12 Sri Lankan cricketers in IPL 2026 auction; Hasaranga, Pathirana, Theekshana at top price

The Indian Premier League (IPL) auction is set to happen in Abu Dhabi on December 16. As per a release by the IPL, 350 players will go under the hammer, which is scheduled to start at 2:30 PM IST (1:00 PM UAE time) at Etihad Arena.

The League has finalised the player auction list, which is much smaller than the 1,390 players who registered for the auction. Out of the 350 shortlisted, 240 players are Indian, while 110 are overseas players. The pool has 224 uncapped Indian players and 14 uncapped overseas players in this year’s auction.

77 slots will be available for the 10 franchises, with 31 reserved for the overseas players. Venkatesh Iyer and Ravi Bishnoi are the only two Indians who have listed themselves at the maximum base price of INR 2 crore among the 40 players. Out of the remaining 310 players, nine players are in the INR 1.5 crore bracket, four players have opted for a reserve price of INR 1.25 crore and 17 players have set theirs at INR 1 crore. 42 players are in the INR 75 lakh category, while four players have chosen INR 50 lakh. Seven players have a reserve price of INR 40 lakh, and the largest group of 227 remaining players are in the INR 30 lakh bracket.

Quinton de Kock of South Africa is a late addition to the list after a franchise request. The wicket-keeper batter will be a prized possession, given his performance in the 3rd ODI in Vishakapatnam, scoring a century. But the team eventually lost the match and the series 2-1. He’s listed with a base price of ₹1 crore, which is half of the ₹2 crore base price he had in the previous mega auction.

Another expensive pick will be Australian all-rounder Cameron Green. He has registered as a batter and will be under eyes, as teams will be looking for a hard-hitting all-rounder. George Linde and Sri Lanka’s Dunith Wellalage were also added to the roster later.

Complete list of TATA IPL Player Auction 2026

Capped Players

2 Crore Base Price

Devon Conway (New Zealand)
Jake Fraser-McGurk (Australia)
Cameron Green (Australia)
David Miller (South Africa)
Gus Atkinson (England)
Wanindu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka)
Venkatesh Iyer (India)
Liam Livingstone (England)
Ben Duckett (England)
Jamie Smith (England)
Gerald Coetzee (South Africa)
Jacob Duffy (New Zealand)
Anrich Nortje (South Africa)
Matheesha Pathirana (Sri Lanka)
Ravi Bishnoi (India)
Akeal Hosein (West Indies)
Mujeeb Rahman (Afghanistan)
Maheesh Theekshana (Sri Lanka)
Steve Smith (Australia)
Sean Abbott (Australia)
Michael Bracewell (New Zealand)
Jason Holder (West Indies)
Daryl Mitchell (New Zealand)
Tom Banton (England)
Shai Hope (West Indies)
Josh Inglis (Australia)
Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand)
Adam Milne (New Zealand)
Lungisani Ngidi (South Africa)
William Orourke (New Zealand)
Mustafizur Rahman (Bangladesh)
Cooper Connolly (Australia)
Tom Curran (England)
Daniel Lawrence (England)
Alzarri Joseph (West Indies)
Naveen Ul Haq (Afghanistan)
Liam Dawson (England)

Rs 1.5 Crore Base Price

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan)
Spencer Johnson (Australia)
Matt Henry (New Zealand)
Matthew Short (Australia)
Saqib Mahmood (England)
Riley Meredith (Australia)
Jhye Richardson (Australia)
Tim Seifert (New Zealand)
Rs 125 Lakh Base Price
Beau Webster (Australia)
Roston Chase (West Indies)
Kyle Mayers (West Indies)
Olly Stone (England)

Rs 1 Crore Base Price

Wiaan Mulder (South Africa)
Finn Allen (New Zealand)
Jonny Bairstow (England)
Quinton De Kock (South Africa)
Akash Deep (India)
Fazalhaq Farooqi (Afghanistan)
Rahul Chahar (India)
Tabraiz Shamsi (South Africa)
Reeza Hendricks (South Africa)
Daniel Sams (Australia)
Ben Dwarshuis (Australia)
Kusal Perera (Sri Lanka)
Umesh Yadav (India)
Mohammad Waqar Salamkheil (Afghanistan)
George Linde (South Africa)
Gulbadin Naib (Afghanistan)
William Sutherland (Australia)
Joshua Tongue (England)
Dwaine Pretorius (South Africa)
Charith Asalanka (Sri Lanka)

Rs 75 Lakh Base Price

Sarfaraz Khan (India)
Prithvi Shaw (India)
Deepak Hooda (India)
S. Bharat (India)
Shivam Mavi (India)
Mayank Agarawal (India)
Sediqullah Atal (Afghanistan)
Ackeem Auguste (West Indies)
Pathum Nissanka (Sri Lanka)
Tim Robinson (New Zealand)
Rahul Tripathi (India)
Jordan Cox (England)
Benjamin McDermott (Australia)
Kusal Mendis (Sri Lanka)
Chetan Sakariya (India)
Kuldeep Sen (India)
Qais Ahmad (Afghanistan)
Rishad Hossain (Bangladesh)
Viyaskanth Vijayakanth (Sri Lanka)
Rehan Ahmed (England)
Taskin Ahmed (Bangladesh)
Richard Gleeson (England)
Shamar Joseph (West Indies)
Navdeep Saini (India)
Luke Wood (England)
Muhammad Abbas (New Zealand)
George Garton (England)
Nathan Smith (New Zealand)
Dunith Wellalage (Sri Lanka)
Tanzim Hasan Sakib (Bangladesh)
Matthew Potts (England)
Nahid Rana (Bangladesh)
Sandeep Warrier (India)
Wesley Agar (Australia)
Binura Fernando (Sri Lanka)
Md Shoriful Islam (Bangladesh)
Joshua Little (Ireland)
Obed McCoy (West Indies)
Billy Stanlake (Australia)
Zak Foulkes (New Zealand)
Dasun Shanaka (Sri Lanka)
Bevon-John Jacobs (New Zealand)

Uncapped Players

Rs 50 Lakh Base Price

Mahipal Lomror (India)
Tushar Deshpande (India)
Yash Dayal (India)
Joe Clarke (England)
Jack Edwards (Australia)

Rs 40 Lakh Base Price

Rajvardhan Hangargekar (India)
M Asif (India)
Shubham Agrawal (India)
Jalaj Saxena (India)
Tom Moores (England)
Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
Nikhil Chaudhary (India)

Rs 30 Lakh Base Price

Aarya Desai (India)
Yash Dhull (India)
Abhinav Manohar (India)
Anmolpreet Singh (India)
Atharva Taide (India)
Abhinav Tejrana (India)
Auqib Dar (India)
Tanush Kotian (India)
Shivang Kumar (India)
Vijay Shankar (India)
Sanvin Singh (India)
Edhen Tom (India)
Prashant Veer (India)
Ruchit Ahir (India)
Vansh Bedi (India)
Mukul Choudhary (India)
Tushar Raheja (India)
Kartik Sharma (India)
Tejasvi Singh (India)
Raj Limbani (India)
Akash Madhwal (India)
Sushant Mishra (India)
Ashok Sharma (India)
Simarjeet Singh (India)
Naman Tiwari (India)
Tyagi (India)
Yash Raj Punja (India)
Vignesh Puthur (India)
Karn Sharma (India)
Shivam Shukla (India)
Kumar Kartikeya Singh (India)
Prashant Solanki (India)
Wahidullah Zadran (Afghanistan)
Ankit Kumar (India)
Rohan Kunnummal (India)
Danish Malewar (India)
Pukhraj Mann (India)
Salman Nizar (India)
Aman Rao Perala (India)
Akshat Raghuwanshi (India)
Manan Vohra (India)
Yuvraj Chaudhary (India)
Satvik Deswal (India)
Aman Khan (India)
Darshan Nalkande (India)
Vicky Ostwal (India)
Sairaj Patil (India)
Suyash Prabhudessai (India)
Mayank Rawat (India)
Harsh Tyagi (India)
Mangesh Yadav (India)
Salil Arora (India)
Ricky Bhui (India)
Rahul Buddhi (India)
Saurav Chuahan (India)
Yashvardhan Dalal (India)
Abhishek Pathak (India)
Kunal Rathore (India)
Ravi Singh (India)
Sakib Hussain (India)
Mohammad Izhar (India)
Vidwath Kaverappa (India)
Vijay Kumar (India)
Vidyadhar Patil (India)
Satyanarayana Raju (India)
Onkar Tarmale (India)
Prithviraj Yarra (India)
Murugan Ashwin (India)
Tejas Baroka (India)
KC Cariappa (India)
Kartik Chadha (India)
Pravin Dubey (India)
Mohit Rathee (India)
Himanshu Sharma (India)
Bailapudi Yeswanth (India)
Kunal Chandela (India)
Ayush Doseja (India)
Qamran Iqbal (India)
Dheera Kumar (India)
Bhanu Pania (India)
Sahil Parakh (India)
Arsh Kabin Ranga (India)
Adarsh Singh (India)
Manoj Bhandage (India)
Mayank Dagar (India)
Raghav Goyal (India)
Manvanth Kumar (India)
Abid Mushtaq (India)
Atit Sheth (India)
Hritik Shokeen (India)
Jagadeesha Suchith (India)
Tanay Thyagarajann (India)
Connor Esterhuizen (South Africa)
Ajitesh Guruswamy (India)
Siddharth Joon (India)
Bipin Saurabh (India)
Vishnu Solanki (India)
Hardik Tamore (India)
Sayan Ghosh (India)
Money Grewal (India)
Arpit Guleria (India)
Sunil Kumar (India)
Tristan Luus (South Africa)
Divesh Sharma (India)
Abhilash Shetty (India)
Irfan Umair (India)
Kuldip Yadav (India)
Manan Bhardwaj (India)
Shreyas Chavan (India)
Parikshit Dhanak (India)
Chintal Gandhi (India)
Dharmendrasinh Jadeja (India)
Amit Kumar (India)
Vishal Nishad (India)
Saumy Pandey (India)
Jhathavedh Subramanyan (India)
Sachin Dhas (India)
Miles Hammond (India)
Ahammed Imran (India)
Vishvarajsinh Jadeja (India)
Ayaz Khan (India)
Daniel Lategan (England)
Siddhant Rana (India)
Aaron Varghese (India)
Atharva Ankolekar (India)
Abdul Bazith (India)
Karan Lal (India)
Shams Mulani (India)
Ripal Patel (India)
Prince Rai (India)
Vivrant Sharma (India)
Utkarsh Singh (India)
Ayush Vartak (India)
Sanjay Yadav (India)
Sayed Irfan Aftab (India)
Esakkimuthu Ayyakutti (India)
Praful Hinge (India)
Pankaj Jaswal (India)
Kulwant Khejroliya (India)
Ravi Kumar (India)
Rajan Kumar (India)
Safvan Patel (India)
Ishan Porel (India)
Purav Agarwal (India)
Jikku Brigh (India)
Yash Dicholkar (India)
Rakibul Hasan (Bangladesh)
Traveen Mathew (Sri Lanka)
Naman Pushpak (India)
Izaz Sawariya (India)
Roshan Wagshare (India)
S Ambrish (India)
Krains Fuletra (India)
Macneil Noronha (India)
R Rajkumar (India)
Ninad Rathva (India)
Sunny Sandhu (India)
Shivalik Sharma (India)
Siddharth Yadav (India)
Sonu Yadav (India)
Waseem Khanday (India)
Atif Mushtaq (India)
Atal Rai (India)
Rakshann Readdi (India)
Manish Reddy (India)
Nishanth Saranu (India)
Deependra Singh (India)
Rajat Verma (India)
Rohit Yadav (India)
Emanjot Chahal (India)
Shubhang Hegde (India)
Bal Krishna (India)
Vihaan Malhotra (India)
Khilan Patel (India)
Delano Potgieter (South Africa)
Hardik Raj (India)
Sarthak Ranjan (India)
Parth Rekhade (India)
Tia Van Vuuren (South Africa)
Shreevatsha Acharya (India)
Sadek Hussain (India)
Shubham Kapse (India)
Aaqib Khan (India)
Sabir Khan (India)
Bayanda Majola (South Africa)
Srihari Nair (India)
Brijesh Sharma (India)
Aman Shekhawat (India)
Himanshu Bisht (India)
Shreyan Chakraborty (India)
Kanishk Chouhan (India)
Mayank Gusain (India)
Akash Pugazhanthi (India)
Abhimanyusingh Rajput (India)
Shubham Rana (India)
Arpit Rana (India)
Maramreddy Reddy (India)
Sagar Solanki (India)
Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal (India)
Daksh Kamra (India)
Vishal Mandwal (India)
Arfaz Mohammad (India)
Hemang Patel (India)
Mridul Surroch (India)
Anuj Thakral (India)
Parth Vats (India)
Lalit Yadav (India)
Nitin Sai Yadav (India)
Krish Bhagat (India)
Prerit Dutta (India)
Sammar Gajjar (India)
Nasir Lon (India)
Ishan Mulchandani (India)
Akhil Scaria (India)
Muhammed Sharafuddeen (India)
Ajay Singh (India)
Ritik Tada (India)
Luckyrajsinh Vaghela (India)
Mohamed Ali (India)
Madhav Bajaj (India)
Akshu Bajwa (India)
Varun Raj Singh Bisht (India)
Rishabh Chauhan (India)
Dian Forrester (South Africa)
Dhurmil Matkar (India)
Shiva Singh (India)
Parikshit Valsangkar (India)
Arab Gul (Afghanistan)
Miles Hammond (India)

Source: The Statesman
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