Who was the most expensive overseas player at IPL 2025 Auction?

The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 Auction culminated a few hours ago in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The mega auction took place over two days, with the 10 teams spending a huge amount of money to sign the world's best cricketers.

After every IPL auction, fans always have a keen interest in knowing who was the most expensive overseas player. The most expensive foreign player of the IPL 2025 Auction was Jos Buttler, bought for ₹15.75 crore by the Gujarat Titans (GT).

Buttler was surprisingly not retained by the Rajasthan Royals (RR) ahead of the IPL 2025 Auction. As expected, the England team's white-ball skipper sparked a bidding war between the franchises at the auction table. The Rajasthan Royals and the Gujarat Titans were the first two teams to bid for the wicketkeeper-batter.

RR pulled out after submitting a bid worth ₹9.25 crore. The Punjab Kings then entered the race and took the sum to ₹13.25 crore. GT outbid them with a bid worth ₹13.5 crore but then came the Lucknow Super Giants, who took the number past ₹15 crore. Eventually, the Titans signed Buttler for ₹15.75 crore.

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Top 10 most expensive foreign players at IPL 2025 Auction list

Surprisingly, the franchises were willing to pay less for the foreigners this time around as no foreign player touched the ₹20 crore mark. Only eight overseas players managed to cross the ₹10 crore mark.

Here is the Top 10 list of the costliest overseas buys:

Jos Buttler - ₹15.75 crore, Gujarat Titans

Trent Boult - ₹12.5 crore, Mumbai Indians

Josh Hazlewood - ₹12.5 crore, Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Jofra Archer - ₹12.5 crore, Rajasthan Royals

Mitchell Starc - ₹11.75 crore, Delhi Capitals

Phil Salt - ₹11.5 crore, Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Marcus Stoinis - ₹11 crore, Punjab Kings

Kagiso Rabada - ₹10.75 crore, Gujarat Titans

Noor Ahmad - ₹10 crore, Chennai Super Kings

Liam Livingstone - ₹8.75 crore, Royal Challengers Bengaluru

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