Ricky Penning got a steal: Shreyas Iyer in IPL 2025 auction.

Cricket fans of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are eagerly waiting. So at the same time, the mega auction for the world’s largest T20 league took place in Saudi Arabia in November last year. In this mega auction, 10 teams shed money like water to buy domestic and foreign players.

So at the same time, Punjab Kings (PBKS) had bid for 26.75 crores to buy the middle order batsman of the Indian cricket team Shreyas Iyer. He was the most expensive player sold after Rishabh Pant (27 crores) in IPL history. Recently he has also been appointed the captain of the team. On the other hand, now Punjab team head coach Ricky Ponting has given a big statement about Shreyas’s price in IPL auction.

Ricky Ponting made a big statement

Let us know that recently, Penning on ‘The Howie Games’ Podcast said- but in the end it is an Indian Premier League. This is not so much about foreigners. Foreign people propagate a lot, they go for a lot of money or something. But as far as I am concerned, I have to bring the right Indian players back to the team. So we start with Shreyas Iyer, with whom I have worked in Delhi Capitals.

Panting further said- he (Shreyas) got a much higher price than our expected. There was a team against which I was bidding, I was quite curious to make sure he did not go there, Arshdeep first went, which was one of our top players last year.

We had a chance to maintain at 18 crores, and he went for 18 crores so we locked it. After this, Shreyas was second. Then leg spinner Yuji Chahal. You talk about these players and characters, he was also a special person for me. We had kept a budget of a certain amount for him, but he went above it.