The mega auction for IPL 2025 ended on November 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In this auction which lasted for two days, 10 teams together bought a total of 182 players, out of which 62 were foreign players. Teams spent Rs 639.15 crore to buy these players. Also, a total of 395 players including domestic and foreign players did not find any buyer.

On the other hand, in this mega auction, Delhi Capitals (DC), the runner-up of the 2020 IPL season, also impressed the cricket world with its auction strategy. The team has further strengthened its core team by purchasing some excellent players in this auction.

Delhi Capitals management added Indian cricket team’s experienced wicketkeeper batsman KL Rahul by paying just Rs 14 crores, while former South African captain Faf du Plessis was included in the team by buying him for the base price of just Rs 2 crores.

Apart from this, DC included Mitchell Starc, who was the most expensive player in the last IPL auction, for just Rs 11.75 crore. Also, death overs specialist T Naratarajan was bought by Delhi for Rs 10.75 crore.

After the end of the IPL auction, the commentary panel of Jio Cinema gave the highest marks out of 10 to the Delhi team. After the mega auction, DC is looking very strong and from now on it is being considered a strong contender to win the title.

See DC’s strongest playing XI after mega auction

Jack Fraser Magarch, KL Rahul (wk), Abhishek Porel, Harry Brook, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Mitchell Starc, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, T Natarajan, (Mohit Sharma – Impact Player)

Full squad of Delhi Capitals (DC) for IPL 2025

KL Rahul, Akshar Patel, Karun Nair, Harry Brook, Jack Fraser McGurk, Faf du Plessis, Tristan Stubbs, Abhishek Porel. Donavan Ferreira, KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Darshan Nalkande, Ajay Mandal, Vipraj Nigam, Manwant Kumar, Tripurna Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Kuldeep Yadav, Dushmantha Chameera, Mitchell Starc, Mohit Sharma, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar. .