After the retention for IPL 2025, now its mega auction has also been announced. According to the latest information, this year it will be organized in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on 24 and 25 November. This mega auction which will last for two days is going to be very interesting, because this time many star players are also going to participate. Let us tell you that a total of 1574 players have registered for this event. A big name has also been added to this list and that name is James Anderson. Yes, this time England's legendary fast bowler has also expressed his desire to play in the world's biggest cricket league. At the same time, his own country's legendary all-rounder Ben Stokes has withdrawn his name to focus on Test cricket.

How much is Anderson worth?

James Anderson is counted among the best bowlers in the world. He has taken a total of 991 wickets in his international career. He has 704 wickets in Test and 269 wickets in ODI. But Anderson, who recently retired and became a bowling coach, has played only 19 T20 International matches, in which he has taken 18 wickets. Not only this, he played his last T20 match 10 years ago in 2014. After that he started focusing on Test cricket and now he is going to make a comeback in T20 through IPL.

Let us tell you that Anderson has kept his base price for IPL mega auction at Rs 1.25 crore. Now it has to be seen how many teams show interest in this bowler who holds the record of taking most wickets in Test cricket as a fast bowler. Because apart from Anderson, the most expensive player in IPL history and Australia's fast bowler Mitchell Starc will also be present to give him competition.

Starc, who was sold for Rs 24.50 crore in last season's auction, has not been retained by his team KKR and he has registered his name for the auction with a base price of Rs 2 crore. On the other hand, Jofra Archer, who has the ability to bowl at a speed of 150, is also going to add to the mega auction. Archer has also kept his price equal to Stark. He last played in the IPL for Mumbai Indians in the 2023 season. He was out due to injury after playing only 5 matches.

Bidding will be done on these star players also

Apart from James Anderson, many star Indian and foreign players are going to enter the mega auction this time. The three biggest names in this are Delhi Capitals captain Rishabh Pant, Lucknow Super Giants captain KL Rahul and Kolkata Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer. All these three players were not retained by their franchises. All three have kept their base price at Rs 2 crore for the mega auction. Apart from this, two veteran spinners of Rajasthan Royals, R Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal, are such names, who were not retained by their franchise. Both of them have also kept their price at Rs 2 crore.

Indian players include Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Ishan Kishan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Arshdeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Mukesh Kumar, Khalil Ahmed, Deepak Chahar, Venkatesh Iyer, Avesh Khan, Prasidh Krishna, T Natarajan, Devdutt Padikkal, Kunral Pandya, Harshal Patel. There are some big names like , Shardul Thakur and Umesh Yadav, who were not retained and now their fate will be decided in the mega auction. All these players have kept their base price at Rs 2 crore. Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan have also registered their names and kept the base price at Rs 75 lakh.