IPL 2026 Mini Auction: How Teams Stand, Who They Target | CricLegacy

(The IPL 2026 Auction will be held on 16 December 2025 at 1:30 PM IST at Etihad Arena, Abu Dhabi, with teams evaluating player base-price categories.)

According to an ESPNcricinfo report, every IPL team enters the 2026 mini-auction with a completely different shopping list, and honestly, the chaos is half the fun. Some franchises desperately need death-overs specialists because last season exposed far too many cracks. Others are chasing explosive middle-order hitters who can flip a game in six balls. A few sides want reliable Indian uncapped players to fix old balance issues, while the heavyweights are hunting for that one marquee overseas star to anchor their XI. And then there are the teams quietly searching for backup keepers, utility all-rounders, or that elusive powerplay bowler they somehow still haven’t found after years of trying.

How IPL Teams Stand Ahead of the 2026 Mini Auction

• Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

  Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dube, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Ms dhoni, Anshul Kamboj, Dewald Brevis, Gurjapneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Jamie Overton, Mukesh Choudhary, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shreyas Gopal, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel
  Purse remaining: INR 43.40 crore
  Slots remaining: 9 (4 overseas)

• Delhi Capitals (DC)

  Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Tristan Stubbs, Mukesh Kumar, Nitish Rana, Abhishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, Sameer Rizvi, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, Madhav Tiwari, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Vipraj Nigam
  Purse remaining: INR 21.80 crore
  Slots remaining: 8 (5 overseas)

• Gujarat Titans (GT)

  Rashid Khan, Shubman Gill, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Prasidh Krishna, Sai Sudarshan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Washington Sundar, R. Sai Kishore, Glenn Phillips, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Nishant Sindhu
  Purse remaining: INR 12.90 crore
  Slots remaining: 5 (4 overseas)

• Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

  Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Ajinkya Rahane, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Umran Malik, Anukul Roy
  Purse remaining: INR 64.30 crore
  Slots remaining: 13 (6 overseas)

• Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

  Rishabh Pant, Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Mohsin Khan, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Aiden Markram, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav
  Purse remaining: INR 22.95 crore
  Slots remaining: 6 (4 overseas)

• Mumbai Indians (MI)

  Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya, Suryakumar Yadav, Rohit Sharma, Trent Boult, Deepak Chahar, Tilak Varma, Will Jacks, Naman Dhir, Allah Ghazanfar, Sherfane Rutherford, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Santner, Ryan Rickelton, Corbin Bosch, Robin Minz, Raj Angad Bawa, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Mayank Markande
  Purse remaining: INR 2.75 crore
  Slots remaining: 5 (1 overseas)

• Punjab Kings (PBKS)

  Shreyas Iyer, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Mitchell Owen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Harpreet Brar, Vishnu Vinod, Xavier Bartlett, Pyla Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge
  Purse remaining: INR 11.50 crore
  Slots remaining: 4 (2 overseas)

• Rajasthan Royals (RR)

  Yashasvi Jaiswal, Riyan Parag, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Shimron Hetmyer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Burger, Sam Curran, Kwena Maphaka, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Lhuan-dre Pretorius, Donovan Ferreira
  Purse remaining: INR 16.05 crore
  Slots remaining: 9 (1 overseas)

• Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

  Virat Kohli, Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Krunal Pandya, Yash Dayal, Tim David, Suyash Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh, Abhinandan Singh
  Purse remaining: INR 16.40 crore
  Slots remaining: 8 (2 overseas)

• Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

  Heinrich Klaasen, Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Harshal Patel, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Eshan Malinga, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Zeeshan Ansari, Smaran Ravichandran, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey
  Purse remaining: INR 25.50 crore
  Slots remaining: 10 (2 overseas)