{"id":22400,"date":"2025-12-09T09:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=669098"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T04:10:07","slug":"ipl-2026-auctions-bcci-removes-1005-players-ahead-of-auction-only-350-to-go-under-the-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auctions-bcci-removes-1005-players-ahead-of-auction-only-350-to-go-under-the-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auctions: BCCI removes 1,005 players ahead of auction, only 350 to go under the hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"525\">The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has drastically trimmed the longlist for the upcoming IPL 2026 auction, removing <strong data-start=\"378\" data-end=\"395\">1,005 players<\/strong> and finalising a pool of <strong data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"434\">350 names<\/strong> who will officially go under the hammer on December 16 at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"1038\">The final list also includes <strong data-start=\"556\" data-end=\"582\">35 newly added players<\/strong> \u2014 both Indian and overseas \u2014 who were <strong data-start=\"621\" data-end=\"662\">not part of the original registration<\/strong>, with several names included after franchises made direct requests. Among the most notable additions is <strong data-start=\"767\" data-end=\"786\">Quinton de Kock<\/strong>, who reversed his international retirement and recently struck a century against India in the Vizag ODI, prompting a franchise to push for his late entry. He has set a new base price of <strong data-start=\"973\" data-end=\"987\">Rs 1 crore<\/strong>, a 50% reduction from his previous Rs 2 crore tag.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1040\" data-end=\"1414\">Sri Lanka\u2019s Traveen Mathew, Binura Fernando, Kusal Perera and Dunith Wellalage, Afghanistan\u2019s Arab Gul, and West Indies\u2019 Akeem Auguste are among the overseas players added to the expanded shortlist. On the domestic front, the new names include Vishnu Solanki, Parikshit Valsangkar, Sadek Hussain, Izaz Sawariya and several others who were not part of the initial submission.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1416\" data-end=\"1652\">As per BCCI\u2019s communication to franchises, the auction will begin at <strong data-start=\"1485\" data-end=\"1516\">1 pm UAE time (2:30 pm IST)<\/strong> and follow a structured order \u2014 capped players across all specialisms first, followed by uncapped players, and then accelerated rounds.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1654\" data-end=\"1775\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has drastically trimmed the longlist for the upcoming IPL 2026 auction,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42621,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}