Rabada had kept his base price at Rs 2 crore.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: The auction for IPL 2025 is currently taking place in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia. This time, bidding is going on for 333 domestic cricketers including international cricketers in the world’s most expensive cricket T20 league. A total of 10 teams are seen bidding to include 204 players in their respective teams.
Meanwhile, South African fast bowler Kagiso Rabada, who is included in the marquee list, has been included by Gujarat Titans by paying a huge amount of Rs 10.75 crore. RCB was the first to bid to buy the player, but after this there was a war between Mumbai Indians and Gujarat Titans to buy the player. But after this, Gujarat won in the end.
Although, Punjab Kings had the Right to Match card to include Rabada back in the team, but they have not used it. It is noteworthy that Rabada has emerged as a big match winner for any team in some of the matches played in IPL.
Rabada’s ability to take wickets by bowling brilliantly in the powerplay and bowling brilliantly in slog overs makes him different from any other fast bowler. Rabada had kept his base price for the mega auction of IPL 2025 at Rs 2 crore, but he has got a huge amount of Rs 10.75 crore.
A look at Kagiso Rabada’s IPL career
Let us tell you that this excellent bowler of the Proteas team has a lot of experience of playing IPL. Till the time of writing the news, he has played a total of 80 matches in IPL. After so many matches played in IPL, the bowler has taken a total of 117 wickets at an average of 21.97 and strike rate of 15.54. Also, taking four wickets for 21 runs during this period has been the player’s best performance.
Before this, he has shown tremendous performance in IPL for teams like Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings. It will be interesting to see how he performs for Gujarat Titans in the upcoming season.
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