DC Squad 2026 IPL Auction: Full List of Retained and Released Players by Delhi Capitals

The Delhi Capitals are preparing for the IPL 2026 Auction in Abu Dhabi on December 16, they are looking to bolster their team and make a serious bid for the championship. DC comes to the auction with a budget of ₹21.80 crore and is set to fill eight positions, out of which five are for international players, and is taking the chance to make tactical moves that can decide their season.

Delhi Capitals have already set a strong base with the list of players they plan to retain. Players like KL Rahul, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, and Tristan Stubbs are the vital cogs of the wheel and give the team a lot of confidence and their Indian counterparts Abishek Porel, Ashutosh Sharma, and Sameer Rizvi are the injectors of zeal, vitality, and depth in the syncopated rattle of the side. The mix of aging international players and rising local talents gives DC a core power that can be a foundation for their team.

Moreover, the team has a very good fast bowling line-up which is led by the internationals Starc and Dushmantha Chameera, and Indian boys Mukesh Kumar and T Natarajan who give the Capitals both pace and variety.

Capital has also been the fortunate ones as they have had the powerful squad that the history of the IPL portrayed of them not being the up and downs kind of team. At one point in the season, under their captain, Axar Patel, they recorded five wins from the first six games. Yet inconsistency haunted the second half, and losing five out of the following eight encounters, including one humiliating loss to the Mumbai Indians, left them with the lowest rank among the qualifying teams. Like Punjab Kings, Delhi Capitals are still in the quest for their very first IPL title, with the 2020 final being the only time they reached that far, and then they had to bow to Mumbai Indians.

Delhi Capitals Retained Players:

• Nitish Rana (traded in from RR)
• 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
• Mukesh Kumar

Delhi Capitals Released Players:

• Donovan Ferreira (traded to RR)
• Darshan Nalkande
• Faf du Plessis
• Jake Fraser-McGurk
• Manvanth Kumar
• Mohit Sharma
• Sediqullah Atal

Delhi Capitals Auction Buys:

To Be Announced

The IPL 2026 such an exciting event and chance to witness the arrival of fresh new talents by DC through the auction still not only to be overshadowed by their strong core but also to finally deliver the much-awaited IPL trophy. DC fans are highly hopeful in this regard.