IPL auction Day 1: BCCI Unveils Last-Minute Conditions for RTM with 84 Players Available

On the first day of the auction, the first 12 sets will be auctioned off, with the remainder scheduled for Monday.

As per Cricbuzz, one guideline also concerns the value of a raised bid when a right-to-match card is exercised by a franchise. "Raising of RTM bid can be any amount -- doesn't have to be a rounded figure," a relevant advisory on the note from the BCCI states, as per the report.

For the IPL 2025 mega auction, collectively there are 14 RTM cards available among the 10 franchises.

The bidding in the auction will start with the first two Marquee Sets. The Marquee Lists are divided into two groups, each comprising six players.

The first group includes Jos Buttler, Shreyas Iyer, Rishabh Pant, Kagiso Rabada, Arshdeep Singh, and Mitchell Starc.

Yuzvendra Chahal, Liam Livingstone, David Miller, KL Rahul, Mohammed Shami, and Mohammed Siraj are a part of the Marquee Set 2.

Once the marquee sets are done, a lunch break will be taken on Day 1 of the auction proceedings.

After the lunch break, the capped batters will be up for a bidding war first and then the proceedings will concern all-rounders and wicketkeepers.

Once this all is done, a further 15-minute break will be taken. After this, capped bowlers will go under the hammer.

The final set on Day 1 will feature the first uncapped players set. As a result, players like Faf du Plessis, Kane Williamson, Prithvi Shaw and Ajinkya Rahane, among others, will show up on the auction stage on Monday, the second day of proceedings.

The second day will recover all the remaining players in the auction pool. The accelerated auction will start after Player No.116.

Franchises will be asked to submit a list of 25 players for the fast-tracking phase.