The dominance of batsmen is seen more in the Indian Premier League (IPL). However, there are many bowlers in this league who have turned the tide of the match on their own. Yuzvendra Chahal continues to top the list of bowlers taking the most wickets in IPL history. Chahal has left other greats behind by consistently performing well.

Yuzvendra Chahal

Yuzvendra Chahal, who has played for Mumbai Indians, Punjab Kings, RCB and now Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, tops the list with 221 wickets. Chahal, who has been playing IPL since 2013, has played 174 matches so far and his best bowling performance has been 5/40. An economy of around 8 and an average of less than 23 is proof of Chahal’s impressive bowling. He is the only spinner in the history of IPL who has consistently maintained his rhythm and control.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar

At second place is India’s swing master Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who has been a part of the league since 2011. Bhuvi has taken 198 wickets in 190 matches. His best has been 5/19, and the most important thing is that he has proved himself in both powerplay and death overs. Bhuvi’s economy is better than Chahal’s, i.e. 7.69, which is proof of his accurate line-length.

Sunil Narine

Kolkata Knight Riders legend Sunil Narine is at third place with 192 wickets. His biggest strength is the art of reading batsmen and consistent tight bowling. With an excellent economy of 6.79, Narine has made his own mark in IPL history. Narine, who has been continuously associated with KKR since 2012, has been the most reliable face of the team’s bowling.

Piyush Chawla

Piyush Chawla is in fourth place, who has 192 wickets in his name. Chawla is one of the most experienced players of IPL and has been a consistent part of the league since 2008. While playing for CSK, KKR, KXIP and MI, Chawla baffled many batsmen with his googly and fast spin.

R Ashwin

India’s experienced off-spinner R Ashwin is at fifth place in this list, who has taken 187 wickets. His bowling style may be a little different in IPL, but on the basis of his experience he always puts pressure on the opposition team. Ashwin’s smart bowling, carrom ball and line-length always make him special.

All the teams have started preparations for IPL 2026. The auction for the upcoming season of IPL will be held on December 16 in Abu Dhabi. This time a mini auction will be organized. Meanwhile, Sunrisers Hyderabad has made a big announcement regarding its captain. The franchise has decided to hand over the command to Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins for the third consecutive time.

Sunrisers Hyderabad posted on social media and once again announced handing over the captaincy to Pat Cummins. Cummins became the captain of Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2024. Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad dropped a total of eight players from the team including star fast bowler Mohammed Shami. Shami has been traded from Hyderabad to Lucknow Super Giants.

Pat Cummins has been injured for a long time

Let us tell you that Australian captain Pat Cummins has been injured for a long time. Famous for his strong captaincy in Test and ODI, Pat Cummins had taken Sunrisers Hyderabad to the final in IPL 2024. However, last season the team could not perform as per expectations. However, the franchise has maintained faith in its captain. Cummins is recovering from his injury. He will not be able to play even in the first test of the Ashes series against England. However, Pat Cummins is expected to be fit by the second Test match to be played in Brisbane.

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List of retained and released players of Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained players- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Samaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brayden Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga and Zeeshan Ansari.

Released players- Abhinav Manohar, Arthav Tayde, Sachin Baby, Mohammed Shami (trade), Viaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar and Adam Zampa.

The auction for the Indian Premier League 2026 will take place on 16 December. Andre Russell’s name will also be among the players on whom bidding will be done on this day. Russell, who has been the poster boy of Kolkata Knight Riders for many years, has been released by KKR. This was the most surprising thing in the retention of all the teams. Former Indian cricketer Mohammad Kaif believes that the reason behind this is the head coach of KKR, who wants to form his new team.

While talking about retention on YouTube channel, Mohammad Kaif alleged that Abhishek Nair was the direct reason for KKR releasing Andre Russell. Let us tell you that the Kolkata team has also made many changes in its coaching department before IPL 2026. Abhishek was elected head coach and Shane Watson was made assistant coach. Tim Saudi has been appointed bowling coach.

what did mohammed kaif say

Kaif said, “It is not right to release Russell. You bought him for Rs 12 crore and it was not a big amount for a player like him. Only one player like him comes in this era. Yes, he was not in form, but later he also scored runs. But as coaches change, they bring some changes. I think it was a big decision.”

Kaif further said, “You can say that Russell was not at his peak yet, but I think this is a format, especially in IPL, where experienced players perform well and there are many examples of this. I think the direct answer to his release is Abhishek Nair. He wants to build his own team now. But it was a surprising decision.”

Andre Russell’s IPL career

Many people may think that Andre Russell has been playing for KKR since the beginning in IPL. Actually he had become a poster boy of the KKR team, although it was not so. He started his IPL career by playing in Delhi Capitals. He was a part of Delhi in 2012 and 2013, in 2014 KKR included him in their team and then he played for the same team till 2025.

Andre Russell has played a total of 140 matches in IPL, in which he has scored 2651 runs. Russell has scored 12 half-centuries in IPL. Russell has taken a total of 123 wickets in IPL. It will be interesting to see which team Andre Russell joins in the upcoming IPL season, or whether he will return to KKR. Let us tell you that KKR has the biggest purse in the IPL auction.

The bugle for the 19th season of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2026 has been sounded. The auction for the upcoming season of IPL will take place next month. However, this time a mini auction will be organized. This time too many superstar players are included in the auction. In such a situation, the biggest question is who will be sold the most expensive in the auction?

Let us tell you that the mini auction for IPL 2026 will be organized on December 16 at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. BCCI has said in the press release that all the 10 teams have retained a total of 173 players, which includes 49 foreign players and some traded players. 10 teams have 77 slots left for the IPL 2026 mini auction. The total purse of all the franchises is Rs 237.55 crore.

This time many superstar players included in the auction

For your information, let us tell you that many superstar players are included in the IPL 2026 auction. It includes names like Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Mathisha Pathirana, Faf du Plessis and Liam Livingstone. Let us tell you that this time all the 10 teams together have released a total of 70 players. Whereas only a maximum of 77 players can be sold in the mini auction.

Who will sell the most expensive? Will Rishabh Pant’s record be broken?

Lucknow Super Giants captain Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in the history of IPL. Lucknow bought him last year for Rs 27 crore. Venkatesh Iyer, who was sold for around Rs 24 crore, is also a part of the auction this year. Star all-rounder Andre Russell has also gone to the auction.

Let us tell you that this time a mini auction is to be organized. In such a situation, it is difficult to break Rishabh Pant’s record of being sold for Rs 27 crores. There are three players involved in the race to be the most expensive seller. This includes Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer and Cameron Green. Teams can pay any amount to buy these players.

All 10 teams released these 70 players

Chennai Super Kings- Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Sheikh Rashid, Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Mathisha Pathirana.

Kolkata Knight Riders- Andre Russell, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje, Lavnith Sisodia, Chetan Sakariya, Spencer Johnson

Sunrisers Hyderabad- Adam Zampa, Rahul Chahar, Viaan Mulder, Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Tawde, Simarjeet Singh and Sachin Baby

Royal Challengers Bangalore- Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi and Mohit Rathi

Punjab Kings- Glenn Maxwell, Josh English, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen and Praveen Dubey

Mumbai Indians- Satyanarayana Raju, Reece Topley, KL Srijit, Karn Sharma, Bevan Jacobs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lizaad Williams and Vignesh Puthur.

Gujarat Titans- Mahipal Lomror, Karim Jannat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, and Kulwant Khejroliya.

Rajasthan Royals- Wanindu Hasaranga, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Akash Madhwal, Mahesh Teekshana, Kumar Karthikeya Singh, Ashok Sharma and Kunal Rathod.

Lucknow Super Giants- Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Choudhary, Rajvardhan Hungergekar, Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi and Shamar Joseph.

Delhi Capitals– Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sediqullah Atal, Manwant Kumar, Mohit Sharma and Darshan Nalkande.

The bugle for the 19th season of the Indian Premier League has been sounded. The auction for the upcoming season of IPL will take place next month. This time a mini auction will be organized. Before the IPL 2026 auction, all 10 teams have released their respective lists of released and retained players. Know here the A to Z details of IPL 2026 mini auction.

This time IPL auction will be held abroad

The mini auction for IPL 2026 will be held on December 16 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. BCCI unveiled the date and venue of the IPL 2026 auction after releasing the list of released and retained players by all the teams.

BCCI has said in the press release that all the 10 teams have retained a total of 173 players, which includes 49 foreign players and some traded players. 10 teams have 77 slots left for the IPL 2026 mini auction. The total purse of all the franchises is Rs 237.55 crore.

According to IPL rules, each franchise can include a maximum of 25 players in its team. Even before the auction, Punjab Kings have retained 21 players. Whereas Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians have retained 20-20 players.

Kolkata has the most money and Mumbai has the least money.

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) will have the highest purse of Rs 64.3 crore in this auction. KKR can buy 13 players in the auction. KKR has released expensive players like Andre Russell (Rs 12 crore) and Venkatesh Iyer (Rs 23.75 crore) before the mini auction.

Sunrisers Hyderabad has Rs 25.5 crore left in their purse. Mumbai Indians will enter this mini auction with the lowest amount. This franchise has retained almost all its famous players. Only Rs 2.75 crore is left in the purse of Mumbai Indians.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s IPL 2026 has been confirmed, although he had already confirmed it but now the retention list has also come. Chennai Super Kings has retained 17 players including MS Dhoni for the upcoming IPL edition. Whereas Sanju Samson has been included in his squad through trade. Meanwhile, MS Dhoni was seen at the private airport, where his look looked no less than that of a Bollywood hero.

MS Dhoni was seen at a private airport. Wearing a half-sleeved beige t-shirt (light brown), he was wearing black glasses, which gave him a dashing look. He also said goodbye to the camera while leaving. Her black colored bag was also stylish.

Will MS Dhoni play as an impact player in IPL 2026?

Fans are making these guesses after Sanju Samson’s inclusion in Chennai Super Kings. In fact, before the auction, CSK included wicket keeper Sanju Samson in its team through trade, who was earlier the captain of Rajasthan Royals. In place of Sanju, CSK gave Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran, who will play for Rajasthan in the upcoming season. Sanju Samson is being considered as the successor of MS Dhoni.

It is possible that Sanju Samson will keep wicket and MS Dhoni will come to bat only as an impact player. CSK may also be looking at Samson as the future captain, because the upcoming edition could be Dhoni’s last IPL as a player.

CSK retention list

Ruturaj Gaikwad, MS Dhoni, Dewald Brewis, Ayush Mhatre, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapaneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Chaudhary, Sanju Samson (included in trade).

Aiden Markram IPL Retention: South African opener Aiden Markram believes that IPL team Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) does not need to complicate things too much and they should focus on seizing the important opportunities and winning in the 2026 IPL season. LSG has retained right-handed batsman Markram in the team ahead of the mini auction to be held next month. Markram had scored 445 runs in 13 matches in the 2025 IPL at an average of 34.23 and a strike rate of 148.83 with the help of five half-centuries.

Markram happy to be retained by LSG

“It’s great,” Aiden Markram said in a video shared on LSG’s ‘X’. I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Lucknow franchise last year. I made some good friends and spent a few months with the team. So I am very grateful to have been retained and am definitely looking forward to playing another season with them.” LSG finished seventh last season with six wins and eight losses.

Markram told the plans for the next season

When asked about his plans for the next season, Markram said, “To do well in the IPL, you have to be really good as a team. I don’t think we were far behind last season. Had we been successful in capitalizing on some important opportunities, the results would have been different. He said, “We were very close to making it to the knockouts. In such a situation, nothing should be made too complicated. I think we should try to repeat what we have done well and turn some of the more difficult times in our favor. Aiden Markram is currently in India, he is part of the South Africa team that is touring India for the Test and limited overs series.

Ravindra Jedeja IPL Trade: Former Indian cricketer and commentator Aakash Chopra has given the reason for the trade of star all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja from Chennai Super Kings (CSK) to Rajasthan Royals (RR). This trade is one of the biggest trades in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL), in which Sanju Samson went to Chennai, while Jadeja and Sam Curran joined Rajasthan. The surprising thing in this is that Sanju Samson went to CSK for Rs 18 crore, which was his old fee, but Ravindra Jadeja has joined RR for Rs 14 crore, which was reduced from his fee of Rs 18 crore.

Why the cut in Jadeja’s fees?

While talking on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra has given the reason for Jadeja’s fee cut. He said, ‘Rajasthan has got Jadeja, but he has reduced his fees. I am wondering whether he got the fees reduced and left CSK? Because the price of a player cannot be changed without his consent. Chopra emphasized that why would any player reduce his fees, especially when he has been such a big match winner for his old team. He said, ‘Jadeja has taken Rs 4 crore less to leave Chennai, which is very surprising.’

Jadeja ‘greed’ for captaincy

While talking in that video, Akash said that maybe Jadeja was bored with the environment of Chennai and did not want to live there. However, this could have been done by going to the auction also, but the biggest question that Akash raised was whether Jadeja was lured by Rajasthan for captaincy. Was this the incentive for which Jadeja went to Rajasthan? This is very interesting, but there could be some other reason behind it.

The Indian Premier League (IPL) is considered to be the most aggressive and high-scoring league in the world. Here, explosive innings by batsmen, explosive fours-sixes and big targets are common. However, there have been many such shameful moments in this league when the entire batting order of the teams surrendered and very few runs were added on the scoreboard. Let’s take a look at the five lowest team scores in IPL history, which are still recorded as shameful records.

Royal Challengers Bangalore – 49 runs (2017, Kolkata)

The lowest score in IPL history is not of any other team, but of Royal Challengers Bangalore with star players. On 23 April 2017, the entire RCB team was out for just 49 runs against KKR in Kolkata. RCB’s batting order fell apart like a pack of cards on the Eden Gardens pitch. The team could not even play 9.4 overs. This was the match which even today RCB fans do not want to remember.

Rajasthan Royals – 58 runs (2009, Cape Town)

The 2009 season was played in South Africa. Rajasthan Royals team was bundled out for just 58 runs against RCB in Cape Town. The team kept trying to hold on to the pitch for 15.1 overs, but the batsmen looked completely helpless in front of the pace of the bowlers.

Rajasthan Royals – 59 runs (2023, Jaipur)

Even after so many years, RR has made another shameful record in its name. On 14 May 2023, once again against RCB, Rajasthan team was reduced to 59 runs in just 10.3 overs. Even the fans could not understand such performance of the batsmen on home ground.

Delhi Daredevils – 66 runs (2017, Delhi)

Delhi scored only 66 runs against Mumbai Indians at their home ground Feroz Shah Kotla on 6 May 2017. The team’s run rate was 4.82 and the batting order looked completely disintegrated. This was the match which exposed the weak batting of Delhi.

Delhi Daredevils – 67 runs (2017, Mohali)

The year 2017 was no less than a nightmare for Delhi. In the same season, against Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in Mohali, the entire team was once again reduced to just 67 runs. This match proved to be embarrassing for Delhi while batting first.

Most Ducks In IPL: In the Indian Premier League (IPL), where batsmen make headlines with their powerful shots and explosive innings. On the other hand, the names of some players are also associated with such a record which no one wants to make in their name. That is being out for a duck (out on 0 runs) for the most number of times in his career. Many star cricketers have made this unwanted record in the 18 seasons of IPL. The interesting thing is that some veteran and experienced players are also included in this list.

Glenn Maxwell – 19 ducks (most)

Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell is considered one of the most explosive players of IPL. However, his aggressive batting has proved costly many times. Maxwell has 19 ducks in his name, which is the highest in IPL history. Although he has scored 2819 runs in IPL and won many matches, but his “boom or blast” style of playing makes him number one in this list.

Dinesh Karthik – 18 ducks

Experienced wicketkeeper-batsman Dinesh Karthik is also at second place in this list. Karthik, who has been playing IPL continuously since 2008, has a record of being out on 0 18 times. Karthik has shone as a finisher in many matches, but his shaky starts and attempts to score quick runs often push him into the “duck club”.

Rohit Sharma – 18 ducks

Many cricket fans are surprised to see a big name like Rohit Sharma in this list. Rohit is one of the biggest match-winners in IPL with 7046 runs and five trophies. However, 18 ducks are also recorded in his name. While batting aggressively in the powerplay, Rohit has been walking on the initial balls many times.

Sunil Narayan – 17 ducks

The name of KKR’s dangerous all-rounder Sunil Narayan is also included in this list. He has made an unwanted record of returning to the pavilion 17 times in IPL without opening the account. He was promoted as an opener several times, but in an attempt to give a fast start, he kept getting out early.

Rashid Khan – 16 ducks

Rashid Khan, one of the best bowlers in the world, often comes in the lower order while batting. In an attempt to score fast runs, he has registered 16 ducks in his name in IPL. However, his records and match-winning performances in bowling make him an essential player for every team.