Only a few hours are left for the start of IPL 2026. The first match of the season will be played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sunrisers Hyderabad on 28 March. On one hand, CSK and Mumbai Indians will be eyeing their respective sixth titles, while RCB would like to be among the teams that have become champions twice in a row. Lucknow Super Giants, Delhi Capitals and Punjab Kings are the teams which will enter the field with the intention of winning the trophy for the first time. But the success of any team will depend on a good playing eleven combination. See here with which playing eleven all the 10 teams can take the field.

Probable playing eleven of all 10 teams in IPL 2026

Chennai Super Kings- Ayush Mhatre, Sanju Samson, Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dubey, Karthik Sharma, Prashant Veer, MS Dhoni, Noor Ahmed, Akeal Hosein, Khaleel Ahmed

Punjab Kings- Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Yuzvendra Chahal.

Mumbai Indians- Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (wk), Will Jacques, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya (c), Naman Dheer, Sherfane Rutherford, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah.

Rajasthan Royals- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Riyan Parag (captain), Shimron Hetmyer, Ravindra Jadeja, Dhruv Jurel, Dasun Shanaka, Joffra Archer, Nandre Berger, Sandeep Sharma, Vignesh Puthur.

Kolkata Knight Riders- Finn Allen, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Blessing Muzarabani, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty, Kartik Tyagi.

Royal Challengers Bangalore- Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jacob Batchelor, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jacob Duffy, Rasikh Dar.

Lucknow Super Giants- Mitchell Marsh, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran, Rishabh Pant (captain), Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Digvesh Rathi, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Anrich Nortje.

Gujarat Titans- Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Jos Buttler, Kumar Kushagra, Glenn Phillips, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Prasidh Krishna, Mohammed Siraj, Kagiso Rabada.

Delhi Capitals- KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Pathum Nissanka, Tristan Stubbs, David Miller, Axar Patel, Vipraj Nigam, Kuldeep Yadav, Mukesh Kumar, Lungi Ngidi, Aaqib Nabi Dar

Sunrisers Hyderabad- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Harsh Dubey, Jaydev Unadkat, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari

When IPL 2026 starts, everyone’s eyes will also be on Mumbai Indians. Five-time champion Mumbai has never reached the finals after 2020. In IPL 2025, MI had reached the second qualifier, but the team was eliminated after a 5-wicket defeat at the hands of Punjab Kings. Now the question is, with which playing eleven combination can the Mumbai team go this time? Such a playing eleven which can end Mumbai’s title drought that has been going on for 5 seasons.

Best playing eleven of Mumbai Indians

Rohit Sharma will be one of the most important players of Mumbai Indians, who will handle the responsibility of opening. Quinton de Kock is returning to Mumbai Indians after 5 years, who can handle the responsibility of opening with Rohit. If both remain in good form, the bowlers will have to work hard to deal with them. Tilak Verma and Suryakumar Yadav may get the same batting position which they have got in Team India. However, in the last matches of the T20 World Cup, Tilak was sent to the lower middle order.

Will Jacques is in tremendous form in the middle order, coming into the World Cup scoring 226 runs at a stormy strike rate of 176.5. After him, captain Hardik Pandya and then spin bowling all-rounder Naman Dheer may get a chance. Naman Dheer was retained by Mumbai for Rs 5.25 crore. Mitchell Santner can come after him, which means Mumbai will have regular batting options till number-8.

Will Jacques, Mitchell Santner and Naman Dheer will be the three spin bowling options. Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult and Deepak Chahar can handle the load of fast bowling. The fourth fast bowling option will be captain Hardik Pandya himself.

Probable playing eleven of Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Tilak Verma, Suryakumar Yadav, Will Jacques, Hardik Pandya (captain), Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Jasprit Bumrah and Trent Boult.

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