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IPL 2026 mini-auction in Abu Dhabi lived up to expectations, delivering high drama, record bids and a noticeable shift in team strategies. All 10 franchises fine-tuned their squads during a seven-hour marathon, spending a combined ₹215.45 crore.
In a rare first, all 77 available slots were filled, including 29 overseas players, from a pool of nearly 350 cricketers.
However, as many as 292 players remained unsold. Here’s the full list of unsold players in IPL 2026 mini-auction:
| Sr. No. | PLAYER | BASE PRICE | Capped/Uncapped |
| 1 | Devon Conway | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 2 | Jake Fraser-McGurk | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 3 | Gus Atkinson | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 4 | Jamie Smith | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 5 | Gerald Coetzee | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 6 | Mujeeb Rahman | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 7 | Maheesh Theekshana | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 8 | Steve Smith | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 9 | Sean Abbott | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 10 | Michael Bracewell | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 11 | Daryl Mitchell | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 12 | Shai Hope | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 13 | William Orourke | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 14 | Tom Curran | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 15 | Daniel Lawrence | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 16 | Alzarri Joseph | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 17 | Naveen Ul Haq | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 18 | Liam Dawson | 2,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 19 | Rahmanullah Gurbaz | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 20 | Spencer Johnson | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 21 | Saqib Mahmood | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 22 | Umesh Yadav | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 23 | Riley Meredith | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 24 | Jhye Richardson | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 25 | Jason Behrendorff | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 26 | Ben Sears | 1,50,00,000 | Capped |
| 27 | Beau Webster | 1,25,00,000 | Capped |
| 28 | Roston Chase | 1,25,00,000 | Capped |
| 29 | Kyle Mayers | 1,25,00,000 | Capped |
| 30 | Olly Stone | 1,25,00,000 | Capped |
| 31 | Kyle Verreynne | 1,25,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 32 | Wiaan Mulder | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 33 | Jonny Bairstow | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 34 | Fazalhaq Farooqi | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 35 | Reeza Hendricks | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 36 | Daniel Sams | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 37 | Kusal Perera | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 38 | Mohammad Waqar Salamkheil | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 39 | George Linde | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 40 | Gulbadin Naib | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 41 | William Sutherland | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 42 | Charith Asalanka | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 43 | Dwaine Pretorius | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 44 | Joshua Tongue | 1,00,00,000 | Capped |
| 45 | Deepak Hooda | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 46 | K.S. Bharat | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 47 | Mayank Agarawal | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 48 | Sediqullah Atal | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 49 | Ackeem Auguste | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 50 | Tim Robinson | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 51 | Dasun Shanaka | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 52 | Benjamin McDermott | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 53 | Kusal Mendis | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 54 | Chetan Sakariya | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 55 | Qais Ahmad | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 56 | Rishad Hossain | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 57 | Viyaskanth Vijayakanth | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 58 | Rehan Ahmed | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 59 | Bevon-John Jacobs | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 60 | Taskin Ahmed | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 61 | Richard Gleeson | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 62 | Shamar Joseph | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 63 | Navdeep Saini | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 64 | Muhammad Abbas | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 65 | George Garton | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 66 | Nathan Smith | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 67 | Dunith Wellalage | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 68 | Tanzim Hasan Sakib | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 69 | Matthew Potts | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 70 | Nahid Rana | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 71 | Sandeep Warrier | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 72 | Wesley Agar | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 73 | Binura Fernando | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 74 | Md Shoriful Islam | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 75 | Joshua Little | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 76 | Obed McCoy | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 77 | Billy Stanlake | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 78 | Eathan Bosch | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 79 | Chris Green | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 80 | Blessing Muzarabani | 75,00,000 | Capped |
| 81 | Mahipal Lomror | 50,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 82 | Karn Sharma | 50,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 83 | Joe Clarke | 50,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 84 | Rajvardhan Hangargekar | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 85 | KM Asif | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 86 | Shubham Agrawal | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 87 | Jalaj Saxena | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 88 | Tom Moores | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 89 | Arab Gul | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 90 | Nikhil Chaudhary | 40,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 91 | Aarya Desai | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 92 | Yash Dhull | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 93 | Abhinav Manohar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 94 | Anmolpreet Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 95 | Atharva Taide | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 96 | Abhinav Tejrana | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 97 | Tanush Kotian | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 98 | Kamlesh Nagarkoti | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 99 | Vijay Shankar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 100 | Sanvir Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 101 | Edhen Tom | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 102 | Ruchit Ahir | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 103 | Vansh Bedi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 104 | Tushar Raheja | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 105 | Raj Limbani | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 106 | Akash Madhwal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 107 | Simarjeet Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 108 | Shivam Shukla | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 109 | Kumar Kartikeya Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 110 | Wahidullah Zadran | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 111 | Ankit Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 112 | Rohan Kunnummal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 113 | Pukhraj Mann | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 114 | Salman Nizar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 115 | Manan Vohra | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 116 | Yuvraj Chaudhary | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 117 | Darshan Nalkande | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 118 | Sairaj Patil | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 119 | Suyash Prabhudessai | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 120 | Harsh Tyagi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 121 | Ricky Bhui | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 122 | Rahul Buddhi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 123 | Saurav Chuahan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 124 | Yashvardhan Dalal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 125 | Abhishek Pathak | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 126 | Kunal Rathore | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 127 | Vidwath Kaverappa | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 128 | Vijay Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 129 | Vidyadhar Patil | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 130 | PV.Satyanarayana Raju | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 131 | Murugan Ashwin | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 132 | Tejas Baroka | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 133 | K.C. Cariappa | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 134 | Kartik Chadha | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 135 | Mohit Rathee | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 136 | Himanshu Sharma | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 137 | Bailapudi Yeswanth | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 138 | Kunal Chandela | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 139 | Ayush Doseja | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 140 | Qamran Iqbal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 141 | M.Dheeraj Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 142 | Bhanu Pania | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 143 | Arsh Kabir Ranga | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 144 | Adarsh Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 145 | Manoj Bhandage | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 146 | Mayank Dagar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 147 | Raghav Goyal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 148 | Manvanth Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 149 | Abid Mushtaq | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 150 | Atit Sheth | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 151 | Hritik Shokeen | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 152 | Jagadeesha Suchith | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 153 | Tanay Thyagarajann | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 154 | Connor Esterhuizen | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 155 | Ajitesh Guruswamy | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 156 | Siddharth Joon | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 157 | Bipin Saurabh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 158 | Vishnu Solanki | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 159 | Hardik Tamore | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 160 | Sayan Ghosh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 161 | Money Grewal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 162 | Arpit Guleria | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 163 | Sunil Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 164 | Tristan Luus | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 165 | Divesh Sharma | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 166 | Abhilash Shetty | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 167 | Irfan Umair | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 168 | Kuldip Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 169 | Manan Bhardwaj | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 170 | Shreyas Chavan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 171 | Parikshit Dhanak | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 172 | Chintal Gandhi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 173 | Dharmendrasinh Jadeja | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 174 | Saumy Pandey | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 175 | Jhathavedh Subramanyan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 176 | Sachin Dhas | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 177 | Miles Hammond | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 178 | Ahammed Imran | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 179 | Vishvarajsinh Jadeja | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 180 | Ayaz Khan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 181 | Daniel Lategan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 182 | Siddhant Rana | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 183 | Aaron Varghese | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 184 | Abdul Bazith | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 185 | Karan Lal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 186 | Shams Mulani | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 187 | Ripal Patel | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 188 | Prince Rai | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 189 | Vivrant Sharma | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 190 | Utkarsh Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 191 | Ayush Vartak | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 192 | Sanjay Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 193 | Sayed Irfan Aftab | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 194 | Esakkimuthu Ayyakutti | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 195 | Pankaj Jaswal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 196 | Kulwant Khejroliya | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 197 | Ravi Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 198 | Rajan Kumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 199 | Safvan Patel | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 200 | Ishan Porel | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 201 | Purav Agarwal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 202 | Jikku Bright | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 203 | Yash Dicholkar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 204 | Rakibul Hasan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 205 | Traveen Mathew | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 206 | Naman Pushpak | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 207 | Izaz Sawariya | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 208 | Roshan Wagshare | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 209 | R.S Ambrish | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 210 | Macneil Noronha | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 211 | R Rajkumar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 212 | Ninad Rathva | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 213 | Sunny Sandhu | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 214 | Shivalik Sharma | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 215 | Siddharth Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 216 | R.Sonu Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 217 | Waseem Khanday | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 218 | Atif Mushtaq | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 219 | Atal Rai | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 220 | C.Rakshann Readdi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 221 | Manish Reddy | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 222 | Nishanth Saranu | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 223 | Deependra Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 224 | Rajat Verma | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 225 | Rohit Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 226 | Emanjot Chahal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 227 | Shubhang Hegde | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 228 | Bal Krishna | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 229 | Khilan Patel | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 230 | Delano Potgieter | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 231 | Hardik Raj | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 232 | Parth Rekhade | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 233 | Tiaan Van Vuuren | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 234 | Shreevatsha Acharya | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 235 | Sadek Hussain | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 236 | Shubham Kapse | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 237 | Aaqib Khan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 238 | Sabir Khan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 239 | Bayanda Majola | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 240 | Srihari Nair | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 241 | Aman Shekhawat | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 242 | Himanshu Bisht | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 243 | Shreyan Chakraborty | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 244 | Mayank Gusain | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 245 | Akash Pugazhanthi | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 246 | Abhimanyusingh Rajput | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 247 | Shubham Rana | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 248 | Arpit Rana | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 249 | Maramreddy Reddy | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 250 | Sagar Solanki | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 251 | Aryaman Singh Dhaliwal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 252 | Vishal Mandwal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 253 | Arfaz Mohammad | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 254 | Hemang Patel | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 255 | Mridul Surroch | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 256 | Anuj Thakral | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 257 | Parth Vats | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 258 | Lalit Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 259 | Nitin Sai Yadav | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 260 | Krish Bhagat | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 261 | Prerit Dutta | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 262 | Sammar Gajjar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 263 | Nasir Lone | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 264 | Ishan Mulchandani | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 265 | Akhil Scaria | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 266 | Muhammed Sharafuddeen | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 267 | K.Ajay Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 268 | Ritik Tada | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 269 | Luckyrajsinh Vaghela | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 270 | Mohamed Ali | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 271 | Madhav Bajaj | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 272 | Akshu Bajwa | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 273 | Varun Raj Singh Bisht | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 274 | Rishabh Chauhan | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 275 | Dian Forrester | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 276 | Dhurmil Matkar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 277 | Shiva Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 278 | Parikshit Valsangkar | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 279 | Mani Sankar Mura Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 280 | Virandeep Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 281 | Chama Milind | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 282 | K.L. Shrijith | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 283 | Swastik Chikara | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 284 | Rahul Raj Namala | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 285 | Virat Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 286 | Abhimanyu Easwaran | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 287 | Tripuresh Singh | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 288 | Rajesh Mohanty | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 289 | Swastik Samal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 290 | Saransh Jain | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 291 | Sooraj Sangaraju | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
| 292 | Tanmay Agarwal | 30,00,000 | Uncapped |
