2025 Rajasthan Royals season


The 2025 season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League franchise Rajasthan Royals. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 Indian Premier League. The team finished in third place in the previous season. The team was captained by Sanju Samson and coached by Rahul Dravid.
The Rajasthan Royals were the second team to be eliminated from the 2025 IPL and finished the season in ninth place with four wins from 14 matches. At the IPL end of season awards, Rajasthan's Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was awarded for the highest batting strike rate in the season.

Pre-season

The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league held in India, organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. The Rajasthan Royals had previously won the title once in 2008 in the inaugural IPL. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025 across 13 venues in India. Rajasthan played most their home matches at Sawai Mansingh Stadium with two matches played at ACA Cricket Stadium.

Player retention

Franchises were allowed to retain a maximum of six players from their squad, including a maximum of five recent international players. Franchises were required to submit their retention lists before 31 October 2024. Rajasthan retained five players, including captain Sanju Samson.
No.PlayerSalary
1Sanju Samson
2Yashasvi Jaiswal
3Dhruv Jurel
4Riyan Parag
5Shimron Hetmyer
6Sandeep Sharma

BattersWicket-keepersAll-roundersFast bowlersSpin bowlers

  • Jos Buttler
  • Kunal Singh Rathore
  • Donovan Ferreira
  • Ravichandran Ashwin
  • Tanush Kotian
  • Abid Mushtaq
  • Avesh Khan
  • Kuldeep Sen
  • Navdeep Saini
  • Trent Boult
  • Nandre Burger
  • Yuzvendra Chahal
  • Keshav Maharaj
  • Adam Zampa

    • Auction

    The season's auction took place in November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at, with franchises deducting an amount from the purse for every retained player. Rajasthan had a purse remaining of. Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match cards at the auction for each player not retained. Rajasthan had no cards left. Rajasthan bought fourteen players in the auction, including seven capped players and five overseas players.

    Squad

    • Players with international caps as of start of 2025 IPL are listed in bold.
    • Ages are as of.
    • Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol and placed at the bottom of the table.
    S/NNameNationalityBirth dateBatting styleBowling styleSalaryNotes
    5Riyan ParagRight-handedRight-arm leg breakStand-in captain
    11Sanju SamsonRight-handedRight-arm off breakCaptain
    12Vaibhav SooryavanshiLeft-handedLeft-arm orthodox
    14Kunal Singh RathoreLeft-handedRight-arm off break
    21Dhruv JurelRight-handedRight-arm medium-fast
    22Jofra ArcherRight-handedRight-arm fastOverseas
    24Tushar DeshpandeLeft-handedRight-arm medium-fast
    25Akash MadhwalRight-handedRight-arm medium-fast
    26Kumar KartikeyaRight-handedLeft-arm unorthodox
    27Shubham DubeyLeft-handedRight-arm off break
    34Yudhvir SinghRight-handedRight-arm medium-fast
    49Wanindu HasarangaRight-handedRight-arm leg breakOverseas
    61Maheesh TheekshanaRight-handedRight-arm off breakOverseas
    64Yashasvi JaiswalLeft-handedRight-arm leg break
    83Fazalhaq FarooqiRight-handedLeft-arm medium-fastOverseas
    189Shimron HetmyerLeft-handedRight-arm leg breakOverseas
    Nandre BurgerLeft-handedLeft-arm fast-mediumOverseas; Replacement
    Kwena MaphakaLeft-handedLeft-arm medium-fastOverseas
    Lhuan-dre PretoriusLeft-handedOverseas; Replacement
    Ashok SharmaRight-handedRight-arm medium-fast
    20Sandeep Sharma Right-handedRight-arm medium-fastWithdrawn
    36Nitish Rana Left-handedRight-arm off breakWithdrawn

    Support staff

    In September 2024, it was announced that Rahul Dravid would replace Kumar Sangakkara as Rajasthan's head coach, while Vikram Rathour would join as batting coach.
    PositionName
    Head coachRahul Dravid
    Batting coachVikram Rathour
    Bowling coachSairaj Bahutule

    • Source: ''Wisden''

    League stage

    The Rajasthan Royals began the season with a defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad. Despite a win against Punjab Kings in their fourth match, Rajasthan's performance remained erratic as they went on to lose five consecutive matches. In their eleventh match, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi became the youngest and the fastest Indian player to score a century and led the team to defeat Gujarat Titans. However, they were eliminated following subsequent losses.

    Fixtures

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    Statistics

    RunsPlayer
    559Yashasvi Jaiswal
    393Riyan Parag
    333Dhruv Jurel
    285Sanju Samson
    252Vaibhav Sooryavanshi

    General references

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