IPL 2025: Average Age of Each IPL Team – Which Franchise Has the Youngest and Oldest Squads?

The IPL 2025 mega auction took centre stage at the Abady Al-Johar Arena in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on November 24 and 25. This two-day event witnessed the ten IPL franchises battling for the best talents from a pool of 577 cricketers, featuring 367 Indians and 210 overseas players.

Big-money moves dominated headlines, with Lucknow Super Giants breaking the bank for Rishabh Pant at ₹27 crore, making him the most expensive player in IPL history. Meanwhile, Punjab Kings briefly held the spotlight by signing Shreyas Iyer for ₹26.75 crore.

IPL 2025 Average Age of Each IPL Team Which Franchise Has the Youngest and Oldest Squads

Among the notable stories, Rajasthan Royals made waves by signing 13-year-old Vaibhav Suryavanshi, the youngest player ever picked in an IPL auction, for ₹1.1 crore.

The auction also highlighted franchises’ focus on building balanced squads with a mix of youth and experience. In this report, we analyse the complete squads of all ten teams and calculate their average ages to provide insights into their strategies for IPL 2025.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Full Squad:

Batters: Ruturaj Gaikwad (27y 274d), C Andre Siddarth (18y 64d), Vansh Bedi (21y 313d), Devon Conway (33y 115d), MS Dhoni (43y 116d), Shaik Rasheed (20y 37d), Rahul Tripathi (33y 243d).
Allrounders: Ravichandran Ashwin (38y 44d), Sam Curran (26y 150d), Shivam Dube (31y 127d), Shreyas Gopal (31y 57d), Deepak Hooda (29y 195d), Ravindra Jadeja (35y 330d), Anshul Kamboj (23y 330d), Jamie Overton (30y 204d), Rachin Ravindra (24y 348d), Vijay Shankar (33y 279d).
Bowlers: Khaleel Ahmed (26y 331d), Nathan Ellis (30y 39d), Gurjapneet Singh (25y 358d), Mukesh Choudhary (28y 117d), Kamlesh Nagarkoti (24y 308d), Noor Ahmad (19y 302d), Matheesha Pathirana (21y 318d), Ramakrishna Ghosh (27y 64d).

Average Age: 28.35 years

Delhi Capitals (DC) Full Squad:

Batters: Abishek Porel (22y 14d), Harry Brook (25y 252d), Faf du Plessis (40y 110d), Jake Fraser-McGurk (22y 203d), Karun Nair (32y 330d), KL Rahul (32y 196d), Sameer Rizvi (20y 330d), Tristan Stubbs (24y 78d).
Allrounders: Donovan Ferreira (26y 102d), Ajay Mandal (28y 249d), Manvanth Kumar (20y 294d), Axar Patel (30y 285d), Ashutosh Sharma (26y 46d).
Bowlers: Dushmantha Chameera (32y 294d), Kuldeep Yadav (29y 322d), Mukesh Kumar (31y 19d), T Natarajan (33y 210d), Mohit Sharma (36y 43d), Mitchell Starc (34y 275d), Vipraj Nigam (20y 95d), Madhav Tiwari (21y 33d), Tripurana Vijay (23y 56d).

Average Age: 28.02 years

Gujarat Titans (GT) Full Squad:

Batters: Shubman Gill (25y 53d), Anuj Rawat (25y 14d), Jos Buttler (34y 53d), Kumar Kushagra (20y 8d), Sherfane Rutherford (26y 77d), Sai Sudharsan (23y 16d), Shahrukh Khan (29y 157d).
Allrounders: Karim Janat (26y 81d), Mahipal Lomror (24y 350d), Glenn Phillips (27y 330d), Rashid Khan (26y 41d), Nishant Sindhu (20y 205d), Manav Suthar (22y 89d), Rahul Tewatia (31y 164d), Washington Sundar (25y 26d).
Bowlers: Arshad Khan (26y 316d), Gerald Coetzee (24y 29d), Gurnoor Brar (24y 159d), Kulwant Khejroliya (32y 232d), Mohammed Siraj (30y 232d), Prasidh Krishna (28y 255d), Kagiso Rabada (29y 159d), Sai Kishore (27y 360d), Ishant Sharma (36y 59d), Jayant Yadav (34y 283d).

Average Age: 27.28 years

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Full Squad:

Batters: Quinton de Kock (31y 319d), Manish Pandey (35y 51d), Rovman Powell (31y 100d), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (20y 148d), Ajinkya Rahane (36y 147d), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (22y 338d), Ramandeep Singh (27y 201d), Rinku Singh (27y 19d), Luvnith Sisodia (24y 290d).
Allrounders: Moeen Ali (37y 135d), Venkatesh Iyer (29y 311d), Sunil Narine (36y 158d), Anukul Roy (25y 336d), Andre Russell (36y 185d).
Bowlers: Vaibhav Arora (26y 322d), Harshit Rana (22y 314d), Spencer Johnson (28y 320d), Mayank Markande (26y 355d), Anrich Nortje (30y 350d), Umran Malik (24y 344d), Varun Chakravarthy (33y 63d).

Average Age: 28.36 years

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Full Squad:

Batters: Abdul Samad (23y 3d), Ayush Badoni (24y 333d), Matthew Breetzke (25y 363d), Aryan Juyal (22y 355d), Aiden Markram (30y 27d), David Miller (35y 143d), Rishabh Pant (27y 27d), Nicholas Pooran (29y 29d).
Allrounders: Yuvraj Chaudhary (23y 25d), Rajvardhan Hangargekar (21y 356d), Arshin Kulkarni (19y 259d), Mitchell Marsh (33y 11d), Shahbaz Ahmed (29y 325d).
Bowlers: Akash Deep (27y 321d), Akash Singh (22y 188d), Avesh Khan (27y 323d), Shamar Joseph (25y 61d), Mohsin Khan (26y 108d), Prince Yadav (22y 324d), Ravi Bishnoi (24y 56d), Manimaran Siddharth (26y 120d), Mayank Yadav (22y 136d), Digvesh Singh (24y 321d).

Average Age: 25.76 years

Mumbai Indians (MI) Full Squad:

Batters: Robin Minz (22y 48d), Naman Dhir (24y 305d), Ryan Rickelton (28y 112d), Rohit Sharma (37y 184d), Krishnan Shrijith (28y 80d), Suryakumar Yadav (34y 47d).
Allrounders: Raj Bawa (21y 354d), Will Jacks (25y 345d), Hardik Pandya (31y 20d), Mitchell Santner (32y 269d), Tilak Varma (21y 358d).
Bowlers: Trent Boult (35y 101d), Jasprit Bumrah (30y 330d), Deepak Chahar (32y 85d), AM Ghazanfar (18y 225d), Karn Sharma (37y 8d), Arjun Tendulkar (25y 37d), Reece Topley (30y 253d), Lizaad Williams (31y 30d), Ashwani Kumar (23y 63d), Bevon Jacobs (22y 178d), Vignesh Puthur (23y 243d), Satyanarayana Raju (25y 113d).

Average Age: 27.47 years

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Full Squad:

Batters: Josh Inglis (29y 241d), Shreyas Iyer (29y 330d), Prabhsimran Singh (24y 82d), Vishnu Vinod (30y 334d), Nehal Wadhera (24y 57d).
Allrounders: Azmatullah Omarzai (24y 221d), Aaron Hardie (25y 298d), Marco Jansen (24y 183d), Glenn Maxwell (36y 17d), Musheer Khan (19y 247d), Shashank Singh (32y 345d), Marcus Stoinis (35y 76d), Suryansh Shedge (21y 276d).
Bowlers: Arshdeep Singh (25y 269d), Xavier Bartlett (25y 319d), Yuzvendra Chahal (34y 100d), Praveen Dubey (31y 122d), Lockie Ferguson (33y 140d), Harpreet Brar (29y 45d), Kuldeep Sen (28y 9d), Vijaykumar Vyshak (27y 274d), Yash Thakur (25y 308d), Priyansh Arya (23y 287d), Pyla Avinash (24y 116d), Harnoor Singh (21y 275d).

Average Age: 27.47 years

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Full Squad:

Batters: Sanju Samson (29y 355d), Shubham Dubey (30y 65d), Shimron Hetmyer (27y 310d), Yashasvi Jaiswal (22y 308d), Dhruv Jurel (23y 284d), Riyan Parag (22y 356d), Nitish Rana (30y 309d), Kunal Singh Rathore (22y 22d), Vaibhav Suryavanshi (13y 218d).
Allrounders: Wanindu Hasaranga (27y 94d).
Bowlers: Jofra Archer (29y 213d), Ashok Sharma (22y 136d), Tushar Deshpande (29y 169d), Fazalhaq Farooqi (24y 39d), Kumar Kartikeya (26y 310d), Akash Madhwal (30y 341d), Kwena Maphaka (18y 206d), Sandeep Sharma (31y 166d), Maheesh Theekshana (24y 91d), Yudhvir Singh (27y 48d).

Average Age: 25.96 years

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Full Squad:

Batters: Swastik Chikara (19y 211d), Tim David (28y 229d), Virat Kohli (35y 361d), Devdutt Padikkal (24y 116d), Rajat Patidar (31y 152d), Phil Salt (28y 64d), Jitesh Sharma (31y 9d).
Allrounders: Jacob Bethell (21y 8d), Manoj Bhandage (26y 26d), Liam Livingstone (31y 88d), Mohit Rathee (25y 292d), Krunal Pandya (33y 221d), Romario Shepherd (29y 340d).
Bowlers: Josh Hazlewood (33y 297d), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (34y 269d), Lungi Ngidi (28y 216d), Rasikh Salam (24y 209d), Suyash Sharma (21y 169d), Swapnil Singh (33y 283d), Nuwan Thushara (30y 86d), Yash Dayal (26y 323d), Abhinandan Singh (27y 215d).

Average Age: 27.68 years

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Full Squad:

Batters: Travis Head (30y 307d), Ishan Kishan (26y 105d), Heinrich Klaasen (33y 93d), Sachin Baby (35y 318d).
Allrounders: Abhishek Sharma (24y 57d), Brydon Carse (29y 92d), Abhinav Manohar (30y 45d), Kamindu Mendis (26y 31d), Nitish Kumar Reddy (21y 158d), Atharva Taide (24y 188d).
Bowlers: Rahul Chahar (25y 88d), Pat Cummins (31y 176d), Eshan Malinga (23y 270d), Mohammed Shami (34y 58d), Harshal Patel (33y 343d), Simarjeet Singh (26y 288d), Jaydev Unadkat (33y 13d), Adam Zampa (32y 214d), Aniket Verma (22y 269d), Zeeshan Ansari (24y 320d).

Average Age: 28.52 years