All the teams have started preparations for IPL 2026. The auction for the upcoming season of IPL will be held on December 16 in Abu Dhabi. This time a mini auction will be organized. Meanwhile, Sunrisers Hyderabad has made a big announcement regarding its captain. The franchise has decided to hand over the command to Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins for the third consecutive time.

Sunrisers Hyderabad posted on social media and once again announced handing over the captaincy to Pat Cummins. Cummins became the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024. Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad dropped a total of eight players from the team including star fast bowler Mohammed Shami. Shami has been traded from Hyderabad to Lucknow Super Giants.

Pat Cummins has been injured for a long time

Let us tell you that Australian captain Pat Cummins has been injured for a long time. Famous for his strong captaincy in Test and ODI, Pat Cummins had taken Sunrisers Hyderabad to the final in IPL 2024. However, last season the team could not perform as per expectations. However, the franchise has maintained faith in its captain. Cummins is recovering from his injury. He will not be able to play even in the first test of the Ashes series against England. However, Pat Cummins is expected to be fit by the second Test match to be played in Brisbane.

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— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) November 17, 2025

List of retained and released players of Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained players- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Samaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brayden Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga and Zeeshan Ansari.

Released players- Abhinav Manohar, Arthav Tayde, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Shami (trade), Viaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar and Adam Zampa.

The bugle for the 19th season of the Indian Premier League has been sounded. The auction for the upcoming season of IPL will take place next month. This time a mini auction will be organized. Before the IPL 2026 auction, all 10 teams have released their respective lists of released and retained players. Know here the A to Z details of IPL 2026 mini auction.

This time IPL auction will be held abroad

The mini auction for IPL 2026 will be held on December 16 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. BCCI unveiled the date and venue of the IPL 2026 auction after releasing the list of released and retained players by all the teams.

BCCI has said in the press release that all the 10 teams have retained a total of 173 players, which includes 49 foreign players and some traded players. 10 teams have 77 slots left for the IPL 2026 mini auction. The total purse of all the franchises is Rs 237.55 crore.

According to IPL rules, each franchise can include a maximum of 25 players in its team. Even before the auction, Punjab Kings have retained 21 players. Whereas Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians have retained 20-20 players.

Kolkata has the most money and Mumbai has the least money.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will have the highest purse of Rs 64.3 crore in this auction. KKR can buy 13 players in the auction. KKR has released expensive players like Andre Russell (Rs 12 crore) and Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 23.75 crore) before the mini auction.

Sunrisers Hyderabad has Rs 25.5 crore left in their purse. Mumbai Indians will enter this mini auction with the lowest amount. This franchise has retained almost all its famous players. Only Rs 2.75 crore is left in the purse of Mumbai Indians.