New Delhi. IPL 2025 Mega Auction: IPL is a platform where new stars get a chance to showcase their abilities. Through this league, the fortunes of many players have been seen shining overnight and they have been called up to the national team on the basis of their strong performance.

Cricket fans also wait eagerly for IPL. Recently the venue of IPL 2025 mega auction was announced. This time the auction of IPL 2025 is to be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. For the first time in history, the auction is going to be held there. It is to be organized on 24 November and 25 November, in which many big players are ready to be auctioned. This time something is going to happen in the IPL auction, which has never happened in the last 18 seasons. Let's know about this.

History will be created in the IPL Auction, such a feat has never happened in the last 17 seasons

Actually, IPL started in the year 2008 and since then a total of 17 seasons have been played. In the auction of these 17 IPL seasons, till date it has not happened that Italian players have participated in the IPL auction, but now this is going to happen in the IPL 2025 mega auction. 

The player from Italy who has registered his name for the IPL 2025 auction is Thomas Dreka. Thomas Dreka has played four T20 International matches for Italy so far. Apart from this, he participated in the Global T20 Canada League. Thomas played for Brampton Wolves in the tournament.

Apart from this, former Australian Test cricketer Joe Burns can also be in the IPL 2025 mega auction, who recently shifted to Italy with the aim of qualifying the team for the 2026 T20 World Cup. Joe Burns has played 23 Test matches for Australia.

Let us tell you that a total of 1574 players have registered in the mega auction of IPL 2025, which includes 1165 Indian and 409 foreign players. Among the Indian players, there are 48 capped (experienced) players, while there are 1117 uncapped (new) players. South Africa is the foreign country participating in the auction with the highest number of players this time, in which a total of 91 players have registered.