Spots: The 18th season of the Indian Premier League or IPL is scheduled to be held in 2025, for which a mega auction will be held on November 24 and 25. For the first time, the IPL player auction will be held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where it will start at 3:00 PM IST on both days. This time a total of 1574 players had submitted their names for the mega auction, after which the names of the shortlisted players were released by the IPL Governing Council on 15 November in which only 574 players got the place. Some big names are also missing here, seeing which even the fans are a little surprised, which also includes the name of England's deadly fast bowler Joffra Archer, who had put his name up for auction, but his name was not included in the auction. The reason for this has now come to light in the auction.
England will play a 5-match Test series against India at home in 2025, the schedule of which has already been announced. At the same time, the England Cricket Board has become very cautious about this Test series, in which it wants to keep its key players fully fit and hence it has excluded Joffra from participating in the IPL mega auction. ECB wants Joffra to return to this format for the Test series against India next year. Now this decision of ECB has become a big problem for Joffra because he will neither be able to play in next year's IPL season nor in the 2026 IPL season.
The IPL Governing Council has already announced new rules for foreign players, according to which the player who does not name his name in the 2025 mega auction will not take part in the 2026 mini auction. Geoffrey had given his name in this, but it was withdrawn before the shortlist was made. We would like to tell you that this time 37 players from England are included in the shortlist of IPL Mega Auction, which also includes the name of James Anderson.
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