The 2025 season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Rajasthan Royals. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2025 IPL. The team was captained by Sanju Samson and coached by Rahul Dravid.
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. Yashasvi Jaiswal scored the most runs (559) while Wanindu Hasaranga, Jofra Archer and Maheesh Theekshana took the most wickets (11 each) for Rajasthan in the 2025 season.
Pre-season
The 2025 Indian Premier League was the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 (T20) cricket league, organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). Rajasthan Royals had previously won the title once in the 2008 inaugural IPL. The team finished in third place in the previous season. The tournament featured ten teams competing in 74 matches from 22 March to 3 June 2025. Rajasthan played most of 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 six players, including captain Sanju Samson.
+ Retained players No. Player Salary 1 Sanju Samson 2 Yashasvi Jaiswal 3 Dhruv Jurel 4 Riyan Parag 5 Shimron Hetmyer 6 Sandeep Sharma
+ Released players Batters Wicket-keepers All-rounders Fast bowlers Spin bowlers Rovman Powell Shubham Dubey Tom Kohler-Cadmore 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 on 24 and 25 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The auction purse for each franchise was set at , with the franchises being deducted an amount from the purse for each retained player. Rajasthan had a purse remaining of . Franchises that did not retain six players, were allowed Right-to-Match (RTM) 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 Withdrawn players are indicated by a dagger symbol () and placed at the bottom of the table.
+ Rajasthan Royals squad for the 2025 Indian Premier League S/N Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Salary Notes 5 Riyan Parag Right-handed Right-arm leg break Stand-in captain 11 Sanju Samson Right-handed Right-arm off break Captain 12 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi Left-handed Left-arm orthodox 14 Kunal Singh Rathore Left-handed Right-arm off break 21 Dhruv Jurel Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 22 Jofra Archer Right-handed Right-arm fast Overseas 24 Tushar Deshpande Left-handed Right-arm medium-fast 25 Akash Madhwal Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 26 Kumar Kartikeya Right-handed Left-arm unorthodox 27 Shubham Dubey Left-handed Right-arm off break 34 Yudhvir Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 49 Wanindu Hasaranga Right-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas 61 Maheesh Theekshana Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas 64 Yashasvi Jaiswal Left-handed Right-arm leg break 83 Fazalhaq Farooqi Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast Overseas 189 Shimron Hetmyer Left-handed Right-arm leg break Overseas Nandre Burger Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium Overseas; replacement Kwena Maphaka Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast Overseas Lhuan-dre Pretorius Left-handed Overseas; replacement Ashok Sharma Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 20 Sandeep Sharma Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Withdrawn 36 Nitish Rana Left-handed Right-arm off break Withdrawn
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.
Position Name Head coach Rahul Dravid Batting coach Vikram Rathour Bowling coach Sairaj Bahutule Source: Wisden
League stage Rajasthan Royals began their season with two defeats against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders. They won the next two matches against Chennai Super Kings and Punjab Kings; but lost the next five matches against Gujarat Titans, Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Delhi Capitals, Lucknow Super Giants and Bengaluru. They won their tenth match against Gujarat with their player Vaibhav Sooryavanshi becoming the youngest and the fastest Indian player to score a century in the IPL. Following a 100-run defeat against Mumbai Indians, they were eliminated from the 2025 IPL. They lost the next two matches against Kolkata and Punjab; but won in their last match of the season against Chennai.
Points table
League progression
Fixtures
Statistics
At the IPL end of season awards, Sooryavanshi was awarded for the highest batting strike rate in the season.
+ Most runs Runs Player 559 Yashasvi Jaiswal 393 Riyan Parag 333 Dhruv Jurel 285 Sanju Samson 252 Vaibhav Sooryavanshi + Most wickets Wickets Player 11 Wanindu Hasaranga 11 Jofra Archer 11 Maheesh Theekshana 9 Sandeep Sharma 9 Tushar Deshpande
References Original 2025 IPL Schedule vs Revised 2025 IPL Schedule
General references
External links
Rajasthan Royals at IPLT20.com