The number of players in the IPL 2026 auction has once again reduced to 350. A few days ago, on December 9, the number of players included in the auction list was increased to 359. Now just 3 days before the mini auction, there is news that the same 9 players have been removed from the list. It is being told that the name of Swastik Chikara is also included among the players who have been dropped.

According to News18, the names of the players who were out of the auction list are Mani Shankar, Chama Milind, KL Srijit, Swastik Chikara, Rahul Raj, Virat Singh, Virandeep Singh, Chris Green and Ethan Bosch. All these players had set their base price at Rs 30 lakh, among which Swastik Chikara was released by RCB. BCCI had added these 9 players to the auction list a few days ago.

Mani Shankar is a big-hitting player of Tripura, while Swastik Chikara was included in its squad by RCB last year. Chikara did not get a chance to play even a single match. Virat Singh is a player from Jharkhand and has played for Sunrisers Hyderabad.

The name of Malaysian all-rounder player Virandeep Singh has also been removed from the auction, who has taken more than 3000 runs and 105 wickets in T20 cricket. His base price was also Rs 30 lakh. Ethan Bosch of South Africa and Chris Green of Australia are also out, whose base price was Rs 75 lakh.

More than 1000 players had registered their names for the auction. Of these, BCCI had shortlisted only 350 players. After that 9 new players were added to the list, but now the same number of players have been removed. The auction will start on December 16 at 2:30 pm in Abu Dhabi.

Complete list of 350 players in IPL 2026 auction:

• Devon Conway (New Zealand)
• Jake Fraser-McGurk (Australia)
• Cameron Green (Australia)
• David Miller (South Africa)
• Gus Atkinson (England)
• Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
• Venkatesh Iyer (India)
• Liam Livingstone (England)
• Ben Duckett (England)
• Jamie Smith (England)
• Gerald Coetzee (South Africa)
• Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)
• Anrich Nortje (South Africa)
• Mathisha Pathirana (Sri Lanka)
• Ravi Bishnoi (India)
• Akeal Hosein (West Indies)
• Mujeeb Rahman (Afghanistan)
• Mahesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka)
• Steve Smith (Australia)
• Sean Abbott (Australia)
• Michael Bracewell (New Zealand)
• Jason Holder (West Indies)
• Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
• Tom Banton (England)
• Shai Hope (West Indies)
• Josh Inglis (Australia)
• Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand)
• Adam Milne (New Zealand)
• Lungisani Ngidi (South Africa)
• William O’Rourke (New Zealand)
• Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh)
• Cooper Connolly (Australia)
• Tom Curran (England)
• Daniel Lawrence (England)
• Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
• Naveen-ul-Haq (Afghanistan)
• Liam Dawson (England)

Players with base price of Rs 1.5 crore in IPL 2026 auction

• Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan)
• Spencer Johnson (Australia)
• Matt Henry (New Zealand)
• Matthew Short (Australia)
• Saqib Mahmood (England)
• Riley Meredith (Australia)
• Jhay Richardson (Australia)
• Tim Seifert (New Zealand)

Players with base price of Rs 1.25 crore in IPL 2026 auction

• Beau Webster (Australia)
• Roston Chase (West Indies)
• Kyle Mayers (West Indies)
• Olly Stone (England)

Players with base price of Rs 1 crore in IPL 2026 auction

• Viaan Mulder (South Africa)
• Finn Allen (New Zealand)
• Jonny Bairstow (England)
• Quinton de Kock (South Africa)
• Akash Deep (India)
• Fazalhaq Farooqui (Afghanistan)
• Rahul Chahar (India)
• Tabrez Shamsi (South Africa)
• Reeza Hendrix (South Africa)
• Daniel Sams (Australia)
• Ben Dwarshius (Australia)
• Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka)
• Umesh Yadav (India)
• Mohammad Waqar Salamkhel (Afghanistan)
• George Linde (South Africa)
• Gulbadin Naib (Afghanistan)
• William Sutherland (Australia)
• Joshua Tong (England)
• Dwayne Pretorius (South Africa)
• Charith Asalanka (Sri Lanka)

Players with base price of Rs 75 lakh in IPL 2026 auction

• Sarfaraz Khan (India)
• Prithvi Shaw (India)
• Deepak Hooda (India)
• K.S. Bharat (India)
• Shivam Mavi (India)
• Mayank Agarwal (India)
• Sediqullah Atal (Afghanistan)
• Akeem Auguste (West Indies)
• Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka)
• Tim Robinson (New Zealand)
• Rahul Tripathi (India)
• Jordan Cox (England)
• Benjamin McDermott (Australia)
• Kusal Mendis (Sri Lanka)
• Chetan Sakariya (India)
• Kuldeep Sen (India)
• Qais Ahmed (Afghanistan)
• Rishad Hossain (Bangladesh)
• Vyaskanth Vijayakanth (Sri Lanka)
• Rehan Ahmed (England)
• Taskin Ahmed (Bangladesh)
• Richard Gleeson (England)
• Shamar Joseph (West Indies)
• Navdeep Saini (India)
• Luke Wood (England)
• Muhammad Abbas (New Zealand)
• George Garton (England)
• Nathan Smith (New Zealand)
• Dunith Village (Sri Lanka)
• Tanzeem Hasan Saqib (Bangladesh)
• Matthew Potts (England)
• Nahid Rana (Bangladesh)
• Sandeep Warrier (India)
• Wesley Eggar (Australia)
• Binura Fernando (Sri Lanka)
• MD Shoriful Islam (Bangladesh)
• Joshua Little (Ireland)
• Obed McCoy (West Indies)
• Billy Stanlake (Australia)
• Jack Faulks (New Zealand)
• Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka)
• Bevon-John Jacobs (New Zealand)

50 lakh base price

• Mahipal Lomror (India)
• Tushar Deshpande (India)
• Yash Dayal (India)
• Joe Clark (England)
• Jack Edwards (Australia)

40 lakh base price

• Rajvardhan Hungergekar (India)
• KM Asif (India)
• Shubham Agarwal (India)
• Jalaj Saxena (India)
• Tom Moores (England)
• Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
• Nikhil Chaudhary (India)

30 lakh base price

• Arya Desai (India)
• Yash Dhull (India)
• Abhinav Manohar (India)
• Anmolpreet Singh (India)
• Atharva Tayde (India)
• Abhinav Tejarana (India)
• Auqib Dar (India)
• Tanush Kotian (India)
• Shivang Kumar (India)
• Vijay Shankar (India)
• Sanvin Singh (India)
• Aiden Tom (India)
• Prashant Veer (India)
• Ruchit Ahir (India)
• Vansh Bedi (India)
• Mukul Chaudhary (India)
• Tushar Raheja (India)
• Karthik Sharma (India)
• Tejashwi Singh (India)
• Raj Limbani (India)
• Akash Madhwal (India)
• Sushant Mishra (India)
• Ashok Sharma (India)
• Simarjit Singh (India)
• Naman Tiwari (India)
• Tyagi (India)
• Yashraj Punja (India)
• Vignesh Puthur (India)
• Karan Sharma (India)
• Shivam Shukla (India)
• Kumar Karthikeya Singh (India)
• Prashant Solanki (India)
• Waheedullah Zadran (Afghanistan)
• Ankit Kumar (India)
• Rohan Kunnumal (India)
• Danish Malewar (India)
• Topaz Mann (India)
• Salman Nizar (India)
• Aman Rao Perla (India)
• Akshat Raghuvanshi (India)
• Manan Vohra (India)
• Yuvraj Choudhary (India)
• Satwik Deswal (India)
• Aman Khan (India)
• Darshan Nalkande (India)
• Vicky Ostwal (India)
• Sairaj Patil (India)
• Suyash Prabhudesai (India)
• Mayank Rawat (India)
• Harsh Tyagi (India)
• Mangesh Yadav (India)
• Salil Arora (India)
• Ricky Bhui (India)
• Rahul Buddhi (India)
• Saurav Chauhan (India)
• Yashvardhan Dalal (India)
• Abhishek Pathak (India)
• Kunal Rathod (India)
• Ravi Singh (India)
• Saqib Hussain (India)
• Mohammad Izhar (India)
• Vidwatha Kawerappa (India)
• Vijay Kumar (India)
• Vidyadhar Patil
• P.V.Satyanarayana Raju (India)
• Omkar Tarmale (India)
• Prithviraj Yaara (India)
• Murugan Ashwin (India)
• Tejas Baroka (India)
• KC Cariappa (India)
• Karthik Chaddha (India)
• Praveen Dubey (India)
• Mohit Rathi (India)
• Himanshu Sharma (India)
• Bailapudi Yashwant (India)
• Kunal Chandela (India)
• Ayush Doseja (India)
• Qamran Iqbal (India)
• M.Dheera Kumar (India)
• Bhanu Paniya (India)
• Sahil Parakh (India)
• Arsh Cabin Ranga (India)
• Adarsh ​​Singh (India)
• Manoj Bhandge (India)
• Mayank Dagar (India)
• Raghav Goyal (India)
• Manwant Kumar (India)
• Abid Mushtaq (India)
• Atit Sheth (India)
• Hrithik Shaukeen (India)
• Jagadish Suchit (India)
• Tanay Thiagarajan (India)
• Connor Esterhuizen (South Africa)
• Ajitesh Guruswami (India)
• Siddharth June (India)
• Bipin Saurabh (India)
• Vishnu Solanki (India)
• Hardik Tamore (India)
• Sayan Ghosh (India)
• Mani Grewal (India)
• Arpit Guleria (India)
• Sunil Kumar (India)
• Tristan Luus (South Africa)
• Divesh Sharma (India)
• Abhilash Shetty (India)
• Irfan Umair (India)
• Kuldeep Yadav (India)
• Manan Bhardwaj (India)
• Shreyas Chavan (India)
• Parikshit Dhanak (India)
• Chintal Gandhi (India)
• Dharmendra Singh Jadeja (India)
• Amit Kumar (India)
• Vishal Nishad (India)
• Saumya Pandey (India)
• Jhatvedha Subramaniam (India)
• Sachin Das (India)
• Miles Hammond (India)
• Ahmed Imran (India)
• Vishwaraj Singh Jadeja (India)
• Ayaz Khan (India)
• Daniel Lategan (England)
• Siddhant Rana (India)
• Aaron Varghese (India)
• Atharva Ankolekar (India)
• Abdul Bazeeth (India)
• Karan Lal (India)
• Shams Mulani (India)
• Ripple Patel (India)
• Prince Rai (India)
• Vivarant Sharma (India)
• Utkarsh Singh (India)
• Ayush Vartak (India)
• Sanjay Yadav (India)
• Syed Irfan Aftab (India)
• Esakkimuthu Ayyakutty (India)
• Prafulla Hinge (India)
• Pankaj Jaiswal (India)
• Kulwant Khejroliya (India)
• Ravi Kumar (India)
• Rajan Kumar (India)
• Safwan Patel (India)
• Ishan Porel (India)
• Purav Agarwal (India)
• Jikku Brigh (India)
• Yash DiCholkar (India)
• Rakibul Hasan (Bangladesh)
• Traven Mathews (Sri Lanka)
• Naman Pushpak (India)
• Ijaz Sanwaria (India)
• Roshan Wagshare (India)
• R.S Ambareesh (India)
• Cranes Fultra (India)
• McNeil Noronha (India)
• R Rajkumar (India)
• Ninad Rathwa (India)
• Sunny Sandhu (India)
• Shivalik Sharma (India)
• Siddharth Yadav (India)
• R.Sonu Yadav (India)
• Wasim Khande (India)
• Atif Mushtaq (India)
• Atal Rai (India)
• C. Rakshan Reedy (India)
• Manish Reddy (India)
• Nishant Saranu (India)
• Deependra Singh (India)
• Rajat Verma (India)
• Rohit Yadav (India)
• Imanjot Chahal (India)
• Shubhang Hegde (India)
• Bal Krishna (India)
• Vihaan Malhotra (India)
• Khilan Patel (India)
• Delano Potgieter (South Africa)
• Hardik Raj (India)
• Sarthak Ranjan (India)
• Parth Rekhade (India)
• Tia Van Vuuren (South Africa)
• Srivatsa Acharya (India)
• Sadiq Hussain (India)
• Shubham Kapse (India)
• Aaqib Khan (India)
• Sabir Khan (India)
• Bayanda Majola (South Africa)
• Srihari Nair (India)
• Brijesh Sharma (India)
• Aman Shekhawat (India)
• Himanshu Bisht (India)
• Shreyan Chakraborty (India)
• Kanishk Chauhan (India)
• Mayank Gusain (India)
• Akash Pugajanti (India)
• Abhimanyu Singh Rajput (India)
• Shubham Rana (India)
• Arpit Rana (India)
• Mairamreddy Reddy (India)
• Sagar Solanki (India)
• Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal (India)
• Daksh Kamra (India)
• Vishal Mandwal (India)
• Arfaz Mohammad (India)
• Hemang Patel (India)
• Mridul Suroch (India)
• Anuj Thakral (India)
• Parth Vats (India)
• Lalit Yadav (India)
• Nitin Sai Yadav (India)
• Krish Bhagat (India)
• Prerit Dutta (India)
• Samar Gajjar (India)
• Nasir Lone (India)
• Ishaan Mulchandani (India)
• Akhil Scaria (India)
• Muhammad Sharafuddin (India)
• K.Ajay Singh (India)
• Hrithik Tada (India)
• Lucky Raj Singh Vaghela (India)
• Mohammed Ali (India)
• Madhav Bajaj (India)
• Akshu Bajwa (India)
• Varun Raj Singh Bisht (India)
• Rishabh Chauhan (India)
• Dianne Forrester (South Africa)
• Dhurmil Matkar (India)
• Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
• Miles Hammond (England)

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The IPL 2026 auction will be held in Abu Dhabi on 16 December. A total of 359 players will be auctioned, but only 77 slots are vacant in all 10 teams. This means that out of 359 players, only a maximum of 359 players will be able to be sold. Famous players like Cameron Green, Liam Livingstone and Devon Conway will be seen in this auction.

Generally, the player whose name appears first in the auction is expected to get bids worth crores of rupees. Which player will be the first to bid in the mini auction of IPL 2026? Know which players are included in the first set.

Which players are in the first set?

The first set of IPL 2026 auction includes 6 players, out of which two Indian and four foreign players are present. Prithvi Shaw, Sarfaraz Khan, Devon Conway, Jake Fraser McGurk, Cameron Green and Tim David have been kept in the first set. Bidding will be placed on one of these players.

Which player will be bid first?

There is a lot of discussion about Australian all-rounder Cameron Green because he can fulfill the needs of many teams. With the release of Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer and Moeen Ali, KKR is in dire need of an all-rounder. Kolkata Knight Riders have Rs 64.30 crore left in their purse, so they can spend a lot of money on Green.

Apart from this, with the departure of Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran, CSK also needs an all-rounder who can bat in the middle order and can also bowl. At the same time, Sunrisers Hyderabad is also looking for a strong middle order batsman. Amidst so much demand, it is possible that Cameron Green’s name may be mentioned first in the auction.

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IPL 2025 Mini Auction: The mini auction for the Indian Premier League 2026 is going to be held on December 16, 2025 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. A total of 359 players will be bid in this mini auction. However, a total of 1355 players had registered for the auction, out of which only 359 players’ names have been shortlisted. There are about 40 wicketkeeper batsmen in this final list, out of which five wicketkeepers will be keeping an eye on all the franchises. Here we are going to tell about 5 such wicketkeepers, on whom money can rain in this mini auction.

Top-5 wicketkeepers of IPL 2026 mini auction

1. Karthik Sharma

Karthik Sharma, who plays for Rajasthan in domestic cricket, is only 19 years old. Karthik has played 11 innings in T20 cricket so far, in which he has scored a total of 334 runs at an excellent average of 163. At the same time, he has a strike rate of 118 in List A cricket.

2. Ben Duckett

England’s explosive opening batsman Ben Duckett is also a wicketkeeper. Duckett has scored a total of 5,397 runs in 216 T20 matches at a strike rate of 140. At the same time, Duckett scores runs for England at an excellent strike rate of 154 in T20 International matches.

3. Ruchit Ahir

Ruchit Ahir’s record while playing for Saurashtra in domestic cricket is strong. In T20 cricket, Ruchit has scored an excellent strike rate of 169 in 12 matches. Ruchit also has two half-centuries to his name in these matches and he is known for hitting longer sixes than fours.

4. Jamie Smith

England’s young wicketkeeper batsman Jamie Smith has shown impressive performance in his short international career. Smith has a strike rate of 194 in 5 T20 International matches. At the same time, in T20 cricket, Smith has scored a total of 1,687 runs in 97 matches, in which his strike rate has been 144.

5. Vansh Bedi

22-year-old Vansh Bedi was a part of Chennai Super Kings in IPL 2025, but he was out of the last season due to injury. At the same time, Vansh had scored a total of 187 runs at a strike rate of 187 in 9 matches of the last season of Delhi Premier League.

IPL 2026 Mini Auction: Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting will not be able to be present in the mini auction of Indian Premier League 2026 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi on December 16, 2025. Ponting, who joined Punjab Kings as head coach last year, has very little hope of going to the mini auction for IPL 2026. Actually, Ponting is currently in Australia and is associated with the broadcast channel as a commentator in the Ashes series.

Why will Ponting not come in the mini auction?

According to a report, Punjab Kings head coach Ricky Ponting is under contract with Seven Network for commentary in the Ashes series being held in Australia. The third match of the series between Australia and England is to be played in Adelaide from December 17, hence Ponting will not be able to participate in the auction. In the absence of Ponting, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer is expected to participate in the auction. Iyer is out of Team India due to injury.

News came out in Cricbuzz report

According to the report of Cricbuzz, the franchises have given the names of their representatives to BCCI for the auction, the last date of which was December 10. BCCI sources have revealed that Punjab Kings have included the name of captain Shreyas Iyer in their list. According to BCCI and auction guidelines, a maximum of eight team members can be present inside the auction hall. At the same time, six more people from the team can remain outside. According to sources, if there is no change in the plans at the last moment, then Shreyas Iyer is expected to be present in the auction to be held in Abu Dhabi.

Earlier, Gautam Gambhir had participated in the IPL auction as the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders and Rishabh Pant was also seen leading their delegation in the IPL 2024 auction for Delhi Capitals.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has released the final list of 350 players for the IPL 2026 auction. One of these names is Nikhil Chaudhary, who bowls leg-spin. Due to one mistake of BCCI regarding Nikhil, there has been a lot of uproar. Actually, Nikhil now lives in Australia, but in the list released for the auction, Nikhil was included in the list of Indians.

As soon as the list of 350 players was released for the IPL 2026 auction. Among them, Nikhil Chaudhary was included in the list of local players i.e. Indian uncapped players. There was a lot of uproar on social media regarding this and various types of claims came forward.

Doubts arose especially in the minds of Indian cricket fans, because BCCI does not allow Indian players to play in foreign leagues. Then how was Nikhil Chaudhary playing in the Big Bash League? Let us tell you that Nikhil has played for Hobart Hurricanes in BBL and is seen playing regularly in Australian domestic cricket.

BCCI corrected its mistake

Amidst this uproar, BCCI has rectified its mistake and included Nikhil Chaudhary in the list of foreign players. Nikhil’s name will now be mentioned in the list of uncapped foreign players, whose base price will be Rs 40 lakh. There is also news that BCCI can make changes in the auction list by 14th December, whereas the auction will be held on 16th December.

How many players, how many slots?

A total of 1390 players had registered for the auction, out of which only 350 players have been shortlisted, who will be bid in the auction. Out of these 350 players, only a maximum of 77 players will be able to be sold, because after the retention list of all the players comes, only 77 slots are left vacant in all the teams.

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