The Indian Premier League (IPL) is gearing up for yet another season of explosive cricket. After the franchises came up with their retention lists for the 2026 season, they will now go on a bidding war in the mini auction.
This will mark the third straight year that the IPL auction is being conducted outside India, with Dubai playing host in 2024 and Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah taking up the responsibility for the 2025 mega auction.
IPL 2026 Player Auction: Date and Venue
The auction for IPL 2026 will be held in Abu Dhabi on December 16. It will be a one-day affair.
IPL 2026: List of players in mini auction
The Indian Premier League Player Auction list for the 2026 season has been finalised, featuring a total of 350 players who will go under the hammer at the upcoming auction in Abu Dhabi on 16th December.
A total of 1390 players registered for the Player Auction, out of which 350 players were shortlisted; 240 Indian and 110 are overseas recruits. The pool comprises 224 uncapped Indian players and 14 uncapped overseas players, adding significant depth and fresh talent to this year’s auction roster.
Apart from India, there is representation from 10 other countries – Afghanistan (10), Australia (20), Bangladesh (7), England (21), Ireland (1), New Zealand (16), South Africa (16), Sri Lanka (12), West Indies (9) and Malaysia (1).
All the 10 franchises will compete for 77 available slots overall, including 31 spots reserved for overseas players.
The highest reserve price remains INR 2 crore, with 40 players choosing to enter the auction in this bracket.
Complete breakdown of capped and uncapped players
| Sr. No | Capped/Uncapped players | No. of players |
| 1 | Capped Indians | 16 |
| 2 | Capped Overseas | 96 |
| 3 | Uncapped Indian | 224 |
| 4 | Uncapped overseas | 14 |
| Total | 350 |
A full list of players as per their base price.
| Sr. No | Reserve Price | No. of players |
| 1 | 200 | 40 |
| 2 | 150 | 9 |
| 3 | 125 | 4 |
| 4 | 100 | 17 |
| 5 | 75 | 42 |
| 6 | 50 | 4 |
| 7 | 40 | 7 |
| 8 | 30 | 227 |
| Total | 350 |
The player pool features a wide age range: veteran all-rounder Jalaj Saxena, 39, is the oldest entrant, while Afghanistan’s Wahidullah Zadran, just over 18, is the youngest.
A few big names, including Glenn Maxwell and Faf du Plessis, have opted out of IPL 2026, adding extra intrigue around new picks and uncapped options.
With squads capped at 25 players, the auction is expected to witness bidding wars for specialised T20 roles.
Also Read: WPL 2026: List Of Players Retained And Released
IPL 2026 Auction Players List
₹2 crore base price
- Devon Conway (New Zealand)
- Jake Fraser-McGurk (Australia)
- Cameron Green (Australia)
- David Miller (South Africa)
- Gus Atkinson (England)
- Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
- Venkatesh Iyer (India)
- Liam Livingstone (England)
- Ben Duckett (England)
- Jamie Smith (England)
- Gerald Coetzee (South Africa)
- Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)
- Anrich Nortje (South Africa)
- Matheesha Pathirana (Sri Lanka)
- Ravi Bishnoi (India)
- Akeal Hosein (West Indies)
- Mujeeb Rahman (Afghanistan)
- Maheesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka)
- Steve Smith (Australia)
- Sean Abbott (Australia)
- Michael Bracewell (New Zealand)
- Jason Holder (West Indies)
- Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
- Tom Banton (England)
- Shai Hope (West Indies)
- Josh Inglis (Australia)
- Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand)
- Adam Milne (New Zealand)
- Lungisani Ngidi (South Africa)
- William Orourke (New Zealand)
- Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh)
- Cooper Connolly (Australia)
- Tom Curran (England)
- Daniel Lawrence (England)
- Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
- Naveen Ul Haq (Afghanistan)
- Liam Dawson (England)
₹1.5 crore base price
- Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan)
- Spencer Johnson (Australia)
- Matt Henry (New Zealand)
- Matthew Short (Australia)
- Saqib Mahmood (England)
- Riley Meredith (Australia)
- Jhye Richardson (Australia)
- Tim Seifert (New Zealand)
₹1.25 crore base price
- Beau Webster (Australia)
- Roston Chase (West Indies)
- Kyle Mayers (West Indies)
- Olly Stone (England)
₹1 crore base price
- Wiaan Mulder (South Africa)
- Finn Allen (New Zealand)
- Jonny Bairstow (England)
- Quinton De Kock (South Africa)
- Akash Deep (India)
- Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan)
- Rahul Chahar (India)
- Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa)
- Reeza Hendricks (South Africa)
- Daniel Sams (Australia)
- Ben Dwarshuis (Australia)
- Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka)
- Umesh Yadav (India)
- Mohammad Waqar Salamkheil (Afghanistan)
- George Linde (South Africa)
- Gulbadin Naib (Afghanistan)
- William Sutherland (Australia)
- Joshua Tongue (England)
- Dwaine Pretorius (South Africa)
- Charith Asalanka (Sri Lanka)
₹75 lakh base price
- Sarfaraz Khan (India)
- Prithvi Shaw (India)
- Deepak Hooda (India)
- K.S. Bharat (India)
- Shivam Mavi (India)
- Mayank Agarawal (India)
- Sediqullah Atal (Afghanistan)
- Ackeem Auguste (West Indies)
- Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka)
- Tim Robinson (New Zealand)
- Rahul Tripathi (India)
- Jordan Cox (England)
- Benjamin McDermott (Australia)
- Kusal Mendis (Sri Lanka)
- Chetan Sakariya (India)
- Kuldeep Sen (India)
- Qais Ahmad (Afghanistan)
- Rishad Hossain (Bangladesh)
- Viyaskanth Vijayakanth (Sri Lanka)
- Rehan Ahmed (England)
- Taskin Ahmed (Bangladesh)
- Richard Gleeson (England)
- Shamar Joseph (West Indies)
- Navdeep Saini (India)
- Luke Wood (England)
- Muhammad Abbas (New Zealand)
- George Garton (England)
- Nathan Smith (New Zealand)
- Dunith Wellalage (Sri Lanka)
- Tanzim Hasan Sakib (Bangladesh)
- Matthew Potts (England)
- Nahid Rana (Bangladesh)
- Sandeep Warrier (India)
- Wesley Agar (Australia)
- Binura Fernando (Sri Lanka)
- Md Shoriful Islam (Bangladesh)
- Joshua Little (Ireland)
- Obed McCoy (West Indies)
- Billy Stanlake (Australia)
- Zak Foulkes (New Zealand)
- Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka)
- Bevon-John Jacobs (New Zealand)
- Ethan Bosch (South Africa)
- Chris Green (Australia)
₹50 lakh base price
- Mahipal Lomror (India)
- Tushar Deshpande (India)
- Yash Dayal (India)
- Joe Clarke (England)
- Jack Edwards (Australia)
₹40 lakh base price
- Rajvardhan Hangargekar (India)
- K.M Asif (India)
- Shubham Agrawal (India)
- Jalaj Saxena (India)
- Tom Moores (England)
- Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
- Nikhil Chaudhary (India)
₹30 lakh base price
- Aarya Desai (India)
- Yash Dhull (India)
- Abhinav Manohar (India)
- Anmolpreet Singh (India)
- Atharva Taide (India)
- Abhinav Tejrana (India)
- Auqib Dar (India)
- Tanush Kotian (India)
- Shivang Kumar (India)
- Vijay Shankar (India)
- Sanvin Singh (India)
- Edhen Tom (India)
- Prashant Veer (India)
- Ruchit Ahir (India)
- Vansh Bedi (India)
- Mukul Choudhary (India)
- Tushar Raheja (India)
- Kartik Sharma (India)
- Tejasvi Singh (India)
- Raj Limbani (India)
- Akash Madhwal (India)
- Sushant Mishra (India)
- Ashok Sharma (India)
- Simarjeet Singh (India)
- Naman Tiwari (India)
- Tyagi (India)
- Yash Raj Punja (India)
- Vignesh Puthur (India)
- Karn Sharma (India)
- Shivam Shukla (India)
- Kumar Kartikeya Singh (India)
- Prashant Solanki (India)
- Wahidullah Zadran (Afghanistan)
- Ankit Kumar (India)
- Rohan Kunnummal (India)
- Danish Malewar (India)
- Pukhraj Mann (India)
- Salman Nizar (India)
- Aman Rao Perala (India)
- Akshat Raghuwanshi (India)
- Manan Vohra (India)
- Yuvraj Chaudhary (India)
- Satvik Deswal (India)
- Aman Khan (India)
- Darshan Nalkande (India)
- Vicky Ostwal (India)
- Sairaj Patil (India)
- Suyash Prabhudessai (India)
- Mayank Rawat (India)
- Harsh Tyagi (India)
- Mangesh Yadav (India)
- Salil Arora (India)
- Ricky Bhui (India)
- Rahul Buddhi (India)
- Saurav Chuahan (India)
- Yashvardhan Dalal (India)
- Abhishek Pathak (India)
- Kunal Rathore (India)
- Ravi Singh (India)
- Sakib Hussain (India)
- Mohammad Izhar (India)
- Vidwath Kaverappa (India)
- Vijay Kumar (India)
- Vidyadhar Patil (India)
- PV.Satyanarayana Raju (India)
- Onkar Tarmale (India)
- Prithviraj Yarra (India)
- Murugan Ashwin (India)
- Tejas Baroka (India)
- KC Cariappa (India)
- Kartik Chadha (India)
- Pravin Dubey (India)
- Mohit Rathee (India)
- Himanshu Sharma (India)
- Bailapudi Yeswanth (India)
- Kunal Chandela (India)
- Ayush Doseja (India)
- Qamran Iqbal (India)
- M.Dheera Kumar (India)
- Bhanu Pania (India)
- Sahil Parakh (India)
- Arsh Kabin Ranga (India)
- Adarsh Singh (India)
- Manoj Bhandage (India)
- Mayank Dagar (India)
- Raghav Goyal (India)
- Manvanth Kumar (India)
- Abid Mushtaq (India)
- Atit Sheth (India)
- Hritik Shokeen (India)
- Jagadeesha Suchith (India)
- Tanay Thyagarajann (India)
- Connor Esterhuizen (South Africa)
- Ajitesh Guruswamy (India)
- Siddharth Joon (India)
- Bipin Saurabh (India)
- Vishnu Solanki (India)
- Hardik Tamore (India)
- Sayan Ghosh (India)
- Money Grewal (India)
- Arpit Guleria (India)
- Sunil Kumar (India)
- Tristan Luus (South Africa)
- Divesh Sharma (India)
- Abhilash Shetty (India)
- Irfan Umair (India)
- Kuldip Yadav (India)
- Manan Bhardwaj (India)
- Shreyas Chavan (India)
- Parikshit Dhanak (India)
- Chintal Gandhi (India)
- Dharmendrasinh Jadeja (India)
- Amit Kumar (India)
- Vishal Nishad (India)
- Saumy Pandey (India)
- Jhathavedh Subramanyan (India)
- Sachin Dhas (India)
- Miles Hammond (India)
- Ahammed Imran (India)
- Vishvarajsinh Jadeja (India)
- Ayaz Khan (India)
- Daniel Lategan (England)
- Siddhant Rana (India)
- Aaron Varghese (India)
- Atharva Ankolekar (India)
- Abdul Bazith (India)
- Karan Lal (India)
- Shams Mulani (India)
- Ripal Patel (India)
- Prince Rai (India)
- Vivrant Sharma (India)
- Utkarsh Singh (India)
- Ayush Vartak (India)
- Sanjay Yadav (India)
- Sayed Irfan Aftab (India)
- Esakkimuthu Ayyakutti (India)
- Praful Hinge (India)
- Pankaj Jaswal (India)
- Kulwant Khejroliya (India)
- Ravi Kumar (India)
- Rajan Kumar (India)
- Safvan Patel (India)
- Ishan Porel (India)
- Purav Agarwal (India)
- Jikku Brigh (India)
- Yash Dicholkar (India)
- Rakibul Hasan (Bangladesh)
- Traveen Mathew (Sri Lanka)
- Naman Pushpak (India)
- Izaz Sawariya (India)
- Roshan Wagshare (India)
- R.S Ambrish (India)
- Krains Fuletra (India)
- Macneil Noronha (India)
- R Rajkumar (India)
- Ninad Rathva (India)
- Sunny Sandhu (India)
- Shivalik Sharma (India)
- Siddharth Yadav (India)
- R.Sonu Yadav (India)
- Waseem Khanday (India)
- Atif Mushtaq (India)
- Atal Rai (India)
- C. Rakshann Readdi (India)
- Manish Reddy (India)
- Nishanth Saranu (India)
- Deependra Singh (India)
- Rajat Verma (India)
- Rohit Yadav (India)
- Emanjot Chahal (India)
- Shubhang Hegde (India)
- Bal Krishna (India)
- Vihaan Malhotra (India)
- Khilan Patel (India)
- Delano Potgieter (South Africa)
- Hardik Raj (India)
- Sarthak Ranjan (India)
- Parth Rekhade (India)
- Tia Van Vuuren (South Africa)
- Shreevatsha Acharya (India)
- Sadek Hussain (India)
- Shubham Kapse (India)
- Aaqib Khan (India)
- Sabir Khan (India)
- Bayanda Majola (South Africa)
- Srihari Nair (India)
- Brijesh Sharma (India)
- Aman Shekhawat (India)
- Himanshu Bisht (India)
- Shreyan Chakraborty (India)
- Kanishk Chouhan (India)
- Mayank Gusain (India)
- Akash Pugazhanthi (India)
- Abhimanyusingh Rajput (India)
- Shubham Rana (India)
- Arpit Rana (India)
- Maramreddy Reddy (India)
- Sagar Solanki (India)
- Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal (India)
- Daksh Kamra (India)
- Vishal Mandwal (India)
- Arfaz Mohammad (India)
- Hemang Patel (India)
- Mridul Surroch (India)
- Anuj Thakral (India)
- Parth Vats (India)
- Lalit Yadav (India)
- Nitin Sai Yadav (India)
- Krish Bhagat (India)
- Prerit Dutta (India)
- Sammar Gajjar (India)
- Nasir Lon (India)
- Ishan Mulchandani (India)
- Akhil Scaria (India)
- Muhammed Sharafuddeen (India)
- K.Ajay Singh (India)
- Ritik Tada (India)
- Luckyrajsinh Vaghela (India)
- Mohamed Ali (India)
- Madhav Bajaj (India)
- Akshu Bajwa (India)
- Varun Raj Singh Bisht (India)
- Rishabh Chauhan (India)
- Dian Forrester (South Africa)
- Dhurmil Matkar (India)
- Shiva Singh (India)
- Parikshit Valsangkar (India)
- Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
- Miles Hammond (England)
- Manisankar Murasingh (India)
- Swastik Chikara (India)
- Virandeep Singh (Malaysia)
- Ethan Bosch (South Africa)
- Chris Green (Australia)
- KL Shrijith (India)
- Virat Singh (India)
- Rahul Raj Namala (India)
- Chama Milind (India)
