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IPL Players List 2026 With Price: Most Expensive Players

IPL players list 2026 with price: the most expensive players, every player's salary by team, the highest-paid player in each team and top earners.

Most Expensive Players in IPL 2026

Rishabh Pant of Lucknow Super Giants is the most expensive player in IPL 2026 at ₹27 crore. These are the 15 highest salaries across all 10 IPL 2026 squads (267 players), including retained players, auction buys and trades.

#	Player	Team	Role	Acquired	Price
1	Rishabh Pant	Lucknow Super Giants	Wicketkeeper-batter	Retained	₹27 crore
2	Shreyas Iyer	Punjab Kings	Batter	Retained	₹26.75 crore
3	Cameron Green	Kolkata Knight Riders	All-rounder	Auction 2026	₹25.2 crore
4	Heinrich Klaasen	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Wicketkeeper-batter	Retained	₹23 crore
5	Nicholas Pooran	Lucknow Super Giants	Wicketkeeper-batter	Retained	₹21 crore
6	Virat Kohli	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Batter	Retained	₹21 crore
7	Arshdeep Singh	Punjab Kings	Bowler	Retained	₹18 crore
8	Jasprit Bumrah	Mumbai Indians	Bowler	Retained	₹18 crore
9	Matheesha Pathirana	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bowler	Auction 2026	₹18 crore
10	Pat Cummins	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Bowler	Retained	₹18 crore
11	Rashid Khan	Gujarat Titans	Bowler	Retained	₹18 crore
12	Ruturaj Gaikwad	Chennai Super Kings	Batter	Retained	₹18 crore
13	Sanju Samson	Chennai Super Kings	Wicketkeeper-batter	Traded in	₹18 crore
14	Yashasvi Jaiswal	Rajasthan Royals	Batter	Retained	₹18 crore
15	Yuzvendra Chahal	Punjab Kings	Bowler	Retained	₹18 crore

IPL 2026 Players List by Team

Chennai Super Kings

Delhi Capitals

Gujarat Titans

Kolkata Knight Riders

Lucknow Super Giants

Mumbai Indians

Punjab Kings

Rajasthan Royals

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Highest-Paid Player in Every IPL Team (2026)

Team	Highest-paid player	Role	Price
Chennai Super Kings	Sanju Samson	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹18 crore
Delhi Capitals	Axar Patel	All-rounder	₹16.5 crore
Gujarat Titans	Rashid Khan	Bowler	₹18 crore
Kolkata Knight Riders	Cameron Green	All-rounder	₹25.2 crore
Lucknow Super Giants	Rishabh Pant	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹27 crore
Mumbai Indians	Jasprit Bumrah	Bowler	₹18 crore
Punjab Kings	Shreyas Iyer	Batter	₹26.75 crore
Rajasthan Royals	Yashasvi Jaiswal	Batter	₹18 crore
Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Virat Kohli	Batter	₹21 crore
Sunrisers Hyderabad	Heinrich Klaasen	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹23 crore

Highest-Paid Indian and Overseas Players in IPL 2026

181 of the 267 players in IPL 2026 squads are Indian and 86 are overseas players. Each team can field at most four overseas players in a match.

Top 5 Indian players

#	Player	Team	Role	Price
1	Rishabh Pant	Lucknow Super Giants	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹27 crore
2	Shreyas Iyer	Punjab Kings	Batter	₹26.75 crore
3	Virat Kohli	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	Batter	₹21 crore
4	Arshdeep Singh	Punjab Kings	Bowler	₹18 crore
5	Jasprit Bumrah	Mumbai Indians	Bowler	₹18 crore

Top 5 overseas players

#	Player	Team	Role	Price
1	Cameron Green	Kolkata Knight Riders	All-rounder	₹25.2 crore
2	Heinrich Klaasen	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹23 crore
3	Nicholas Pooran	Lucknow Super Giants	Wicketkeeper-batter	₹21 crore
4	Matheesha Pathirana	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bowler	₹18 crore
5	Pat Cummins	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Bowler	₹18 crore

IPL 2026 Salary Breakdown

IPL franchises are paying ₹1,209 crore in total to their 267 squad players this season, an average of ₹4.53 crore per player.

Salary band	Players	Share of players
₹20 crore and above	6	2%
₹10–20 crore	47	18%
₹5–10 crore	23	9%
₹1–5 crore	85	32%
Under ₹1 crore	106	40%

Highest-Earning IPL Players Since 2018

Total IPL salary earned from the 2018 mega auction to IPL 2026, adding up each player's contract season by season (match fees and bonuses not included). Contracts from earlier seasons are not all public, so they are left out to keep the comparison fair; each player's page shows his full year-by-year salary.

#	Player	Current team	Seasons	Earnings since 2018
1	Virat Kohli	Royal Challengers Bengaluru	9	₹155 crore
2	Rohit Sharma	Mumbai Indians	9	₹140.6 crore
3	Rishabh Pant	Lucknow Super Giants	9	₹134 crore
4	KL Rahul	Delhi Capitals	9	₹123 crore
5	Hardik Pandya	Mumbai Indians	9	₹121.7 crore
6	Shreyas Iyer	Punjab Kings	9	₹118.25 crore
7	Sanju Samson	Chennai Super Kings	9	₹110 crore
8	Ravindra Jadeja	Rajasthan Royals	9	₹108 crore
9	MS Dhoni	Chennai Super Kings	9	₹104 crore
10	Pat Cummins	Sunrisers Hyderabad	7	₹100.15 crore

How IPL Player Salaries Work

An IPL player's salary is the price his franchise pays for one season. Players join a squad in three ways: they are retained from the previous season, bought at the auction, or traded from another franchise. Retained and traded players keep the fee agreed with their team, while auction buys earn their final bid.

Since IPL 2025, every player in the playing XI (including the Impact Player) also earns a match fee of ₹7.5 lakh per game, on top of his contract. A player who features in every league match can add more than ₹1 crore to his salary this way.

The salary shown on each player's page is his contract for IPL 2026. Each profile also lists the player's year-by-year IPL income, total career earnings, role, batting and bowling style, IPL debut and records.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the most expensive player in IPL 2026?

Rishabh Pant is the most expensive player in IPL 2026. Lucknow Super Giants pay him ₹27 crore for the season.

Who is the highest-paid Indian player in IPL 2026?

Rishabh Pant (Lucknow Super Giants) is the highest-paid Indian player at ₹27 crore.

Who is the highest-paid overseas player in IPL 2026?

Cameron Green (Kolkata Knight Riders) is the highest-paid overseas player at ₹25.2 crore.

How many players are there in IPL 2026?

There are 267 players across the 10 IPL 2026 squads: 181 Indian and 86 overseas players.

How much do IPL players earn per match?

On top of their season contract, players in the playing XI (including the Impact Player) earn a match fee of ₹7.5 lakh per game, introduced from IPL 2025.

Which IPL player has earned the most since 2018?

Virat Kohli has earned the most from IPL contracts since the 2018 mega auction, about ₹155 crore across 9 seasons.