The 10 franchises in the Indian Premier League (IPL) have announced the players they have retained and released ahead of the IPL 2026 mini auction. Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, David Miller, Ravi Bishnoi, and Glenn Maxwell will be a part of the bidding process in Abu Dhabi on December 16.

Here is the complete list of full squads, the players retained and released, and the purse remaining.

Delhi Capitals

Current Squad

Axar Patel (c), KL Rahul, Abishek Porel, Madhav Tiwari, Tripurana Vijay, Ajay Mandal, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T. Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera. Traded in: Nitish Rana, Tristan Stubbs, Karun Nair, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam

Released Players

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

Purse remaining: INR 21.80 crore

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Current Squad

Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey

Released Players

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

Purse remaining: INR 25.50 crore

Chennai Super Kings

Current Squad

MS Dhoni, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis.

Trade Deal: Sanju Samson (from RR).

Released Players

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

Purse remaining: INR 43.40 crore

Kolkata Knight Riders

Current Squad

Manish Pandey, Varun Chakravarthy, Luvnith Sisodia, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ramandeep Singh, Ankul Roy, Rovman Powell, Harshit Rana, Ajinkya Rahane, Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Chetan Sakariya, Spencer Johnson.

Released Players

Moeen Ali, Anrich Nortje, and Mayank Markande (traded to MI), Andre Russell, Venkatesh Iyer, Quinton de Kock.

Purse remaining: INR 64.30 crore

Mumbai Indians

Current Squad

Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Allah Ghafanzar, Ashwani Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ryan Rickleton, Robin Minz, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks.

Trade Deals: Sherfane Rutherford (from GT), Mayank Markande (from KKR), Shardul Thakur (from LSG).

Released Players

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

Purse remaining: INR 2.75 crore

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Current Squad

Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, and Suyash Sharma.

Released Players

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

Purse remaining: INR 16.40 crore

Punjab Kings

Current Squad

Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod.

Released Players

Glenn Maxwell, Josh Inglis, Aaron Hardie, and Kuldeep Sen.

Purse remaining: INR 11.50 crore

Rajasthan Royals

Current Squad

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Kunal Rathore, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Akash Madhwal, Kumar Kartikeya Singh, Tushar Deshpande, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Kwena Maphaka, Ashok Sharma, Nandre Burger. Traded in: Ravindra Jadeja (from CSK), Sam Curran (from CSK).

Released Players

Wanindu Hasaranga, Maheesh Theekshana, Sanju Samson (traded to CSK), and Nitish Rana (traded to DC)

Purse remaining: INR 16.05 crore

Lucknow Super Giants

Current Squad

Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant (c), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh.

Trade Deal: Mohammed Shami (from SRH).

Released Players

Aryan Juyal, David Miller, Yuvraj Chaudhary, Rajvardhan Hangargekar, Shardul Thakur (traded to MI), Akash Deep, Ravi Bishnoi, and Shamar Joseph.

Purse remaining: INR 22.95 crore

Gujarat Titans

Current Squad

Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav.

Released Players

Dasun Shanaka, Gerald Coetzee, and Kulwant Khejroliya, Sherfane Rutherford (traded to MI), Mahipal Lomror, Karim Janat

Purse remaining: INR 12.90 crore