IPL 2025 Teams

The IPL is now firmly established as a ten-team league, with the two newest teams entering an unheralded fourth season as new franchises after having seen multiple in the past come up and fade away. Alongside the eight original franchises, with their rebrands and ownership switches and controversies, the Gujarat Titans and the Lucknow Super Giants are very much now a part of the furniture of the IPL, beginning the new cycle of the IPL with two young big-name Indian stars captaining them in Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant, and plenty of talent besides.

The IPL is a league that prides itself on the even quality spread across the league, with every team getting a chance to show off their quality and the regular mega-auctions wiping the whiteboard clean, ensuring parity. You can visit the pages of each of these ten teams, each of them stacked with world class players and powerful squads, and each entering the IPL 2025 with the aim of lifting that coveted trophy at the end.

Alongside the two new teams, there are different subsets of this growing tournament every year. You have the consistent winners year after year after year — your Chennai Super Kings, still hanging on to thala MS Dhoni; Mumbai Indians, stacked with an incredible amount of Indian talent and capable of turning it up and making a tournament run; Kolkata Knight Riders, fresh off their third IPL title, and preserving that core of Windies Andre Russell and Sunil Narine, with plenty of domestic talent to boot even as they switch out their captaincy.

After that are the one-time winners, who have had some semblance of success, but are trying to relive that and seat themselves amongst the finest franchises this league has had to offer. Rajasthan Royals won that famous first season, and have been very good ever since, but unable to add another trophy. Sunrisers Hyderabad had their best shot at a second trophy last year, this time as a batting-heavy team, but had their big bats fall silent at just the wrong time — but that monstrous core is still in place for another go at the title. Lastly, Gujarat Titans’s super squad of 2022 wasn’t quite able to match its standards after trading away Hardik Pandya, but a mini-refresh could see this team compete once again.

Lastly are the four franchises who have never landed an IPL title, and will want to break that curse in this cycle, knowing their fans are crying out for one. LSG had a good start by reaching playoffs, but have opted to go for a batting-heavy auction strategy, relying on firepower. Similarly, Punjab Kings scratched the board completely clean, and have an IPL-winning captain at their helm now, alongside Ricky Ponting, as they look to shed the tag of being the IPL’s laughing stock. Delhi Capitals threatened to win a few years ago, but have completely separated themselves from that core of Shaw, Pant, Iyer and more: can this fresh unit put it together post-Ponting? Finally, time is running out for Virat Kohli at Royal Challengers Bengaluru, and an IPL title remains the last thing for this star of Indian cricket to accomplish. Can they continue their miracle run from the end of 2024, as Rajat Patidar takes on the captaincy?

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