The IPL 2026 auction was held at Abu Dhabi on Tuesday (December 16). Here’s the complete list of players that went unsold.
The ten franchises stepped into the IPL 2026 mini auction looking for specific skillsets to fill the gaps and fix their weakness from the last season, leaving many quality players without suitors.
The event in Abu Dhabi saw the likes of Cameron Green (INR 25.20 cr) and Matheesha Pathirana (INR 18 cr) go for big bucks, but some top names like Devon Conway, Jamie Smith and Deepak Hooda, among others, went unsold.
Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings were expected to battle it out for Green, and they did, with KKR signing him eventually. Pathirana would join the Australian all-rounder in Kolkata, who also signed New Zealand opener Finn Allen.
A total of 77 players were sold at the IPL 2026 auction, 29 of which were overseas players. Among the players that went under the hammer, 79 went unsold, whereas 19 found a team in the accelerated bidding after not finding a suitor in the earlier rounds. As many as 213 players from the final shortlist of 359 were skipped during the auction, which includes the likes of Steve Smith and Mayank Agarwal.
Here's the list of players whose names were called out at the auction but they did not attract any bid.
Full list of players that went unsold in the IPL 2026 auction:
*This list will be updated after every set.
| Player | Base Price (in INR) | Capped/Uncapped | Set |
| Jake Fraser-McGurk | 2 Cr | Capped | 1 |
| Devon Conway | 2 Cr | Capped | 1 |
| Gus Atkinson | 2 Cr | Capped | 2 |
| Jamie Smith | 2 Cr | Capped | 2 |
| Deepak Hooda | 75 Lakh | Capped | 2 |
| Wiaan Mulder | 1 Cr | Capped | 2 |
| Rahmanullah Gurbaz | 1.5 Cr | Capped | 3 |
| Jonny Bairstow | 1 Cr | Capped | 3 |
| K.S. Bharat | 75 Lakh | Capped | 3 |
| Gerald Coetzee | 2 Cr | Capped | 4 |
| Spencer Johnson | 1.5 Cr | Capped | 4 |
| Fazalhaq Farooqi | 1 Cr | Capped | 4 |
| Maheesh Theekshana | 2 Cr | Capped | 5 |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | 2 Cr | Capped | 5 |
| Aarya Desai | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Yash Dhull | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Abhinav Manohar | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Anmolpreet Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Atharva Taide | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Abhinav Tejrana | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 6 |
| Mahipal Lomror | 50 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Rajvardhan Hangargekar | 40 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Vijay Shankar | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Eden Apple Tom | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Tanush Kotian | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Kamlesh Nagarkoti | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 7 |
| Ruchit Ahir | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 8 |
| Sanvir Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 8 |
| Vansh Bedi | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 8 |
| Tushar Raheja | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 8 |
| Raj Limbani | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 9 |
| Simarjeet Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 9 |
| Akash Madhwal | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 9 |
| Wahidullah Zadran | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 10 |
| Shivam Shukla | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 10 |
| Karn Sharma | 50 Lakh | Uncapped | 10 |
| Kartikeya Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 10 |
| Sediqullah Atal | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Sean Abbott | 2 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Michael Bracewell | 2 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Daryl Mitchell | 2 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Dasun Shanaka | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Chetan Sakariya | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Waqar Salamkheil | 1 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Salman Nizar | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| KM Asif | 40 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Murugan Ashwin | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Tejas Baroka | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| KC Cariappa | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Mohit Rathee | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Daniel Lawrence | 2 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Taskin Ahmed | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Richard Gleeson | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Alzarri Joseph | 2 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Riley Meredith | 1.50 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Jhye Richardson | 1.50 Cr | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| M.Dheeraj Kumar | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Tanay Thyagarajann | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Connor Esterhuizen | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Irfan Umair | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Chintal Gandhi | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Nathan Smith | 75 Lakh | Capped | 1st accelerated round |
| Daniel Lategan | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Karan Lal | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Utkarsh Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Ayush Vartak | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Jikku Bright | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Izaz Sawariya | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Mani Sankar Mura Singh | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 1st accelerated round |
| Manan Vohra | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Mayank Dagar | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Money Grewal | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Macneil Noronha | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Siddharth Yadav | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Ritik Tada | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Chama Milind | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| Swastik Chikara | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 2nd accelerated round |
| William Sutherland | 1 Cr | Capped | 3rd accelerated round |
| RS Ambrish | 30 Lakh | Uncapped | 3rd accelerated round |
Players who found a team in accelerated rounds after earlier going unsold in IPL 2026 auction
All values in INR
- Sarfaraz Khan to CSK for 75 Lakh
- Rachin Ravindra to KKR for 2 crore
- Liam Livingstone to SRH for 13 Cr
- Akash Deep to KKR for 1 Cr
- Matt Henry to CSK for 2 CR
- Shivam Mavi to SRH for 75 Lakh
- Rahul Chahar to CSK for 5.20 Cr
- Ben Dwarshuis to PBKS for 4.40 Cr
- Jordan Cox to RCB for 75 Lakh
- Josh Inglis to LSG for 8.60 Cr
- Lungi Ngigi to DC for 2 Cr
- Mayank Rawat to MI for 30 Lakh
- Vishal Nishad to PBKS for 30 Lakh
- Prithvi Shaw to DC for 75 Lakh
- Tom Banton to GT for 2 Cr
- Adam Milne to RR for 2.40 Cr
- Kuldeep Sen to RR for 75 Lakh
- Vicky Ostwal to RCB for 30 Lakh
- Kyle Jamieson to DC for 2 Cr
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