The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has officially announced that the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction for the upcoming 2026 season will be taking place overseas. The event will be hosted in Abu Dhabi and the confirmation came shortly after all the ten franchises submitted their final lists of retained players.

The whole event will be concluded in a single day and it will be held on December 16, 2025. The teams now collectively have a purse of INR 237.55 crore to secure 77 players for the available slot. In the last auction, Saudi Arabia created headlines with record-breaking buys which involved players like Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer.

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