IPL 2026 Auction 7 Days To Go: 350 Players To Fight For 77 Slots, Check 10 Teams Captains, Retained Players, Remaining Purse

IPL 2026 Auction: A thrilling action is all set to take place in the upcoming IPL 2026 auction, which is scheduled to be held in Abu Dhabi on December 16. A total of 350 players will go under the hammer as all teams aim to fill the remaining slots in their respective squads.

South Africa's senior wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock has made a surprising entry in the players list for the mini auction at a base price of Rs 1 crore. The player pool also includes Australian batter Steve Smith at a base price of Rs 2 crore. Smith last played in the IPL in 2021. The first set of players in the auction includes India and Mumbai batters Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan, who both have kept their base price at Rs 75 lakh each.

Notably, a total of 77 slots are to be filled in the IPL 2026 auction, including 31 for overseas players. The list shared by the IPL features two Australians in Cameron Green and Jake Fraser-McGurk, along with New Zealand and former Chennai Super Kings opener Devon Conway and South Africa's David Miller, with each of them keeping a base price of Rs 2 crore.

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Venkatesh Iyer, who was released by Kolkata Knight Riders, has listed himself at a base price of Rs 2 crore. Three-time IPL winners KKR will go into the auction with the biggest purse of Rs 64.3 crores, followed by five-time champions CSK with Rs 43.4 crores.

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IPL 2026 Auction: Captains Of All Teams In Next Season

Chennai Super Kings: Ruturaj Gaikwad

Mumbai Indians: Hardik Pandya

Gujarat Titans: Shubman Gill

Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rajat Patidar

Lucknow Super Giants: Rishabh Pant

Rajasthan Royals: Yet to be announced

Delhi Capitals: Axar Patel

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Pat Cummins

Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer

IPL 2026 Auction: Retained Players List Of All 10 Teams

Chennai Super Kings: Ravichandran Ashwin (retired), Ravindra Jadeja (traded to RR), Sam Curran (traded to RR), Matheesha Pathirana, Rahul Tripathi, Devon Conway, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

Mumbai Indians: Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Rohit Sharma, Tilak Varma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dhir, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Will Jacks, Mitchell Santner, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Allah Ghazanfar, Raghu Sharma
Traded players: Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford and Mayank Markande

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: 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 Dar, Abhinandan Singh, Suyash Sharma

Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dubey, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Ravindra Jadeja (traded from CSK), Sam Curran (traded from CSK), Donovan Ferreira (traded from DC), Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Yudhvir Singh, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik

Delhi Capitals: Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Nitish Rana (traded from RR), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera

Punjab Kings: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Shashank Singh, Pyla Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar

Lucknow Super Giants: Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mohammed Shami (traded from SRH), Arjun Tendulkar (traded from MI), Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh

Gujarat Giants: Shubman Gill (C), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav

IPL 2026 Auction: All Teams Remaining Purse

Chennai Super Kings: Rs. 43.40 crore

Mumbai Indians: Rs. 2.75 crore

Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Rs. 16.40 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders: Rs. 64.30 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Rs. 25.50 crore

Gujarat Titans: Rs. 12.90 crore

Rajasthan Royals: Rs. 16.05 crore

Delhi Capitals: Rs. 21.80 crore

Lucknow Super Giants: Rs. 22.95 crore

Punjab Kings: Rs. 11.50 crore