On what date will IPL 2026 start and when will it be final? Information about this is coming to light. This is the 19th edition of the tournament, for which all the teams have released their retention lists. According to viral reports on social media, IPL will start 7 days after the end of T20 World Cup 2026.

On which date will IPL 2026 start?

T20 World Cup 2026 will be held from 7 February to 8 March. This tournament will be hosted by India and Sri Lanka. According to viral reports on social media, the first match of IPL 2026 will be played 7 days after the title match of T20 World Cup, i.e. on March 15.

When will the final of IPL 2026 take place?

It is being claimed in these reports that the window of IPL 2026 is from March 15 to May 31. According to which the final match of IPL 2026 will be held on 31 May.

Let us tell you that the event of the last edition started on March 22, but due to India vs Pakistan tension, the event had to be stopped for about a week, due to which the date of the final had to be extended. The final took place on 3 June, in which RCB won their first IPL title.

Auction will be held on 16th December

The auction for Indian Premier League season 19 will take place on December 16, 2025. Each team has released its retention list, now the teams will bet on players in the auction to fill the remaining slots.

Retention list of all 10 IPL teams

Chennai Super Kings Retention List: Rituraj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni, Dewald Brewis, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, Anshul Kamboj, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Shivam Dubey, Khalil Ahmed, Noor Ahmed, Mukesh Chaudhary, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Gurjapaneet Singh, Sanju Samson.

Delhi Capitals Retention List: KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripuran Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav, Nitish Rana.

Gujarat Titans Retention List: Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Kolkata Knight Riders Retention List: Ajinkya Rahane, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Manish Pandey, Rovman Powell, Anukul Roy, Ramandeep Singh, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Umran Malik.

Lucknow Supergiants Retention List: Rishabh Pant, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Bretzke, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M. Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar, Mohammed Shami.

Mumbai Indians Retention List: Rohit Sharma, Surya Kumar Yadav, Robin Minz, Ryan Rickelton, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Will Jack, Corbin Bosch, Raj Bawa, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Sharma, Allah Ghazanfar, Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford.

Punjab Kings Retention List: Shreyas Iyer, Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Paila Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Harpreet Brar, Marco Johnson, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Mushir Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Mitch Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal, Visak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Retention List: Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Tim David, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Jacob Bethel, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Yash Dayal, Suyyash Sharma, Nuwan Thushara, Abhinandan Singh.

Rajasthan Royals Retention List: Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Luan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Ryan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Joffra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Quena Mafaka, Nandre Berger, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira.

Sunrisers Hyderabad Retention List: Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Smrana, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.

IPL 2024 finalist Sunrisers Hyderabad team has started winding up. Last season SRH’s team’s performance was disappointing, after which the Hyderabad team has made a big change in their coaching staff. The SRH team has appointed former India fast bowler Varun Aaron as the new bowling coach (SRH Bowling Coach IPL 2026). He has replaced James Franlin as a bowling coach.

Now an old statement of Varun Aaron has become the center of discussion, which he gave at the time of IPL 2025. He predicted Mohammed Shami’s release from the Hyderabad team as an expert on ESPN Cricinfo.

Varun Aaron predicted that, “I would say that Mohammed Shami will be released, because he is going through the last stop of his career, fitness is falling and perhaps Ishaan Kishan can also be released.

Expect mohammad shami to be released with the inclusion of varun aaron as our bowling coach.#SRH #IPL2026 pic.twitter.com/0QFH6ZGLG1

– Varun velamakanti (@cricvarunsrh) July 14, 2025

Let us tell you that at that time Varun Aaron was keeping his personal side as an expert and was not part of any team. Talking about Shami, he took 9 wickets in the Champions Trophy 2025, taking 9 wickets. The Hyderabad team added him to Rs 10 crore, but his performance was very poor, where he was able to take only 6 wickets in 9 matches.

Talking about Ishaan Kishan on the other hand, SRH Franchise was included in his team for Rs 11.25 crore in the mega auction. In the 2025 season, he scored 354 runs in 14 matches. In which he was able to score only one century and a half-century.

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