While Kolkata Knight Riders and Chennai Super Kings will go ahead with the maximum purse at the upcoming IPL 2026 auctions in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, the rest of the franchises do have a few holes to fill. Delhi Capitals, Gujarat Titans, Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings have a job on their hands to make their squad a well-rounded one.

Here is what these franchises have to do at the auction table.

Delhi Capitals

Purse remaining: Rs 21.80 crore. Slots left: 8 (5 overseas)

Players retained: 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, Nitish Rana (traded in from RR ).

What they need

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