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IPL 2025: Who Are the Highest and Lowest Paid Captains?
IPL 2025 captains’ salaries. Who earns the most and the least? Rishabh Pant tops with Rs 27 crore, Patidar at Rs 11 crore. Full details inside.
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IPL 2025: From CSK to RCB, which team captain has the highest and lowest salary
IPL 2025 Captains Salary List: At present, the IPL is considered to be the biggest cricket league in the world. This time, only 10 teams will participate in the IPL 2025 season. Eight teams have announced their captains, but Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders have not yet announced their captains.
Apart from this, do you know who the highest and lowest-paid captains are among the captains selected so far in this league? If you don’t know, then let us tell you about the salaries of those captains here.
Who is the Most Expensive Captain in IPL?
In the mega auction for the 2025 season, India’s star wicketkeeper-batsman Rishabh Pant was bought by the Lucknow Super Giants team for a huge amount of Rs 27 crore (USD 3.21 million approx). Due to this, he has now become the most expensive player in IPL history.
Before him, no player was bought by paying such a huge amount. After this, now the team of Lucknow Super Giants has also declared Pant as the captain of their team. With this, Rishabh Pant has now become not only the most expensive captain of IPL 2025 but also in history.
Lowest Paid Captain in IPL 2025
The RCB team recently announced their new captain for the IPL 2025 season. They have made Rajat Patidar the captain of their team for this upcoming season. Before the mega auction, this franchise had retained Patidar by paying 11 crores (USD 1.26 million approx).
Due to this, he is the lowest-paid captain of IPL 2025 so far. But in the meantime, we want to tell you here that the Kolkata Knight Raiders and Delhi Capitals have not yet announced their captains.
IPL 2025: salary of the other 6 Captains
After the names of the highest-paid and lowest-paid captains of One of the world’s biggest leagues IPL 2025, let us tell you the salary of the remaining 6 captains. In this mega auction 2025 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Punjab Kings bought Shreyas Iyer for Rs 26 crore 75 lakhs (USD 3.18 million approx). After this, he was given the command of the team.
While Sunrisers Hyderabad also retained their captain Pat Cummins for this season for Rs 20 crore 50 lakhs (USD 2.46 million approx). Apart from this, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals also retained their captains Rituraj Gaikwad and Sanju Samson by paying Rs 18 crore (USD 2.14 million approx) each. While Gujarat Titans retained Shubman Gill for Rs 16 crore 50 lakh (USD 1.96 million approx) and Mumbai Indians retained Hardik Pandya for Rs 15 crore.
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