Naveen-ul-Haq Remains Unsold in IPL 2025 Mega Auction

Every cricketer in the world wants to play in IPL and why not, IPL is the biggest and most popular T20 league in the world. You will be surprised to know that more than 1500 players from all over the world had registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction, but only 577 were shortlisted.

Legendary players from teams like Australia, England, New Zealand, West Indies, Sri Lanka, and South Africa entered the mega auction. At the same time, a player also entered the auction, who had a fight with Kohli in the 2022 season and now he is about to be eliminated from IPL. No franchise has bought him in the IPL mega auction.

The player who took on Kohli was not sold.

We are talking about Afghanistan’s fast bowler Naveen-ul-Haq, who has been ignored by all the franchises in the IPL 2025 mega auction. Naveen-ul-Haq had kept his base price at Rs 2 crore in the mega auction, but no franchise bid on him. Even his team Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) did not use RTM for him.

25-year-old Naveen-Ul-Haq played for Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) last season, but LSG did not keep him in the team for the 2025 season and released him. LSG bought Naveen for Rs 50 lakh in the 2024 mini auction, but this time Naveen kept his base price at Rs 2 crore in the mega auction.

Fought with Kohli

Let us tell you that in the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) in the 2022 IPL season, Naveen-Ul-Haq fought with India’s legendary player Virat Kohli. After the match was over, when the players were shaking hands with each other, Naveen said bad things to Kohli. After misbehaving with Kohli, fans scolded Naveen not only on social media but also in the stadium. Well, then in the 2023 ODI World Cup, Naveen himself apologized to Kohli.

Talking about Naveen-ul-Haq’s IPL career, he has played 18 IPL matches, in which he has 25 wickets to his name.