All IPL 2026 squads with prices after retention announcement & trades; check released players & purse left

The road to the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 has officially begun as the franchises named their squad retentions on November 15. It was a jam-packed day for cricket fans as the India vs South Africa first Test match coincided with the IPL 2026 retention announcement. All the IPL fans were glued to their screens and analyzed their favourite team’s retentions.

Unlike any other IPL season, we saw several big trades this time around that added drama to the retention day. Also, there were huge names that were released as well. The likes of Andre Russell, Glenn Maxwell, Matheesha Pathirana and David Miller are some of the biggest names released. While, the likes of Cameron Green, Venkatesh Iyer, Ravi Bishnoi would be certain players who will be in demand.

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With the IPL 2026 auction date set for December 16 in Abu Dhabi, fans should need to know how every IPL franchise looks at this moment. This will give them a better idea of their auction targets and team strategy going forward. So, on that note, let us look at all the IPL 2026 squads after the retention announcement.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 15
Players Released: 12
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 43.4 crore
Slots remaining: 9 (4 overseas)

Batters retained by CSK

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Ruturaj Gaikwad	18 crore
Ayush Mhatre	30 lakh
Urvil Patel	30 lakh
Shivam Dube	12 crore
Dewald Brevis ✈️	2.2 crore
MS Dhoni	4 crore
Sanju Samson (traded)	18 crore

All-rounders Retained by CSK

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Jamie Overton✈️	1.50 crore
Ramakrishna Ghosh	30 lakh

Bowlers Retained by CSK

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Noor Ahmad✈️	10 crore
Khaleel Ahmed	4.80 crore
Anshul Kamboj	3.40 crore
Gurjapneet Singh	2.2 crore
Nathan Ellis✈️	2 crore
Shreyas Gopal	30 lakh
Mukesh Choudhary	30 lakh

Released CSK Players

Matheesha Pathirana, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Hooda, Rahul Tripathi, Vijay Shankar, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddarth, Shaikh Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Ravindra Jadeja (traded to RR), Sam Curran (traded to RR)

Mumbai Indians (MI) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 17
Players Released: 9
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 2.75 crore
Slots Remaining: 5 (1 overseas)

Batters retained by MI

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Rohit Sharma	16.30 crore
Suryakumar Yadav	16.35 crore
Tilak Varma	8 crore
Naman Dhir	5.25 crore
Robin Minz	65 lakh
Ryan Rickelton ✈️	1 crore

All-rounders retained by MI

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Hardik Pandya (C)	16.35 crore
Deepak Chahar	9.25 crore
Mitchell Santner ✈️	2 crore
Raj Angad Bawa	30 lakh
Sherfane Rutherford (trade from GT)✈️	2.60 crore
Corbin Bosch ✈️	30 lakh
Will Jacks ✈️	5.25 crore

Bowlers retained by MI

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Jasprit Bumrah	18 crore
Trent Boult ✈️	12.5 crore
Shardul Thakur (trade from LSG)	2 crore
Mayank Markande (trade from KKR)	30 lakh
Ashwani Kumar	30 lakh
Allah Ghazanfar ✈️	4.80 crore
Raghu Sharma	30 lakh

Released MI Players

Satyanaryana Raju, Vignesh Puthur, Reece Topley, Bevon Jacobs, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lizaad Williams, Karn Sharma, KL Shrijith, Arjun Tendulkar (traded to LSG)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 17
Players Released: 8
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 16.4 crore
Slots Remaining: 8 (2 overseas)

Batters retained by RCB

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Virat Kohli	21 crore
Rajat Patidar	11 crore
Phil Salt ✈️	11.50 crore
Devdutt Padikkal	2 crore
Jacob Bethell ✈️	2.60 crore
Jitesh Sharma	11 crore
Tim David ✈️	3 crore

All-rounders retained by RCB

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Krunal Pandya	5.75 crore
Romario Shepherd ✈️	1.50 crore

Bowlers retained by RCB

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Josh Hazlewood ✈️	12.50 crore
Bhuvneshwar Kumar	10.75 crore
Rasikh Dar	6 crore
Yash Dayal	5 crore
Suyash Sharma	2.60 crore
Nuwan Thushara ✈️	1.60 crore
Swapnil Singh	50 lakh
Abhinandan Singh	30 lakh

Released RCB Players

Liam Livingstone, Swastik Chikara, Tim Seifert, Manoj Bhandage, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani, Mohit Rathee, Mayank Agarwal

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 12
Players Released: 10
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 64.3 crore
Slots Remaining: 13 (6 overseas)

Batters retained by KKR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Rinku Singh	13 crore
Angkrish Raghuvanshi	3 crore
Ajinkya Rahane	1.5 crore
Manish Pandey	75 lakh

All-rounders retained by KKR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Sunil Narine ✈️	12 crore
Harshit Rana	4 crore
Ramandeep Singh	4 crore
Rovman Powell ✈️	1.5 crore
Anukul Roy	40 lakh

Bowlers retained by KKR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Varun Chakravarthy	12 crore
Vaibhav Arora	1.8 crore
Umran Malik	75 lakh

Released KKR Players

Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Moeen Ali, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Andre Nortje, Spencer Johnson, Chetan Sakariya, Luvnith Sisodiya, Mayank Markande (traded to MI)

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 15
Players Released: 8
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 25.5 crore
Slots Remaining: 10 (2 overseas)

Batters retained by SRH

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Travis Head ✈️	14 crore
Abhishek Sharma	14 crore
Ishan Kishan	11.25 crore
Aniket Verma	30 lakh
Smaran Ravichandran	30 lakh
Heinrich Klaasen ✈️ (WK-Batter)	23 crore

All-rounders retained by SRH

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Nitish Kumar Reddy	6 crore
Harsh Dubey	30 lakh
Brydon Carse ✈️	1 crore
Kamindu Mendis ✈️	75 lakh

Bowlers retained by SRH

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Eshan Malinga ✈️	1.20 crore
Jaydev Unadkat	1 crore
Harshal Patel	8 crore
Zeeshan Ansari	40 lakh
Pat Cummins ✈️	18 crore

Released SRH Players

Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby, Wiaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Shami (traded to LSG)

Punjab Kings (PBKS) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 21
Players Released: 5
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 11.5 crore
Slots Remaining: 4 (2 overseas)

Batters retained by PBKS

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Shreyas Iyer	26.75 crore
Nehal Wadhera	4.20 crore
Priyansh Arya	3.80 crore
Harnoor Pannu	30 lakh
Musheer Khan	30 lakh
Pyla Avinash	30 lakh
Prabhsimran Singh	4 crore
Vishnu Vinod	95 lakh
Shashank Singh	4 crore

All-rounders retained by PBKS

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Marcus Stoinis ✈️	11 crore
Azmatullah Omarzai ✈️	2.40 crore
Suryansh Shedge	30 lakh

Bowlers retained by PBKS

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Arshdeep Singh	18 crore
Yuzvendra Chahal	18 crore
Marco Jansen ✈️	7 crore
Lockie Ferguson ✈️	2 crore
Vijaykumar Vyshak	1.80 crore
Yash Thakur	1.60 crore
Xavier Bartlett ✈️	80 lakh
Harpreet Brar	1.50 crore

Released PBKS players

Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, Glenn Maxwell, Kuldeep Sen, Praveen Dubey

Rajasthan Royals Retentions for IPL 2026

Released: 9
Retained: 13
Purse available: INR 16.05 crore
Slots available: 9 (1 overseas)

Batters retained by RR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Yashasvi Jaiswal	18 crore
Shimron Hetmyer ✈️	11 crore
Vaibhav Suryavanshi	1.1 crore
Shubham Dubey	30 lakh
Dhruv Jurel	14 crore
Lhuan Dre Pretorius ✈️	30 lakh
Donovan Ferreira (T) ✈️	1 crore

All rounders retained by RR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Riyan Parag	14 crore
Ravindra Jadeja (T)	14 crore
Sam Curran (T) ✈️	2.6 crore

Bowlers retained by RR

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Jofra Archer ✈️	12.50 crore
Tushar Deshpande	6.5 crore
Sandeep Sharma	4 crore
Nandre Burger ✈️	3.5 crore
Kwena Maphaka ✈️	1.5 crore
Yudhvir Singh Charak	35 lakh

Released RR Players

Kunal Singh Rathore, Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Kartikeya, Sanju Samson (traded to CSK), Nitish Rana (traded to DC)

Delhi Capitals (DC) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 17
Players Released: 7
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 21.8 crore
Slots Remaining: 8 (5 overseas)

Batters retained by DC

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
KL Rahul ✈️	14 crore
Tristan Stubbs ✈️	10 crore
Abhishek Porel	4 crore
Ashutosh Sharma	3.80 crore
Sameer Rizvi	95 lakh
Karun Nair	50 lakh
Nitish Rana (Traded from RR)	4.2 crore

All-rounders retained by DC

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Axar Patel	16.25 crore
Vipraj Nigam	50 lakh
Madhav Tiwari	40 lakh
Tripurana Vijay	30 lakh
Ajay Mandal	30 lakh

Bowlers retained by DC

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Kuldeep Yadav	13.25 crore
Mitchell Starc ✈️	11.75 crore
T. Natarajan	10.75 crore
Mukesh Kumar	8 crore
Dushmantha Chameera ✈️	75 lakh

Released DC Players

Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Sediqullah Atal, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Darshan Nalkande, Donovan Ferreria (traded to RR)

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) IPL 2026 squad

Players Retained: 17
Players Released: 8
IPL 2026 Auction Purse Remaining: INR 22.95 crore
Slots Remaining: 6 (4 overseas)

Batters retained by LSG

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Rishabh Pant	27 crore
Nicholas Pooran ✈️	21 crore
Aiden Markram ✈️	2 crore
Himmat Singh	30 lakh
Matthew Breetzke ✈️	75 lakh
Ayush Badoni	4 crore
Mitchell Marsh ✈️	3.40 crore
Abdul Samad	4.20 crore

All-rounders retained by LSG

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Shahbaz Ahmed	2.40 crore
Arshin Kulkarni	30 lakh

Bowlers retained by LSG

Player	IPL 2026 price (INR)
Mayank Yadav	11 crore
Avesh Khan	9.75 crore
Mohammed Shami (T)	10 crore
Mohsin Khan	4 crore
Digvesh Rathi	30 lakh
Prince Yadav	30 lakh
Akash Singh	30 lakh
Manimaran Siddharth	75 lakh