Chahal had kept his base price at Rs 2 crore in the mega auction.
IPL 2025 Mega Auction: The mega auction for IPL 2025 is currently taking place in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia. This time, bidding is going on to buy 333 players in the world’s most expensive cricket T20 league. In this auction, all the 10 teams participating in the tournament are seen bidding to fill the 204 vacant slots.
In the mega auction, the players included in the marquee list are the first to be seen bidding. Meanwhile, the experienced Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal, who is included in this list and has taken the most wickets in IPL, has been included in his team by Punjab Kings by paying a huge amount of Rs 18 crore.
Let us tell you that Gujarat Titans were the first to bid to buy the player, and after that Chennai Super Kings also came. After this, there was a bidding war between Punjab Kings, Lucknow Super Giants, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, in the end PBKS made the highest bid and signed the player.
Chahal has emerged as a big match winner for any team in the few matches he has played in the IPL over the years. Chahal’s excellent bowling in powerplay, ability to take wickets and excellent bowling in slow overs make him different from any other fast bowler.
A look at Yuzvendra Chahal’s IPL career
On the other hand, if we tell you about the IPL career of Chahal, who started his IPL career in the year 2013, he is the highest wicket-taker in the history of the tournament. The player has taken a total of 205 wickets in 160 matches played in IPL at an average of 22.45 and economy of 7.84. During this period, the strike rate of the 34-year-old experienced spinner has been 17.18.
Well, now it will be worth watching that how is Yuzvendra Chahal going to perform for Punjab Kings in the upcoming season of IPL?
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