IPL 2025 Teams

10 teams will fight it out for the IPL 2025 title when the league starts on March 22 (Saturday) with a clash between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens. It will be interesting to see which two teams make it to the IPL 2025 final which will be held on May 25.

There has been a shake up in the way all the teams are set up after the mega auctions. Teams like Mumbai Indians (who retained players like Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma) and Chennai Super Kings (who retained Ruturaj Gaikwad, Matheesha Pathirana, Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, MS Dhoni) should have an edge since they managed to retain the core of their starting XI. But both five-time champions were not the teams that retained the most players ahead of the auctions: that was Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals (both with six retained players).

There are teams like Punjab Kings (just two retentions) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (three retentions) who opted to go into the auction with a near-clean slate. There are some teams like KKR, Punjab Kings and Lucknow Super Giants which have had to pick a new captain this season after parting ways with their previous season’s commander-in-chiefs.