IPL 2026 Mini Auction Auctioner: The mini auction for the Indian Premier League 2026 is going to start at 2.30 pm today at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. At the beginning of IPL, the responsibility of conducting the auction was in the hands of Richard Madley. After that Hugh Adams came and after that Charu Sharma also took this responsibility, but Mallika Sagar is conducting the auction from the year 2024. This time too, Mallika Sagar has the responsibility of auctioning 369 players in the mini auction of IPL 2026.

How did Mallika become a female auctioneer?

Mallika Sagar has become an important part of the IPL auction, but there is a unique and historic journey behind her reaching this position. Born in Mumbai in 1975, Mallika has made her career in a field that connects two different worlds. Like:- Auction of fine art and big sports events.

Mallika belongs to a business family and her interest in auctioning started with a book in which a female auctioneer was the main character. Mallika Sagar earned a degree in Art History from Bryn Mawr College, Philadelphia. At the age of just 26, Mallika became the first Indian female auctioneer at Christie’s in New York and this was a major achievement which gave her recognition in the auction market around the world.

Mallika is the first Indian woman auctioneer

In the year 2021, Mallika Sagar achieved another big milestone by becoming the first female auctioneer in the Pro Kabaddi League. Two years later, she was given the responsibility of conducting the auction of the Women’s Premier League for the first time. He also conducted the mini auction of IPL 2024 and the mega auction of IPL 2025 held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. At the same time, Mallika Sagar was also the auctioneer in the mega auction of the Women’s Premier League held last month.

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.

Indian Premier League Mini Auction: Now only four months are left for the start of the new season of the Indian Premier League. The date of IPL 2026 auction is also getting closer. Trade deals are going on between IPL teams. According to the report of Times of India, the auction of IPL 2026 can be held in India only on December 15. Before this, auctions for two seasons were held abroad. The IPL 2025 auction was also held in Saudi Arabia.

RCB won IPL 2025

Cricket fans got a new winning team in IPL 2025. Royal Challengers Bangalore won the IPL title for the first time. RCB was waiting to win the IPL trophy for the last 17 seasons. Rajat Patidar took command of RCB for the first time in IPL 2025 and as soon as he became the captain for the first time, Rajat Patidar made his team win this trophy.

IPL 2025 was difficult for CSK and RR

Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings were the last teams in IPL 2025. After the injury of Ruturaj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni took charge of CSK, but still the Chennai team remained at number 10 in the 18th season of IPL. Whereas Rajasthan Royals got a strong player in IPL 2025, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, who scored the fastest century of IPL 2025, but still the team remained at number 9.

Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals can enter the team this time with many changes. The franchise has started retaining the players. However, after about a month the situation will become clear as to which player is going to go to which team. Whereas Sanju Samson has decided to leave Rajasthan Royals. RR team is considering making a trade deal with Chennai regarding Sanju Samson.

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Recently, IPL 2026 auction has been in discussion, regarding which the new update is that this time BCCI can organize the auction in India only. After Saudi showed interest in the Indian Premier League, BCCI had conducted the 2024 auction in Dubai. After that the 2025 auction was held in Jeddah. Now a report by Cricbuzz has revealed that if the mini auction of 2026 takes place in India, then it will not be a shocking topic.

Till now BCCI has not released any details related to the date and venue of IPL 2026 auction. But reports believe that the auction can be conducted between December 13-15. Let us remind you that last year (IPL 2025 Mega Auction) was conducted in Jeddah.

Till now Bengaluru is the city which has hosted the IPL auction the most number of times. A total of 7 auctions have been conducted in Bengaluru. But in the last few years, more importance has been given to Ahmedabad. After the arrival of Gujarat Titans franchise in 2022, three out of four IPL finals have been played in Ahmedabad only. It is possible that this time the auction may also be hosted by Ahmedabad.

The last time the auction was organized in India was in 2023, when Kochi hosted the auction. Let us tell you that Bengaluru has hosted the auction 7 times and Chennai 3 times. Whereas after the first season i.e. 2008, no auction has ever been conducted in Mumbai.

According to reports, the last date for submitting the list of retained players can be kept as 15th November. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals can release many big players, especially Sanju Samson’s name has been in the news in the last months.

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Fact Check CSK Rajasthan Royals Trade IPL 2026: Even a month has not been completed on IPL 2025, but the discussion has started about the next season from now. Recently, news has come out that very soon there may be a trade between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. The news of this trade is related to Sanju Samson, who has been captaining the Rajasthan team since 2021 season. Rumors are not just associated with Samson, it is also being claimed on social media that 2 players of CSK can go to Rajasthan team. After all, what is the truth of this case? Here you will get the answer to this question.

It is being claimed on social media that Sanju Samson can play for Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2026. Rajasthan Royals, Ravichandran Ashwin and Shivam Dubey can trade to send Samson to CSK. As soon as a rumor broke, some people are calling it fake, while some people have started preparing Ashwin and Dubey with the RR team and started preparing till the playing XI.

What is the truth?

R Ashwin returned to CSK in IPL 2025, which the team bought in the mega auction for Rs 9.75 crore. At the same time, Shivam Dubey has been playing for the Chennai team since 2022. Let us tell you that till now Sanju Samson himself has not given any such indication to confirm any such trade. At the same time, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals have also not issued any statement on any such trade. At present, the claims of trade between CSK-RR are lies.

The rumors of Sanju Samson coming to CSK have also been linked to MS Dhoni. There have been speculations that if Dhoni takes retirement from IPL, then Samson can handle the weight of wicketkeeping in the CSK team, but all these reports are just rumors.

Good to see many csk fans are not interested to have sanju samson in our squad by trading shivam dube to rr.@Chennaiipl At Least Try to Negotiate Ashwin + Cash With RR for Sanju Samson Trade. Else Leave Sanju Samson Trade for Good. We can build our squad without sanju samson.

– νε (@maanavanphysics) June 27, 2025

This dude is very close to ashwin to make false claims on Ashwins trap, so most probally it isn Bollywood.

Sanju Samson Plus 5CRS (23CRS) <=> Shivam Dube Plus Ashwin (23CRS) ??

Thoughts? pic.twitter.com/dpwicuzp8o

– Sergio (@sergiocskk) June 26, 2025

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