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24-year-old right-arm medium pacer Draca has registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction that is scheduled to take place in Jeddah on November 24 and 25.
Italy player Thomas Draca has register for IPL 2025 mega auction. (Instagram/@bramptonwolvesgt20)
As many as 1574 players from 17 countries have registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction that is scheduled to take place on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Of those 1574 players, 409 are overseas and 48 are capped Indian cricketers. While the likes of Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, and KL Rahul are set to trigger a massive bidding war in the mega auction, one player from Italy has also entered his name for the player auction.
Thomas Jack Draca is a 24-year-old Italian cricketer who has registered himself for the IPL 2025 mega auction. Draca has played four T20Is for Italy so far and has eight wickets to his name. He is the first player from his country to register for the player auction of the world’s richest franchise cricket league.
Draca is a right-arm medium pacer, and he made his T20I debut for Italy on June 29, 2024, against Luxembourg during the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Sub-Regional Europe Qualifier Group A match played in Spinaceto.
Draca, who has played for Brampton Wolves in the Global T20 Canada 2024 in July-August and picked up 11 wickets in six matches, was signed by Mumbai Indians sister franchise MI Emirates for the 2025 season of ILT20 in September, and if shortlisted for the auction, he could attract interest from the Mumbai-based franchise.
Among the overseas players that have registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction, 91 are from South Africa and 76 from Australia. Mitchell Starc, who was signed for Rs 24.75 crore by KKR in the IPL 2024 auction, has set a base price of Rs 2 crore. He is expected to go under the hammer along with the likes of Steve Smith, Australia’s T20I captain Mitchell Marsh, and former opener David Warner.
52 players from England have also registered for the auction, but Test captain Ben Stokes has opted to stay out of the cash-rich league. It has been reported that Stokes wants to prioritise playing Test cricket for England and utilise that time (mid-March to end of May) to prepare well for the five-match Test series against India and Ashes.
However, former England pacer James Anderson, who last played a T20 match in 2014, has registered himself for the auction at a base price of Rs 1.25 crore.
