Indian Premier League is one of the most celebrated league in India, which started its legacy in 2008. Today IPL is entering into its 18th edition with lots of excitement and suspense get hold into it. Recently ipl mega auctions for 2025 were held in Jeddah. In this auction 1574 players registered their name in which 574 players were shortlisted.
In this Ipl mega auction numerous record were made and were broken too. Australian pace bowler Mitchell Starc who previously hold the record of most expensive player was broken. Kolkata Knight Riders ex captain player Shreyas Iyer who was sold to Punjab Kings with an whopping amount of 26.75 crores which created a new record but soon the record was snatched by Indian wicket keeper batter Pant. Rishabh Pant was one of the exciting player in auction list where every franchise tried their bid but it was Lucknow super gaints who won the bid and caught Pant with a huge amount of 27 crore.
Though these players were receiving whopping paychecks where else there were other players whose luck didn’t went to the positive way, Each year players put their entire effort to play the league but sometime luck betrays them. This year IPL auction was a roller coaster ride were some of major names went unsold. In this segment we are going to witness some these names who went unsold in this TATA IPL auction 2025.
Players who went unsold
We all there is every possibility in Ipl that a player to be picked or may go unsold. Even there are players who doesn’t hold big name but their potential thrives them the baggage, and sometime even a big name also been side-lined if his form or aura goes down. In this segment we goanna witness players who have been unsold in this year’s auction.
David Warner
Australian star opener known as pocket size dynamite is been unsold in this year Ipl Warner who is the second highest run scorer( 6565) started his ipl career in 2009 with Delhi Daredevils , he played with them till 2013. Then he moved to Sunrises Hyderabad. From 2014 Warner played for Srh and in 2015 he became the captain of the team.
He didn’t just did the wonders with the bat but his through his captaincy skills he impressed a lot. He ccored 6,565 runs in the IPL with four hundreds and 62 fifties by his name. He has scored 500-run mark in seven IPL seasons, which is the most for any batter, won the orange cap three times. He led srh to their maiden Ipl trophy in 2016. Though warner had a great 2022 and 2023 season but he was not at that best form as started deteoriting by his age (38). As a result of poor season of 2024. He was unable to make his place in any of ipl franchise.
Kane Williamson
New Zealand star batsman and former Srh player also couldn’t able to find a byer in this year Ipl Kane Ipl career started with Sunrises Hyderabad where he was chosen as a backup for David Warner. He was too a member of title winning team of Srh in 2016. At initial stages Williamson was always side lined due to star studded team but whenever the opportunity arouse he made full opportunity of it. After a quite good venture Williamson was retained by Srh in 2017. Where he played a significant role, he took over the captaincy from warner in 2018 and led the team to their second final but unfortunately couldn’t make his team over the line. It was quite on and off season after that for Williamson. In 2024 he was acquired by Gujrat Titans for base price. Although Williamson mostly not considered as T20 format player as he is a natural stroke player who like to build innings which doesn’t suit the fast paced environment never denying he is best in business. This factors led franchise for better options.
Prithvi Shaw
Prithvi Shaw who once was considered as the most upcoming prominent batsman of India has been sidelined by Ipl Under 19 world cup winning captain whom was considered as next Sachin is on his verge to become next Vinod Kambli who had lot of potential those days.
After winning the under 19 world cup trophy Prithvi Shaw was bought by Delhi Capitals for 1.2 crores. He made his IPL debut in 2018, becoming the youngest player to open the batting in the league’s history.
Shaw’s best IPL season was in 2021, when he scored 479 runs in 15 innings. After his best season in 2021 he was retained by Delhi capitals for further year. But in 2023 due to lack of his fitness, injuries, and poor form his season started to crumble. After that he never turned back he started partying and indulged into other activities which resulted that none of the franchise showed their interest in buying this talented guy.
Johnny Bairstow
England opener Johny Baistow is considered as dynamic opener of the game who can change the course of the match on his Bairstow made his Ipl debut in 2019 for Sunrises Hyderabad, he made a significant impact in his debut Ipl season where he scored 445 in 10 games with the strike rate of 157. It made srh to retain him but he couldn’t able live up the expectation as series of injuries and lack of form sidelined him.
In 2022 Bairstow was picked by Punjab kings once he returned back to auction. He was bought with a lucrative amount of 6.75 crores but couldn’t justify his price tag due to his poor form. In 2023 Bairstow opted out from ipl due to his leg injury. He returned in 2024 but things didn’t work and his poor form continued by this he was dropped from the team. Due to lack of inconsistency Bairstow couldn’t able to get a buyer in 2025 ipl auctions.
Shardul Thakur
Shardul Thakur was signed by Kings eleven Punjab for 20 lakhs in 2014 but never got a chance to showcase his In 2015 he debuted against Delhi Daredevils that season gave Shardul enough recognition to his bowling. After his consistent performance in Ranji and league matches he was picked by Rising Pune Super Gaints in 2017. For Pune Shardul played 12 matches where he took 11 wickets which boosted his confidence and paved his next stop to Chennai super kings.
After two years of ban Chennai super kings were back to Ipl and Shardul got picked by csk at the price of 2.4 crore. Shardul played all the matches for csk. Chennai too won that year’s Ipl season marking a great comeback. From there it was no stopping for shardul next season his spells became more lethal and Chennai were into their consecutive final but couldn’t able to win against mighty Mumbai Indians. 2021 became the breakthrough year for Shardul where he took 21 wickets and was leading wicket taker for Chennai which paved them to their fourth Ipl title.
After his best season of 2021 Shardul moved to Delhi Capitals due to recent changes in Ipl auctions and Delhi bought Shardul at the price of 10.75 crore. It was a decent season for him where he took 15 wickets. But after that series of injuries Shardul form started deteoriting his next two season were ok type where he was on and off in the field. In this year auction which held for 2 days but neither of the franchise showed their interest on him.
