The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 auction concluded on December 16, Tuesday and all the franchises have finalised their squads. A total of 77 players were sold and a total of INR 215.45 crores were spent at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi. Both Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) had the highest purses and KKR bagged Cameron Green for a whopping amount of INR 25.20 crores.
Chennai Super Kings also created history by picking two uncapped Indians Prashant Veer and Karthik Sharma for INR 14.20 crores. Now that all the teams have finalised their squads so here’s the best playing XI for all the ten teams.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)
Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Venkatesh Iyer, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Jitesh Sharma, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshawar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyvash Sharma
Chennai Super Kings (CSK)
Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ayush Mhatre, Sanju Samson, Dewald Brevis, MS Dhoni, Prashant Veer, Noor Ahmed, Nathan Ellis, Matt Henry, Khaleel Ahmed, Rahul Chahar
Delhi Capitals (DC)
KL Rahul, Nitish Rana, Ben Duckett, Axar Patel, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Aquib Naib, Kuldeep Yadav, Mitchell Starc, T Natarajan, Tristian Stubbs
Gujarat Titans (GT)
Shubman Gill, Sai Sudharsan, Jos Buttler, Glenn Philips, Washington Sundar, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tewatia
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)
Ajinkya Rahane, Rachin Ravindra/Finn Allen, Cameron Green, Rinku Singh, Tim Seifert, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Matheesha Pathirana, Vaibhav Arora
Lucknow Super Giants (LSG)
Rishabh Pant, Aiden Markram, Mitchell Marsh, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Abdul Samad, Himmat Singh, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Shami, Avesh Khan, Mayank Yadav, Digvesh Rathi
Punjab Kings (PBKS)
Shreyas Iyer, Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Nehal Wahdera, Mitchell Owen/Cooper Connolly, Marcus Stoinis, Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge, Marco Jansen, Yuzvendra Chahal, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vyshak
Mumbai Indians (MI)
Rohit Sharma, Quinton de Kock, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya, Sherfane Rutherford, Naman Dhir, Shardul Thakur, Deepak Chahar, Allah Ghazanfar, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
Rajasthan Royals (RR)
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (WK), Riyan Parag, Shimron Hetmyer, Devonan Ferriera, Shubham Dubey, Sam Curran, Ravindra Jadeja, Jofra Archer, Ravi Bishnoi, Sandeep Sharma, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Tushar Deshpande
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH)
Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Liam Livingstone, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Aniket Verma, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Jayden Unadkat, Eeshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari/Harsh Dubey
