IPL 2025 Auction – Teams may be allowed five reserves, one RTM card

The ten IPL teams will likely be allowed five reserves each and the option to use one match-worthy card during the IPL 2025 auction. ESPNcricinfo has learned that the IPL is likely to look to approve this option as soon as it finalizes the reserve rules ahead of the season’s biggest auction. 2025.

It has not yet been confirmed how many Indian players will be part of the pool of retained players or whether there will be a cap on players retained overseas. Also unknown are the end slabs. The total fund could not be confirmed either, but it is understood to be around the INR 115-120 crore mark.

If the IPL governing body, which is expected to meet this weekend in Bengaluru ahead of the BCCI’s annual meeting on Sunday, approves the 5 + 1 model, it would be the highest number of reserves allowed in the tournament’s history.

The RTM option, which allows a franchise to buy back its player during the auction by matching the highest bid made for the player by another franchise, once the bidding has ended, was dropped by the IPL ahead of the 2022 auction. The eight existing teams were allowed to retain a maximum of four players per team, while Gujrat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants, the two new franchises, were given the opportunity to select three players from the entire squad ahead of the auction. The auction fund for 2022 was set at INR 90 crore, INR 10 crore more than 2017.