The 19th edition of the IPL is scheduled to run from March to May 2026, comprising 84 matches. Check out the teams for each franchise below!
Chennai Super Kings
Auction purchases: Kartik Sharma (₹14.20 cr), Prashant Veer (₹14.20 cr), Rahul Chahar (₹5.20 cr), Matt Henry (₹2 cr), Akeal Hosein (₹2 cr), Matthew Short (₹1.50 cr), Zak Foulkes (₹0.75 cr), Aman Khan (₹0.40 cr)
Retained: MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, Shivam Dube, Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Khaleel Ahmed, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj
Traded in: Sanju Samson (from RR)
Traded out: Ravindra Jadeja (to RR), Sam Curran (to RR)
Released: Andre Siddarth, Deepak Hooda, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Matheesha Pathirana, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Rahul Tripathi, Shaikh Rasheed, Vansh Bedi, Vijay Shankar
Delhi Capitals
Auction purchases: Auqib Nabi Dar (₹8.40 cr), Pathum Nissanka (₹4 cr), Kyle Jamieson (₹2 cr), Lungi Ngidi (₹2 cr), Ben Duckett (₹2 cr), David Miller (₹2 cr), Prithvi Shaw (₹0.75 cr), Sahil Parakh (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Abishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam
Traded in: Nitish Rana (from RR)
Traded out: Donovan Ferreira (to RR)
Released: Darshan Nalkande, Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Sediqullah Atal
Gujarat Titans
Auction purchases: Jason Holder (₹7 cr), Tom Banton (₹2 cr), Luke Wood (₹0.75 cr), Ashok Sharma (₹0.90 cr), Prithviraj Yarra (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Anuj Rawat, Glenn Phillips, Gurnoor Brar, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Jos Buttler, Kagiso Rabada, Kumar Kushagra, Manav Suthar, Mohammed Siraj, Arshad Khan, Nishant Sindhu, Prasidh Krishna, R Sai Kishore, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, B Sai Sudharsan, M Shahrukh Khan, Shubman Gill, Washington Sundar
Traded in: N/A
Traded out: Sherfane Rutherford (to MI)
Released: Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, Karim Janat, Kulwant Khejroliya, Mahipal Lomror
Kolkata Knight Riders
Auction purchases: Cameron Green (₹25.20 cr), Matheesha Pathirana (₹18 cr), Mustafizur Rahman (₹9.20 cr), Tejasvi Singh (₹3 cr), Tim Seifert (₹1.50 cr), Akash Deep (₹1 cr), Rachin Ravindra (₹2 cr), Finn Allen (₹2 cr), Rahul Tripathi (₹0.75 cr), Daksh Kamra (₹0.30 cr), Sarthak Ranjan (₹0.30 cr), Prashant Solanki (₹0.30 cr), Kartik Tyagi (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy
Traded in: N/A
Traded out: N/A
Released: Andre Russell, Anrich Nortje, Chetan Sakariya, Luvnith Sisodia, Moeen Ali, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Spencer Johnson, Venkatesh Iyer
Lucknow Super Giants
Auction purchases: Josh Inglis (₹8.60 cr), Mukul Choudhary (₹2.60 cr), Akshat Raghuwanshi (₹2.20 cr), Anrich Nortje (₹2 cr), Wanindu Hasaranga (₹2 cr), Naman Tiwari (₹1 cr)
Retained: Abdul Samad, Aiden Markram, Akash Singh, Arshin Kulkarni, Avesh Khan, Ayush Badoni, Digvesh Rathi, Himmat Singh, Manimaran Siddharth, Matthew Breetzke, Mayank Yadav, Mitchell Marsh, Mohsin Khan, Nicholas Pooran, Prince Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Shahbaz Ahmed
Traded in: Mohammed Shami (from SRH), Arjun Tendulkar (from MI)
Traded out: Shardul Thakur (to MI)
Released: Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Ravi Bishnoi, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Akash Deep, Shamar Joseph
Mumbai Indians
Auction purchases: Quinton de Kock (₹1 cr), Mayank Rawat (₹0.30 cr), Atharva Ankolekar (₹0.30 cr), Mohammad Izhar (₹0.30 cr), Danish Malewar (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks
Traded in: Shardul Thakur (from LSG), Sherfane Rutherford (from GT), Mayank Markande (from KKR)
Traded out: Arjun Tendulkar (to LSG)
Released: Bevon Jacobs, Karn Sharma, Lizaad Williams, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Reece Topley, Krishnan Shrijith, Satyanarayana Raju, Vignesh Puthur
Punjab Kings
Auction purchases: Ben Dwarshuis (₹4.40 cr), Cooper Connolly (₹3 cr), Vishal Nishad (₹0.30 cr), Pravin Dubey (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Arshdeep Singh, Azmatullah Omarzai, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Lockie Ferguson, Marco Jansen, Marcus Stoinis, Mitch Owen, Musheer Khan, Nehal Wadhera, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Pyla Avinash, Shashank Singh, Shreyas Iyer, Suryansh Shedge, Vishnu Vinod, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Xavier Bartlett, Yash Thakur, Yuzvendra Chahal
Traded in: N/A
Traded out: N/A
Released: Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Kyle Jamieson, Kuldeep Sen, Praveen Dubey
Rajasthan Royals
Auction purchases: Ravi Bishnoi (₹7.20 cr), Adam Milne (₹2.40 cr), Ravi Singh (₹0.95 cr), Sushant Mishra (₹0.90 cr), Kuldeep Sen (₹0.75 cr), Brijesh Sharma (₹0.30 cr), Aman Rao Perala (₹0.30 cr), Yash Raj Punja (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Kwena Maphaka, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Nandre Burger, Riyan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Shimron Hetmyer, Shubham Dubey, Tushar Deshpande, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Yudhvir Singh
Traded in: Donovan Ferreira (from DC), Ravindra Jadeja (from CSK), Sam Curran (from CSK)
Traded out: Sanju Samson (to CSK), Nitish Rana (to DC)
Released: Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kumar Kartikeya, Kunal Singh Rathore, Maheesh Theekshana, Wanindu Hasaranga
Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Auction purchases: Venkatesh Iyer (₹7 cr), Mangesh Yadav (₹5.20 cr), Jacob Duffy (₹2 cr), Jordan Cox (₹0.75 cr), Kanishk Chouhan (₹0.30 cr), Vihaan Malhotra (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Jitesh Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal, Josh Hazlewood, Suyash Sharma, Abhinandan Singh, Jacob Bethell, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Dar, Swapnil Singh
Traded in: N/A
Traded out: N/A
Released: Liam Livingstone, Lungi Ngidi, Mayank Agarwal, Manoj Bhandage, Swastik Chikara, Mohit Rathee
Sunrisers Hyderabad
Auction purchases: Liam Livingstone (₹13 cr), Jack Edwards (₹3 cr), Salil Arora (₹1.50 cr), Shivam Mavi (₹0.75 cr), Krains Fuletra (₹0.30 cr), Praful Hinge (₹0.30 cr), Amit Kumar (₹0.30 cr), Onkar Tarmale (₹0.30 cr), Sakib Hussain (₹0.30 cr), Shivang Kumar (₹0.30 cr)
Retained: Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Brydon Carse, Eshan Malinga, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel, Heinrich Klaasen, Ishan Kishan, Jaydev Unadkat, Kamindu Mendis, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins, R Smaran, Travis Head, Zeeshan Ansari
Traded in: N/A
Traded out: Mohammed Shami (to LSG)
Released: Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby, Abhinav Manohar, Wiaan Mulder, Adam Zampa, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar
