IPL 2026 Mini Auction: The 2026 Indian Premier League (IPL) mini-auction was held in Abu Dhabi on December 16, with 10 teams competing for 77 slots out of a pool of 369 players. The teams were allowed to spend a total of ₹237.55 crore.
Kolkata Knight Riders were the most active team at the auction, boasting the largest budget of ₹64.3 crore, which they utilized effectively. The highlight of the auction was the acquisition of Australian all-rounder Cameron Green, who set a record as the most expensive foreign player in IPL history, selling for ₹25.20 crore. He will now play for Kolkata Knight Riders.
Kolkata Knight Riders also signed Matheesha Pathirana for ₹18 crore. Chennai Super Kings, showing great faith in young talent, acquired Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma, both lacking international experience, for ₹14.2 crore – the highest price ever paid for an uncapped player.
Sunrisers Hyderabad signed Liam Livingstone for ₹13 crore, making him the fifth most expensive player at the auction. Teams also offered opportunities to Indian players such as Sarfaraz Khan and Prithvi Shaw. The 2026 IPL season kicks off on March 26, with the final scheduled for May 31, promising fans an exciting mix of established stars and emerging talents.
IPL 2026 Player List: Players of all teams after the Mini Auction
Chennai Super Kings (CSK):
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramkrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Sanju Samson, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Jack Foulkes
Mumbai Indians (MI):
Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir, Mitchell Santner, Will Jacks, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, AM Ghazanfar, Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford, Mayank Markande, Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Mohammad Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR):
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Cameron Green, Matheesha Pathirana, Mustafizur Rahman, Tejaswi Singh, Rachin Ravindra, Finn Allen, Tim Seifert, Akash Deep, Rahul Tripathi, Daksh Kamra, Sarthak Ranjan, Prashant Solanki, Kartik Tyagi
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB):
Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Satwik Deswal, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Kanishk Chauhan, Vihaan Malhotra
Punjab Kings (PBKS):
Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Payal Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shethge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Marco Jansen, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar, Ben Dwarshuis, Cooper Connolly, Praveen Dubey, Vishal Nishad
Gujarat Titans (GT):
Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Nishant Sindhu, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips, Jason Holder, Ashok Sharma, Tom Banton, Prithviraj Yarra, Luke Wood
Rajasthan Royals (RR):
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Luan-dre Pretorius, Ravindra Jadeja, Donovan Ferreira, Sam Curran, Ravi Bishnoi, Ravi Singh, Sushant Mishra, Brijesh Sharma, Aman Rao Peral, Vignesh Puthur, Yash Raj Punja, Kuldeep Sen, Adam Milne
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH):
Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Smaran Ravichandran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Liam Livingstone, Jack Edwards, Salil Arora, Shivam Mavi, Krunal Phule, Praful Hinge, Amit Kumar, Omkar Tarmale, Sakib Hussain, Shivang Kumar
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG):
Rishabh Pant, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Himmat Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Digvijay Rathi, M Siddharth, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohammed Shami, Naman Tiwari, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Inglis, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Choudhary
Delhi Capitals (DC):
Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana, Auqib Dar, Pathum Nissanka, Kyle Jamieson, Lungi Ngidi, Ben Duckett, David Miller, Prithvi Shaw, Sahil Parekh
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