Youngest player of IPL (Photo: PTI)
Wahidullah Zadran: 14 year old Vaibhav Suryavanshi is the youngest player in the history to be sold in the IPL auction. Vaibhav was sold to Suryavanshi in the auction of last season. Now after him, there is a player in the IPL 2026 auction too, whose age is not much. In fact, he is also the youngest player to enter the IPL 2026 auction. The name of the player we are talking about is Wahidullah Zadran. This Afghanistan cricketer will be the youngest face in the IPL auction to be held on 16 December 2025.
Youngest player of IPL 2026 auction
Now the question is, how young is Wahidullah Zadran, due to which he is the youngest among the 350 players who entered the auction? Wahidullah Zadran, who comes from Afghanistan, is just over 18 years old. He will be just 18 years and 31 days old on the day of IPL 2026 auction. With this age, he will be the youngest among the players participating in the auction.
28 wickets have been taken in 19 T20 matches
Wahidullah Zadran is a right-arm spinner and before entering the IPL auction, he has the experience of playing 19 T20s, in which he has taken 28 wickets, in which his best performance is of taking 4 wickets for 22 runs. Waheedullah Zadran also has the experience of playing in ILT20 before taking entry in the IPL 2026 auction. Wahidullah Zadran has kept his base price at Rs 30 lakh in the IPL auction.
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тАФ Junaid Khan (@JunaidKhanation) December 9, 2025
Played triangular series for Afghanistan’s U19 team
Wahidullah Zadran had represented the Afghanistan Under-19 team in the recently concluded triangular ODI series played with two Indian Under-19 teams. In the same under series played on Indian soil, he took 3 wickets in 3 matches. Apart from this, he had scored 12 runs in 2 innings of batting.