IPL 2026 Retentions: Full list of players retained by franchises with price tags in INR ahead of IPL 2026 Auction

All 10 IPL franchises have released their lists of retained and released players ahead of the 2026 mini-auction, scheduled for December 16 in Abu Dhabi. The announcements were made on Saturday, November 15, with teams retaining their core players while also making some surprising releases.

Among the most unexpected moves was three-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) releasing veteran all-rounder Andre Russell. Earlier in the day, in one of the biggest trades in IPL history, Chennai Super Kings (CSK) acquired Sanju Samson, sending Ravindra Jadeja and Sam Curran to Rajasthan Royals (RR) in return.

Meanwhile, defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), along with the other three teams that qualified for the 2025 playoffs, Punjab Kings (PBKS), Mumbai Indians (MI), and Gujarat Titans (GT), retained their core squads.

On that note, here is the full list of players retained by the franchises, along with their price tags, ahead of the IPL 2026 auction.

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

Virat Kohli (₹21 crore), Rajat Patidar (₹11 crore), Yash Dayal (₹5 crore), Phil Salt (₹11.50 crore), Jitesh Sharma (₹11 crore), Josh Hazlewood (₹12.50 crore), Rasikh Dar (₹6 crore), Suyash Sharma (₹2.60 crore), Krunal Pandya (₹5.75 crore), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (₹10.75 crore), Swapnil Singh (₹50 lakh), Tim David (₹3 crore), Romario Shepherd (₹1.50 crore), Nuwan Thushara (₹1.60 crore), Jacob Bethell (₹2.60 crore), Devdutt Padikkal (₹2 crore), Abhinandan Singh (₹30 lakh).

Total purse: ₹16.4 crore, with eight slots remaining.

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Punjab Kings (PBKS)

Shashank Singh (₹5.50 crore), Prabhsimran Singh (₹4 crore), Arshdeep Singh (₹18 crore), Shreyas Iyer (₹26.75 crore), Yuzvendra Chahal (₹18 crore), Marcus Stoinis (₹11 crore), Nehal Wadhera (₹4.20 crore), Harpreet Brar (₹1.50 crore), Vishnu Vinod (₹95 lakh), Vijaykumar Vyshak (₹1.80 crore), Yash Thakur (₹1.60 crore), Marco Jansen (₹7 crore), Lockie Ferguson (₹2 crore), Azmatullah Omarzai (₹2.40 crore), Harnoor Pannu (₹30 lakh), Priyansh Arya (₹3.80 crore), Musheer Khan (₹30 lakh), Suryansh Shedge (₹30 lakh), Xavier Bartlett (₹80 lakh), Pyla Avinash (₹30 lakh), Mitchell Owen (₹3 crore).

Total purse: ₹11.5 crore, with four slots remaining.

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Gujarat Titans (GT)

Rashid Khan (₹18 crore), Shubman Gill (₹16.50 crore), Sai Sudharsan (₹8.50 crore), Rahul Tewatia (₹4 crore), Shahrukh Khan (₹4 crore), Kagiso Rabada (₹10.75 crore), Jos Buttler (₹15.75 crore), Mohammed Siraj (₹12.25 crore), Prasidh Krishna (₹9.50 crore), Nishant Sindhu (₹30 lakh), Kumar Kushagra (₹65 lakh), Anuj Rawat (₹30 lakh), Manav Suthar (₹30 lakh), Washington Sundar (₹3.20 crore), Arshad Khan (₹1.30 crore), Gurnoor Brar (₹1.30 crore), Sai Kishore (₹2 crore), Ishant Sharma (₹75 lakh), Jayant Yadav (₹75 lakh), Glenn Phillips (₹2 crore).

Total purse: ₹12.9 crore, with five slots remaining

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Mumbai Indians (MI)

Jasprit Bumrah (₹18 crore), Suryakumar Yadav (₹16.35 crore), Hardik Pandya (₹16.35 crore), Rohit Sharma (₹16.30 crore), Tilak Varma (₹8 crore), Trent Boult (₹12.50 crore), Naman Dhir (₹5.25 crore), Robin Minz (₹65 lakh), Ryan Rickelton (₹1 crore), Deepak Chahar (₹9.25 crore), Allah Ghazanfar (₹4.80 crore), Will Jacks (₹5.25 crore), Ashwani Kumar (₹30 lakh), Mitchell Santner (₹2 crore), Raj Angad Bawa (₹30 lakh), Corbin Bosch (₹75 lakh), Raghu Sharma (₹30 lakh), (Shardul Thakur (₹2 crore - traded in from Lucknow Super Giants), Sherfane Rutherford (₹2.60 crore - traded in from Gujarat Titans), Mayank Markande (₹30 lakh - traded in from Kolkata Knight Riders).

Total purse: ₹2.75 crore, with five slots remaining

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SunRisers Hyderabad (SRH)

Pat Cummins (₹18 crore), Travis Head (₹14 crore), Abhishek Sharma (₹14 crore), Heinrich Klaasen (₹23 crore), Ishan Kishan (₹11.25 crore), Nitish Kumar Reddy (₹6 crore), Aniket Verma (₹30 lakh), Smaran Ravichandran (₹30 lakh), Harsh Dubey (₹30 lakh), Brydon Carse (₹1 crore), Kamindu Mendis (₹75 lakh), Harshal Patel (₹8 crore), Eshan Malinga (₹1.20 crore), Jaydev Unadkat (₹1 crore), Zeeshan Ansari (₹40 lakh).

Total purse: ₹25.5 crore, with 10 slots remaining.

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Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

Nicholas Pooran (₹21 crore), Mayank Yadav (₹11 crore), Mohsin Khan (₹4 crore), Ayush Badoni (₹4 crore), Rishabh Pant (₹27 crore), Aiden Markram (₹2 crore), Mitchell Marsh (₹3.40 crore), Avesh Khan (₹9.75 crore), Abdul Samad (₹4.20 crore), Himmat Singh (₹30 lakh), M. Siddharth (₹75 lakh), Digvesh Singh (₹30 lakh), Shahbaz Ahmed (₹2.40 crore), Akash Singh (₹30 lakh), Shamar Joseph (₹75 lakh), Prince Yadav (₹30 lakh), Arshin Kulkarni (₹30 lakh), Matthew Breetzke (₹75 lakh), Mohammad Shami (₹10 crore - traded in from SunRisers Hyderabad), and Arjun Tendulkar (₹30 lakh - traded in from Mumbai Indians).

Total purse: ₹22.95 crore, with six slots remaining.

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Delhi Capitals (DC)

Axar Patel (₹16.50 crore), Kuldeep Yadav (₹13.25 crore), Tristan Stubbs (₹10 crore), Abishek Porel (₹4 crore), Mitchell Starc (₹11.75 crore), KL Rahul (₹14 crore), T. Natarajan (₹10.75 crore), Karun Nair (₹50 lakh), Sameer Rizvi (₹95 lakh), Ashutosh Sharma (₹3.80 crore), Mukesh Kumar (₹8 crore), Vipraj Nigam (₹50 lakh), Dushmantha Chameera (₹75 lakh), Ajay Mandal (₹30 lakh), Tripurana Vijay (₹30 lakh), Madhav Tiwari (₹40 lakh), Nitish Rana (₹4.2 crore - traded in from Rajasthan Royals).

Total purse: ₹21.8 crore, with eight slots remaining.

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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

Rinku Singh (₹13 crore), Varun Chakaravarthy (₹12 crore), Sunil Narine (₹12 crore), Harshit Rana (₹4 crore), Ramandeep Singh (₹4 crore), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (₹3 crore), Vaibhav Arora (₹1.80 crore), Rovman Powell (₹1.50 crore), Manish Pandey (₹75 lakh), Ajinkya Rahane (₹1.50 lakh), Anukul Roy (₹40 lakh), Umran Malik (₹75 lakh).

Total purse: ₹64.3 crore, with 13 slots remaining.

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Rajasthan Royals (RR)

Yashasvi Jaiswal (₹18 crore), Shimron Hetmyer (₹11 crore), Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (₹1.10 crore), Lhuan dre Pretorius (₹30 lakh), Shubham Dubey (₹80 lakh), Dhruv Jurel (₹14 crore), Riyan Parag (₹14 crore), Jofra Archer (₹12.50 crore), Sandeep Sharma (₹4 crore), Nandre Burger (₹3.5 crore), Tushar Deshpande (₹6.50 crore), Kwena Maphaka (₹1.50 crore), Yudhvir Singh Charak (₹35 lakh), Ravindra Jadeja (₹18 crore) and Sam Curran (₹2.40 crore - both traded in from Chennai Super Kings), and Donovan Ferreira (₹1 crore - traded in from Delhi Capitals).

Total purse: ₹16.05 crore, with nine slots remaining.

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Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

Ruturaj Gaikwad (₹18 crore), MS Dhoni (₹4 crore), Dewald Brevis (₹2.2 crore), Urvil Patel (₹30 lakh), Shivam Dube (₹12 crore), Jamie Overton (₹1.5 crore), Ayush Mhatre (₹30 lakh), Ramakrishna Ghosh (₹30 lakh), Noor Ahmad (₹10 crore), Khaleel Ahmed (₹4.80 crore), Anshul Kamboj (₹3.40 crore), Gurjapneet Singh (₹2.2 crore), Shreyas Gopal (₹30 lakh), Mukesh Choudhary (₹30 lakh), Nathan Ellis (₹2 crore), Sanju Samson (₹18 crore - traded in from Rajasthan Royals).

Total purse: ₹43.4 crore, with nine slots remaining.

Edited by Dev Sharma