IPL 2026 Mini Auction: All eyes will be on Australian all-rounder Cameron Green in the mini auction for the Indian Premier League 2026 to be held at 2.30 pm today, December 16, 2025, at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Due to lack of an excellent all-rounder (top in both batting and bowling) in this mini auction, a lot of money may be showered on Cameron Green. In the mini auction, Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings are looking for a great all-rounder and both those teams have the highest money in their purse.

How many players will be bought for IPL 2026?

In this mini auction, all 10 teams will sit in the auction to be held in Abu Dhabi to buy a total of 77 players. In which a total amount of Rs 237 crore 55 lakh is available with all the teams. However, Mumbai Indians will not have much role in this auction, because they have only Rs 2 crore 75 lakh. Mumbai Indians will enter the auction to buy some uncapped players at their base price.

Biggest purse near Kolkata and Chennai

In the mini auction for IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders have the biggest purse of Rs 64 crore 30 lakh. KKR’s eyes will be on revamping the team, because the team has to buy a total of 13 players in the auction. Knightriders may face a challenge from the Super Kings while bidding on players in this mini auction. Chennai has the second largest purse in the auction of Rs 43 crore 40 lakh. At the same time, Super Kings would also like to buy good players according to their team balance in the mini auction.

Why is Mini Auction more interesting than Mega Auction?

Mini auctions are always more interesting than mega auctions because franchises come into the auction with certain preferences and are ready to go to any extent to add players with different skill sets to their team. In the IPL mini auction, big bids have always been made for fast bowlers who are also all-rounders, keeping this in mind, this time the biggest bids are expected for Cameron Green, Venkatesh Iyer and West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder.

The IPL 2026 auction will be held on December 16 in Abu Dhabi. This time a mini auction is to be organized, in which the fate of 359 players will be decided. Before the auction, former Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin conducted a mock auction on his YouTube channel. Australian all-rounder Cameron Green was sold the most expensive in this auction.

Chennai Super Kings buys Cameron Green, Liam Livingstone goes to KKR

In Ashwin’s mock auction, Australian all-rounder Cameron Green was bought by Chennai Super Kings for Rs 21 crore. However, Kolkata Knight Riders also made a strong bid for Green in the auction. After Green, England’s spin all-rounder Liam Livingstone was the second most expensive player. Livingstone was bought by Kolkata for Rs 18.5 crore. Last season, Livingstone was part of champion RCB.

Venkatesh Iyer sold for 17.5 crores, Prithvi Shaw got 5.25 crores

The most interesting thing in this auction was that Venkatesh Iyer was once again bought by Kolkata Knight Riders. However, this time their price became lower than before. KKR bought Iyer in mock auction for Rs 17.5 crore. Apart from this, KKR also gave a huge amount to Prithvi Shaw. KKR spent Rs 5.25 crore for Shaw.

In this mock auction, leg spinner Ravi Bishnoi was sold for Rs 10.5 crore. Bishnoi was bought by Sunrisers Hyderabad. Whereas former Australian captain and legendary batsman Steve Smith was not sold in the auction. He remained unsold along with his compatriot Jack Fraser McGurk. At the same time, Delhi Capitals included Sri Lankan young fast bowler Mathisha Pathirana in their team for Rs 7 crore.

Know which player was sold for how much in mock auction

Cameron Green- Rs 21 crore, Chennai Super Kings
Liam Livingston- Rs 18.5 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders
Venkatesh Iyer- Rs 17.5 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders
Ravi Bishnoi- Rs 10.5 crore, Hyderabad
Jason Holder- Rs 9 crore, Lucknow
Mathisha Pathirana- Rs 7 crore, Delhi
Prithvi Shaw – Rs 5.25 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders
David Miller- Rs 4.5 crore, Punjab Kings
Jonny Bairstow – Rs 3.75 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders
Tim Seifert – Rs 3 crore, Delhi Capitals
Ben Duckett- Rs 4 crore, Kolkata Knight Riders
Jamie Smith- Rs 3.75 crore, Delhi Capitals
Akash Deep – Rs 3.25 crore, Chennai Super Kings
Aaqib Nabi- Rs 3 crore, Delhi Capitals
Wanindu Hasaranga – Rs 2 crore, Lucknow Super Giants
Rachin Ravindra- Rs 2.25 crore, Punjab Kings
Mustafizur Rahman – Rs 3.5 crore, Royal Challengers Bangalore
Enrique Norkhia – Rs 3 crore, Sunrisers Hyderabad
Rahul Chahar- Rs 3.25 crore, Rajasthan Royals
Josh Inglis – Rs 2 crore, Chennai Super Kings
Akeel Hussain – Rs 2 crore, Chennai Super Kings
Abhinav Manohar – Rs 1.75 crore, Lucknow Super Giants

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.