The window for IPL 2026 auction has been fixed from 13 to 15 December. According to the report, a mini auction will be organized for the 19th season on December 15. However, the venue of the auction has not been announced yet. All 10 IPL teams will have to release the list of their retained and released players before November 15. Meanwhile, news has come that Delhi Capitals is preparing to release four big players including Mitchell Starc.

It has been reported in the report that Delhi Capitals is going to release star fast bowler Mitchell Starc. Delhi had bought this Australian bowler for Rs 11.75 crore. Starc could not perform as expected for Delhi in IPL 2025. He could take only 14 wickets in 11 matches

Apart from Mitchell Starc, Delhi Capitals can also release Faf du Plessis, Jack Fraser McGurk and T Natarajan. Faf du Plessis was bought by Delhi Capitals for just Rs 2 crores. Whereas T Natarajan was bought for Rs 10.75 crore. Australia’s explosive opener Jake Fraser McGurk was retained by Delhi Capitals for Rs 9 crore. Now the report says that Delhi is going to release these four big players.

Will Chennai Super Kings release these 5 players?

According to the report, Chennai Super Kings will release 5 star players before the IPL 2026 auction. It has been reported in the report that MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings is going to release three Indian players and two foreign players. The surprising thing is that currently the dreaded T20 all-rounder Sam Curran is also included in this list. The list of released players from Chennai includes middle order batsman Deepak Hooda, all-rounder Vijay Shankar, top order batsman Rahul Tripathi, all-rounder Sam Curran and opener Devon Conway.

IPL 2025: Under the captaincy of Akshar Patel, Delhi Capitals started in season 18. The team had won the initial 4 matches continuously, after which it seemed that Delhi could become the first team to make a place in the playoffs. But after this, the team continued to rise up and down in the points table, then after the postponement of IPL, Mitchell Starc returning home proved to be a big setback for Delhi. Delhi won its last match of the season by 6 wickets against Punjab Kings on Saturday.

Delhi Capitals bought India’s Tej T Natarajan for IPL 2025 for Rs 10 crore 75 lakh, the team would have spent such a huge amount because he would expect Natarajan that he would be his important bowler. A bowler can put a maximum of 4 overs in T20, but the bowler who bought Delhi in such a huge amount, he did not even take 4 overs in the entire season.

T Natarajan scored 18 balls in IPL 2025

Delhi Capitals also bought Mitchell Starc with T20 Natarajan, fans felt that both of them would be the main fast bowlers of the team. Stark even bowled brilliantly, but due to the postponement of IPL, he had to return home and he did not return again. Talking about Natarajan, he put only 3 overs throughout the season. He played only 2 matches and put 3 overs in a single match.

T Natarajan spent 3 overs against Gujarat Titans in the match played on 18 May, in which he scored 49 runs from an economy of more than 16. He proved to be very expensive, Delhi Capitals lost this match badly by 10 wickets. Sai Sudarshan scored an unbeaten 108 and Shubman Gill scored 93 not out.

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Delhi Capitals won 7 matches in 14 matches and lost 6 matches, one match was inconclusive. With 15 points, Delhi finished its journey at the fifth position in the points table. In the last match played on Saturday, Sameer Rizvi played the match winning innings for Delhi. He scored an unbeaten 58 runs in 25 balls. Delhi won the target of 207 runs in 19.3 overs and won by 6 wickets.

Questioning teams in IPL 2025 playoffs

Gujarat Titans, Punjab Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians.