The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season is set to get underway on March 28 with defending champions Royal Challengers Begaluru facing Sunrisers Hyderabad at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
With a fresh stack of players across all 10 franchise following the mini-auction process from last December, new combinations will be forged over the next two months by the teams in their bid to win the title. However, certain teams are bound to face some hiccups due to the injury concerns that have hit their respective camps.
MS Dhoni, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sanju Samson (traded in from ), Ayush Mhatre, Dewald Brewis, , Urvil Patel, Noor Ahmad, Nathan Ellis, Shreyas Gopal, , Ramakrishna Ghosh, Mukesh Choudhary, Jamie Overton, Gurjapneet Singh, Anshul Kamboj, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Zak Foulkes
(C), , , Mitchell Starc, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Pathum Nissanka, Sahil Parakh, , Abhishek Porel, Tristan Stubbs, Sameer Rizvi, Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Ajay Mandal, Tripurana Vijay, Madhav Tiwari, Auqib Dar, Nitish Rana, T. Natrajan, Mukesh Kumar, Dushmantha Chameera, Lungisani Ngidi, Kyle Jamieson, .
(c), Sai Sudharsan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, , Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, , , Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, , Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj, Luke Wood.
Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ajinkya Rahane, , Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Varun Chakravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Umran Malik, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Matheesha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep, Blessing Muzarabani.
Injury concerns: Harshit Rana (likely ruled out of season),
AM Ghazanfar, Ashwani Kumar, Corbin Bosch, Deepak Chahar, , , Mitchell Santner, Naman Dhir, Raghu Sharma, Raj Bawa, Robin Minz, Rohit Sharma, Ryan Rickelton, , Tilak Varma, , Will Jacks, Shardul Thakur (traded in from ), Sherfane Rutherford (traded in from ), Mayank Markande (traded in from ), Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Mohammad Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat.
(C), Aiden Markram, Himmat Singh, Matthew Breetzke, Mukul Choudhary, Akshat Raghuwanshi, Josh Inglis, Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, , Shahbaz Ahamad, Arshin Kulkarni, Wanindu Hasaranga, Ayush Badoni, , , M. Siddharth, Digvesh Singh, Akash Singh, Prince Yadav, Arjun Tendulkar, Anrich Nortje, Naman Tiwari, Mayank Yadav, Mohsin Khan
Injury concerns: Wanindu Hasaranga
(C), Nehal Wadhera, Vishnu Vinod, Harnoor Pannu, Pyla Avinash, Prabhsimran Singh, Shashank Singh, , Harpreet Brar, Marco Jansen, Azmatullah Omarzai, Priyansh Arya, Musheer Khan, Suryansh Shedge, Mitch Owen, Cooper Cannolly, Ben Dwarshuis, , , Vyshak Vijaykumar, Yash Thakur, Xavier Bartlett, Pravin Dubey, Vishal Nishad, Lockie Ferguson.
Riyan Parag(C), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, , Dhruv Jurel, Jofra Archer, Donovan Ferreira, Lhuan-de Pretorius, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao Parela, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Tushar Deshpande, Kwena Maphaka, , Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen, , Nandre Burger.
Abhinandan Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, , Jacob Bethell, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Krunal Pandya, Nuwan Thushara, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar (Captain), Rasikh Dar, Romario Shepherd, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Virat Kohli, Yash Dayal, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Mangesh Yadav, Satwik Deswal, Jordan Cox, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chouhan
Injury concerns: Josh Hazlewood
Pat Cummins (c), Travis Head, , Aniket Verma, R. Smaran, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, , Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Eshan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Salil Arora, Shivang Kumar, Omkar Tarmale, Krains Fuletra, Praful Hinge, Amit Kumar, Sakib Hussain, Jack Edwards
Injury concerns: Pat Cummins
