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2026 Delhi Capitals season

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CoachHemang Badani
CaptainAxar Patel
Delhi Capitals
2026 season
CoachHemang Badani
CaptainAxar Patel
← 2025

The 2026 season was the 19th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket franchise Delhi Capitals. They were one of the ten teams that competed in the 2026 Indian Premier League.

Player retention

Retained players
No. Player Salary
1Axar Patel₹16.5 crore (US$2.0 million)
2KL Rahul₹14 crore (US$1.7 million)
3Kuldeep Yadav₹13.25 crore (US$1.6 million)
4Mitchell Starc₹11.75 crore (US$1.4 million)
5T. Natarajan₹10.75 crore (US$1.3 million)
6Tristan Stubbs₹10 crore (US$1.2 million)
7Mukesh Kumar₹8 crore (US$950,000)
8Nitish Rana₹4.2 crore (US$500,000)
9Abhishek Porel₹4 crore (US$470,000)
10Ashutosh Sharma₹3.8 crore (US$450,000)
11Sameer Rizvi₹95 lakh (US$110,000)
12Dushmantha Chameera₹75 lakh (US$89,000)
13Karun Nair₹50 lakh (US$59,000)
14Madhav Tiwari₹40 lakh (US$47,000)
15Ajay Mandal₹30 lakh (US$35,000)
16Tripurana Vijay₹30 lakh (US$35,000)
17Vipraj Nigam₹30 lakh (US$35,000)

Auction

The season's auction took place in December 2025 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.[1] The auction purse for each franchise was set at ₹125 crore (US$15 million), with franchises deducting an amount from the purse for every retained player.[2][3] Delhi had a purse remaining of ₹21.80 crore (US$2.6 million).[4] Delhi bought eight players in the auction, including six capped players and five overseas players.

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