Mumbai Indians have retained 17 players, while they included 3 players in their squad through trade deals. Although Mumbai Indians’ purse is almost exhausted, now the franchise can buy maximum 5 players in the IPL auction but the team does not even have a total of Rs 3 crore in its purse.

Mumbai Indians have kept their ‘core’ team intact, they have retained 17 players including Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Tilak Verma, while through trade the franchise has included Shardul Thakur, Sharfan Rutherford and Mayank Markande in the team. But MI is going to face great difficulty in the auction. It will not be easy for them to buy the players of their choice, because the purse is very less.

MI retained these 17 players

• Suryakumar Yadav
• Rohit Sharma
• Tilak Verma
• Ryan Rickelton
• robin minz
• hardik pandya
• Naman Dheer
• will jacks
• Mitchell Santner
• Corbin Bosch
• Raj Angad Bawa
• Deepak Chahar
• Jasprit Bumrah
• trent bolt
• Allah Ghazanfar
• Ashwani Kumar
• Raghu Sharma

MI released these 8 players

• bevan jacobs
• KL Srijit
• Vignesh Puthur
• Karan Sharma
• lijad williams
• Satyanarayana Raju
• mujeeb ur rehman
• Reece Topley

MI’s remaining purse for IPL 2026 auction

Mumbai Indians can now buy maximum 5 players in the IPL 2026 auction. The team retained 17 players and kept 3 in the team through trade, which means a total of 20 players are already in the team. Let us tell you that an IPL team can have a maximum of 25 players.

Mumbai Indians will have a purse of only Rs 2 crore 75 lakh in the IPL 2026 auction. MI can buy 1 out of 5 foreign players.

Said that our – are here to stay and have made full efforts! pic.twitter.com/dTkbgw63uA

— Mumbai Indians (@mipaltan) November 15, 2025

On which date will IPL take place? 2026

There will be a mini auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, which is next month. The auction may take place on December 15, but its venue has not been decided yet. There is news that the auction is also being considered to be held outside India in UAE.

Before the auction for IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders have retained 12 players including Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Ajinkya Rahane. The most surprising thing in KKR’s retention list is that they have also released their poster boy Andre Russell. Russell has been playing for this team since 2014. KKR has released a total of 9 players.

List of retained players of KKR

• Rinku Singh
• Angrish Raghuvanshi
• Ajinkya Rahane
• Manish Pandey
• rovman powell
• Sunil Narine
• Ramandeep Singh
• Anukul Roy
• Varun Chakraborty
• Harshit Rana
• Vaibhav Arora
• Umran Malik

KKR released these players

• Lavneeth Sisodia
• quinton dekock
• Rehmanullah Gurbaz
• Venkatesh Iyer
• andre russell
• Moeen Ali
• spencer johnson
• Enrique Norkhia
• Chetan Sakariya

UNPRECEDENTED!!! pic.twitter.com/QXGY3qXUqz

— KnightRidersXtra (@KKR_Xtra) November 15, 2025

How much purse does KKR have in IPL 2026 auction?

Kolkata Knight Riders has released many of its expensive players, the name of Venkatesh Iyer is also included in it. Venkatesh was bought by KKR in the last auction for Rs 23.75 crore. The other expensive player to be released is Russell, who was retained by KKR for Rs 12 crore before the last edition.

KKR has also released Quinton de Kock, who was priced at Rs 3.6 crore. This is also a surprising decision, because the team has also released the second wicket keeper Rahmanullah Gurbaz along with him. Now KKR will be looking for a good wicket keeper in the auction.

Kolkata Knight Riders are left with a purse of Rs 64.3 crore in the IPL 2026 auction. There are slots left for 13 players, which means KKR can buy a maximum of 13 players in the auction. The team can buy maximum 6 foreign players.

When will IPL 2026 auction take place?

The auction for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League will be held in December, it will be a mini auction which is likely to last for 1 day. IPL auction is likely to take place on December 15. Its venue is under consideration, it can also happen outside India in UAE. However, the venue has not been decided yet.

MS Dhoni has an unbreakable relationship with Chennai Super Kings. Dhoni has played for CSK since the beginning of IPL i.e. 2008. Remembering the moment when Chennai team returned to the Indian Premier League after serving a 2-year ban, Dhoni started crying in a program. This question is often asked whether Dhoni has complete control of the CSK team, does he take all the major decisions. Did he also have a hand in sending Ravindra Jadeja to Rajasthan Royals team? Here you will get the answer to this question.

Does Dhoni have full control of CSK?

MS Dhoni’s good friend and fellow cricketer Suresh Raina had spoken on this topic during IPL 2025. Suresh Raina on Star Sports said, “People say that only MS Dhoni takes the final decision. To be honest, I have not gone to a single auction till date and have never been involved in discussions regarding the team. All I can say is that Dhoni must be getting a call from the management as to whether a particular player should be taken or not, but he does not contribute much.”

Who takes decisions?

Raina had also revealed that only the management takes major decisions. According to the former Indian cricketer, Dhoni can be asked whether he wants to keep 4-5 players. Some of them are retained and decisions regarding other players are taken by higher officials.

Did Dhoni have a hand in removing Jadeja?

Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran will now play for Rajasthan Royals, in place of both of them, CSK has included Sanju Samson in its team. There is no confirmation that MS Dhoni had a hand in Ravindra Jadeja going to Rajasthan team, but according to Cricbuzz, CSK management took the trade process forward only after Dhoni got the green signal.

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