1574 players have registered in the mega auction for IPL 2025. On 24th and 25th November all the teams will bid for these players. Players have put forward their respective base prices for the bids to be placed during the auction. Prithvi Shaw has kept his starting price very low, he was afraid that if he kept a higher price, no team would want to buy him. Therefore, he has reduced his price by 10 times the old salary. Till IPL 2024, he used to play for Delhi Capitals, where his salary for the last 2 seasons was Rs 7.5 crore. But for the upcoming auction, Shaw has kept his starting price at only Rs 75 lakh. However, the final price will be decided during the bidding.

Sarfaraz Khan on the way to earth

Like Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan was also afraid that no one would bid for him if he kept a high price. Therefore, following Prithvi's path, he has also kept his starting price at Rs 75 lakh only. Sarfaraz, he remained unsold last time also. Then he had kept his price only at Rs 50 lakh. However, this time he has debuted for Team India but has not been able to leave a mark yet in the T20 format.

On the other hand, Prithvi Shaw is going through a bad day. Prithvi, who was once compared to Sachin Tendulkar, has been out of Team India for 3 years. Apart from this, his form is also not supporting him. Besides, he was very careless about his fitness, after which he was dropped from the Ranji team. Then Delhi Capitals also dropped him from the squad and removed him from the retention list. Seeing all these things, Prithvi was forced to reduce his price.

Prithvi Shaw's IPL journey

Prithvi Shaw has earned Rs 19 crore 80 lakh from IPL. Shaw, who was the captain in the 2018 Under-19 World Cup, was bought by the Delhi team for Rs 1.2 crore in the same year. Since then he was associated with the Delhi team. By 2022, Delhi increased his salary to Rs 7.5 crore. But after 2 seasons the team dropped him. Last season, he got a chance in 8 matches but he could not perform anything special. Therefore later he was dropped. Prithvi had scored 198 runs in 8 matches at a strike rate of 163.