Sports Desk, New Delhi. Indian Premier League Mini Auction 2026 Live: Today is the day of IPL 2026 Mini Auction and there is going to be a real market of players in Abu Dhabi today. In this auction, which will start at 2:30 pm, famous players from India and abroad will be in the eyes of the franchises and every team will try to make the best deal as per their need.
This mini auction is very important for the teams before the 19th season of IPL starting from 31 March 2026. The fate of around 369 players in the auction will be made or broken by the blow of the hammer. Out of these, only 77 will be those lucky players who will get a place in some team or the other for IPL 2026.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has a huge purse of Rs 64.3 crore in the mini auction. It is believed that KKR can decide the direction of today's bid to a great extent. At the same time, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) can also try their hands on many big players with Rs 43.4 crore.
Purses of the teams entering the auction today
Kolkata Knight Riders – 64.3 crores
Chennai Super Kings – 43.4 crores
Sunrisers Hyderabad – 25.5 crores
Lucknow Super Giants – 22.95 crores
Delhi Capitals – 21.8 crores
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 16.4 crores
Rajasthan Royals – 16.05 crores
Gujarat Titans – 12.9 crores
Punjab Kings – 11.5 crores
Mumbai Indians – 2.75 crores
IPL Auction Live 2026 Update: Mini auction starts in a few minutes from now
The mini auction of IPL 2026 is going to start in a few minutes from now. The owners of all 10 franchises have reached.
IPL 2026 Auction Live: How many players in which team?
Take a look at how many players are required by 10 teams.
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IPL 2026 Auction Live: Who will become the most expensive player?
The excitement of the player auction for IPL 2026 is going to start shortly. It will be interesting to see which player the franchise will think of spending big money on. By the way, a day earlier the broadcaster had organized a mock auction, in which KKR bought Australian all-rounder Cameron Green for Rs 30 crore.
IPL 2026 Auction LIVE: Venkatesh Iyer showed his strength in SMAT
Hours before the IPL auction, India all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer showed his mettle by scoring 70 runs in 43 balls for Madhya Pradesh against Punjab in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2025 Elite Super League Group A match. It is expected that they may get high bids in the auction.
IPL 2026 Auction player list LIVE: Youngest and oldest players of the auction
39-year-old Jalaj Saxena will be the oldest player in this mini auction, while Afghanistan's Wahidullah Zadran is the youngest player at just 18 years old.
IPL 2026 Auction Live: Are there any marquees set this time?
There is no Marquee Set (IPL 2026 Auction No Marquee Sets) this time, because this is a mini auction of IPL. Capped batsmen will be placed in the first set and Cameron Green is included in this set as his manager had mistakenly selected his name for this option, which the Australian star all-rounder told before the auction.
IPL Auction LIVE: When will the 19th season of IPL start?
IPL 2026 will start from 26 March 2026, whose final match will be played on 31 May. BCCI announced this a day before the IPL 2026 auction.
Indian Premier League Auction 2026 Live: Cameron-Venkatesh or Liam, who will get the higher bid?
Kolkata Knight Riders will enter the IPL 2026 mini auction with the biggest purse of Rs 64.30 crore and Chennai Super Kings with Rs 43.40 crore. For this reason, strong bidding is expected on many foreign star players. Big foreign players like Cameron Green, Quinton de Kock and Liam Livingstone are eyeing this auction as franchises want to strengthen key parts of their team.
This auction is the third consecutive overseas IPL auction, the previous two rounds have been held in Dubai and Jeddah. This time in Mini Auction 2026, a total purse of Rs 237.55 crore is available for the teams, in which 77 players can be selected. Lucknow Super Giants have the capacity to spend Rs 22.95 crore, so they can be active in the bidding.
Mumbai Indians, on the other hand, have only Rs 2.75 crore left in their purse, so their participation is likely to be limited. Punjab Kings will enter the auction with a purse of Rs 11.50 crore and Gujarat Titans Rs 12.90 crore, which will not be very aggressive.
IPL Mini Auction Live: Mallika Sagar is the auctioneer of IPL
The fate of 369 players is to be decided today in the mini auction of IPL 2026. The work of bidding on these players will be done by Mallika Sagar, who was earlier seen in the role of auctioneer in IPL 2024 and IPL 2025 auction also. Now this time too she will be seen fulfilling this responsibility. She is also the first female auctioneer in IPL history. Not only this, before IPL it has also conducted auction in WPL and Kabaddi League. There too she was the first woman auctioneer. Additionally, at the age of 26, she was also the first woman to be auctioned for Christie's in New York.
IPL Auction 2026 Live Update: Cameron Green sold at the most expensive price in mock auction
Ahead of the TATA IPL 2026 auction, the Auction War Room on JioHotstar gave a glimpse of how teams can prepare their squads in the mini auction. This mock auction simulation featured team strategy, purse management and squads, with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) getting the most attention.
Cameron Green emerged as the biggest buy in the mock auction, which was bought by KKR with a bid of Rs 30.5 crore. Whereas CSK adopted a more balanced strategy.
Jio Star expert Robin Uthappa said that CSK will be looking for a middle-order all-rounder, but they will be cautious in the actual auction. He estimated that the team would limit its expenditure to around Rs 20 crore.
However, in the mock auction, Uthappa said that he also considered increasing the budget significantly to Rs 35 crore, especially for Cameron Green, who according to him is best suited to bat at No. 3.
Indian Premier League Auction 2026 Live: Who is in the first set?
The first set of IPL Auction 2026 includes the names of Cameron Green, Sarfaraz Khan, Prithvi Shaw, Devon Conway, Jack Fraser McGurk and David Miller.
IPL 2026 Auction Live: Why will foreign players get maximum Rs 18 crore?
Before the IPL 2026 mini auction, one such rule is being discussed a lot, due to which foreign players are falling under the influence. According to the rules of the IPL Governing Council, no foreign player can be sold for more than Rs 18 crore in the mini auction. Even if a franchise bids more than Rs 18 crore for him. This rule has also been implemented in mini auction for the first time. Its purpose is to maintain financial discipline and curb excessively expensive bids in auctions.
For example, suppose a bid of Rs 30 crore is made for Cameron Green, but his IPL salary will be only Rs 18 crore. The remaining Rs 12 crore will go to BCCI's Players Welfare Fund.
IPL Auction Live: 369 players included in the final list of auction
For the mini auction to be held today i.e. December 16, BCCI had earlier included 350 players in the final list, which included 240 Indian and 110 foreign players, but later 9 new players were included. Now a day before the auction, 10 new players have been included in the list. Now, there are a total of 369 players in the final list of IPL 2026 auction, of which 253 are Indians and 116 are overseas players. However, a maximum of 77 players can be sold in the auction, with 31 slots reserved for foreign players.
According to the report of Cricbuzz, apart from Abhimanyu Easwaran, who was ignored from the Indian Test team, Mani Shankar Mura Singh (TCA), Virandeep Singh (Malaysia), Chama Milind (HYCA), KL Srijit (KSCA), Ethan Bosch (South Africa), Chris Green (Australia), Swastik Chikara (UPCA), Rahul Raj Namla (CAU), Virat Singh (JSCA), Tripuresh Singh (MPCA), Kyle The other members include Wren (South Africa), Blessing Muzarabani (Zimbabwe), Ben Sears (New Zealand), Rajesh Mohanty (OCA), Swastik Samal (OCA), Saransh Jain (MPCA), Suraj Sangaraju (ACA) and Tanmay Agarwal (HYCA).
IPL 2026 Mini Auction Live: Retention list of Mumbai Indians (MI)
AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Robin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande (trade) Mitchell Satner, Naman Dheer, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Shardul Thakur (trade), Sherfane Rutherford (trade in), Suryakumar. Yadav, Tilak Verma, Trent Boult, Will Jacques
IPL 2026 Auction Live: Players retained by Delhi Capitals (DC)
Retained players- Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera.
IPL 2026 Auction Live: Retained players of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Tim David, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Jacob Bethel, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Abhinandan Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salaam, Suyyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara, Yash Dayal.
IPL 2026 Auction player list LIVE: Retained players of Gujarat Titans (GT)
Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada, Sai Sudarshan, Prasidh Krishna, Sai Kishore, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Nishant Sindhu, Manav Suthar.
Indian Premier League Auction 2026 Live: Retained players of Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Dhruv Jurel, Ryan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Yudhvir Singh, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Kwena Mafaka, Luan-Dre Pretorius, Nandre Berger, Donovan Ferreira (included via trade), Sam Curran (included via trade), Ravindra Jadeja (included via trade).
IPL 2026 Auction Live Updates: Retained players of Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Pat Cummins, Abhishek Sharma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Heinrich Klaasen, Travis Head, Harshal Patel, Ishan Kishan, Zeeshan Ansari, Jaydev Unadkat, Braydon Carse, Kamindu Mendis, Aniket Verma, Ishan Malinga, Harsh Dubey, Smaran Ravichandran.
IPL 2026 Auction Live Update: Retained players of Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Nicholas Pooran, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan, Ayush Badoni, Rishabh Pant, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Avesh Khan, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arshin Kulkarni, Matthew Bretzky, Arjun Tendulkar (included via trade), Mohammed Shami (included via trade).
IPL 2026 Auction Live Update: Retained players of Punjab Kings (PBKS)
Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Shashank Singh, Payla Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Yanson, Amatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vishak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar
IPL Auction latest update: Retained players of Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Sanju Samson (included via trade), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapaneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Chaudhary.
IPL Mini Auction 2026 Live Update: Retained players of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Rinku Singh, Varun Chakraborty, Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Umran Malik, Ankul Roy.
IPL 2026 Auction player list LIVE: Big update on Cameron Green
Australia's star all-rounder Cameron Green on Sunday announced that his manager has mistakenly registered his name as a batsman for the IPL 2026 mini auction. He had to tell this because he is part of the first set in the auction and crores of rupees can be showered on him in the beginning itself. He told that he will be available as a bowler for the tournament.
Indian Premier League Auction 2026 Live: How many rupees in whose purse?
Kolkata Knight Riders – 64.3 crores
Chennai Super Kings – 43.4 crores
Sunrisers Hyderabad – 25.5 crores
Lucknow Super Giants – 22.95 crores
Delhi Capitals – 21.8 crores
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 16.4 crores
Rajasthan Royals – 16.05 crores
Gujarat Titans – 12.9 crores
Punjab Kings – 11.5 crores
Mumbai Indians – 2.75 crores
IPL 2026 Mini Auction Live: Where can you watch IPL 2026 auction live?
IPL 2026 auction is scheduled to start at 2:30 pm in Abu Dhabi. It will be telecast live on Star Sports Network. At the same time, fans can watch its live streaming on JioHotstar app and website.
IPL 2026 Auction Live Update: Welcome to the live blog
Hello and welcome to the live blog of IPL 2026 auction. Today the mini auction of IPL 2026 is to be held in Abu Dhabi. All 10 teams will be seen bidding on players from 2:30 pm onwards. The auction is about to begin for 77 player slots for 10 franchises. The total expenditure limit has been kept at Rs 237.55 crore.