What is a trade in the Indian Premier League? How is the players exchange between the teams? This topic has been in the headlines since the end of IPL 2025. Although even earlier, top cricketers like KL Rahul, Ajinkya Rahane and Shikhar Dhawan have been traded from one team to another, but the topic of players’ trade became popular when Mumbai Indians traded with Gujarat Titans for Hardik Pandya before IPL 2024. After all, what is the whole process of trading? Here you will be able to understand this in easy language.

What is trade?

First of all, understand what is trade. Whenever the word ‘trade’ is being used in the IPL, then understand that there is talk of sending a player to another. The 2 teams that have a trade will decide whether they have to replace 2 players with each other or they can also trade the player in the cash deal. Hardik Pandya is a big example of this, for which Mumbai Indians did a cash deal with Gujarat Titans. However, the amount of the deal was not revealed.

If you take an example of a cash deal, Kolkata Knight Riders had given Rs 10 crore to Gujarat Titans to connect Lucky Furganus with them before the 2022 season. At the same time, KKR traded with Delhi Capitals and included Shardul Thakur in his team for Rs 10.75 crore in 2022. On the other hand, if you take the example of swap deal, before IPL 2024, there was a trade of Avesh Khan and Devdutt Padikal between Rajasthan Royals and Lucknow Super Giants. In charge RR, there were Parkal in LSG.

Importance of trading window

Whenever a season of IPL ends, the trading window opens after a month. This trading window remains open until a week before the auction. The trading window is stopped at the auction, but after that it is re -opened until a month before the season starts.

Recently, in IPL 2026, the names of many players have emerged regarding trade. Top players like Sanju Samson and KL Rahul have also been added to CSK and KKR. However, there is no confirmation of any kind yet.

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IPL 2024 finalist Sunrisers Hyderabad team has started winding up. Last season SRH’s team’s performance was disappointing, after which the Hyderabad team has made a big change in their coaching staff. The SRH team has appointed former India fast bowler Varun Aaron as the new bowling coach (SRH Bowling Coach IPL 2026). He has replaced James Franlin as a bowling coach.

Now an old statement of Varun Aaron has become the center of discussion, which he gave at the time of IPL 2025. He predicted Mohammed Shami’s release from the Hyderabad team as an expert on ESPN Cricinfo.

Varun Aaron predicted that, “I would say that Mohammed Shami will be released, because he is going through the last stop of his career, fitness is falling and perhaps Ishaan Kishan can also be released.

Expect mohammad shami to be released with the inclusion of varun aaron as our bowling coach.#SRH #IPL2026 pic.twitter.com/0QFH6ZGLG1

– Varun velamakanti (@cricvarunsrh) July 14, 2025

Let us tell you that at that time Varun Aaron was keeping his personal side as an expert and was not part of any team. Talking about Shami, he took 9 wickets in the Champions Trophy 2025, taking 9 wickets. The Hyderabad team added him to Rs 10 crore, but his performance was very poor, where he was able to take only 6 wickets in 9 matches.

Talking about Ishaan Kishan on the other hand, SRH Franchise was included in his team for Rs 11.25 crore in the mega auction. In the 2025 season, he scored 354 runs in 14 matches. In which he was able to score only one century and a half-century.

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