List of 2016 Indian Premier League personnel changes

This is a list of all personnel changes for the 2016 Indian Premier League.

Draft

Following the two-year suspension of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, two new franchises Rising Pune Supergiants and Gujarat Lions were established. These two franchises were allowed to draft a maximum of five players each from the Chennai and Rajasthan teams. The draft took place on 15 December 2015 and the following players were bought:^[1]

S.No	Nat	Player	Salary[2]
Rising Pune Supergiants
1		Mahendra Singh Dhoni	₹125 million (US$1.9 million)
2		Ajinkya Rahane	₹80 million (US$1.2 million)
3		Ravichandran Ashwin	₹75 million (US$1.1 million)
4		Steve Smith	₹40 million (US$590,000)
5		Faf du Plessis	₹47.5 million (US$710,000)
Gujarat Lions
1		Suresh Raina	₹95 million (US$1.4 million)
2		Ravindra Jadeja	₹55 million (US$820,000)
3		Brendon McCullum	₹32.5 million (US$480,000)
4		James Faulkner	₹51 million (US$760,000)
5		Dwayne Bravo	₹40 million (US$590,000)

Retained players

Prior to the auction, teams could release players and retain those that they wanted for the next season. The salaries of the released players would be added to the salary purse of the teams which was increased to Rs. 66 crores for the 2016 edition. The salaries of the retained players was deducted from this purse.^[3][4]

S.No	Nat	Player	Purse left (₹) in crores
Delhi Daredevils[3]
1		Jean-Paul Duminy	37.5[4]
2		Mohammed Shami
3		Nathan Coulter-Nile
4		Quinton de Kock
5		Saurabh Tiwary
6		Shahbaz Nadeem
7		Mayank Agarwal
8		Imran Tahir
9		Jayant Yadav
10		Amit Mishra
11		Shreyas Iyer
12		Zaheer Khan
13		Albie Morkel
Kolkata Knight Riders[3]
14		Gautam Gambhir	17.95[4]
15		Andre Russell
16		Chris Lynn
17		Kuldeep Yadav
18		Manish Pandey
19		Suryakumar Yadav
20		Morne Morkel
21		Brad Hogg
22		Piyush Chawla
23		Robin Uthappa
24		Shakib Al Hasan
25		Sunil Narine
26		Umesh Yadav
27		Sheldon Jackson
28		Yusuf Pathan
Kings XI Punjab[3]
29		Axar Patel	23[4]
30		Anureet Singh
31		David Miller
32		Glenn Maxwell
33		Gurkeerat Singh
34		Manan Vohra
35		Murali Vijay
36		Mitchell Johnson
37		Rishi Dhawan
38		Sandeep Sharma
39		Shardul Thakur
40		Shaun Marsh
41		Nikhil Naik
42		Wriddhiman Saha
Mumbai Indians[3]
43		Rohit Sharma	14.04[4]
44		Ambati Rayudu
45		Corey Anderson
46		Harbhajan Singh
47		Jasprit Bumrah
48		Kieron Pollard
49		Lasith Malinga
50		Marchant de Lange
51		Shreyas Gopal
52		Lendl Simmons
53		Unmukt Chand
54		Vinay Kumar
55		Parthiv Patel
56		Hardik Pandya
57		Akshay Wakhare
58		Jagadeesha Suchith
59		Nitish Rana
60		Siddhesh Lad
61		Mitchell McClenaghan
Royal Challengers Bangalore[3]
62		Virat Kohli	21.625[4]
63		AB de Villiers
64		Chris Gayle
65		Mitchell Starc
66		Varun Aaron
67		Yuzvendra Chahal
68		Abu Nechim Ahmed
69		Harshal Patel
70		Sarfaraz Khan
71		Kedar Jadhav
72		Mandeep Singh
73		Sreenath Aravind
74		Adam Milne
75		David Wiese
Sunrisers Hyderabad[3]
76		Shikhar Dhawan	30.15[4]
77		Ashish Reddy
78		Bhuvneshwar Kumar
79		Bipul Sharma
80		David Warner
81		Karn Sharma
82		Lokesh Rahul
83		Moises Henriques
84		Naman Ojha
85		Parvez Rasool
86		Ricky Bhui
87		Eoin Morgan
88		Kane Williamson
89		Trent Boult
90		Siddharth Kaul

Transfers

The first trading window was open between 15 and 31 December 2015, and the second trading window was open from 11 to 25 January 2016. After the players auction on 6 February 2016, a third window was open between 8 February and 19 February 2016.^[1]

The following transfers were made during the trading windows:

S.No	Nat	Player	From	To	Ref
1		Kedar Jadhav	Delhi Daredevils	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[5]
2		Albie Morkel	Delhi Daredevils	Rising Pune Supergiants	[6]
3		Saurabh Tiwary	Delhi Daredevils	Rising Pune Supergiants	[6]
4		KL Rahul	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[7]
5		Parvez Rasool	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[7]

Auction

The players auction for the 2016 Indian Premier League was held in Bangalore on 6 February 2016. All the eight franchises had taken part in the auction.^[8]

Sold players

Out of the 351 cricketers shortlisted, 94 were sold at the auction. 66 of these players were Indian and the remaining 28 were overseas cricketers. A total of ₹136 crore was spent by the eight franchises at the auction.^[9][10]

Nat	Player	Team	Base price (in ₹ lakhs)	Winning bid (in ₹ lakhs)
	Pietersen, KevinKevin Pietersen	Rising Pune Supergiants	200	300
	Smith, DwayneDwayne Smith	Gujarat Lions	50	230
	Sharma, IshantIshant Sharma	Rising Pune Supergiants	200	380
	Watson, ShaneShane Watson	Royal Challengers Bangalore	200	950
	Nehra, AshishAshish Nehra	Sunrisers Hyderabad	200	550
	Singh, YuvrajYuvraj Singh	Sunrisers Hyderabad	200	700
	Steyn, DaleDale Steyn	Gujarat Lions	150	230
	Samson, SanjuSanju Samson	Delhi Daredevils	200	420
	Buttler, JosJos Buttler	Mumbai Indians	150	380
	Karthik, DineshDinesh Karthik	Gujarat Lions	200	230
	Pathan, IrfanIrfan Pathan	Rising Pune Supergiants	100	100
	Morris, ChrisChris Morris	Delhi Daredevils	50	700
	Munro, ColinColin Munro	Kolkata Knight Riders	30	30
	Binny, StuartStuart Binny	Royal Challengers Bangalore	200	200
	Marsh, MitchellMitchell Marsh	Rising Pune Supergiants	200	480
	Kulkarni, DhawalDhawal Kulkarni	Gujarat Lions	200	230
	Hastings, JohnJohn Hastings	Kolkata Knight Riders	100	130
	Kumar, PraveenPraveen Kumar	Gujarat Lions	50	350
	Southee, TimTim Southee	Mumbai Indians	100	250
	Sharma, MohitMohit Sharma	Kings XI Punjab	150	650
	Brathwaite, CarlosCarlos Brathwaite	Delhi Daredevils	30	420
	Stoinis, MarcusMarcus Stoinis	Kings XI Punjab	30	55
	Rahman, MustafizurMustafizur Rahman	Sunrisers Hyderabad	50	140
	Unadkat, JaydevJaydev Unadkat	Kolkata Knight Riders	30	160
	Abbott, KyleKyle Abbott	Kings XI Punjab	30	210
	Sran, BarinderBarinder Sran	Sunrisers Hyderabad	50	120
	Mithun, AbhimanyuAbhimanyu Mithun	Sunrisers Hyderabad	30	30
	Singh, R. P.R. P. Singh	Rising Pune Supergiants	30	30
	Head, TravisTravis Head	Royal Challengers Bangalore	30	50
	Baby, SachinSachin Baby	Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	10
	Nair, KarunKarun Nair	Delhi Daredevils	10	400
	Dogra, ParasParas Dogra	Gujarat Lions	10	400
	Kishan, IshanIshan Kishan	Gujarat Lions	10	35
	Pant, RishabhRishabh Pant	Delhi Daredevils	10	190
	Dwivedi, EklavyaEklavya Dwivedi	Gujarat Lions	20	100
	Tare, AdityaAditya Tare	Sunrisers Hyderabad	20	120
	Abdulla, IqbalIqbal Abdulla	Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	10
	Hooda, DeepakDeepak Hooda	Sunrisers Hyderabad	10	420
	Sharma, AnkitAnkit Sharma	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	10
	Negi, PawanPawan Negi	Delhi Daredevils	30	850
	Bhatia, RajatRajat Bhatia	Rising Pune Supergiants	30	60
	Sangwan, PradeepPradeep Sangwan	Gujarat Lions	20	20
	Singh, NathuNathu Singh	Mumbai Indians	10	320
	Pandey, IshwarIshwar Pandey	Rising Pune Supergiants	20	20
	Rajpoot, AnkitAnkit Rajpoot	Kolkata Knight Riders	10	150
	Tambe, PravinPravin Tambe	Gujarat Lions	10	20
	Kaushik, ShivilShivil Kaushik	Gujarat Lions	10	10
	Ladda, SarabjitSarabjit Ladda	Gujarat Lions	10	10
	Ashwin, MuruganMurugan Ashwin	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	450
	Cariappa, KCKC Cariappa	Kings XI Punjab	10	80
	Finch, AaronAaron Finch	Gujarat Lions	100	100
	Billings, SamSam Billings	Delhi Daredevils	30	30
	Suman, TirumalasettiTirumalasetti Suman	Sunrisers Hyderabad	10	10
	Bains, AnkushAnkush Bains	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	10
	Sharma, UmangUmang Sharma	Gujarat Lions	10	10
	Handscomb, PeterPeter Handscomb	Rising Pune Supergiants	30	30
	Sharma, JiteshJitesh Sharma	Mumbai Indians	10	10
	Jaffer, ArmaanArmaan Jaffer	Kings XI Punjab	10	10
	Holder, JasonJason Holder	Kolkata Knight Riders	50	70
	Perera, ThisaraThisara Perera	Rising Pune Supergiants	100	100
	Cutting, BenBen Cutting	Sunrisers Hyderabad	50	50
	Tye, AndrewAndrew Tye	Gujarat Lions	30	50
	Dubey, PraveenPraveen Dubey	Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	35
	Sathish, RajagopalRajagopal Sathish	Kolkata Knight Riders	20	20
	Shankar, VijayVijay Shankar	Sunrisers Hyderabad	10	35
	Jakati, ShadabShadab Jakati	Gujarat Lions	20	20
	Karnewar, AkshayAkshay Karnewar	Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	10
	Nath, AkshdeepAkshdeep Nath	Gujarat Lions	10	10
	Sharma, MananManan Sharma	Kolkata Knight Riders	10	10
	Aparajith, BabaBaba Aparajith	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	10
	Chahar, DeepakDeepak Chahar	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	10
	Kamath, KishoreKishore Kamath	Mumbai Indians	10	140
	Sahu, PardeepPardeep Sahu	Kings XI Punjab	10	10
	Pandya, KrunalKrunal Pandya	Mumbai Indians	10	200
	Punia, DeepakDeepak Punia	Mumbai Indians	10	10
	Singh, SwapnilSwapnil Singh	Kings XI Punjab	10	10
	Ahmed, KhaleelKhaleel Ahmed	Delhi Daredevils	10	10
	Shah, JaydevJaydev Shah	Gujarat Lions	20	20
	Singh, PratyushPratyush Singh	Delhi Daredevils	10	10
	Dinda, AshokAshok Dinda	Rising Pune Supergiants	50	50
	Richardson, KaneKane Richardson	Royal Challengers Bangalore	200	200
	Badree, SamuelSamuel Badree	Royal Challengers Bangalore	50	50
	Paris, JoelJoel Paris	Delhi Daredevils	30	30
	Boland, ScottScott Boland	Rising Pune Supergiants	50	50
	Malik, VikramjeetVikramjeet Malik	Royal Challengers Bangalore	20	20
	Suyal, PawanPawan Suyal	Delhi Daredevils	10	10
	Zampa, AdamAdam Zampa	Rising Pune Supergiants	30	30
	Mishra, AmitAmit Mishra	Gujarat Lions	10	10
	Singh, JaskaranJaskaran Singh	Rising Pune Supergiants	10	10
	Milind, ChamaChama Milind	Delhi Daredevils	10	10
	Tokas, VikasVikas Tokas	Royal Challengers Bangalore	10	10
	Behardien, FarhaanFarhaan Behardien	Kings XI Punjab	30	30
	Herwadkar, AkhilAkhil Herwadkar	Delhi Daredevils	10	10
	Lomror, MahipalMahipal Lomror	Delhi Daredevils	10	10

Unsold players

Unsold players list 

Batsmen

1. Martin Guptill
2. Michael Hussey
3. Cameron White
4. Mahela Jayawardene
5. David Hussey
6. Usman Khawaja
7. Owais Shah
8. Adam Voges
9. Hashim Amla
10. Rilee Rossouw
11. Joe Burns
12. George Bailey
13. Subramaniam Badrinath
14. Tamim Iqbal
15. Marlon Samuels
16. Richard Levi
17. Darren Bravo
18. Nic Maddinson
19. Cheteshwar Pujara
20. Michael Klinger
21. Aiden Blizzard
22. Abhinav Mukund
23. Dean Elgar
24. Lahiru Thirimanne
25. Reeza Hendricks
26. Mithun Manhas
27. Alex Ross
28. Udit Birla
29. Srikkanth Anirudha
30. Evin Lewis
31. Samarth Singh
32. Prashant Chopra
33. Ishank Jaggi
34. Robin Bist
35. Swapnil Asnodkar
36. Himanshu Rana
37. Tanmay Srivastava
38. Asad Pathan
39. Shalabh Srivastava
40. Shubham Chaubey
41. Shivam Chaudhary
42. Chirag Gandhi
43. Prashant Gupta
44. Mohit Hooda
45. Govinda Poddar
46. Aditya Waghmode
47. Mohammad Saif
48. Rajesh Sharma
49. Mohammad Taha
50. Manpreet Juneja
51. Vijay Zol
52. Debabrata Das
53. Saurabh Wakaskar
54. Ankit Bawne
55. Apoorv Wankhade
56. Virat Singh
57. Paul Valthaty
58. Rinku Singh

Bowlers

1. James Pattinson
2. Nathan Lyon
3. Mthokozisi Shezi
4. Shaun Tait
5. Pragyan Ojha
6. Munaf Patel
7. Shannon Gabriel
8. Jackson Bird
9. Nuwan Kulasekara
10. Ajantha Mendis
11. Sachithra Senanayake
12. Fidel Edwards
13. Jerome Taylor
14. Cameron Boyce
15. Hardus Viljoen
16. Rahul Sharma
17. Parvinder Awana
18. Taskin Ahmed
19. Dushmantha Chameera
20. Krishmar Santokie
21. Pankaj Singh
22. Sudeep Tyagi
23. Ben Laughlin
24. Michael Beer
25. Tino Best
26. Veerasammy Permaul
27. Beuran Hendricks
28. Devendra Bishoo
29. Sulieman Benn
30. HS Sharath
31. CV Stephen
32. Rajwinder Singh
33. Vinay Choudhary
34. Aniket Choudhary
35. Hardik Patel
36. Saurabh Kumar
37. Krishna Das
38. Seth Rance
39. Pulkit Narang
40. Tabraiz Shamsi
41. Karanveer Singh
42. Jasinder Singh
43. Mitrakant Yadav
44. Rishi Arothe
45. Nikit Dhumal
46. Mohammad Javed
47. Akshay Chauhan
48. Tushar Deshpande
49. Sayan Ghosh
50. Israr Azim
51. Prasidh Krishna
52. Shubham Mavi
53. M Mohammed
54. Chandrakant Sakure
55. Basant Mohanty
56. Balwinder Sandhu
57. Aswin Crist
58. Alok Pratap Singh
59. Royston Dias
60. Baltej Singh
61. Harmeet Singh Bansal
62. Prasanth Parameswaran
63. Rahul Shukla
64. Bhargav Bhatt
65. Ali Murtaza
66. Domnic Joseph
67. Basil Thampi
68. Krishnakant Upadhyay
69. Navdeep Saini
70. Yuvraj Chudasama
71. KK Jiyas
72. Ronit More
73. Veer Pratap Singh
74. Pankaj Jaiswal
75. Rahil Shah
76. Rajesh Bishnoi
77. Babashafi Pathan
78. Siddharth Trivedi
79. Avesh Khan

Wicket Keepers

1. Brad Haddin
2. Johnson Charles
3. Mushfiqur Rahim
4. Shane Dowrich
5. Ben Dunk
6. Morne van Wyk
7. Tim Ludeman
8. CM Gautam
9. Nitin Saini
10. Nicolas Pooran
11. Cameron Bancroft
12. Pinal Shah
13. Sadiq Kirmani
14. Pradeep Malik
15. Jaskaranvir Singh Sohi
16. Avi Barot
17. Manvinder Bisla
18. Ian Dev Singh
19. Arun Karthik
20. Srikar Bharat
21. Shreevats Goswami
22. Smit Patel
23. Mahesh Rawat
24. Dishant Yagnik
25. Kedar Devdhar
26. Vishant More

All-Rounders

1. Tillakaratne Dilshan
2. Chris Jordan
3. Ravi Bopara
4. Manoj Tiwary
5. Robin Peterson
6. James Neesham
7. Wayne Parnell
8. Henry Davids
9. Johan Botha
10. Vernon Philander
11. Jeevan Mendis
12. Dilruwan Perera
13. Ashton Agar
14. Darren Sammy
15. Nathan McCullum
16. Sean Abbott
17. Shehan Jayasuriya
18. Narsingh Deonarine
19. Soumya Sarkar
20. Dasun Shanaka
21. Milinda Siriwardana
22. George Worker
23. Grant Elliott
24. Rayad Emrit
25. Antony Dhas
26. Juan Theron
27. Abhishek Nayar
28. Isuru Udana
29. Kevon Cooper
30. Dilshan Munaweera
31. Doug Bracewell
32. Anton Devcich
33. Seekkuge Prasanna
34. Kevin O'Brien
35. Christopher Barnwell
36. Dwaine Pretorius
37. Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad
38. Sachin Rana
39. Dinesh Salunkhe
40. Gurinder Singh
41. Priyank Panchal
42. Baba Indrajith
43. Jatin Saxena
44. Sagar Trivedi
45. Amit Verma
46. Chirag Jani
47. Akash Bhandari
48. Faiz Fazal
49. Nikhil Dutta
50. Aniruddha Joshi
51. Suboth Bhati
52. Aamir Gani
53. David Mathias
54. Hiten Dalal
55. Rohan Raje
56. Dharmendrasinh Jadeja
57. Ravi Jangid
58. J. Kousik
59. Pargat Singh
60. Washington Sundar
61. Rahul Dagar
62. Mayank Dagar
63. Sunil Raju
64. Mayur Sanap
65. Bandeep Singh
66. Milind Tandon
67. Rahul Tripathi
68. Saurabh Dubey
69. Venkatesh Iyer
70. Rohit Sharma
71. Mayank Sidhana
72. Shashank Singh
73. Chandra Pal Singh
74. Tanveer-Ul-Haq
75. Shubham Ranjane
76. Ashok Menaria
77. Yogesh Nagar
78. Milind Kumar
79. Sumit Narwal
80. Biplab Samantray
81. Rush Kalaria
82. Jalaj Saxena
83. Raiphi Gomez
84. Kuldeep Hooda
85. Vaibhav Rawal
86. Padmanabhan Prasanth
87. Jay Bista
88. Kshitiz Sharma
89. Shrikant Mundhe
90. Abhishek Raut
91. Rohan Prem
92. Manjeet Kumar Chaudhary
93. Rahul Tewatia
94. Amit Yadav

Support staff changes

• In October 2015, Jacques Kallis was appointed head coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders. Kallis, who was the batting consultant during the 2015 season, replaced Trevor Bayliss at the position.^[11]
• In October 2015, Simon Katich was appointed assistant coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, replacing Vijay Dahiya.^[12]
• In December 2015, Anil Kumble stepped down as the mentor of Mumbai Indians.^[13]
• In December 2015, Gary Kirsten was sacked as the Delhi Daredevils head coach.^[14]
• In January 2016, Stephen Fleming was appointed as the head coach of Rising Pune Supergiants.
• In February 2016, Virender Sehwag was appointed as the mentor of Kings XI Punjab.
• In February 2016, Brad Hodge was appointed as the coach of Gujarat Lions.
• In February 2016, Rising Pune Supergiants appointed Hrishikesh Kanitkar as their assistant coach.
• In February 2016, Gujarat Lions appointed Heath Streak as their bowling coach.
• In February 2016, Rising Pune Supergiants appointed Eric Simons as their bowling coach.
• In March 2016, Paddy Upton was appointed head coach of the Delhi Daredevils, while Rahul Dravid was appointed as the team's mentor.

Withdrawn players

The following players withdrew from the tournament either due to injuries or because of other reasons.^[15]

Player	Team	Reason	Announcement date	Replacement	Signing date
Joel Paris	Delhi Daredevils	Shin injury	7 April 2016
Shaun Marsh	Kings XI Punjab	Back injury	2 May 2016	Hashim Amla	3 May 2016
Glenn Maxwell	Kings XI Punjab	Side strain	16 May 2016
Marcus Stoinis	Kings XI Punjab	Personal reasons	17 May 2016
John Hastings	Kolkata Knight Riders	Ankle injury	18 April 2016	Shaun Tait	11 May 2016
Lendl Simmons	Mumbai Indians	Lower back injury	13 April 2016	Martin Guptill	13 April 2016
Lasith Malinga	Mumbai Indians	Knee injury	17 April 2016	Jerome Taylor	27 April 2016
Kevin Pietersen	Rising Pune Supergiants	Calf injury	23 April 2016	Usman Khawaja	28 April 2016
Faf du Plessis	Rising Pune Supergiants	Broken finger	28 April 2016	George Bailey	2 May 2016
Mitchell Marsh	Rising Pune Supergiants	Side strain	1 May 2016
Steve Smith	Rising Pune Supergiants	Wrist injury	1 May 2016
Samuel Badree	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Shoulder injury	21 April 2016	Tabraiz Shamsi	21 April 2016
Mitchell Starc	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Fitness issue	25 April 2016	Chris Jordan	25 April 2016
Adam Milne	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Hamstring injury	6 May 2016
Ashish Nehra	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Hamstring injury	19 May 2016

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