The IPL mini 2026 auction saw some massive bids, with the top five most expensive players commanding huge attention from franchises. Australian all-rounder Cameron Green was the priciest, going to Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for ₹25.20 crore. KKR also secured Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana for ₹18 crore. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) made their mark by acquiring Prashant Veer and Kartik Sharma, both for ₹14.20 crore, sharing the third spot on the list. England’s explosive all-rounder Liam Livingstone was snapped up by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) for ₹13 crore, rounding out the top five signings of the auction.

Sold players

  1. Australian all-rounder Cameron Green sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹25.20 crore. 
  2. New Zealand bowler Kyle Jamieson sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹2 crore.
  3. Indian all-rounder Kanishk Chouhan sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹30 lakh.
  4. Indian cricketer Vihaan Malhotra sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹30 lakh.
  5. English bowler Luke Wood sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹75 lakh.
  6. Indian cricketer Prithviraj Yarra sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹30 lakh.
  7. Indian bowler Vicky Ostwal sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹30 lakh.
  8. Indian bowler Kuldeep Sen sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹75 lakh.
  9. New Zealand bowler Adam Milne sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹2.40 crore.
  10. England batter Tom Banton sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹2 crore.
  11. New Zealand cricketer Zak Foulkes sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹75 lakh.
  12. Indian cricketer Prithvi Shaw sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹75 lakh.
  13. Australian all-rounder Jack Edwards sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹3 crore.
  14. Indian cricketer Brijesh Sharma sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹30 lakh.
  15. Indian cricketer Vishal Nishad sold to Punjab Kings for ₹30 lakh.
  16. Indian cricketer Sahil Parakh sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹30 lakh.
  17. Indian bowler Pravin Dubey sold to Punjab Kings for ₹30 lakh.
  18. Indian cricketer Mayank Rawat sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹30 lakh.
  19. Indian cricketer Aman Rao Perala sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹30 lakh.
  20. South African fast bowler Lungi Ngidi sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹2 crore.
  21. Australian wicketkeeper-batter Josh Inglis sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹8.60 crore.
  22. England wicketkeeper batter Jordan Cox sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹75 lakh.
  23. Australian cricketer Ben Dwarshuis sold to Punjab Kings for ₹4.40 crore.
  24. Indian bowler Rahul Chahar sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹5.20 crore.
  25. Indian pacer Shivam Mavi sold to SunRisers for ₹75 lakh.
  26. New Zealand bowler Matt Henry sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹2 crore.
  27. Indian bowler Akash Deep sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹1 crore.
  28. New Zealand all-rounder Rachin Ravindra sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹2 crore.
  29. England all-rounder Liam Livingstone sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹13 crore.
  30. Indian batter Sarfaraz Khan sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹75 lakh.
  31. Indian cricketer Daksh Kamra sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹30 lakh.
  32. Indian batter Sarthak Ranjan sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹30 lakh.
  33. Indian cricketer Krains Fuletra sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  34. Indian bowler Praful Hinge sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  35. Indian cricketer Atharva Ankolekar sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹30 lakh.
  36. Indian cricketer Amit Kumar sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  37. Australian all-rounder Cooper Connolly sold to Punjab Kings for ₹3 crore.
  38. Indian cricketer Onkar Tarmale sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  39. Indian cricketer Mohammad Izhar sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹30 lakh.
  40. Indian bowler Sakib Hussain sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  41. Indian cricketer Ravi Singh sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹95 lakh.
  42. Indian cricketer Salil Arora sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹1.50 crore.
  43. Indian all-rounder Mangesh Yadav sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹5.20 crore.
  44. Indian all-rounder Aman Khan sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹40 lakh.
  45. Indian cricketer Satvik Deswal sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹30 lakh.
  46. Indian cricketer Akshat Raghuwanshi sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2.20 crore.
  47. Indian cricketer Danish Malewar sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹30 lakh.
  48. Bangladesh bowler Mustafizur Rahman sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹9.20 crore.
  49. New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter Tim Seifert sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹1.50 crore.
  50. Australian cricketer Matthew Short sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹1.5 crore.
  51. West Indies all-rounder Jason Holder sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹7 crore.
  52. Indian batter Rahul Tripathi sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹75 lakh.
  53. Sri Lankan batter Pathum Nissanka sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹4 crore.
  54. Indian cricketer Vignesh Puthur sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹30 lakh.
  55. Indian cricketer Prashant Solanki sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹30 lakh.
  56. Indian cricketer Yash Raj Punja sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹30 lakh.
  57. Indian bowler Sushant Mishra sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹90 lakh.
  58. Indian cricketer Naman Tiwari sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹1 crore.
  59. Indian fast bowler Kartik Tyagi sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹30 lakh.
  60. Indian cricketer Ashok Sharma sold to Gujarat Titans for ₹90 lakh.
  61. Indian cricketer Tejasvi Singh sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹3 crore.
  62. Indian wicketkeeper-batter Mukul Choudhary sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2.60 crore.
  63. Indian wicketkeeper-batter Kartik Sharma sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹14.20 crore.
  64. Indian all-rounder Shivang Kumar sold to Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹30 lakh.
  65. Indian bowler Prashant Veer sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹14.20 crore.
  66. Indian bowler Auqib Dar sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹8.40 crore.
  67. West Indies bowler Akeal Hosein sold to Chennai Super Kings for ₹2 crore.
  68. Indian bowler Ravi Bishnoi sold to Rajasthan Royals for ₹7.20 crore.
  69. Sri Lankan all-rounder Wanindu Hasaranga sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2 crore.
  70. South African fast bowler Anrich Nortje sold to Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2 crore.
  71. India all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer sold to Royal Challengers Bengaluru for ₹7 crore.
  72. Sri Lankan pacer Matheesha Pathirana sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹18 crore.
  73. South African wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock sold to Mumbai Indians for ₹1 crore.
  74. New Zealand wicketkeeper Finn Allen sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹2 crore.
  75. New Zealand bowler Jacob Duffy sold to Royal Challengers Bangalore for ₹2 crore.
  76. England batter Ben Duckett sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹2 crore.
  77. South African batter David Miller sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹2 crore.

Unsold players

A large number of players went unsold at the IPL 2026 mini-auction, including notable names from international and domestic cricket.

Among the players left unsold were- Devon Conway, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Gus Atkinson, Jamie Smith, Gerald Coetzee, Mujeeb Rahman, Maheesh Theekshana, Steve Smith, Sean Abbott, Michael Bracewell, Daryl Mitchell, Shai Hope, William Orourke, Tom Curran, Daniel Lawrence, Alzarri Joseph, Naveen Ul Haq, Liam Dawson, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Spencer Johnson, Saqib Mahmood, Umesh Yadav, Riley Meredith, Jhye Richardson, Jason Behrendorff, Ben Sears, Beau Webster, Roston Chase, Kyle Mayers, Olly Stone, Kyle Verreynne, Wiaan Mulder, Jonny Bairstow, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Reeza Hendricks, Daniel Sams, Kusal Perera, Mohammad Waqar Salamkheil, George Linde, Gulbadin Naib, William Sutherland, Charith Asalanka, Dwaine Pretorius, Joshua Tongue, Deepak Hooda, K.S. Bharat, Mayank Agarawal, Sediqullah Atal, Ackeem Auguste, Tim Robinson, Dasun Shanaka, Benjamin McDermott, Kusal Mendis, Chetan Sakariya, Qais Ahmad, Rishad Hossain, Viyaskanth Vijayakanth, Rehan Ahmed, Bevon-John Jacobs, Taskin Ahmed, Richard Gleeson, Shamar Joseph, Navdeep Saini, Muhammad Abbas, George Garton, Nathan Smith, Dunith Wellalage, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Matthew Potts, Nahid Rana, Sandeep Warrier, Wesley Agar, Binura Fernando, Md Shoriful Islam, Joshua Little, Obed McCoy, Billy Stanlake, Eathan Bosch, Chris Green, Blessing Muzarabani, Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Joe Clarke, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, K.M Asif, Shubham Agrawal, Jalaj Saxena, Tom Moores, Arab Gul, Nikhil Chaudhary, Aarya Desai, Yash Dhull, Abhinav Manohar, Anmolpreet Singh, Atharva Taide, Abhinav Tejrana, Tanush Kotian, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Vijay Shankar, Sanvir Singh, Edhen Tom, Ruchit Ahir, Vansh Bedi, Tushar Raheja, Raj Limbani, Akash Madhwal, Simarjeet Singh, Shivam Shukla, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Wahidullah Zadran, Ankit Kumar, Rohan Kunnummal, Pukhraj Mann, Salman Nizar, Manan Vohra, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Darshan Nalkande, Sairaj Patil, Suyash Prabhudessai, Harsh Tyagi, Ricky Bhui, Rahul Buddhi, Saurav Chuahan, Yashvardhan Dalal, Abhishek Pathak, Kunal Rathore, Vidwath Kaverappa, Vijay Kumar, Vidyadhar Patil, PV.Satyanarayana Raju, Murugan Ashwin, Tejas Baroka, K.C. Cariappa, Kartik Chadha, Mohit Rathee, Himanshu Sharma, Bailapudi Yeswanth, Kunal Chandela, Ayush Doseja, Qamran Iqbal, M.Dheeraj Kumar, Bhanu Pania, Arsh Kabir Ranga, Adarsh Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Mayank Dagar, Raghav Goyal, Manvanth Kumar, Abid Mushtaq, Atit Sheth, Hritik Shokeen, Jagadeesha Suchith, Tanay Thyagarajann, Connor Esterhuizen, Ajitesh Guruswamy, Siddharth Joon, Bipin Saurabh, Vishnu Solanki, Hardik Tamore, Sayan Ghosh, Money Grewal, Arpit Guleria, Sunil Kumar, Tristan Luus, Divesh Sharma, Abhilash Shetty, Irfan Umair, Kuldip Yadav, Manan Bhardwaj, Shreyas Chavan, Parikshit Dhanak, Chintal Gandhi, Dharmendrasinh Jadeja, Saumy Pandey, Jhathavedh Subramanyan, Sachin Dhas, Miles Hammond, Ahammed Imran, Vishvarajsinh Jadeja, Ayaz Khan, Daniel Lategan, Siddhant Rana, Aaron Varghese, Abdul Bazith, Karan Lal, Shams Mulani, Ripal Patel, Prince Rai, Vivrant Sharma, Utkarsh Singh, Ayush Vartak, Sanjay Yadav, Sayed Irfan Aftab, Esakkimuthu Ayyakutti, Pankaj Jaswal, Kulwant Khejroliya, Ravi Kumar, Rajan Kumar, Safvan Patel, Ishan Porel, Purav Agarwal, Jikku Bright, Yash Dicholkar, Rakibul Hasan, Traveen Mathew, Naman Pushpak, Izaz Sawariya, Roshan Wagshare, R.S Ambrish, Macneil Noronha, R Rajkumar, Ninad Rathva, Sunny Sandhu, Shivalik Sharma, Siddharth Yadav, R.Sonu Yadav, Waseem Khanday, Atif Mushtaq, Atal Rai, C.Rakshann Readdi, Manish Reddy, Nishanth Saranu, Deependra Singh, Rajat Verma, Rohit Yadav, Emanjot Chahal, Shubhang Hegde, Bal Krishna, Khilan Patel, Delano Potgieter, Hardik Raj, Parth Rekhade, Tiaan Van Vuuren, Shreevatsha Acharya, Sadek Hussain, Shubham Kapse, Aaqib Khan, Sabir Khan, Bayanda Majola, Srihari Nair, Aman Shekhawat, Himanshu Bisht, Shreyan Chakraborty, Mayank Gusain, Akash Pugazhanthi, Abhimanyusingh Rajput, Shubham Rana, Arpit Rana, Maramreddy Reddy, Sagar Solanki, Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal, Vishal Mandwal, Arfaz Mohammad, Hemang Patel, Mridul Surroch, Anuj Thakral, Parth Vats, Lalit Yadav, Nitin Sai Yadav, Krish Bhagat, Prerit Dutta, Sammar Gajjar, Nasir Lone, Ishan Mulchandani, Akhil Scaria, Muhammed Sharafuddeen, K.Ajay Singh, Ritik Tada, Luckyrajsinh Vaghela, Mohamed Ali, Madhav Bajaj, Akshu Bajwa, Varun Raj Singh Bisht, Rishabh Chauhan, Dian Forrester, Dhurmil Matkar, Shiva Singh, Parikshit Valsangkar, Mani Sankar Mura Singh, Virandeep Singh, Chama Milind, K.L. Shrijith, Swastik Chikara, Rahul Raj Namala, Virat Singh, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Tripuresh Singh, Rajesh Mohanty, Swastik Samal, Saransh Jain, Sooraj Sangaraju, and Tanmay Agarwal. 

Australian all-rounder Cameron Green was the major attention after being sold to Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹25.20 crore. With pace-bowling all-rounders in short supply, franchises such as Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings are driving the bidding upward. Despite modest IPL numbers, Green’s value lies in his versatility and status as an all-format international, making him one of the most sought-after names on the list. There is already speculation that his bid could surpass previous overseas records, though his actual season salary will be capped due to IPL regulations.

Kolkata Knight Riders have been particularly active, entering the auction with the largest purse of ₹64.30 crore and 13 slots to fill. Chennai Super Kings, armed with ₹43.40 crore, were the only team capable of matching KKR’s financial muscle. Mumbai Indians, by contrast, have minimal room to manoeuvre and are expected to focus mainly on uncapped players at the base price. 

Alongside Green, Indian all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer and England’s Liam Livingstone were commanding strong interest. Iyer, who struggled under the weight of a hefty price tag last season, is once again in demand, while Livingstone’s explosive batting and useful spin bowling have made him a popular choice in a compact auction.

Among other prominent players, Quinton de Kock was attracting steady bids thanks to his consistency as a wicketkeeper-batter. Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan were also closely watched, with their low base prices making them potential value buys. 

Fast bowlers were a key focus. Matheesha Pathirana, released earlier, has interest from teams seeking to strengthen depleted pace attacks, while New Zealand seamer Jacob Duffy is being viewed as a reliable T20 option. Among uncapped Indians, Ashok Sharma emerged as a popular name after a strong domestic campaign and previous IPL exposure.

The IPL 2026 mini-auction concluded with intense competition, high-profile signings, and several notable players going unsold. While franchises secured key all-rounders and top performers to strengthen their squads, the long list of unsold players reflects the highly selective nature of this year’s auction and the strategic choices made by teams in Abu Dhabi.