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The four players – Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer, Venkatesh Iyer, and Heinrich Klaasen – surpassed Virat Kohli pay scale in IPL 2025.
Which Players Will Earn More Than Virat Kohli In IPL 2025? (BCCI/IPL)
The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 Auction saw a total of 182 players being sold for a combined Rs 639.15 crore.
Of the retained players, Virat Kohli is the highest player as Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) struck a deal with the Indian star for Rs 21 crore. There were just four players who surpassed his pay scale in the auction.
Which Players Will Earn More Than Virat Kohli In IPL 2025 –
Rishabh Pant pipped Shreyas Iyer to become the costliest buy in IPL’s history with a Rs 27 crore winning bid from Lucknow Super Giants (LSG), while Venkatesh Iyer was the surprise show-stopper at the mega auction.
Shreyas, who captained the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to the title earlier this year, and Delhi Capitals’ (DC) icon Pant, reaped the benefits of making themselves available at the auction following differences with their respective teams.
Venkatesh was also a part of Shreyas’ triumphant KKR outfit and the franchise had to pay a whopping Rs 23.75 crore to bring him back via the Right to Match card after not retaining him.
The big-hitting all-rounder, who has become an integral part of the KKR setup over the years, gained from an intense bidding battle between the Kolkata side and Royal Challengers Bengaluru to end with a massive sum.
Shreyas, on the other hand, was the first one to surpass Mitchell Starc as the IPL’s most expensive buy with cash-heavy Punjab Kings (PBKS) shelling out Rs 26.75 crore for their potential captain before Pant overtook the fellow Indian by attracting Rs 25 lakh more from LSG.
Former DC teammates Shreyas and Pant have had to deal with adversity in the past couple of years but have shown remarkable resilience and courage to bounce back.
Pant beat all odds to make a successful comeback to international cricket after a life-threatening car accident in 2022 while Shreyas put behind his exclusion from the BCCI central contracts list to lead KKR to their third IPL trophy earlier this year.
Delhi Capitals used the Right To Match to buy back Pant at Rs 20.75 crore but LSG raised the bid to Rs 27 crore and the former decided against matching that amount.
Both PBKS’s Shreyas and LSG’s Pant are expected to lead their new teams as Venkatesh has also emerged as a captain candidate for KKR in IPL 2025, which will begin March 14.
Lastly, Heinrich Klaasen was SRH’s top retention and will get Rs 23 crore – the highest value in the retention round.
The South African wicketkeeper-batter has scored a total of 448 runs in 12 matches for the Orange Army, and in the 2024 edition, he scored 479 runs in 16 matches since joining SRH at the IPL 2023 auction.
(With inputs from Agencies)
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