This is a list of auction and personnel signings for the 2026 International League T20 cricket tournament, held in the United Arab Emirates, and organised by the Emirates Cricket Board.
Background The ILT20 Season 5 Player Auction will be held in Dubai on October 1 at the ICC Academy indoor facility. More than 800 players from 23 countries have registered for the auction, with the organisers now in the process of shortlisting them to around 200.
Retained players Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Desert Vipers Dubai Capitals Gulf Giants MI Emirates Sharjah WarriorsSunil Narine Jason HolderAndries Gous Dan Lawrence Shimron HetmyerRovman Powell Mustafizur RahmanAzmatullah Omarzai Blessing MuzarabaniNicholas Pooran Rashid Khan Romario ShepherdSikandar Raza
Pre-signed players Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Desert Vipers Dubai Capitals Gulf Giants MI Emirates Sharjah WarriorsFinn Allen Matthew TrompMujeeb Ur RahmanMarcus Stoinis Noor AhmadDavid Miller Heinrich KlaasenSherfane RutherfordJames Vince Adam Milne Waqar Salamkheil
Auction results NameNational teamPlaying rolePrice (in )TeamNotesMuhammad RohidFast bowler95,000Abu Dhabi Knight RidersKhuzaima Bin TanveerFast bowler75,000Desert VipersRTM from Abu Dhabi Knight Riders
Wildcard picks Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Desert Vipers Dubai Capitals Gulf Giants Sharjah WarriorsMohd ismail khan Auction signings +Source: Abu Dhabi Knight Riders Desert Vipers Dubai Capitals Gulf Giants MI Emirates Sharjah Warriors Muhammad Rohid Alishan Sharafu Moeen Ali Andre Fletcher Arab Gul Jakeem Pollard Gulbadin Naib Amshi de Silva Colin Munro Qais Ahmad Lorcan Tucker Usman Tariq Michael Pepper Abdullah Tarakhail Ravija Sandaruwan Khuzaima Bin Tanveer Vriitya Aravind Nilansh Keswani Babar Azam Naseem Shah Fakhar Zaman David Payne Aneurin Donald Nangeyalia Kharote Harry Tector Saleem Safi Joe Clarke Abdullah Ahmadzai Shadab Khan Bilal Tahir Sanjay Pahal Wali Muhammad Ishtiaq Ahmed Zuhaib Zubair Aayan Khan Haider Ali Faf du Plessis Dasun Shanaka Phil Salt Max Holden Darwish Rasooli Sediqullah Atal Karim Janat Mark Adair Hassan Khan Matthew Potts Tom Moores Luke Wood Masood ul Rahman Gurbaz Anudeep Chenthamara Usman Najeeb Ibrahim Zadran Liam Livingstone Rahmanullah Gurbaz Matiullah Khan Dhruv Parashar Curtis Campher David Wiese Alzarri Joseph Shamar Joseph Imran Mir Shubham Ranjane Meet Bhavsar Haider Rarraq Alick Athanaze Sagar Kalyan Tabraiz Shamsi Awais Ahmad Wahidullah Zadran Muhammad Waseem Fazalhaq Farooqi Kusal Perera Zahoor Khan Allah Ghazanfar Wasim Akram Asa Tribe James Coles Jonny Bairstow Chris Jordan Lizaad Williams Jordon Thompson Ross Adair Faridoon Dawoodzai Sanjay Krishnamurthi Raizal Nadir Nather Shah Zain ul Abidin Mohammad Shafeeq Tanish Suri Junaid Siddique Ali Aamer Naseer Adil Rashid Mohammad Nabi Richard Gleeson George Linde Paul Walter George Dockrell Brandon McMullen Fareed Malik Tom Banton Craig Overton James Rew Sarafuddin Ashraf Logan van Beek Arunraj Selvaraj Mohammad Saqib
Live Auction Source: Accelerated round Chris Jordan - MI Emirates (USD 170,000) Dushmantha Chameera - unsold Chris Woakes - unsold Craig Overton - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 80,000) James Coles - MI Emirates (USD 100,000) Michael Pepper - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 40,000) Tom Moores - Dubai Capitals (USD 40,000) James Rew - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 10,000) Lorcan Tucker - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 10,000) Usman Tariq - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 80,000) Dwayne Pretorius - unsold Alick Athanaze - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Jaydon Seales - unsold Lizaad Williams - MI Emirates (USD 110,000) Luke Wood - Dubai Capitals (USD 40,000) Ollie Stone - unsold Jordon Thompson - MI Emirates (USD 40,000) Ross Adair - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Tabraiz Shamsi - Gulf Giants (USD 40,000) Tymal Mills - unsold Henry Crocombe - unsold Zahir Khan Pakteen - unsold Faridoon Dawoodzai - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Qais Ahmad - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 38,000) Jai Moondra - unsold Fareed Malik - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 40,000) Abdullah Tarakhail - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 10,000) Tom Banton - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 80,000) Bas de Leede - unsold Shayan Jahangir - unsold Ali Khan - unsold Saurabh Netravalkar - unsold Sanjay Krishnamurthi - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Logan van Beek - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 40,000) Luqmen Faisal - unsold Masood ul Rahman Gurbaz - Dubai Capitals (USD 10,000) Sagar Kalyan - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) KS Bharat - unsold Adithya Shetty - unsold Ansh Tandon - unsold Raizal Nadir Nather Shah - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Usaid Amin - unsold Wali Muhammad - Desert Vipers (USD 10,000) Awais Ahmad - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Muhammad Jawadullah - unsold Ravija Sandaruwan - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 10,000) Sarafuddin Ashraf - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 40,000) Wahidullah Zadran - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Jonny Bairstow - MI Emirates (USD 80,000) Set 24: Saudi Arabian bowlers Ishtiaq Ahmed - Desert Vipers (USD 12,000) Imtiaz Khan - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Mohammad Saqib - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 10,000) Mohammed Ahmed Raza - unsold Md Shaikh Saif - unsold Faisal Tahir - unsold Imran Yousuf - unsold
Round 23 Usman Najeeb - Dubai Capitals, RTM (USD 10,000) Siddharth Sankar - unsold Zain ul Abidin - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Syed Ali Abbas - unsold Faisal Khan - unsold Zahid Iqbal - unsold Saeed Naqqash - unsold Mohammed Hisham Shaikh - unsold Abdul Mannan Ali - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 10,000) Mohammed Atif - unsold
Round 22 Arunraj Selvaraj - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 10,000) Vishwa Teja Nettem - unsold Prasath Jeyaprakash - unsold Ansal Nazar - unsold Naveen Raj - unsold Manjula Prasana - unsold Mohammad Adnan - unsold Ummer Abbas - unsold Umar Abdullah - unsold Sandaruwan Chinthaka - unsold Nimish Latheef - unsold Anudeep Chenthamara - Dubai Capitals (USD 10,000) Mohammad Shafeeq - MI Emirates (USD 10,000)
Round 21 Santosh Kumar - unsold Shiraz Khan - unsold Ravija Sandaruwan - unsold Bilal Tahir - Desert Vipers, RTM (USD 10,000) Adnan Idrees - unsold Ali Zaheer Uddin - unsold Usman Ghani Patel - unsold Yasin Patel - unsold Clinto Anto - unsold Mohamed Aslam - unsold Jude Saldanha - unsold Meet Bhavsar - Gulf Giants, RTM (USD 10,000)
Round 20 Najibullah Zadran - unsold Rilee Russouw - unsold Tim Tector - unsold Shadab Khan - Desert Vipers (USD 80,000) Rahmat Shah - unsold Najmul Hossain Shanto - unsold Fabian Allen - unsold Mohammad Ishaq - unsold Noor ul Rahman Akakhail - unsold Hassan Nawaz - unsold Andrew Balbirnie - unsold Jason Roy - unsold
Round 19 Colin Ackermann - unsold Shubham Ranjane - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Yuvraaj Samra - unsold Dipendra Singh Airee - unsold Carmi le Roux - unsold Obus Pienaar - unsold Mark Watt - unsold Aryan Dutt - unsold
Round 18 Tom Bruce - unsold Rushil Ugarkar - unsold Ali Khan - unsold Saurabh Netravalkar - unsold Jon Jon Smuts - unsold Monank Patel - unsold Harmeet Singh Baddhan - unsold Shadley van Schalkwyk - unsold Tajinder Singh Dhillon - unsold
Round 17 Asa Tribe - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) George Munsey - unsold David Wiese - Gulf Giants (USD 70,000) Gerhard Erasmus - unsold Sanjay Krishnamurthi - unsold Hassan Khan - Dubai Capitals (USD 90,000) Shayan Jahangir - unsold Amshi de Silva - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 100,000) Brandon McMullen - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 80,000) Bas de Leede - unsold Tom Kohler-Cadmore - unsold
Round 16 Shahidullah Kamal - unsold Sharafuddin Ashraf - unsold Imran Tahir - unsold Alzarri Joseph - Gulf Giants (USD 230,000) Khalil Gurbaz - unsold Dan Worrall - unsold Hasan Mahmud - unsold Abdullah Ahmadzai - Desert Vipers (USD 40,000) Josh Little - unsold Shakib al Hasan - unsold Farmanullah Safi - unsold Nooristani Omarzai - unsold
Round 15 Jordan Clark - unsold Bilal Sami - unsold Yama Arab - unsold Ollie Stone - unsold Ziaur Rahman Sharifi - unsold Hasan Ali - unsold Saleem Safi - Desert Vipers (USD 10,000) Tymal Mills - unsold Sachindu Colombage - unsold George Dockrell - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 10,000) Wahidullah Zadran - unsold
Round 14 Imran Mir - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Tom Alsop - unsold Ollie Sykes - unsold Max Chu - unsold Ben Calitz - unsold Ross Adair - unsold Michael Pepper - unsold Tom Abell - unsold Joe Clarke - Desert Vipers (USD 40,000) Kamil Pooran - unsold Tom Moores - unsold Brandon King - unsold
Round 13 Gareth Delany - unsold Lewis Gregory - unsold Dwayne Pretorius - unsold Paul Stirling - unsold Caleb Falconer - unsold Dan Mousley - unsold Jordon Thompson - unsold Roston Chase - unsold Alick Athanaze - unsold
Round 12 Reece Topley - unsold Jai Moondra - unsold Shamar Joseph - Gulf Giants (USD 80,000) Gudakesh Motie - unsold Zaheer Khan Pakteen - unsold Lizaad Williams - unsold Henry Crocombe - unsold Izharulhaq Naveed - unsold Matthew Potts - Dubai Capitals (USD 10,000) Allah Ghazanfar - MI Emirates, RTM (USD 150,000) Jayden Seales - unsold
Round 11 Wafiullah Tarakhil - unsold Hassan Eisakhil - unsold Quentin Sampson - unsold Kyle Mayers - unsold Reeza Hendricks - unsold Colin Munro - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 40,000) Adam Hose - unsold Rassie van der Dussen - unsold Harry Tector - Desert Vipers (USD 12,000)
Round 10 Zeeshan Naseer - unsold Mohammad Ibrahim Masood - unsold Wasim Akram - MI Emirates (USD 10,000) Falaknoor Noor - unsold Muhammad Farooq - unsold Hilal Afghan - unsold Awais Ahmad - unsold Farhan Khan - unsold
Round 9 Sanjay Pahal - Desert Vipers (USD 22,000) Saeed Nazeer - unsold Muhammad Arfan - Dubai Capitals (USD 10,000) Uddish Suri - unsold Haider Rarraq - Gulf Giants (USD 10,000) Wali Muhammad - unsold Tahir Zaman - unsold Usaid Amin - unsold Nabeel Aziz - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 10,000) Muhammad Uzair Khan - unsold Asel Sigera - unsold
Round 8 Ethan D'souza - unsold Ronak Panoly - unsold Ansh Tandon - unsold Israr Ahmad - unsold Masood ul Rahman Gurbaz - unsold Harshit Kaushik - unsold Akshdeep Nath - unsold KS Bharat - unsold Junaid Shamshuddin - unsold Luqmen Faisal - unsold
Round 7 Gulbadin Naib - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 75,000) Curtis Campher - Gulf Giants (USD 22,000) Nangeyalia Kharote - Desert Vipers (USD 28,000) George Linde - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 40,000) Rehan Ahmed - unsold Karim Janat - Dubai Capitals (USD 40,000) Liam Dawson - unsold James Coles - unsold Paul Walter - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 110,000) Mark Adair - Dubai Capitals (USD 55,000)
Round 6 Richard Gleeson - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 180,000) Arab Gul - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 80,000) Faridoon Dawoodzai - unsold David Payne - Desert Vipers (USD 150,000) Nathan Sowter - unsold Jakeem Pollard - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 10,000) Usman Tariq - unsold Qais Ahmad - unsold Matthew Forde - unsold
Round 5 Andre Fletcher - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 40,000) Lorcan Tucker - unsold Max Holden - Dubai Capitals (USD 100,000) James Rew - unsold Will Smeed - unsold Aneurin Donald - Desert Vipers (USD 40,000) Darwish Rasooli - Dubai Capitals (USD 10,000) Sediqullah Atal - Dubai Capitals (USD 70,000) Kusal Perera - MI Emirates (USD 40,000)
Round 4 Tom Banton - unsold Naseem Shah - Desert Vipers (USD 80,000) Fakhar Zaman - Desert Vipers (USD 80,000) Luke Wood - unsold Adil Rashid - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 80,000) Fazalhaq Farooqi - MI Emirates (USD 380,000) Alex Hales - unsold Phil Salt - Dubai Capitals (USD 80,000) Mohammad Nabi - Sharjah Warriorz (USD 140,000) Craig Overton - unsold Moeen Ali - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 80,000)
Round 3 Ibrahim Zadran - Gulf Giants (USD 65,000) Faf du Plessis - Dubai Capitals (USD 300,000) Wanindu Hasaranga - unsold Chris Jordan - unsold Rahmanullah Gurbaz - Gulf Giants, RTM (USD 310,000) Liam Livingstone - Gulf Giants (USD 350,000) Dasun Shanaka - Dubai Capitals (USD 100,000) Babar Azam - Desert Vipers (USD 80,000) Chris Woakes - unsold Jonny Bairstow - unsold Pathum Nissanka - unsold
Round 2 Zahour Khan - MI Emirates (USD 30,000) Ibrar Ahmad - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 46,000) Ajay Kumar - Abu Dhabi Knight Riders (USD 40,000)