{"id":22427,"date":"2025-12-15T17:30:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=670128"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:06:57","slug":"ipl-2026-auction-check-delhi-capitals-purse-slots-available-retained-players-released-players-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2026-auction-check-delhi-capitals-purse-slots-available-retained-players-released-players-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2026 Auction: Check Delhi Capitals\u2019 purse, slots available, retained players, released players and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"219\" data-end=\"513\">Delhi Capitals (DC) enter the IPL 2026 mini auction with a balanced core retained and considerable flexibility to reshape their squad. With a mix of proven Indian performers and high-impact overseas bowlers staying on, the franchise has positioned itself for strategic additions at the auction.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"515\" data-end=\"563\"><strong data-start=\"518\" data-end=\"561\">DC remaining purse for IPL 2026 auction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"564\" data-end=\"693\">DC will head into the auction with <strong data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"627\">Rs 21.80 crore remaining<\/strong>, giving them a moderate yet workable budget to address key areas.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"695\" data-end=\"743\"><strong data-start=\"698\" data-end=\"741\">DC remaining slots for IPL 2026 auction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"893\">The franchise has <strong data-start=\"762\" data-end=\"787\">eight slots available<\/strong>, including a crucial <strong data-start=\"809\" data-end=\"832\">five overseas slots<\/strong>, allowing DC to explore multiple international combinations.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"895\" data-end=\"949\"><strong data-start=\"898\" data-end=\"947\">DC released players ahead of IPL 2026 auction<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"950\" data-end=\"1068\">Donovan Ferreira, Darshan Nalkande, Faf du Plessis, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Manvanth Kumar, Mohit Sharma, Sediqullah Atal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1070\" data-end=\"1232\">The release list sees the exit of senior names like Faf du Plessis and exciting talents like Fraser-McGurk, indicating a shift toward a refreshed overseas lineup.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1234\" data-end=\"1282\"><strong data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1280\">DC retained players for IPL 2026 season<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1283\" data-end=\"1529\">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, Mukesh Kumar.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1722\">The retained group covers all bases\u2014leadership from Rahul and Axar, spin depth with Kuldeep, a strong pace core led by Starc and Natarajan, and young middle-order power with Stubbs and Porel.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1724\" data-end=\"1862\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">With five overseas slots open and a clearly defined shopping list, DC are expected to be active and tactical at the IPL 2026 mini auction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Capitals (DC) enter the IPL 2026 mini auction with a balanced core retained and considerable flexibility to reshape their\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":42646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22427","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\/22427","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=22427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}