IPL 2025 auction – LSG to retain Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav and Ravi Bishnoi

The exact amount for which the five players have been signed up is not known yet, but based on the final slabs set by the IPL, INR 51 crore will be deducted from the LSG fund. In case the sum paid to the five exceeds 51 crores, the maximum amount will be deducted from the fund of INR 120 crore given to each franchise to build their teams for IPL 2025.

It is understood that Pooran will be the one who will be at the top followed by Mayank and Bishnoi. In 2024, Pooran was just behind Rahul in the run-charts and became the interim captain-cum-wicketkeeper in the first innings after Rahul sat out due to a niggle.

Mayank bagged two man-of-the-match awards in his first IPL debut with an easy run of 150-plus kph in 2024. Although the team limited him to play only four games, the national selectors quickly added him to the list. fast bowlers who are given a fast bowling contract. Bought by LSG for INR 20 lakhs in the 2024 auction, Mayank has played just seven matches, all T20s: four in the IPL followed by his international debut in the recent T20 series against Bangladesh. Mayank is currently at the newly opened BCCI center in Bengaluru.

Bishnoi was one of the three players that LSG picked up ahead of the big auction ahead of IPL 2022 for INR 4 crore, as he was then an uncapped player. In 2022, when LSG made the playoffs, Bishnoi took 13 wickets at 8.44. A year later, now an international player, Bishnoi was 13th in the list of leading wicket takers, with 16 wickets at 7.74 and played a role in LSG reaching the playoffs again. Last season, he took just 10 wickets in 14 matches at 8.77.

Badoni and Mohsin, both uncapped and bought for INR 20 lakhs each in the 2022 auction, were part of LSG’s success. An aggressive middle-order hitter, Badoni’s best season came in 2023 when he scored 238 runs at a strike rate of 138 in 12 innings. He recently played in the Emerging Series for India A.