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Board of Control for Cricket in India vice-president Rajeev Shukla on Sunday confirmed that the Indian Premier League will start from March 21.

As per ANI, Rajeev Shukla, who attended the Special General Meeting (SGM) in Mumbai, disclosed the date of IPL 2025 while speaking to reporters.

During a recent interaction with the media, Shukla shared an update on the Women's Premier League (WPL), confirming the venues for WPL with the official announcement regarding the host cities is expected to be made shortly.

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The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 season began on March 22 with a stupendous duel between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Chennai Super Kings. An end of the contest was reached in some bouts and matches until May 26, when Kolkata Knight Riders lifted the cherished cup of the Indian Premier League as winners.

In a dual announcement, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has revealed the appointment of a new commissioner, who will oversee the league for the next year.

The governing body has planned its scheduled meeting for January 18-19 with an agenda of also finalizing the squad for next year's Champions Trophy.

The grand IPL 2025 auction was held over two breathtaking days in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. A record bid of INR 639.15 crore was made by the ten franchises during the auctioning off of 182 cricketers. Most teams went for the policy of building balance by acquiring good youngsters and keeping their key and established players to ensure stability and continuity.

At the mega auction held during IPL 2025, several sides were at odds in desperate efforts to buy tendentious purchases of big players due to their great association, quite a good number of them coming from splendid stints with earlier teams.

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IPL's mega auction in 2025 saw Rishabh Pant break sale records as the most expensive player to date, costing Rs 27 crore while Shreyas Iyer was bought for Rs 26.75 cr, it was similarly followed by another all-round Indian cricketer, Vankatesh Iyer, in the third-most expensive bidding wars in history, where bidding on him closed around Rs 23.75 crore.