The IPL 2026 auction held in Abu Dhabi became a goldmine for uncapped Indian players, as franchises invested in domestic talent the highest amounts ever, while the already known international players were just spectators. The show was a live performance of totally different strategies, with some teams going for the highest-paid foreign stars and others investing in local farmer expertise. This combination of mega transactions and unexpected rejections pointed out the fact that data-driven scouting, role-specific requirements, and budget management have become the major factors of auction dynamics rather than just the reputation.
Kolkata Knight Riders were the most daring team in the auction. They took the world by storm by signing Cameron Green for Rs 25.20 crore and made a world record for the highest-priced overseas player in franchise cricket. KKR’s strength continued with the inclusion of the Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana for Rs 18 crore and the New Zealand opener Finn Allen for the base price of Rs 2 crore.
Also, the Mumbai Indians made a clever, low-budget add-on in the form of Quinton de Kock for Rs 1 crore, the Rajasthan Royals reinforced their spin department by bringing back Ravi Bishnoi for Rs 7.4 crore, and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru boosted their squad with the all-around qualities of Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 7 crore and the pace of New Zealander Jacob Duffy for Rs 2 crore.
Here’s the list of IPL 2026 players with teams and purse
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Purse:Â Rs 2.4 crore
Sold Players
- Kartik Sharma (Rs 14.20 Cr)
- Prashant Veer (Rs 14.20 Cr)
- Akeal Hosein (Rs 2 Cr)
- Matthew Short (Rs 1.5 Cr)
- Aman Khan (Rs 40 lakhs)
- Sarfaraz Khan (Rs 75 lakh)
- Matt Henry (Rs 2 Cr)
- Rahul Chahar (Rs 5.2 Cr)
- Jack Edwards (Rs 3 Cr)
- Zak Foulkes (Rs. 75 Lakh)
Retentions:Â Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Jamie Overton, MS Dhoni, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis, Noor Ahmad, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Sanju Samson (traded), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel.
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Purse:Â Rs 4.55 Crore
Sold Players:
- Mukul Choudhary (Rs 2.6 Cr)
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Rs 2 Cr)
- Anrich Nortje (Rs 2 Cr)
- Naman Tiwari (Rs 1 Cr)
- Akshat Raghuvanshi (Rs 2.2 Cr)
- Josh Inglis (Rs 8.6 Cr)
Retentions:Â Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar (traded), Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami (traded), Mitchell Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shahbaz Ahmed
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Purse:Â Rs 0.45 Cr
Sold Players:
- Cameron Green (Rs 25.20 Cr)
- Finn Allen (Rs 2 Cr)
- Tejasvi Singh (Rs 3 Cr)
- Matheesha Pathirana (Rs 18 Cr)
- Mustafizur Rahman (Rs 9.2 Cr)
- Tim Seifert (Rs 1.5 Cr)
- Prashant Solanki (Rs 30 lakh)
- Kartik Tyagi (Rs 30 lakh)
- Rahul Tripathi (Rs 75 lakh)
- Sarthak Ranjan (Rs 30 lakh)
- Daksh Kamra (Rs 30 lakh)
- Rachin Ravindra (Rs 2 Cr)
- Akash Deep (Rs 1 Cr)
Retentions:Â Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy
Delhi Capitals
Purse:Â Rs 0.35 Crore
Sold Players:
- Ben Duckett (Rs 2 Cr)
- David Miller (Rs 2 Cr)
- Auqib Nabi (Rs 8.4 Cr)
- Pathum Nissanka (Rs 5 Cr)
- Lungi Ngidi (Rs 2 Cr)
- Prithvi Shaw (Rs. 75 lakh)
- Sahil Parekh (Rs 30 lakh)
- Kyle Jamieson (Rs. 2 Crore)
Retentions: Abhishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Kumar, Nitish Rana (traded), Sameer Rizvi, T. Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam.
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Purse:Â Rs 0.55 crore
Sold Players:
- Quinton de Kock (Rs 1 Cr)
- Danish Malewar (Rs 30 lakhs)
- Mohammad Izhar (Rs 30 lakhs)
- Atharva Ankolekar (Rs 30 lakhs)
- Mayank Rawat (Rs 30 lakhs)
Retentions:Â Allah Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande (traded), Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Shardul Thakur (traded), Sherfane Rutherford (traded), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks
List of Unsold Players- IPL 2026
- Devon Conway – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Jake Fraser-McGurk – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Gus Atkinson – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Jamie Smith – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Gerald Coetzee – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Mujeeb Rahman – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Maheesh Theekshana – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Steve Smith – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Sean Abbott – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Michael Bracewell – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Daryl Mitchell – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Shai Hope – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- William O’Rourke – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Tom Curran – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Daniel Lawrence – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Alzarri Joseph – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Naveen-ul-Haq – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Liam Dawson – Rs. 2,00,00,000
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Spencer Johnson – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Saqib Mahmood – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Umesh Yadav – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Riley Meredith – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Jhye Richardson – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Jason Behrendorff – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Ben Sears – Rs. 1,50,00,000
- Beau Webster – Rs. 1,25,00,000
- Roston Chase – Rs. 1,25,00,000
- Kyle Mayers – Rs. 1,25,00,000
- Olly Stone – Rs. 1,25,00,000
- Kyle Verreynne – Rs. 1,25,00,000
- Wiaan Mulder – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Jonny Bairstow – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Fazalhaq Farooqi – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Reeza Hendricks – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Daniel Sams – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Kusal Perera – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Mohammad Waqar Salamkheil – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- George Linde – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Gulbadin Naib – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- William Sutherland – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Charith Asalanka – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Dwaine Pretorius – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Joshua Tongue – Rs. 1,00,00,000
- Deepak Hooda – Rs. 75,00,000
- K.S. Bharat – Rs. 75,00,000
- Mayank Agarwal – Rs. 75,00,000
- Sediqullah Atal – Rs. 75,00,000
- Ackeem Auguste – Rs. 75,00,000
- Tim Robinson – Rs. 75,00,000
- Dasun Shanaka – Rs. 75,00,000
- Benjamin McDermott – Rs. 75,00,000
- Kusal Mendis – Rs. 75,00,000
- Chetan Sakariya – Rs. 75,00,000
- Qais Ahmad – Rs. 75,00,000
- Rishad Hossain – Rs. 75,00,000
- Viyaskanth Vijayakanth – Rs. 75,00,000
- Rehan Ahmed – Rs. 75,00,000
- Bevon-John Jacobs – Rs. 75,00,000
- Taskin Ahmed – Rs. 75,00,000
- Richard Gleeson – Rs. 75,00,000
- Shamar Joseph – Rs. 75,00,000
- Navdeep Saini – Rs. 75,00,000
- Muhammad Abbas – Rs. 75,00,000
- George Garton – Rs. 75,00,000
- Nathan Smith – Rs. 75,00,000
- Dunith Wellalage – Rs. 75,00,000
- Tanzim Hasan Sakib – Rs. 75,00,000
- Matthew Potts – Rs. 75,00,000
- Nahid Rana – Rs. 75,00,000
- Sandeep Warrier – Rs. 75,00,000
- Wesley Agar – Rs. 75,00,000
- Binura Fernando – Rs. 75,00,000
- Md Shoriful Islam – Rs. 75,00,000
- Joshua Little – Rs. 75,00,000
- Obed McCoy – Rs. 75,00,000
- Billy Stanlake – Rs. 75,00,000
- Eathan Bosch – Rs. 75,00,000
- Chris Green – Rs. 75,00,000
- Blessing Muzarabani – Rs. 75,00,000
- Mahipal Lomror – Rs. 50,00,000
- Karn Sharma – Rs. 50,00,000
- Joe Clarke – Rs. 50,00,000
- Rajvardhan Hangargekar – Rs. 40,00,000
- K.M. Asif – Rs. 40,00,000
- Shubham Agrawal – Rs. 40,00,000
- Jalaj Saxena – Rs. 40,00,000
- Tom Moores – Rs. 40,00,000
- Arab Gul – Rs. 40,00,000
- Nikhil Chaudhary – Rs. 40,00,000
- Aarya Desai – Rs. 30,00,000
- Yash Dhull – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhinav Manohar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Anmolpreet Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Atharva Taide – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhinav Tejrana – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tanush Kotian – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kamlesh Nagarkoti – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vijay Shankar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sanvir Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Edhen Tom – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ruchit Ahir – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vansh Bedi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tushar Raheja – Rs. 30,00,000
- Raj Limbani – Rs. 30,00,000
- Akash Madhwal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Simarjeet Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shivam Shukla – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kumar Kartikeya Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Wahidullah Zadran – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ankit Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rohan Kunnummal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Pukhraj Mann – Rs. 30,00,000
- Salman Nizar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Manan Vohra – Rs. 30,00,000
- Yuvraj Chaudhary – Rs. 30,00,000
- Darshan Nalkande – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sairaj Patil – Rs. 30,00,000
- Suyash Prabhudessai – Rs. 30,00,000
- Harsh Tyagi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ricky Bhui – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rahul Buddhi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Saurav Chauhan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Yashvardhan Dalal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhishek Pathak – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kunal Rathore – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vidwath Kaverappa – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vijay Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vidyadhar Patil – Rs. 30,00,000
- P.V. Satyanarayana Raju – Rs. 30,00,000
- Murugan Ashwin – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tejas Baroka – Rs. 30,00,000
- K.C. Cariappa – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kartik Chadha – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mohit Rathee – Rs. 30,00,000
- Himanshu Sharma – Rs. 30,00,000
- Bailapudi Yeswanth – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kunal Chandela – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ayush Doseja – Rs. 30,00,000
- Qamran Iqbal – Rs. 30,00,000
- M. Dheeraj Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Bhanu Pania – Rs. 30,00,000
- Arsh Kabir Ranga – Rs. 30,00,000
- Adarsh Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Manoj Bhandage – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mayank Dagar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Raghav Goyal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Manvanth Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abid Mushtaq – Rs. 30,00,000
- Atit Sheth – Rs. 30,00,000
- Hritik Shokeen – Rs. 30,00,000
- Jagadeesha Suchith – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tanay Thyagarajann – Rs. 30,00,000
- Connor Esterhuizen – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ajitesh Guruswamy – Rs. 30,00,000
- Siddharth Joon – Rs. 30,00,000
- Bipin Saurabh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vishnu Solanki – Rs. 30,00,000
- Hardik Tamore – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sayan Ghosh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Money Grewal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Arpit Guleria – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sunil Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tristan Luus – Rs. 30,00,000
- Divesh Sharma – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhilash Shetty – Rs. 30,00,000
- Irfan Umair – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kuldip Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Manan Bhardwaj – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shreyas Chavan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Parikshit Dhanak – Rs. 30,00,000
- Chintal Gandhi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Dharmendrasinh Jadeja – Rs. 30,00,000
- Saumy Pandey – Rs. 30,00,000
- Jhathavedh Subramanyan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sachin Dhas – Rs. 30,00,000
- Miles Hammond – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ahammed Imran – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vishvarajsinh Jadeja – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ayaz Khan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Daniel Lategan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Siddhant Rana – Rs. 30,00,000
- Aaron Varghese – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abdul Bazith – Rs. 30,00,000
- Karan Lal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shams Mulani – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ripal Patel – Rs. 30,00,000
- Prince Rai – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vivrant Sharma – Rs. 30,00,000
- Utkarsh Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ayush Vartak – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sanjay Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sayed Irfan Aftab – Rs. 30,00,000
- Esakkimuthu Ayyakutti – Rs. 30,00,000
- Pankaj Jaswal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Kulwant Khejroliya – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ravi Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rajan Kumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Safvan Patel – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ishan Porel – Rs. 30,00,000
- Purav Agarwal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Jikku Bright – Rs. 30,00,000
- Yash Dicholkar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rakibul Hasan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Traveen Mathew – Rs. 30,00,000
- Naman Pushpak – Rs. 30,00,000
- Izaz Sawariya – Rs. 30,00,000
- Roshan Wagshare – Rs. 30,00,000
- R.S. Ambrish – Rs. 30,00,000
- Macneil Noronha – Rs. 30,00,000
- R. Rajkumar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ninad Rathva – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sunny Sandhu – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shivalik Sharma – Rs. 30,00,000
- Siddharth Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- R. Sonu Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Waseem Khanday – Rs. 30,00,000
- Atif Mushtaq – Rs. 30,00,000
- Atal Rai – Rs. 30,00,000
- C. Rakshann Readdi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Manish Reddy – Rs. 30,00,000
- Nishanth Saranu – Rs. 30,00,000
- Deependra Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rajat Verma – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rohit Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Emanjot Chahal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shubhang Hegde – Rs. 30,00,000
- Bal Krishna – Rs. 30,00,000
- Khilan Patel – Rs. 30,00,000
- Delano Potgieter – Rs. 30,00,000
- Hardik Raj – Rs. 30,00,000
- Parth Rekhade – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tiaan Van Vuuren – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shreevatsha Acharya – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sadek Hussain – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shubham Kapse – Rs. 30,00,000
- Aaqib Khan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sabir Khan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Bayanda Majola – Rs. 30,00,000
- Srihari Nair – Rs. 30,00,000
- Aman Shekhawat – Rs. 30,00,000
- Himanshu Bisht – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shreyan Chakraborty – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mayank Gusain – Rs. 30,00,000
- Akash Pugazhanthi – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhimanyusingh Rajput – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shubham Rana – Rs. 30,00,000
- Arpit Rana – Rs. 30,00,000
- Maramreddy Reddy – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sagar Solanki – Rs. 30,00,000
- Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Vishal Mandwal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Arfaz Mohammad – Rs. 30,00,000
- Hemang Patel – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mridul Surroch – Rs. 30,00,000
- Anuj Thakral – Rs. 30,00,000
- Parth Vats – Rs. 30,00,000
- Lalit Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Nitin Sai Yadav – Rs. 30,00,000
- Krish Bhagat – Rs. 30,00,000
- Prerit Dutta – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sammar Gajjar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Nasir Lone – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ishan Mulchandani – Rs. 30,00,000
- Akhil Scaria – Rs. 30,00,000
- Muhammed Sharafuddeen – Rs. 30,00,000
- K. Ajay Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Ritik Tada – Rs. 30,00,000
- Luckyrajsinh Vaghela – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mohamed Ali – Rs. 30,00,000
- Madhav Bajaj – Rs. 30,00,000
- Akshu Bajwa – Rs. 30,00,000
- Varun Raj Singh Bisht – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rishabh Chauhan – Rs. 30,00,000
- Dian Forrester – Rs. 30,00,000
- Dhurmil Matkar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Shiva Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Parikshit Valsangkar – Rs. 30,00,000
- Mani Sankar Mura Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Virandeep Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Chama Milind – Rs. 30,00,000
- K.L. Shrijith – Rs. 30,00,000
- Swastik Chikara – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rahul Raj Namala – Rs. 30,00,000
- Virat Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Abhimanyu Easwaran – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tripuresh Singh – Rs. 30,00,000
- Rajesh Mohanty – Rs. 30,00,000
- Swastik Samal – Rs. 30,00,000
- Saransh Jain – Rs. 30,00,000
- Sooraj Sangaraju – Rs. 30,00,000
- Tanmay Agarwal – Rs. 30,00,000
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