0The auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026) will be held in Abu Dhabi on 16 December. All the teams have released their retention lists, franchises will bid for players to fill the remaining slots. All the teams have released some such players, who can get huge amount in the upcoming auction. But there are also 5 players whose IPL career can be considered over. It is difficult for any team to bet on him.

1- Faf du Plessis

Former South African captain Faf du Plessis is one of the few players who played in the IPL despite being above 40 years of age. He is now 41 years old, was playing for Delhi Capitals last season. Faf has also captained RCB.

Du Plessis started his IPL career in 2012 playing for Chennai Super Kings. He stayed in CSK till 2021, meanwhile he also played for Rising Pune Super Giants in 2016 and 2017. Now he is in the last phase of his career, he has been released by Delhi Capitals before the IPL 2026 auction. Considering his age, it can be assumed that hardly any team will bid on him.

Talking about Faf’s IPL career, he played a total of 154 matches for 4 teams, in which he scored 4773 runs at a strike rate of 135.78. He has scored 39 half-centuries in IPL.

2- Manish Pandey

Manish Pandey has been released by Kolkata Knight Riders. He became a part of this team in 2024, Pandey has been playing since the first edition of IPL. He has played for 7 teams so far, but looking at his condition in the last 2 seasons, it seems difficult for any team to bet on him.

Manish Pandey played only 3 matches in IPL 2025, in which he scored 92 runs. In 2024, he played only 1 match. In that he scored 42 runs. Manish has played 174 matches in IPL, in which he has scored 3942 runs. This includes 22 half-centuries and 1 century.

3- Karan Sharma

Mumbai Indians retained 17 players, included 3 through trade. MI released 8 players, in which the name of Karn Sharma is also included. Karna played only 6 matches in the last edition, while his team reached Qualifier-2. Now MI has released him, but he is finding it very difficult to get any other team in the auction.

Karn Sharma is 38 years old, he has been playing IPL since 2009. Karna, who debuted for RCB, has so far played for 4 teams, in which he has taken 83 wickets.

4- Mohit Sharma

Bowler Mohit Sharma’s name will also be in the IPL 2026 auction, but perhaps some team will bid on him. Mohit has been released by Delhi Capitals. Mohit Sharma, who has been playing IPL since 2013, has played a total of 120 matches for 4 teams (CSK, PBKS, GT and DC), in which he has 134 wickets in his name.

In the last edition, Mohit played 8 matches for Delhi, in which he took only 2 wickets but his economy was 10.28. In such a situation, it is difficult for them to get a new team in the IPL 2026 auction.

5- Moeen Ali

England cricketer Moeen Ali was in Kolkata Knight Riders last year, he was bought by KKR for his base price of Rs 2 crore. Although he could not do anything special, he got to play only 6 matches. He scored only 5 runs in 2 innings. He bowled in 5 matches, in which he took 6 wickets.

Moeen has been playing in IPL since 2018, he has played for a total of 3 teams (RCB, CSK and KKR). He played a total of 73 matches in IPL, in which he scored 1167 runs. He has also scored 6 half-centuries.

Cricket fans are eager to see the IPL retention list, which will be released on Saturday, November 15. After this it will become clear which players will be at stake in the IPL auction. Here we are telling you on which date the IPL auction will be held, how much money is left in the purse of all the 10 teams and which team spent the most money on which top-3 players in the last edition.

Where will IPL auction 2026 take place?

The priority for the venue of IPL auction is India, but according to the report, due to the wedding season in December, consideration is also going on to keep the venue outside India. IPL auction is likely to be held in UAE.

How much money is in the purse of all 10 IPL teams?

• Punjab Kings (PBKS) – Rs 35 lakh
• Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) – Rs 10 lakh
• Gujarat Titans (GT) – Rs 15 lakh
• Delhi Capitals (DC) – Rs 20 lakh
• Chennai Super Kings (CSK) – Rs 5 lakh
• Mumbai Indians (MI) – Rs 10 lakh
• Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) – Rs 5 lakh
• Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) – Rs 20 lakh
• Rajasthan Royals (RR) – Rs 30 lakh
• Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) – Rs 75 lakh

The thing to note here is that this is the purse which is still left with all the teams. After the release of IPL retention list, it will be known which franchise has released which players. This will add their value to this purse. For example, if Delhi Capitals releases players worth Rs 5 crore, their purse will become Rs 5 crore 20 lakh.

Top 3 expensive players of all 10 IPL teams

punjab kings

• Shreyas Iyer- Rs 26.75 crore
• Arshdeep Singh- Rs 18 crore
• Yuzvendra Chahal – Rs 18 crore

Lucknow Super Giants

• Rishabh Pant- Rs 27 crore
• Nicholas Pooran – Rs 21 crore
• Ravi Bishnoi/Mayank Yadav – Rs 11 crore (each)

gujarat titans

• Rashid Khan- Rs 18 crore
• Shubman Gill- Rs 15.5 crore
• Jos Buttler- Rs 15.75 crore

Delhi Capitals

• Akshar Patel – Rs 16.5 crore
• KL Rahul- Rs 14 crore
• Kuldeep Yadav – Rs 13.25 crore

Chennai Super Kings

• Ruturaj Gaikwad – Rs 18 crore
• Ravindra Jadeja- Rs 18 crore
• Mathisha Pathirana – Rs 13 crore

Mumbai Indians

• Jasprit Bumrah- Rs 18 crore
• Suryakumar Yadav – Rs 16.35 crore
• Hardik Pandya – Rs 16.35 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders

• Venkatesh Iyer- Rs 23.75 crore
• Rinku Singh- Rs 13 crore
• Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy – Rs 12 crore (each)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Heinrich Klaasen – Rs 23 crore
• Pete Cummins – Rs 18 crore
• Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma – Rs 14 crore (each)

Rajasthan Royals

• Yashasvi Jaiswal – Rs 18 crore
• Sanju Samson – Rs 18 crore
• Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag – Rs 14 crore

Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Virat Kohli- Rs 21 crore
• Josh Hazlewood- Rs 12.50 crore
• Phil Salt- Rs 11.50 crore

On which date will the auction for IPL 2026 take place?

There will be a mini auction for the 19th edition of IPL, according to reports it will last for one day. The mega auction for the last edition lasted for 2 days. The auction for IPL 2026 is likely to take place on December 15, 2025.

IPL 2025: So far 57 matches have been played in the Indian Premier League season 18. On May 8, the tournament was canceled for a week due to India Pakistan tension. Due to this, the date of the final final on 25 May had to be extended a week ahead (June 3). Most of the players had returned to their country, out of which many players have returned to India. Many players were out of the tournament due to injury and many players are not coming to India due to international commitments. Let us tell you which players have got entry in IPL as a replacement after May 8.

Punjab Kings had to announce the replacement of their injured player Locky Ferguson, who were out of the IPL on 13 April due to Hamstring Injury. The team, captained by Shreyas Iyer, announced his replacement on Thursday, 15 May 2025. In his place, New Zealand fast bowler Kyle Jameson has been selected. Jamison was included in the IPL Punjab team for 2 crores.

Rajasthan Royals announced the replacement of these 2 players

Rajasthan Royals, who were out of the IPL tournament, also announced the replacement of their 2 injured players on 8 May. Nitish Rana Kaf Inzari and Sandeep Sharma have been ruled out of the tournament due to injury to the finger. Instead of Nitish, the team has included Luan-Dre Pritorius of South Africa for Rs 30 lakh. The player of South Africa has also been selected in place of Sandeep. The team has included Nandre Burger in its party for 3.5 crores.

DC, GT and LSG also announced replacement

Australian batsman Jake Fraser-Macgark, who was involved in Delhi Capitals, returned home after the IPL was postponed, he was in Dharamshala when Pakistan stopped the match as a precaution after a drone attack in Jammu. Citing personal reasons, he decided not to return to India, instead Delhi Capitals have included Mustafizur Rahman in the team on 14 May for Rs 6 crore.

Gujarat Titans have announced the replacement of its explosive batsman Jose Butler. Butler will no longer play the remaining matches due to national duty, in his place, Kusal Mendis of Sri Lanka has been selected by Gujarat for Rs 75 lakh.

Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler Mayank Yadav was injured from the beginning, but the team announced his replacement when its new schedule was announced after the IPL was postponed. On May 15, as a replacement of Mayank, New Zealand bowler Will Oorke was included in the Lucknow team for Rs 3 crore.

Good news for rcb

On May 3, RCB captain Rajat Patidar suffered a finger injury against CSK, after which it was being said that he could be out of league stage matches. The next match of RCB was with Lucknow on 8 May, in which there was doubt about Patidar’s playing. However, the tournament was postponed before this match and according to the new schedule, the next match of RCB is against KKR on 17 May. Rajat has joined his team, he has also got time. There is a possibility that the same captaincy will be seen in front of Kolkata in Bengaluru.

In the fourth match of IPL, Delhi Capitals defeated Lucknow Super Giants in an exciting match. Lucknow was winning in this match till the last time but Ashutosh Sharma played a match winning 66 runs for Delhi. In the final over, a stump of Mohit Sharma was also missed from Rishabh Pant, otherwise Lucknow would have scored 2 points because it was the last wicket of Delhi’s innings. After this bad defeat, the team owner Sanjeev Goenka came to the ground and interacted with Rishabh Pant and Head Coach Justin Langer. This video of him also became quite viral.

In fact, a video of LSG team owner Sanjeev Goenka went viral last year. At that time, KL Rahul (last year he was the captain of LSG) in place of Rishabh Pant. It was clear in the video that Goenka is very angry with Rahul’s captaincy and the team’s defeat. During this time, Rahul kept trying to speak something in the middle but then remained silent. After this video, cricket fans declared Goenka’s behavior inappropriate.

Rahul did not do Riten

Lucknow Super Giants started their IPL campaign from 2022. In the first edition, the team made KL Rahul its captain. Rahul brought the team to the eliminator round in the first 2 seasons but last year (2024) team was out of the league stage. During a match this season, Goenka, angry with the defeat during a match, was seen speaking something in front of Rahul on the field. It could be clearly guessed that Goenka is speaking something to Rahul in anger. Before the auction, Rahul was released by the franchise and chose Rishabh Pant as his new captain.

Rishabh Pant’s start with LSG not good

Lucknow Super Giants were bought by Lucknow Super Giants for Rs 27 crore. He became the most expensive selling player in IPL history. Although he did not have a good start with Lucknow, the team lost a winning match with Delhi Capitals. After this match, the team owner Sanjeev Goenka was seen coming on the field and talking with Pant. However, this time his gesture was soft than before.

It seemed that he was very angry or scolding Pant. But there is a question that can the owners of the IPL team come on the field to scold a player for poor performance or get angry?

What is a rule of BCCI?

There are many rules for the owners of IPL franchisees, such as how they will get a share in Revenue or how they have to run the team. According to the information, how the owners of the teams to talk to the players, no such clear rule remains. However, they are expected to treat them in a professional manner. The poor performance or defeat of the team may hurt the team owners, but after the match, it is unfair to get angry on the players or talk incorrectly.