The much-awaited IPL 2025 mega auction was held in Jeddah on November 24 and 25, where an aggregate of 577 players went under the hammer. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) made some strategic moves, securing a total of 22 players over the course of the two-day event.

Among the key signings for the franchise were England’s versatile all-rounder, Liam Livingstone, who brings a wealth of power-hitting and handy bowling options to the team. Additionally, RCB bolstered their squad with the addition of Australian stars Josh Hazlewood, a proven pacer with experience in T20 cricket, and Tim David, a hard-hitting middle-order batter, known for his explosive batting skills in high-pressure situations.

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But RCB’s choices have left fans divided, while some have called their picks as “poor” and thrashed the management for letting go key players like Mohammed Siraj and Will Jacks. Other fans have lauded it as the “Best” Auction over the years for picking players like Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Liam Livingstone.

Here are some of the fan reactions on RCB’s picks for IPL 2025.

Pathetic and poor team building as always from @RCBTweets they mess up at auction time and build a miserable spin attack and Indian batsman and vague foreigners and struggle for a proper 11. It's insulting for rcb fans to have such vague think tank and management.

— Ganesh Prasath A (@ganeshagp5) November 26, 2024

Best Auction – GT
Worst Auction – RCB
Best Pick – Washington Sundar at 3.2 Cr
Worst Pick – Tim David at RCB
Steal of the Auction – Mitchell Santner at 2 Cr
Biggest Blunder – RCB not using RTM on Will Jacks
Biggest Surprise – Deepak Chahar in Mumbai Indians 🤯

— Haran Ganesh (@ganesh_haran) November 26, 2024

Only 3 Bowlers have Picked 75+ Wickets for RCB in IPL.

-Yuzvendra Chahal
-Mohammad Siraj
-Harshal Patel

RCB Left all of them, that sums up their Auction….#IPLAuction pic.twitter.com/GpNh9orgUZ

— Sanno (@sh_scribe) November 26, 2024

RCB ka toh pta hi tha pura India inki management ko suna rha hai.. pata nahi ye kya soch ke jate hai auction mei

— Shivank Udayawal (@Introvert_Sci) November 26, 2024

Best auction – rcb, SRH

Worst auction – mi, Punjab,lsg

Top pick – krunal

Worst pick – Venkatesh Iyer, noor& Rishabh Pant ( all three are overpriced)

Surprise pick – Bethel to rcb 🔥🔥🔥 for me

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— alpha (@viratsathruler) November 26, 2024

RCB is surely above 7.4
Probably their best mega auction in years (maybe 2011 better)

Don’t know why most of their ex players and pundits are always harsh on them (Uthappa , Kaif etc) https://t.co/UnZIOuRH9t

— D (@SriramBavarian) November 26, 2024

KKR (+LSG) had the worst auction among all the teams.

Delhi killed it, Chennai (hitter short) and SRH did great, GT too but their middle order is bhagwan bharosey, RCB better than the usual, Punjab nobody cares, MI did well, RR okyish-onthefense. https://t.co/y21NQ5Occj

— keval (@BleedBarca) November 26, 2024

i just saw that Will Jacks has been bought by Mumbai Indians, i was thinking that @RCBTweets had saved the RTM card for Will, am not saying that RCB's auction went bad, good to see the new talent but trophy bhi to chahiye, However, ultimately I feel deeply for Siraj & Will 💔

— Ujjwal Dubey (@ujjwalhoon) November 26, 2024

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i just saw that Will Jacks has been bought by Mumbai Indians, i was thinking that @RCBTweets had saved the RTM card for Will, am not saying that RCB's auction went bad, good to see the new talent but trophy bhi to chahiye, However, ultimately I feel deeply for Siraj & Will 💔

— Ujjwal Dubey (@ujjwalhoon) November 26, 2024