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Big game of IPL 2026 mega auction! Retain-release list of 10 teams is out, see how many crores are in the purse?

By Samira Vishwas

IPL 2026 Auction: There is less than 24 hours left for the mini auction of IPL 2026, so the preparations of all the franchises are in the final stages. Every team has almost decided its strategy and the aim is only to make the squad stronger through the auction. This time in the mini auction, most of the eyes are focused on purse value and slots. Especially everyone’s eyes will be on Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings, because both these teams have a good amount of money.

See here the complete list of retained and released players of all the teams.

Chennai Super Kings (CSK)

release- Rahul Tripathi, Vansh Bedi, Andre Siddharth, Devon Conway, Rachin Ravindra, Deepak Hooda, Mathisa Pathirana, Vijay Shankar, Saiq Rasheed, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja.

Retain- Ruturaj Gaikwad, Dewald Brewis, Ayush Mhatre, MS Dhoni, Urvil Patel, Sanju Samson (Trad), Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapaneet Singh, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Chaudhary.

Purse left with CSK – 43.4 crores
Slot-9

Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)

release- Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Virat Choudhary, Rajvardhan Hungergekar, Shardul Thakur, Akashdeep Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Shamar Joseph.

Retain- Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Britzek, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant, M Siddharth, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mohammed Shami, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Arjun Tendulkar.

LSG’s remaining purse – 22.95 crores
Slot- 19

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

release- Lavneet Sisodia, Andre Russell, Quinton de Kock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Moeen Ali, Venkatesh Iyer, Mayank Markande, Chetan Sakariya, Anrich Norkhia, Spencer Johnson.

Retain- Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rovman Powell, Ajinkya Rahane, Manish Pandey, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik.

KKR’s remaining purse – 64.3 crores
Slot- 12

Rajasthan Royals (RR)

release- Kunal Singh Rathore, Nitish Rana, Sanju Samson, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mahesh Teekshana, Fazalhaq Farooqui, Akash Madhwal, Ashok Sharma, Kumar Karthikeya.

Retain- Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shimron Hetmyer, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Shubham Dubey, Luhan de Pretorius, Dhruv Jurel, Ryan Parag, Ravindra Jadeja, D Ferreira, Joffra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Sandeep Sharma, Yudhveer Singh, Quena Mafaka, Nandre Berger.

Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)

release- Abhinav Manohar, Arthav Tayde, Sachin Baby, Viaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa, Mohammed Shami.

Retain- Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Samaran, Ishan Kishan, Henry Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Braydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari.

SRH’s remaining purse – 25.50 crores
Slot- 15

Punjab Kings (PBKS)

release- Glenn Maxwell, Aaron Hardy, Josh Inglis, Kuldeep Sen, Praveen Dubey.

Retain- Shreyas Iyer, Nihal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Priyansh Arya, P Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Harpreet Brar, Musheer Khan, Prabhsimran Singh, Vishnu Vinod, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Yuzvendra Chahal, Suyansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Arshdeep Singh, Vaishak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Loki Ferguson.

Punjab’s remaining purse – Rs 11.4 crore
Slot- 21

Gujarat Titans (GT)

release- Shafran Rutherford, Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat, Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, Kulwant Khejroliya.

Retain- Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

GT’s remaining purse – 12.9 crores
Slot- 19

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

release- Swastik Chikara, Mayank Agarwal, Tim Seifert, Liam Livingstone, Manoj Bhagde, Lungi Ngidi, Blessing Muzarabani, Mohit Rathi.

Retain- Rajat Patidar, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethel, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyyash Sharma.

RCB’s remaining purse – 16.40 crores
Slot- 17

Mumbai Indians (MI)

release- Satyanarayana Raju, Reece Topley, KL Srijit, Arjun Tendulkar, Karn Sharma, Bevan Jacob, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Lizard Williams, Vignesh Puthur.

Retain- Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Deepak Chahar, Trent Boult, Ryan Rickelton, Robin Minze, Naman Dheer, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Shardul Thakur (trade), Raj Angad Bawa, Shaffron Rutherford (trade), Ashwani Kumar, Raghu Verma, Allah Ghazanfar, Mayank Markande (trade).

Mumbai’s remaining purse – 2.75 crores
Slot- 5

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Delhi Capitals (DC)

release- Jake Fraser-McGurk, Faf du Plessis, D Ferreira, Sadiqullah Atal, Darshan Nalkande, Mohit Sharma, Manwant Kumar.

Retain- Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Karun Nair, Nitish Rana (trade), KL Rahul, Abhishek Porel, Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Madhav Tiwari, Vicky Ostwal, Ajay Mandal, Tripuranha Vijay, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, Mukesh Kumar, D Chameera, T Natarajan.

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