Former India all-rounder Ravichandran Ashwin has named his Team of IPL 2025. He excluded Virat Kohli from his Best 12. He picked Sai Sudharsan and Phil Salt as openers. He named Shreyas Iyer as captain. Suryakumar Yadav, Nicholas Pooran, Shashank Singh, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav/Noor Ahmad, Josh Hazlewood, Jasprit Bumrah and Prasidh Krishna.