BCCI Update IPL 2026 Mini Auction Final List: For the mini auction of Indian Premier League 2026, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has added the names of 9 new players to the list of existing players on Tuesday i.e. December 9, 2025. This mini auction will be organized on 16 December at Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. At the beginning of the day on 9th December, BCCI had released the list of total 350 players after sorting them from the total registration of 1355 players. Then, after a few hours, BCCI released the revised list, in which 9 new names were added, making the total number of players now 359.

9 new players added to the mini auction list

The new players added by BCCI also include IPL winner Swastik Chikara, who was released by Royal Challengers Bangalore. The video of Swastika with Virat Kohli in IPL 2025 was much talked about throughout the season. Apart from these, Malaysian player Virandeep Singh is also included, who is the only player from the Associate Nation. The remaining seven players include Tripura all-rounder Mani Shankar Murasingh, Chama Milind (Hyderabad), K.L. The names are Sreejit (Karnataka), Ethan Bosch (South Africa), Chris Green (Australia), Rahul Raj Namala (Uttarakhand) and Virat Singh (Jharkhand).

So many players will be bid in mini auction

A total of 359 players are included in the final list of IPL 2026 mini auction, of which 247 are Indian and 112 foreign players. Out of the players in this final list, only 77 players will get the contract for IPL 2026, out of which 31 reserved places will be for foreign players.

BCCI improved the list of mini auction

Nikil Choudhary has played domestic cricket for Punjab along with Shubhman Gill, Abhishek Sharma and Arshdeep Singh. About six years ago, Nikhil went to Australia to meet his uncle and was stuck there due to Covid. After this, he started his cricket career in Australia itself and after many years of hard work, he was successful in making a place in Australian domestic cricket and last month he became the first Indian-origin player to score a century in the Sheffield Shield for Tasmania.

Apart from this, Nikhil has also participated in many foreign white-ball leagues, which include leagues like Global Super League, Max60 Caribbean and Abu Dhabi T10. At the same time, Nikhil was mistakenly registered as an Indian player in the final list of IPL 2026 mini auction, but BCCI has corrected this mistake in the revised list released on the evening of Tuesday, December 9.