IPL 2026 Auction: Remaining purse, retained players list of all 10 teams

KKR will walk into the IPL 2026 players auction with the biggest purse, while five-time champions MI will have the smallest purse

The IPL 2026 player auction came to a close today at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, with all 10 franchises successfully assembling full 25-member squads after an action-packed day of bidding. Every team entered bidding wars at different stages as they looked to fine-tune their combinations for the upcoming season.

 

The auction began quietly, with only two players sold in the opening set. Cameron Green was the headline buy, joining Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹25.20 crore, while Delhi Capitals picked up experienced finisher David Miller for ₹2 crore. Several prominent names went unsold early, including Devon Conway and Prithvi Shaw, though Sarfaraz Khan later found a place with Chennai Super Kings in the accelerated round.

 

Momentum picked up in the second and third rounds. Wanindu Hasaranga joined Lucknow Super Giants, Ben Duckett moved to Delhi Capitals, and Royal Challengers Bengaluru secured Venkatesh Iyer for ₹7 crore. KKR made another major splash by signing Matheesha Pathirana for ₹18 crore, while Rajasthan Royals landed Ravi Bishnoi and CSK opened their account with Akeal Hosein.

 

Uncapped players then took centre stage. Auqib Dhar’s ₹8.4 crore move to Delhi set the tone before CSK shattered records by signing Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma for ₹14.20 crore each. The accelerated rounds saw further big buys, including Pathum Nissanka, Jason Holder, Mustafizur Rahman and Liam Livingstone, before late deals for Josh Inglis, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar and Prithvi Shaw brought the auction to an end.

 

IPL 2026 Auction: Remaining Purse of all 10 teams

Team	Remaining Purse (₹ crore)
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)	2.4
Delhi Capitals (DC)	0.35
Gujarat Titans (GT)	1.95
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)	0.45
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)	4.55
Mumbai Indians (MI)	0.55
Punjab Kings (PBKS)	3.5
Rajasthan Royals (RR)	2.65
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)	0.25
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)	5.45

 

All IPL teams’ full list players after of IPL 2026 auction:

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

Players retained: 

MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dube, Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Khaleel Ahmed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj

 

Players bought in auction: 

Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Rahul Chahar, Akeal Hossain, Matt Henry, Matthew Short, Sarfaraz Khan, Aman Khan, Zak Foulkes

Delhi Capitals (DC)

 

Players retained:   

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

 

Players bought in auction: 

Auqib Dhar, Pathum Nissanka, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson

Gujarat Titans (GT)

 

Players retained: 

Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Gurnoor Brar, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Jos Buttler, Kagiso Rabada, Kumar Kushagra, Manav Suthar, Mohammed Siraj, Arshad Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Prasidh Krishna, R Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, B Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar

 

Players bought in auction: 

Jason Holder, Ashok Sharma, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj, Luke Wood

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

 

Players retained: 

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

 

Players bought in auction: 

Cameron Green, Matheesha Pathirana, Mustafizur Rahman, Rachin Ravindra, Finn Allen, Tim Seifert, Tejasvi Singh, Akash Deep, Rahul Tripathi, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

 

Players retained: 

Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Akash Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Mitchell Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shahbaz Ahmed

 

Players bought in auction: 

Josh Inglis, Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Choudhary, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Naman Tiwari

 

Mumbai Indians (MI)

 

Players retained: 

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

 

Players bought in auction: 

Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Md Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat

Punjab Kings (PBKS)

Players retained: 

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

 

Players bought in auction: 

Ben Dwarshuis, Cooper Connolly, Pravin Dubey, Vishal Nishad

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

Players retained: 

Donovan Ferreira, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Singh

 

Players bought in auction: 

Ravi Bishnoi, Ravi Singh, Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Aman Rao, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

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Players retained: 

Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Bethell, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Dar, Swapnil Singh

 

Players bought in auction: 

Venkatesh Iyer, Mangesh Yadav, Jacob Duffy, Jordan Cox, Satvik Deswal, Vickey Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

Players retained: 

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

 

Players bought in auction: 

Liam Livingstone, Jack Edwards, Salil Arora, Shivam Mavi, Shivang Kumar, Sakib Hussain, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra