The competition to buy Indian spinner Yuzvendra Chahal is fierce in Jeddah on the first day of the IPL 2025 mega auction. Gujarat made the first bet for the 34-year-old Chahal, and then Chennai also joined the bidding war. Meanwhile, bids crossed Rs 14 crore. Bidding for Chahal continues to mount. During this period, Kings XI Punjab offered Rs 18 crore to bring Chahal into the team. Chahal maintained the reserve price at Rs 2 crore at the mega auction. He was included in the list of 12 big-name players.
The most successful bowler of IPL, Yuzvendra Chahal, also has to be part of the mega auction as Rajasthan Royals released him ahead of IPL 2025. Chahal is the player with the most wickets in the history of IPL. He took 208 wickets in 160 IPL games. He is the only bowler in the league to achieve the great feat of taking more than 200 wickets. Chahal has played for 3 teams in IPL so far. These include Mumbai Indians (MI), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Rajasthan Royals (RR).
Chahal is the most successful bowler in IPL
Yuzvendra Chahal made his IPL debut in 2013 for the Mumbai Indians, the most successful team in the IPL. The next season, he joined Royal Challengers Bangalore, or RCB. He stayed with RCB from 2014 to 2021 and took many wickets but did not win the championship once. Thereafter, he joined Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2022 and stayed there till 2024.
Chahal is one of the few spinners who is famous for taking wickets at wholesale prices in the IPL. He has performed well by taking over 20 wickets in 5 seasons of IPL so far. However, despite taking so many wickets, he could not win the IPL title even once. Now they are aiming to end their title drought in IPL 2025. It will be interesting to see how many wickets he takes in the upcoming season.
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