IPL 2026: Full List of Released & Retained Players by All 10 Teams, Remaining Purses, Trades and Key Updates

The IPL 2026 Auction was already quite a commotion, with the release and retention lists of all the players by 10 teams already teed up just before the deadline. The most spectacular event came from Kolkata Knight Riders, who immediately raised the eyebrows of the fans by letting go of the star all-rounders Andre Russell and Venkatesh Iyer, which could be marked as one of the biggest swaps of the season.

Franchises have now made major trades and squad reshuffles and are going into the mini-auction with very different purse strengths. KKR brings up the rear with ₹64.30 crore, which gives them the highest financial flexibility, while on the other hand Mumbai Indians are sitting at the bottom with only ₹2.75 crore left.

Retained Players for IPL 2026

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

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

Gujarat Titans (GT)

Shubman Gill (c), Rashid Khan, 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

Mumbai Indians (MI)

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

Delhi Capitals (DC)

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

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

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

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

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

Punjab Kings (PBKS)

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

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

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

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Rathore, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma, Nandre Burger

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

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

Released Players Before IPL 2026

Kolkata Knight Riders

Anrich Nortje, Andre Russell, Quinton de Kock, Moeen Ali, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Spencer Johnson, Venkatesh Iyer, Luvnith Sisodia, Chetan Sakariya

Gujarat Titans

Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Gerald Coetzee, Dasun Shanaka, Mahipal Lomror

Mumbai Indians

Bevon Jacobs, Karn Sharma, KL Shrijith, Lizaad Williams, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, PSN Raju, Reece Topley, Vignesh Puthur

Delhi Capitals

Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sediqullah Atal, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Darshan Nalkande

Chennai Super Kings

Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, C Andre Siddarth, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Matheesha Pathirana

Lucknow Super Giants

Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph

Punjab Kings

Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen

Rajasthan Royals

Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani, Mohit Rathee

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Adam Zampa, Rahul Chahar, Wiaan Mulder, Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby

Remaining Purse Before IPL 2026 Auction

KKR: ₹64.30 crore

CSK: ₹43.40 crore

SRH: ₹25.50 crore

LSG: ₹22.95 crore

DC: ₹21.80 crore

RR: ₹16.05 crore

RCB: ₹16.40 crore

GT: ₹12.90 crore

PBKS: ₹11.50 crore

MI: ₹2.75 crore

Completed Trades Before IPL 2026 Auction

Ravindra Jadeja → RR (from CSK) – ₹14 crore

Sam Curran → RR (from CSK) – ₹2.4 crore

Sanju Samson → CSK (from RR) – ₹18 crore

Mohammed Shami → LSG (from SRH) – ₹10 crore

Mayank Markande → MI (from KKR) – ₹30 lakh

Arjun Tendulkar → LSG (from MI) – ₹30 lakh

Nitish Rana → DC (from RR) – ₹4.2 crore

Donovan Ferreira → RR (from DC) – ₹1 crore

Shardul Thakur → MI (from LSG) – ₹2 crore

Sherfane Rutherford → MI (from GT) – ₹2.6 crore