Let's take a look at five 'underpaid' players, who fetched a much lesser fee than expected at the IPL 2025 Mega Auction.

The 10 teams build their squads through an auction. On Sunday, Rishabh Pant, India’s swashbuckling wicketkeeper-batter, became the most expensive player in the IPL’s 16-year history when the Lucknow Super Giants paid $3.2 million for his services. The auction price represents the player’s salary.

The 2025 edition of the Indian Premier League mega-auction saw multiple homecomings. In a 10-team tournament, it is quite usual that players would return to their former franchises, as happened with Gautam Gambhir,

Despite being the highest run-scorer thrice and winning it once as skipper, Warner found no takers for IPL 2025. Williamson is known to produce some lethal knocks at the top of the order in the IPL, but seems to have lost favour with different teams.