IPL 2026 auction to feature 350 players including 240 Indians; Quinton de Kock added

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A full of 350 cricketers — 240 Indians and 110 overseas players — volition spell nether the hammer successful the Indian Premier League auction to instrumentality place successful Abu Dhabi connected December 16, with South Africa's wicketkeeper-batter Quinton de Kock, who precocious came retired of his ODI retirement, featuring successful the last list.

De Kock is simply a precocious summation to the database astatine a basal terms of ₹1 crore. The database besides includes Australia batter Steve Smith astatine a basal terms of ₹2 crore. Smith past played successful the IPL successful 2021.

A full of 1390 players registered for the Player Auction. The fig was pruned to 1005 players earlier 350 were yet shortlisted to conflict for 77 slots disposable crossed the 10 teams for the 19th variation of the world’s biggest T20 league.

The archetypal acceptable of players successful the auction includes India and Mumbai batters Prithvi Shaw and Sarfaraz Khan, who some person kept their basal terms astatine ₹75 lakh each.

The database shared by the IPL features 2 Australians successful Cameron Green and Jake Fraser-McGurk, on with New Zealand and erstwhile Chennai Super Kings opener Devon Conway and South Africa’s David Miller, with each of them keeping a basal terms of ₹2 crore.

Venkatesh Iyer, who was released by Kolkata Knight Riders, has listed himself astatine a basal terms of ₹2 crore.

Three-time winners KKR volition spell into the auction with the biggest purse of ₹64.3 crores, followed by five-time champions CSK with ₹43.4 crores. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who person won the IPL once, person the 3rd highest purse of ₹25.5 crores.

Published - December 09, 2025 10:42 americium IST

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