IPL 2025 Auction Day 2: Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s Big Buy & 13-Year-Old Suryavanshi’s Historic Entry

IPL 2025 Auction Day 2: Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the most expensive buy of Day 2 as RCB took him for IR 10.75 crore. 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi has made waves RR bought him for INR 1.10 crore. IPL legend David Warner went unsold, the end of an era.

13 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi became the youngest cricketer sold in an IPL auction today, stealing the show from veteran fast bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Deepak Chahar.

Suryavanshi, a left-handed batter and spinner from Bihar, was bought by RR for $130,500 on day 2 of the auction in Jeddah.

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Suryavanshi had a base price of $35,591 among many other international players who went under the hammer before the 18th edition of the T20 tournament.

Seam bowlers Kumar and Chahar were the big buys on day 2 but Suryavanshi’s price was the highlight.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is the most expensive buy of the day at IR 10.75 crore and will be reunited with his India teammate Virat Kohli at RCB.

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He made his domestic Ranji debut at 12 in January and was recently selected in the India U19 squad that played 4 day matches against the touring Australian team in Chennai.

He scored a triple century in an U19 ODI tournament in Bihar.

Earlier in the day, experienced fast bowler Kumar went to RCB for $1.27 million and Chahar to MI for $1.09 million.

But the biggest buy of the day might have been more than Rishabh Pant’s record IR 27 crore by LSG.

The day 2 also marked the end of an era in the IPL. Since he made his debut as an unknown name who hadn’t even played first-class cricket in Australia in 2009, David Warner has played in every season of the IPL except in 2018 when he was banned

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