cards were used, with Punjab Kings using it to retain Arshdeep Singh, Delhi Capitals for Jake Fraser-McGurk, Chennai Super Kings to keep Rachin Ravindra and Mumbai Indians for Naman Dhir