New Delhi: The BCCI on Tuesday announced nine additional players who have been newly included in the updated player list for the Indian Premier League 2026 auction which is set to take place in Abu Dhabi next week. Earlier the board released a list of 350 players who got shortlisted from over 1300 registrations. A few hours later BCCI released a new list which included nine additional names taking the total tally to 359. Swastik Chikara has been included in the updated auction list The new players who have been included in the list is IPL winner Swastik Chikara released by Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Virandeep Singh the only player from an Associate nation (Malaysia) . The other newly included players are Tripura all-rounder Manisankar Murasingh Chama Milind (Hyderabad) K.L. Shrijith (Karnataka) Ethan Bosch (South Africa) Chris Green (Australia) Rahul Raj Namala (Uttarakhand) and Virat Singh (Jharkhand). Out of the final auction pool of 359 players 247 players are Indians and 112 are overseas players while only 77 will earn new IPL contracts with 31 of those spots reserved for foreign signings. Kolkata Knight Riders enter the auction with the largest purse of Rs 64.30 crore and 13 vacancies while Chennai Super Kings is second with a purse of Rs 43.4 crore and nine slots to fill. Nikhil Chaudhary was incorrectly classified as an Indian player Delhi-born Nikhil Chaudhury who once played domestic cricket for Punjab alongside Abhishek Sharma Arshdeep Singh and even Shubman Gill last appeared in Indian domestic cricket almost six years ago. During the Covid pandemic he was stranded in Australia while visiting his uncle and eventually decided to restart his cricket career there. After years of hard work and paitence he was picked in Australias domestic system and earlier this month became the first Indian-born cricketer to score a Sheffield Shield century doing so for Tasmania. Chaudhury has also played in multiple overseas white-ball leagues including the Global Super League Max60 Caribbean and Abu Dhabi T10. However in the IPL 2026 auction list released he was incorrectly classified as an Indian player but BCCI later rectified the mistake and issued a revised list on Tuesday evening.