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The Indian Premier League 2025, 18th edition of the t20 extravaganza, can be a closely watch affair. There’s huge curiosity among the many fans concerning the season because the teams will bear a fresh look following a mega auction that took place in November last 12 months. While teams were allowed a maximum of six retentions, including Right-To-Match option, the remaining of the squad needed to be formed via the auction. Some big names fetched massive sum and the bidding wars made the IPL 2025 all of the more interesting. For the stats, Rishabh Pant turned out to be the most costly player ever sold in IPL auction history as he was picked by Lucknow Super Giants for a whopping INR 27 crore.
In line with a report in Cricbuzz, the IPL 2025 will start on March 22 with a match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challenges Bengaluru. The report said defending champions KKR will face RCB, who announced their recent skipper Rajat Patidar on Thursday, at Eden Gardens. Last 12 months’s runners-up Sunrisers Hyderabad can even play their first game at home against Rajasthan Royals on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on March 23.
The report said, the ultimate can be held in Kolkata on Sunday, May 25.
The report further claimed that aside from the ten regular centres – Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Lucknow, Mullanpur, Delhi, Jaipur, Kolkata and Hyderabad, Guwahati and Dharamsala will host matches too.
Guwahati is prone to gets a few Rajasthan Royals’ ‘home’ matches on March 26 and 30. Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings can be their opponents within the games. Dharamsala may host a few home games of Punjab Kings.
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