On the first day of the IPL 2025 mega auction in Jeddah, there was fierce competition to buy Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal. Gujarat played the first innings for the 34-year-old Chahal and then Chennai also joined the bidding war. Meanwhile, the bid was Rs. 14 crore was crossed. Bidding on Chahal was steadily increasing. Meanwhile, Punjab Kings made a bid of 18 crore rupees and included Chahal in their team. In the mega auction, Chahal kept his base price at Rs 2 crore. He was included in the list of 12 marquee players.
IPL’s most successful bowler Yuzvendra Chahal also had to enter the mega auction as Rajasthan Royals released him ahead of IPL 2025. Chahal is the highest wicket-taker in IPL history. He has taken 208 wickets in 160 IPL matches. He is the only bowler to achieve the feat of taking more than 200 wickets in this league. Chahal has played for 3 franchises in the IPL so far. These include Mumbai Indians (MI), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR).
Chahal is the most successful bowler of IPL
Yuzvendra Chahal made his IPL debut in the year 2013 for Mumbai Indians, the most successful team of IPL. In the very next season, he joined Royal Challengers Bangalore i.e. RCB. He stayed with RCB from 2014 to 2021 and took many wickets but never won the title. After this he joined Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2022, where he stayed till 2024.
Chahal is one of the few spinners known to take wickets at wholesale prices in the IPL. So far he has performed brilliantly by taking more than 20 wickets in 5 seasons of IPL. However, despite taking so many wickets, he could not win the IPL title even once. Now their aim will be to end the title drought in IPL 2025. It will be interesting to see how many wickets he manages to take in the coming season.
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