IPL Auction 2026 Record Buys: ₹215 Crore Splash in Mini Auction

Udaipur, Dec 17, 2024: The IPL 2026 auction has come to an end. The mini-auction saw several uncapped Indian players earn big contracts. Cameron Green created history after being signed by Kolkata Knight Riders for Rs 25.20 crore, making him the most expensive overseas player in any franchise league in the world.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) signed Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma for Rs 14.20 crore each, setting new records for uncapped Indian players. Sri Lanka fast bowler Matheesha Pathirana was picked up by KKR for Rs 18 crore.

Overall, the IPL 2026 auction saw 10 teams spend Rs 215.45 Crore on 77 players. The upcoming season of the Indian Premier League will be played from March 26 to May 31. Here is the list of players bought from the auction and retained by all the teams.

1.Kolkata Knight Riders

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Cameron Green (₹25.20 crore), Matheesha Pathirana (₹18 crore), Mustafizur Rahman (₹9.20 crore), Tejaswi Singh (₹3 crore), Rachin Ravindra (₹2 crore), Finn Allen (₹2 crore), Akash Deep (₹1 crore), Tim Seifert (₹1.50 crore), Rahul Tripathi (₹75 lakh), Daksh Kamra (₹30 lakh), Sarthak Ranjan (₹30 lakh), Prashant Solanki (₹30 lakh), Kartik Tyagi (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

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

2. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Venkatesh Iyer (₹7 crore), Mangesh Yadav (₹5.20 crore), Jacob Duffy (₹2 crore), Jordan Cox (₹75 lakh), Kaushik Chauhan (₹30 lakh), Vihan Malhotra (₹30 lakh), Vicky Ostwal (₹30 lakh), Sattwik Deshwal (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

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

3. Chennai Super Kings

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Kartik Sharma (₹14.20 crore), Prashant Veer (₹14.20 crore), Rahul Chahar (₹5.20 crore), Matt Henry (₹2 crore), Akeal Hosein (₹2 crore), Matthew Short (₹1.50 crore), Jack Foakes (₹75 lakh), Sarfaraz Khan (₹75 lakh), Aman Khan (₹40 lakh)

Retention list:

Ruturaj Gaikwad (Captain), Ayush Matre, MS Dhoni, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramkrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis

Trade-in:

Sanju Samson (₹18 crore)

4. Lucknow Super Giants

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Josh Inglis (₹8.60 crore), Mukul Choudhary (₹2.60 crore), Akshat Raghuvanshi (₹2.20 crore), Anrich Nortje (₹2 crore), Wanindu Hasaranga (₹2 crore), Naman Tiwari (₹1 crore)

Retention list:

Rishabh Pant (Captain), Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Ayush Badoni, Avesh Khan, M Siddharth, Digvijay Singh Rathi, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan

Trade-in:

Mohammed Shami (₹10 crore, from Sunrisers Hyderabad), Arjun Tendulkar (₹30 lakh, from Mumbai Indians)

5. Delhi Capitals

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Aqib Dar (₹8.40 crore), Pathum Nissanka (₹4 crore), Kyle Jamieson (₹2 crore), Lungi Ngidi (₹2 crore), Ben Duckett (₹2 crore), David Miller (₹2 crore), Prithvi Shaw (₹75 lakh), Sahil Parakh (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

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

Trade-in:

Nitish Rana

6. Punjab Kings

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Ben Dwarshuis (₹4.40 crore), Cooper Connolly (₹3 crore), Vishal Nishad (₹30 lakh), Praveen Dubey (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Pilla Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shegde, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Vyshak Vijay Kumar, Yash Thakur, Lockie Ferguson, Xavier Bartlett, Mitchell Owen

7. Sunrisers Hyderabad

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Liam Livingstone (₹13 crore), Jack Edwards (₹3 crore), Salil Arora (₹1.50 crore), Shivam Mavi (₹75 lakh), Shivang Kumar (₹30 lakh), Prafull Hinge (₹30 lakh), Amit Kumar (₹30 lakh), Omkar Tarmale (₹30 lakh), Shakib Hussain (₹30 lakh), Krains Phuletra (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

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

8. Gujarat Titans

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Jason Holder (₹7 crore), Tom Banton (₹2 crore), Ashok Sharma (₹90 lakh), Luke Wood (₹75 lakh), Prithviraj Yarra (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill (Captain), 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

9. Mumbai Indians

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Quinton de Kock (₹1 crore), Mayank Rawat (₹30 lakh), Atharva Ankolekar (₹30 lakh), Mohammed Izhar (₹30 lakh), Danish Malewar (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

Hardik Pandya (Captain), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Tilak Varma, Naman Dhir, Will Jacks, Mitchell Santner, Raj Angad Bawa, Corbin Bosch, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Allah Ghazanfar, Raghu Sharma

Trade-in:

Sherfane Rutherford (₹2.60 crore, from Gujarat Titans), Mayank Markande (₹30 lakh, from KKR), Shardul Thakur (₹2 crore, from LSG)

10. Rajasthan Royals

Players bought from the mini-auction:

Ravi Bishnoi (₹7.20 crore), Adam Milne (₹7.20 crore), Ravi Singh (₹95 lakh), Sushant Mishra (₹90 lakh), Kuldeep Singh (₹75 lakh), Brijesh Sharma (₹30 lakh), Aman Rao Peralal (₹30 lakh), Vignesh Puthur (₹30 lakh), Yash Raj (₹30 lakh)

Retention list:

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Dhruv Jurel, Shimron Hetmyer, Sandeep Sharma, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kwena Maphaka, Donovan Ferreira, Yudhvir Charak, Juan-Dre Pretorius

Trade-in:

Ravindra Jadeja (₹14 crore, from CSK), Sam Curran (₹2.40 crore, from CSK)