IPL 2025 Mega Auction: The mega auction for IPL 2025 is currently taking place in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia. This time, bidding is going on for 333 players including local and international in the world’s most expensive T20 cricket league. In this auction, all the 10 teams participating in the tournament are seen bidding to fill the 204 vacant slots.

Meanwhile, English all-rounder Liam Livingstone, who is included in the marquee list, has been bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for Rs 8.75 crore. To buy the player, RCB had to face a bidding war from Sunrisers Hyderabad, Delhi Capitals and Chennai Super Kings, but in the end RCB won.

It is noteworthy that Livingstone is world famous for hitting long sixes in T20 format. Apart from this, there is a lot of variation in his spin bowling, which can bowl four overs for any team. Livingstone’s spin variation is what makes him a big match winner in world cricket at present.

Livingstone was released by Punjab Kings before the mega auction of IPL 2025, and in this auction, the player had kept his base price at Rs 2 crore. Although Punjab had a chance to give him the right to match card, but they did not do so.

A look at Liam Livingstone’s IPL career

On the other hand, if we tell you about the IPL career of Livingstone, who made his IPL debut in the year 2019, in the last few years he has shown great performance for teams like Rajasthan Royals and Punjab Kings.

Till the time of writing the news, in 39 matches played in IPL, Livingstone has scored a total of 939 runs in batting at an average of 24.45 and an excellent strike rate of 162.46. During this period, cricket fans have also seen 6 half-centuries from his bat.

So if we talk about the player’s bowling in IPL, he has taken a total of 11 wickets at an average of 35.73 and an economy of 9.14. During this period his strike rate was 23.45. Well, it will be worth watching how he is going to perform for RCB in IPL 2025?

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