IPL Auction 2026. (Photo/BCCI)
NEW DELHI: The player auction for the 2026 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) kicked off on Tuesday in Abu Dhabi. A total of 350 players are set to go under the hammer.Capped batters came up for bidding in the first round.
There were no marquee sets in a mini-auction.Jake Fraser-McGurk was the first player to go under the hammer, but he went unsold in the initial round. While DC got David Miller for Rs 2 crore.Then came Cameron Green, emerging as the biggest buy of the day, as Kolkata Knight Riders signed the Australian all-rounder for Rs 25.20 crore at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday. The deal made Green the third-most expensive player in IPL history and the costliest overseas player in the league.
Follow live updatesMumbai Indians opened the bid for Green at Rs 2 crore, with only a purse of Rs 2.5 crore, followed by Rajasthan Royals. KKR then entered at Rs 2.8 crore. RR exited at around Rs 13 crore. Chennai Super Kings then entered the contest and pushed the price past Rs 20 crore. CSK bid up to Rs 25 crore, but KKR returned with a final bid of Rs 25.20 crore to secure the player.In a four-way battle, Jammu and Kashmir seamer Auqib Nabi was bagged by Delhi Capitals for a whopping Rs 8.40 crore, which is 28 times more than his base price of Rs 30 lakh.
Chennai Super Kings turned heads at the IPL 2026 auction in Abu Dhabi by going big on youth, securing two of the most talked-about uncapped Indian talents in Karthik Sharma and Prashant Veer for Rs 14.20 crore each.Meanwhile, Matheesha Pathirana became the most expensive Sri Lankan player in IPL auction history, as KKR got him for Rs 18 crore.The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 is set to take place from March 26 to May 31, continuing its traditional slot in the cricket calendar.IPL 2026 All Teams Squad
