New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) dominated the proceedings as the ten franchises spent a combined … crore on …. players at the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, December 16. While KKR splurged big on prominent names, CSK placed their faith in uncapped Indian talents at the auction.
The auction panned out on the expected lines as KKR (Rs 64.30 crore) and CSK (Rs 43.40 crore), who entered the auction with the two biggest purse, dictated the terms. KKR signed Australian all-rounder Cameron Green for a whopping Rs 25.20 crore, making him the most expensive overseas player in IPL history.
Green surpassed the record held by his Australian teammate Mitchell Starc, who was sold to KKR for Rs 24.75 crore in the IPL 2024 auction. KKR also spent big on Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana, roping him in for Rs 18 crore after beating Lucknow Super Giants in a bidding war for him.
KKR also went all out to secure the signing of Bangladesh pacer Mustafizur Rahman, picking him up for Rs 9.20 crore after edging CSK in a bidding war for him. The three-time champions roped in Kiwi wicket-keeper batters Finn Allen and Tim Seifert at their base price of Rs 2 crore and Rs 1.5 crore, respectively, while also buying the likes of Akash Deep, Rahul Tripathi and Rachin Ravindra.
CSK spent the majority of their purse on uncapped Indian players as they roped in Uttar Pradesh all-rounder Prashant Veer and Rajasthan wicket-keeper batter Kartik Sharma for Rs 14.20 crore each. While Prashant is a rising left-arm all-rounder, who bowls slow left-arm spin and bats in the lower-middle order, Kartik is a clean hitter, known for his six-hitting prowess.
Prashant and Kartik became the joint-most expensive uncapped players in IPL history after receiving record bids from CSK. England all-rounder Liam Livingstone, who went unsold initially, was sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for a huge sum of Rs 13 crore, while Lucknow Super Giants roped in the likes of Anrich Nortje, Wanindu Hasaranga and Josh Inglis.
Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bengaluru didn’t have much to do at the auction, but made some smart buys. RCB roped in Venkatesh Iyer for Rs 7 crore and bought New Zealand pacer Jacob Duffy at his base price of Rs 2 crore. MI had the least purse at the auction and added the likes of Mayank Rawat, Atharva Ankolekar and Danish Malewar.
Here is a look at the updated squads of all 10 franchises after IPL 2026 auction:
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Shivang Kumar, Salil Arora, Sakib Hussain, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Jack Edwards.
Mumbai Indians
Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ryan Rickleton, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Raghu Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Naman Dhir, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Allah Ghafanzar, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Sherfane Rutherford, Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Mohammad Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat.
Punjab Kings
Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Pravin Dubey, Vishal Nishad.
Chennai Super Kings
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, M.S. Dhoni, Sanju Samson, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Zak Foulkes.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Rajat Patidar (c), 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 Salam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Satvik Deswal, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan.
Rajasthan Royals
Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Ravi Bishnoi, Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen.
Delhi Capitals
Nitish Rana, Abishek 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, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.
Gujarat Titans
Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj Yarra, Luke Wood.
Lucknow Super Giants
Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant (c), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami, Arjun Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Choudhary, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis.
Kolkata Knight Riders
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Mustafizur Rahman, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep.