Captain Ben Stokes opts to skip next year's Indian Premier League, but former England bowler James Anderson and Jofra Archer register for the upcoming auction.

Stokes's reported decision to skip the IPL 2025 mega-auction is also due to his focus on the World Test Championship. His last T20 appearance was in the 2022 T20 World Cup in Australia. Although he retired from One Day Internationals (ODIs) once,

Ben Stokes is missing from the list of 1574 players who have registered for the IPL 2025 mega auction to be held on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The long list of registered players, which will be pruned by the IPL after receiving input from the franchises,

England captain Ben Stokes will not take part in next year's Indian Premier League after opting out of the upcoming auction.

With IPL teams officially announcing their player retention, the stage is set for the highly anticipated 2025 IPL Mega Auction. Big names like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, MS Dhoni, and Pat Cummins were retained by their respective franchises,