IPL 2026 Player List: Full Squads, Teams & Auction Highlights

Overview

The IPL 2026 auction delivered historic moments as Cameron Green became the most expensive overseas signing while uncapped Indian players secured massive deals. This article provides the complete IPL 2026 player list, team wise squads, auction highlights, and key budget details in a clear easy to read format.

IPL 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi as teams finalize their squads with record breaking bids
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The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 auction turned out to be one of the most dramatic and high spending events in the tournament history. Record breaking bids, surprise purchases and big opportunities for uncapped Indian talent defined the auction held in Abu Dhabi.

Below is a detailed breakdown of the IPL 2026 auction highlights, budgets, most expensive players, and complete team squads.

IPL 2026 Auction Highlights

Australian all rounder Cameron Green scripted history by becoming the most expensive overseas player in IPL history. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) secured his services for ₹25.20 crore, surpassing the previous overseas record.

However under the revised IPL auction regulations, Green contract value will be capped at ₹18 crore, with the excess amount redirected to the BCCI welfare fund.

Key Auction Numbers

• Total spending by all teams: ₹237.55 crore

• Minimum base price: ₹30 lakh

• Maximum base price: ₹2 crore

• Total players sold: 77

• Total players in auction pool: 369

• Maximum squad size: 25 players

• Maximum overseas players per team: 8

Uncapped Indian Players Steal the Show

The IPL 2026 auction was equally memorable for uncapped Indian cricketers.

Biggest Uncapped Deals

• Prashant Veer – ₹14.20 crore (Chennai Super Kings)

• Kartik Sharma – ₹14.20 crore (Chennai Super Kings)

Both players became the joint most expensive uncapped players in IPL history surpassing Avesh Khan previous record of ₹10 crore.

Team Budget & Strategy Overview

Kolkata Knight Riders entered the auction with the largest purse (₹64.30 crore) and completed their squad first.

Chennai Super Kings had the second largest budget and invested heavily in young Indian talent.

Mumbai Indians despite having only ₹2.75 crore remaining smartly added experienced wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock for ₹1 crore.

Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants did not utilize their full overseas quota.

IPL 2026: Most Expensive Players

Top Records

• Most expensive player (IPL 2026): Cameron Green – ₹25.20 crore

• Most expensive overseas player: Cameron Green – ₹25.20 crore

• Most expensive Indian player: Prashant Veer / Kartik Sharma – ₹14.20 crore

• Most expensive uncapped player: Prashant Veer / Kartik Sharma – ₹14.20 crore

IPL 2026 Team Squads Full Player Lists

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) Squad IPL 2026

1. Ruturaj Gaikwad 
2. MS Dhoni
3. Dewald Brevis
4. Ayush Mhatre
5. Urvil Patel
6. Anshul Kamboj
7. Jamie Overton
8. Ramakrishna Ghosh
9. Shivam Dube
10. Khaleel Ahmed
11. Noor Ahmad
12. Mukesh Choudhary
13. Nathan Ellis
14. Shreyas Gopal
15. Gurjapneet Singh
16. Sanju Samson
17. Akeal Hosein
18. Prashant Veer
19. Kartik Sharma
20. Matthew Short
21. Aman Khan
22. Sarfaraz Khan
23. Rahul Chahar
24. Matt Henry
25. Zak Foulkes

Delhi Capitals (DC) Squad IPL 2026

1. KL Rahul
2. Karun Nair
3. Abishek Porel
4. Tristan Stubbs
5. Axar Patel
6. Sameer Rizvi
7. Ashutosh Sharma
8. Vipraj Nigam
9. Ajay Mandal
10. Tripurana Vijay
11. Madhav Tiwari
12. Mitchell Starc
13. T. Natarajan
14. Mukesh Kumar
15. Dushmantha Chameera
16. Kuldeep Yadav 
17. Nitish Rana 
18. Auqib Dar
19. Ben Duckett
20. David Miller
21. Pathum Nissanka
22. Lungi Ngidi
23. Sahil Parakh
24. Prithvi Shaw
25. Kyle Jamieson

Gujarat Titans (GT) Squad IPL 2026

1. Shubman Gill
2. Sai Sudharsan
3. Kumar Kushagra
4. Anuj Rawat
5. Jos Buttler
6. Nishant Sindhu
7. Glenn Phillips
8. Washington Sundar
9. Arshad Khan
10. Shahrukh Khan
11. Rahul Tewatia
12. Kagiso Rabada
13. Mohammed Siraj
14. Prasidh Krishna
15. Ishant Sharma
16. Gurnoor Singh Brar
17. Rashid Khan
18. Manav Suthar
19. Sai Kishore
20. Jayant Yadav
21. Ashok Sharma
22. Jason Holder
23. Tom Banton
24. Luke Wood
25. Prithviraj Yarra

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) Squad IPL 2026

1. Ajinkya Rahane
2. Rinku Singh
3. Angkrish Raghuvanshi
4. Manish Pandey
5. Rovman Powell
6. Anukul Roy
7. Ramandeep Singh
8. Vaibhav Arora
9. Sunil Narine
10. Varun Chakaravarthy
11. Harshit Rana
12. Umran Malik
13. Cameron Green
14. Matheesha Pathirana
15. Finn Allen
16. Tejasvi Singh
17. Prashant Solanki
18. Kartik Tyagi
19. Mustafizur Rahman
20. Rahul Tripathi
21. Tim Seifert
22. Sarthak Ranjan
23. Daksh Kamra
24. Akash Deep
25. Rachin Ravindra

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) Squad IPL 2026

1. Rishabh Pant
2. Ayush Badoni
3. Abdul Samad
4. Aiden Markram
5. Himmat Singh
6. Matthew Breetzke
7. Nicholas Pooran
8. Mitchell Marsh
9. Shahbaz Ahamad
10. Arshin Kulkarni
11. Mayank Yadav
12. Avesh Khan
13. Mohsin Khan
14. M. Siddharth
15. Digvesh Rathi
16. Prince Yadav
17. Akash Singh
18. Arjun Tendulkar
19. Mohammed Shami
20. Anrich Nortje
21. Wanindu Hasaranga
22. Mukul Choudhary
23. Naman Tiwari
24. Akshat Raghuwanshi
25. Josh Inglis

Mumbai Indians (MI) Squad IPL 2026

1. Rohit Sharma
2. Suryakumar Yadav
3. Robin Minz
4. Ryan Rickelton
5. Tilak Varma
6. Hardik Pandya
7. Naman Dhir
8. Mitchell Santner
9. Will Jacks
10. Corbin Bosch
11. Raj Bawa
12. Trent Boult
13. Jasprit Bumrah
14. Deepak Chahar
15. Ashwani Kumar
16. Raghu Sharma
17. Allah Ghazanfar
18. Mayank Markande
19. Shardul Thakur
20. Sherfane Rutherford
21. Quinton de Kock
22. Atharva Ankolekar
23. Mohammad Izhar
24. Danish Malewar
25. Mayank Rawat

Punjab Kings (PBKS) Squad IPL 2026

1. Shreyas Iyer
2. Nehal Wadhera
3. Vishnu Vinod
4. Harnoor Pannu
5. Pyla Avinash
6. Prabhsimran Singh
7. Shashank Singh
8. Marcus Stoinis
9. Harpreet Brar
10. Marco Jansen
11. Azmatullah Omarzai
12. Priyansh Arya
13. Musheer Khan
14. Suryansh Shedge
15. Mitch Owen
16. Arshdeep Singh
17. Yuzvendra Chahal
18. Vyshak Vijaykumar
19. Yash Thakur
20. Xavier Bartlett
21. Lockie Ferguson
22. Cooper Connolly
23. Ben Dwarshuis
24. Vishal Nishad
25. Pravin Dubey

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Squad IPL 2026

1. Shubham Dubey
2. Vaibhav Suryavanshi
3. Lhuan dre Pretorius
4. Shimron Hetmyer
5. Yashasvi Jaiswal
6. Dhruv Jurel
7. Riyan Parag
8. Yudhvir Singh Charak
9. Jofra Archer
10. Tushar Deshpande
11. Sandeep Sharma
12. Kwena Maphaka
13. Nandre Burger
14. Ravindra Jadeja
15. Sam Curran
16. Donovan Ferreira
17. Ravi Bishnoi
18. Sushant Mishra
19. Vignesh Puthur
20. Yash Raj Punja
21. Ravi Singh
22. Brijesh Sharma
23. Aman Rao
24. Adam Milne
25. Kuldeep Sen

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Squad IPL 2026

1. Virat Kohli
2. Rajat Patidar
3. Tim David
4. Devdutt Padikkal
5. Phil Salt
6. Jitesh Sharma
7. Krunal Pandya
8. Jacob Bethell
9. Romario Shepherd
10. Swapnil Singh
11. Josh Hazlewood
12. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
13. Rasikh Salam
14. Yash Dayal
15. Suyash Sharma
16. Nuwan Thushara
17. Abhinandan Singh
18. Venkatesh Iyer
19. Jacob Duffy
20. Mangesh Yadav
21. Satvik Deswal
22. Jordan Cox
23. Kanishk Chouhan
24. Vihaan Malhotra
25. Vicky Ostwal

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) Squad IPL 2026

1. Travis Head
2. Abhishek Sharma
3. Aniket Verma
4. R Smaran
5. Ishan Kishan
6. Heinrich Klaasen
7. Nitish Kumar Reddy
8. Harsh Dubey
9. Kamindu Mendis
10. Harshal Patel
11. Brydon Carse
12. Pat Cummins
13. Jaydev Unadkat
14.  Eshan Malinga
15. Zeeshan Ansari
16. Shivang Kumar
17. Salil Arora
18. Krains Fuletra
19. Praful Hinge
20. Amit Kumar
21. Onkar Tarmale
22. Sakib Hussain
23. Liam Livingstone
24. Shivam Mavi
25. Jack Edwards

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