The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 season is set to start on March 22, 2025, this is the 18th edition of this IPL and is world’s most celebrated T20 cricket tournament. The opening match will be a thriller match where the defending champions, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will face the fan favorite Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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Opening Match No. 1 : KKR vs. RCB – March 22nd 2025
The opening match of IPL 2025 will be a banger to start the season in action, with KKR aiming to defend their title against the hungry RCB team. While RCB is still empty handed in terms of getting their title cup but it is the fa favorite.
While KKR, has clinched their 3rd IPL title in the last season, while Ajinkya Rahane is leading the team KKR and is expected to lead the team to hold the cup once again. . The team lineup includes, start batsmen like Rinku Singh, Andre Russel, Manish Pandey complemented by an excellent bowling attack lead by Sunil Narine and Harshit Rana.
While RCB has chosen Rajat Patidar as their new leader in-charge, he is determined to secure their maiden IPL title and bring the end to their drought of trophy. The auction team has made acquisitions like the English opener Phil Salt to partner with the superstar Virat Kohli in the top order. The middle order is supported by power-hitters like Tim David, Liam Livingstone.
While the bowling department is backed by with the star players like Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and all rounder Krunal Pandya. While the veteran Former RCB star AB de Villiers is not part of any IPL team this year as he is retired from all for of international cricket including IPL. Fans hope to see the RCB team lift their first trophy.
Retained players of RCB – IPL 2025
- Virat Kohli (Retained) – Rs 21 Crore
- Rajat Patidar (Retained, captain) – Rs 11 Crore
- Yash Dayal (Retained) – Rs 5 Crore
Complete player list of RCB – IPL 2025
- Virat Kohli (Retained)
- Rajat Patidar (Retained, captain)
- Yash Dayal (Retained)
- Liam Livingstone: 8.75 crore INR
- Phil Salt: 11.50 crore INR
- Jitesh Sharma: 11 crore INR
- Josh Hazlewood: 12.50 crore INR
- Rasikh Dar: 6 crore INR
- Suyash Sharma: 2.60 crore INR
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar: 10.75 crore INR
- Krunal Pandya: 5.75 crore INR
- Swapnil Singh: 50 lakh INR
- Tim David: 3 crore INR
- Jacob Bethell: 2.6 Crore INR
- Romario Shepherd: 1.50 crore INR
- Nuwan Thushara: 1.60 crore INR
- Devdutt Padikal: 2 Crore INR
- Swastik Chikara: 30 Lakh INR
- Manoj Bhandage: 30 Lakh INR
- Lungi Ngidi: 1 Crore INR
- Abhinandan Singh: 30 Lakh INR
- Mohit Rathee: 30 Lakh INR
Retained players of KKR for IPL 2025
- Rinku Singh– Rs 13 crore
- Sunil Narine – Rs 12 crore
- Varun Chakaravarthy – Rs 12 crore
- Andre Russel – Rs 12 crore
- Harshit Rana – Rs 4 crore
- Ramandeep Singh – Rs 4 crore
Complete KKR Players List 2025
- Rinku Singh– Rs 13 crore
- Varun Chakaravarthy – Rs 12 crore
- Sunil Narine – Rs 12 crore
- Andre Russel – Rs 12 crore
- Ramandeep Singh – Rs 4 crore
- Harshit Rana – Rs 4 crore
- Venkatesh Iyer – Rs 23.75 crore
- Anrich Nortje – Rs 6.5 crore
- Quinton de Kock – Rs 3.6 crore
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi – Rs 3 crore
- Spencer Johnson – Rs 2.8 crore
- Moeen Ali – Rs 2 crore
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz – Rs 2 crore
- Vaibhav Arora – Rs 1.8 crore
- Rovman Powell – Rs 1.5 crore
- Ajinkya Rahane – Rs 1.5 crore
- Manish Pandey – Rs 0.75 crore
- Umran Malik – Rs 0.75 crore
- Anukul Roy – Rs 0.4 crore
- Luvnith Sisodia – Rs 0.3 crore
- Mayank Markande – Rs 0.3 crore
