The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 started with a bang with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) winning the first three games in the 18th season of the cash-rich league. While RCB defeated defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the tournament opener, SRH rode on Ishan Kishan's maiden IPL hundred to post this year's highest total (286/6) against Rajasthan Royals. In fact, Ishan Kishan also became the firts Indian batter to score an IPL hundred for Sunrisers Hyderabad. In the third game, five-time champions CSK prevailed against Mumbai Indians in a thrilling encounter. The MI vs CSK clash also saw the emergence of 24-year-old Kerala spinner Vignesh Puthur who impressed on his debut with three wickets.Kolkata will host the IPL 2025 final too on May 25.

Since its inception in 2008, the IPL has grown massively in stature to earn the tag of world's best franchise T20 league. Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians are the most successful franchises in IPL, having won the title five teams each, followed by KKR with three titles.

Into its 18th season, IPL 2025 will have 74 matches, played across 13 venues and will include 12 double-headers. Apart from the 10 actual home venues, matches will be held in Visakhapatnam, Guwahati and the new PCA stadium in Mullanpur. Notably, the afternoon games will begin at 03.30 PM IST while the evening games will begin from 07.30 PM IST.

Delhi Capitals will play their home games in Visakhapatnam and at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi while 2008 champions Rajasthan Royals have Guwahati and Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur as their homes. Punjab Kings will play their four home matches at the New PCA Stadium in New Chandigarh and three games at the picturesque Dharamsala.

What happened during IPL 2025 auction?

For the first-time ever, Saudi Arabia hosted an IPL action. The two-day event that took place in Jeddah, saw 182 players being bought by 10 teams, which included 62 overseas cricketers. A total of ₹639.15 crore was spent into total. India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant became the costliest player ever in an IPL auction after he was picked by LSG for a whopping ₹27 crore, followed Shreyas Iyer, who joined Punjab Kings for a staggering ₹26.75 crore. Thirteen-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who was bought by Rajasthan Royals for ₹1.1 crore, became the youngest ever cricketer to be picked by an IPL franchise.

Latest Updated IPL 2025 full squads

Chennai Super Kings:

Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), MS Dhoni, Ravindra Jadeja, Shivam Dube, Matheesha Pathirana, Noor Ahmad, Ravichandran Ashwin, Devon Conway, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Rachin Ravindra, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Sam Curran, Shaik Rashid, Anshul Kamboj, Mukesh Choudhary, Deepak Hooda, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ramakrishnan Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth

Delhi Capitals:

KL Rahul, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristian Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natrajan, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Mukesh Kumar, Darshan Nalkande, Vipraj Nigam, Dushmanta Chameera, Donovan Ferreira, Ajay Mandal, Manvanth Kumar, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari

Withdrawal: Harry Brook pulled out of IPL 2025.

Gujarat Titans:

Shubman Gill (c), Jos Buttler, B. Sai Sudharshan, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Mahipal Lomror, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Gerald Coetzee, Mohmmad Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Sherfane Rutherford, R. Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips, Kareem Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya

Kolkata Knight Riders:

Ajinkya Rahane (c), Rinku Singh, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spencer Johnson, Luvnith Sisodia, Anukul Roy, Moeen Ali

KKR injury replacement: Umran Malik was replaced by Chetan Sakariya.

Mumbai Indians:

Hardik Pandya (c), Jasprit Bumrah, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Naman Dhir, Robin Minz, Karn Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Ashwani Kumar, Mitchell Santner, Reece Topley, Shrijith Krishnan, Raj Angad Bawa, Venkat Satyanarayana Raju, Bevon Jacobs, Arjun Tendulkar, Vignesh Puthhur, Suryakumar Yadav

MI injury replacements: Allah Ghazanfar and Lizaad Williams were replaced by Mujeeb-ur-Rahman and Corbin Bosch.

Lucknow Super Giants:

Rishabh Pant (c), David Miller, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ravi Bisnoi, Abdul Samad, Aryan Juyal, Akash Deep, Himmat Singh, M Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Shamar Joseph, Prince Yadav, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Breetzke

Punjab Kings:

Shreyas Iyer (c), Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Glenn Maxwell, Shashank Singh, Prabhsimran Singh, Harpreet Brar, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Marco Jansen, Josh Inglis, Lockie Ferguson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Kuldeep Sen, Priyansh Arya, Aaron Hardie, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Xavier Bartlett, Pyla Avinash, Pravin Dubey, Nehal Wadhera

Rajasthan Royals:

Sanju Samson (c), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Wainindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Nitish Rana, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Charak, Fazal Farooqi, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Kunal Rathore, Ashok Sharma

Royal Challengers Bengaluru:

Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethel, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee

Sunrisers Hyderabad:

Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Heinrich Klassen, Nitish Reddy, Ishan Kishan, Mohammad Shami, Harshal Patel, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Manohar, Simarjeet Singh, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Eshan Malinga, Sachin Baby

SRH injury replacement: Brydon Carse was replaced by Wiaan Mulder