IPL Auction 2026 Highlights: KKR bags Cameron Green for ₹25.2 crore, Pathirana for ₹18 crore; CSK splurges ₹14.2 crore each for 'uncapped' Prashant Veer & Kartik Sharma – BusinessLine

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IPL Auction 2026, Team & Players Bidding Highlights: Follow the IPL Auction 2026 live blog, with real-time updates, team-wise player picks, auction prices, big buys, unsold players and squad details.
Prashant Veer, 20-year-old all-rounder from Uttar Pradesh, and Kartik Sharma, 19-year-old keeper-batter from Rajasthan, became the highest-paid uncapped players in the history of the auction, coming at a base price of ₹30 lakh each. Both the players were snapped up by Chennai Super Kings for a record-breaking ₹28.40 crore, shelling ₹14.20 crore for each after a bidding battle with other franchises.
Veer came into the spotlight for the first time while representing Noida Super Kings in the UP T20 League, putting him on CSK’s selectors’ radar. Meanwhile, Sharma too gained the attention of the franchises for his impressive displays in domestic-level cricket.
J&K bowling all-rounder Auqib Nabi Dar was another uncapped bowler who hit gold at the IPL mini-auction. The 29-year-old was sold to Delhi Capitals for ₹8.40 crore, a huge surge compared to his base price of ₹30 lakh.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru paid ₹5.2 crore for Mangesh Yadav, another uncapped player who hit gold at the auctions and had come in at a base price of ₹30 lakh. 23-year-old wicketkeeper-batter Tejasvi Singh was snapped up by Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹3 crore, while Mukul Choudhary was acquired by Lucknow Super Giants for ₹2.60 crore.
Meanwhile, Kolkata Knight Riders splurged on landing Australian cricketer Cameron Green for a whopping ₹25.20 crore, making him the most expensive overseas player at an IPL auction. Sri Lankan cricketer Matheesha Pathirana was also bagged by KKR for ₹18 crore. England’s Liam Livingstone was also among the top buys at the auction and was snapped up by Sunrisers Hyderabad for ₹13 crore.
There was intense bidding also for Bangladesh’s Mustafizur Rahman, who was bagged by Kolkata Knight Riders for ₹9.20 crore. Josh Inglis, Ravi Bishnoi and Jason Holder were among the other players who witnessed their value soar during the auction. The next edition of the T20 league is scheduled for March next year.
Top players sold:
Mustafizur Rahman sold to KKR for ₹9.2 crore
Josh Inglis sold to LSG for ₹8.6 crore
‘Uncapped’ Auqib Dar sold to DC for ₹8.4 crore
Top Unsold Players:
Daryl Mitchell 
Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Shivang Kumar, Salil Arora, Sakib Hussain, Onkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Praful Hinge, Krains Fuletra, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Jack Edwards
Rajat Patidar (c), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Satvik Deswal, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan
Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Lhuan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Jofra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka, Nandre Burger, Ravi Bishnoi, Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen
Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer, Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Omarzai, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Pravin Dubey, Vishal Nishad.
Hardik Pandya, Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Ryan Rickleton, Robin Minz, Raj Bawa, Raghu Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Naman Dhir, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Allah Ghafanzar, Ashwani Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Sherfane Rutherford, Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Mohammad Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat
Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Breetzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant (c), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami, Arjun Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasaranga, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Choudhary, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis.
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Mustafizur Rahman, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep
Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj Yarra, Luke Wood
Nitish Rana, Abishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel, Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwari, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson.
Ruturaj Gaikwad (c), Ayush Mhatre, MS Dhoni, Sanju Samson, Dewald Brevis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dube, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmad, Khaleel Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Choudhary, Nathan Ellis, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Zak Foulkes
CSK – 1
DC – 2
GT – 3
RR – 2
RCB – 3
Published on December 16, 2025
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