IPL 2026 Auction: Major Player Releases, Big Trades and High-Profile Bidding Battles Set to Shake Up Abu Dhabi Event

New Delhi (India) November 15: Few surprises there as all ten teams who will participate in auction also named released and retained lists for IPL 2026. The Chennai Super Kings released Matheesha Pathirana, Devon Conway and Rachin Ravindra, while Kolkata discharged the likes of Andre Russell, Quinton de Kock and Venkatesh Iyer.Lucknow Super Giants included Ravi Bishnoi in the IPL auction. Two of the largest transfers in IPL history were completed during trading window - Sanju Samson transferring to Chennai Super Kings and Ravindra Jadeja going to Rajasthan Royals. 

IPL 2026 - Retained and Released Players

Chennai Super Kings

Retained players are Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brevis, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmad, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjanpreet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal and Mukesh Choudhary.

Released players are Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth, Rachin Ravindra, Devon Conway, Deepak Hooda, Vijay Shankar, Shaik Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti and Matheesha Pathirana.

Delhi Capitals

Retained players are Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav and Nitish Rana.

Released players are Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sediqullah Atal, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Darshan Nalkande and Donovan Ferreira.

Gujarat Titans

Retained players are Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Released players are Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee and Kulwant Khejroliya.

Kolkata Knight Riders

Retained players are Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakaravarthy.

Released players are Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock, Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje and Mayank Markande. 

Lucknow Super Giants

Retained players are Rishabh Pant (c), Nicholas Pooran, Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, M Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav and Akash Singh.

Released players are Ravi Bishnoi, David Miller, Akash Deep, Aryan Juyal, Yuvraj Chaudhary and Rajvardhan Hangargekar.

Mumbai Indians

Retained players are AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mayank Markande (Trade In), Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Shardul Thakur (Trade In), Sherfane Rutherford (Trade In), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult and Will Jacks.

Released players are Bevon Jacobs, Karn Sharma, KL Shrijith, Lizaad Williams, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, PSN Raju, Reece Topley and Vignesh Puthur.

Punjab Kings

Retained players are Shreyas Iyer (c), Nehal Wadhera, Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, Pyla Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Musheer Khan, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson and Yuzvendra Chahal, Harpreet Brar

Released players are Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Kuldeep Sen and Praveen Dube.

Rajasthan Royals

Retained players are Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Luhan Dre Pretorius, Shubham Dube, Donovan Ferreira (from DC), Dhruv Jurel, Ravindra Jadeja (from CSK), Sam Curran, Riyan Parag, Jofra Archer, Sandeep Sharma, Nandre Burger, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka and Yudhvir Singh.

Released players are Kunal Rathore, Nitish Rana (to DC), Sanju Samson (to CSK), Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya and Akash Madhwal.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Retained players are Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh and Suyash Sharma.

Released players are Liam Livingstone, Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani and Mohit Rathee.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Retained players are Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, B Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga and Zeeshan Ansari.

Released players are Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby, Wiaan Mulder, Mohammed Shami, Smarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar and Adam Zampa.