RR Full Squad, IPL 2025: In a bid to end their middle-order crisis, Rajasthan Royals bought veteran batter Nitish Rana for Rs 4.2 crore on Day of the IPL 2025 Mega Auction. RR and RCB were in a bidding war for Rana, who was relased by KKR ahead of the auction. In the end, RR managed to hold on to the player. The 2008 champions also roped in pacer Tushar Deshpande, outbidding CSK for the player. RR also have just two Indian pacers in their armada, and will probably eye one or two home fast bowlers too. To do that business, RR have an auction purse of Rs 26.10 crore at the start of Day 2. (Full Squad)

Rajasthan Royals’ biggest signing on Day 1 was bringing back English pacer Jofra Archer for Rs 12.5 cr, a player who won the IPL MVP while at RR in 2020.

PLAYERS BOUGHT:

1. Jofra Archer – Rs 12.5 crore

2. Maheesh Theekshana – Rs 4.4 crore

3. Wanindu Hasaranga – Rs 5.25 crore

4. Akash Madhwal – Rs 1.2 crore

5. Kumar Kartikeya – Rs 30 lakh

6. Nitish Rana – Rs 4.40 crore

7. Tushar Deshpande – Rs 6.50 crore

8. Shubham Dubey – Rs 80 lakh

9. Yudhvir Singh – Rs 35 lakh

10. Fazalhaq Farooqi – Rs 2 crore

11. Vaibhav Suryavanshi – Rs 1.1 crore

12. Kwena Maphaka – Rs 1.5 crore

13. Kunal Rathore – Rs 30 lakh

14. Ashok Sharma – Rs 30 lakh

Full list of retained players: Sanju Samson, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel

Full list of released players: Jos Buttler, Kunal Rathore, Donovan Ferreira, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Tanush Kotian, Abid Mushtaq, Avesh Khan, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Keshav Maharaj, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Nandre Burger