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IPL 2026 Auction: Livingstone, Fraser-McGurk Headline Releases As RCB, DC, SRH, GT & MI Name Retentions
Follow UsHere’s a look at the retained and released players of Royal Challengers, Delhi Capitals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians
All the Indian Premier League (IPL) teams have released their list of retained players and thereby made public a list of those players also, who have not been retained by the respective sides.
Those two lists, combined with the trades made public by the IPL Governing Council (GC) through press releases, also gave an insight into the money left with each franchise ahead of the IPL 2026 mini-auction, scheduled to be held on December 16 in Abu Dhabi.
Here’s a look at retained and released players of Royal Challengers, Delhi Capitals, Sunrisers Hyderabad, Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
RCB Retained Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Abhinandan Singh.
RCB Released Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Liam Livingstone, Tim Seifert, Blessing Muzarabani, Swastik Chikkara, Mayank Agarwal, Manoj Bhandage, Mohit Rathee & Lungi Ngidi.
RCB Purse Remaining Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction – INR 16.4 Cr
Delhi Capitals (DC)
DC Retained Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Axar Patel, KL Rahul, Karun Nair, Abishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Kuldeep Yadav
DC Released Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Mohit Sharma, Faf du Plessis, Sediqullah Atal, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Darshan Nalkande
DC Purse Remaining Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction – INR 21.8 Cr
Mumbai Indians (MI)
MI Retained Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah, Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Angad Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Trent Boult, Will Jacks
MI Released Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Bevon Jacobs, Karn Sharma, KL Shrijith, Lizaad Williams, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, PSN Raju, Reece Topley, Vignesh Puthur
Traded Into MI – Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Sherfane Rutherford
Traded Out Of MI – Arjun Tendulkar
MI Purse Remaining Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction – 2.75 Cr
Gujarat Titans (GT)
GT Retained Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Shubman Gill (captain), Rashid Khan, Sai Sudharsan, Rahul Tewatia, Shahrukh Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Jos Buttler, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Nishant Sindhu, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Manav Suthar, Washington Sundar, Arshad Khan, Gurnoor Brar, Sai Kishore, Ishant Sharma, Jayant Yadav, Glenn Phillips
GT Released Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Gerald Coetzee, Karim Janat and Dasun Shanaka, Mahipal Lomror, Kulwant Khejroliya
Traded Out – Sherfane Rutherford
GT Purse Remaining Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction-INR 12.9 Cr
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
SRH Retained Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Pat Cummins, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari
SRH Released Players Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction
Abhinav Manohar, Atharva Taide, Sachin Baby, Wiaan Mulder, Simarjeet Singh, Rahul Chahar, Adam Zampa
Traded Out – Mohammed Shami
SRH Purse Remaining Ahead of IPL 2026 Mini Auction – INR 25.5 Cr