By Admin 
The auction to be held today i.e. mini auction for IPL 2026 is going to be very exciting. Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings have a combined corpus of over Rs 107 crore and are expected to be the most active teams among the top 10. However, other teams like Sunrisers Hyderabad, Lucknow Super Giants and Delhi Capitals also have more than Rs 20 crore.
From the long list of 1,390 originally registered players, 350 players were shortlisted for the IPL 2026 auction. According to Cricbuzz, 19 more players were included in the list of shortlisted players late on Monday night.
Indian star Abhimanyu Easwaran, who has not yet got the opportunity to make his international debut despite being included in the Test team several times, has his name included in the list of selected players. Easwaran has been placed at number 360 in the spreadsheet.
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 Vereen (SA), Blessing Muzarabani (Zimbabwe), Ben Sears. (New Zealand), Rajesh Mohanty (OCA), Swastik Samal (OCA), Saransh Jain (MPCA), Suraj Sangaraju (ACA), and Tanmay Agarwal (HYCA) are the others.
A total of 77 places are available, of which 31 are for foreign players. Three-time winners Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have the maximum number of vacant slots with 13, followed by 2016 champions Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) with 10 vacant slots.
All eyes will be on these players
All eyes will be on players like Cameron Green, Liam Livingstone and Ravi Bishnoi in the IPL 2026 auction to be held at the Etihad Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. 10 franchises are fully ready for this auction. This will be the third consecutive time after Dubai (2024) and Jeddah (2025) that the IPL auction will be held outside India.