24 Sri Lankan players to feature in SA20 auction list
September 2, 2025 11:03 am
A total of 24 Sri Lankan players including Charith Asalanka, Kusal Perera, Dinesh Chandimal, Kamindu Mendis and Dhananjaya De Silva are among the 541 players who are set to go under the hammer in the SA20 2025-26 auction on September 9.
Chamika Karunaratne, Maheesh Theekshana, Akila Dhananjaya, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Traveen Mathew, Navindu Prabash, Garuka Sanketh, Binura Fernando, Jeffrey Vandersay, Dushan Hemantha, Tharindu Rathnayake, Kasun Rajitha, Vijayakanth Viyaskanth, Sineth Jayawardene, Sonal Dinusha, Pavan Rathnayake and Adisha Nethmika have also been named in the auction list.
Meanwhile, former England fast bowler James Anderson is also among the players to go under the hammer in the SA20 2025-26 auction.
The 43-year-old Anderson is among 97 players from England in the auction pool.
Allrounder Shakib Al Hasan and fast bowler Mustafizur Rahman are among 14 players from Bangladesh in the auction pool.
D’Arcy Short and Peter Hatzoglou are the only two Australians in the auction list with the BBL set to overlap with the SA20. There are 28 West Indies players in the auction, while Dipendra Singh Airee is the only Nepal player in the pruned auction pool.
Aiden Markram, who decided against getting retained by Sunrisers Eastern Cape, headlines the 300 players from South Africa in the list, which also includes fellow T20 World Cup 2024 runners-up Anrich Nortje, Quinton de Kock, Keshav Maharaj, Tabraiz Shamsi and Gerald Coetzee among others.
A total of 241 overseas players will go under the hammer for a maximum of 25 available slots, while 300 South Africans will vie for the remaining 59 spots. Pretoria Capitals head into the auction with the largest purse of R32.5 million (USD 1.86 million approx.). They have 13 slots to fill, five of them overseas. MI Cape Town have the smallest purse with R11.5 million (USD 0.65 million approx.) and 12 slots, including four overseas, to fill. Each of the six teams also have to select a minimum of two Under-23 players in their 19-member squads.
