# 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 1 December 2012 and the following players were bought:
| S.No | Player | Salary |
| Rising Pune Supergiants ||||
| 1 | Mahendra Singh Dhoni | ₹125 million (US$1.4 million) |
| 2 | Ajinkya Rahane | ₹80 million (US$920,000) |
| 3 | Ravichandran Ashwin | ₹75 million (US$870,000) |
| 4 | Steve Smith | ₹40 million (US$460,000) |
| 5 | Faf du Plessis | ₹47.5 million (US$550,000) |
| Gujarat Lions ||||
| 1 | Suresh Raina | ₹95 million (US$1.1 million) |
| 2 | Ravindra Jadeja | ₹55 million (US$640,000) |
| 3 | Brendon McCullum | ₹32.5 million (US$380,000) |
| 4 | James Faulkner | ₹51 million (US$590,000) |
| 5 | Dwayne Bravo | ₹40 million (US$460,000) |

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

## Transfers

The first trading window was open between 15 and 31 December 2015, and the second 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.
The following transfers were made during the trading windows:
| S.No | Player | From | To |
| 1 | Kedar Jadhav | Delhi Daredevils | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| 2 | Albie Morkel | Delhi Daredevils | Rising Pune Supergiants |
| 3 | Saurabh Tiwary | Delhi Daredevils | Rising Pune Supergiants |
| 4 | KL Rahul | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bangalore |
| 5 | Parvez Rasool | Sunrisers Hyderabad | Royal Challengers Bangalore |

## 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.

### 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.
| Player | Team | Base price (in ₹ lakhs) | Winning bid (in ₹ lakhs) |
| Kevin Pietersen | Rising Pune Supergiant | 200 | 300 |
| Dwayne Smith | Gujarat Lions | 50 | 230 |
| Ishant Sharma | Rising Pune Supergiant | 200 | 380 |
| Shane Watson | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 200 | 950 |
| Ashish Nehra | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 200 | 550 |
| Yuvraj Singh | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 200 | 700 |
| Dale Steyn | Gujarat Lions | 150 | 230 |
| Sanju Samson | Delhi Daredevils | 200 | 420 |
| Jos Buttler | Mumbai Indians | 150 | 380 |
| Dinesh Karthik | Gujarat Lions | 200 | 230 |
| Irfan Pathan | Rising Pune Supergiant | 100 | 100 |
| Chris Morris | Delhi Daredevils | 50 | 700 |
| Colin Munro | Kolkata Knight Riders | 30 | 30 |
| Stuart Binny | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 200 | 200 |
| Mitchell Marsh | Rising Pune Supergiant | 200 | 480 |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | Gujarat Lions | 200 | 230 |
| John Hastings | Kolkata Knight Riders | 100 | 130 |
| Praveen Kumar | Gujarat Lions | 50 | 350 |
| Tim Southee | Mumbai Indians | 100 | 250 |
| Mohit Sharma | Kings XI Punjab | 150 | 650 |
| Carlos Brathwaite | Delhi Daredevils | 30 | 420 |
| Marcus Stoinis | Kings XI Punjab | 30 | 55 |
| Mustafizur Rahman | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 50 | 140 |
| Jaydev Unadkat | Kolkata Knight Riders | 30 | 160 |
| Kyle Abbott | Kings XI Punjab | 30 | 210 |
| Barinder Sran | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 50 | 120 |
| Abhimanyu Mithun | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 30 | 30 |
| R. P. Singh | Rising Pune Supergiant | 30 | 30 |
| Travis Head | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 30 | 50 |
| Sachin Baby | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 10 |
| Karun Nair | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 400 |
| Paras Dogra | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 400 |
| Ishan Kishan | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 35 |
| Rishabh Pant | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 190 |
| Eklavya Dwivedi | Gujarat Lions | 20 | 100 |
| Aditya Tare | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 20 | 120 |
| Iqbal Abdulla | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 10 |
| Deepak Hooda | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 420 |
| Ankit Sharma | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 10 |
| Pawan Negi | Delhi Daredevils | 30 | 850 |
| Rajat Bhatia | Rising Pune Supergiant | 30 | 60 |
| Pradeep Sangwan | Gujarat Lions | 20 | 20 |
| Nathu Singh | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 320 |
| Ishwar Pandey | Rising Pune Supergiant | 20 | 20 |
| Ankit Rajpoot | Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 150 |
| Pravin Tambe | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 20 |
| Shivil Kaushik | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 10 |
| Sarabjit Ladda | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 10 |
| Murugan Ashwin | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 450 |
| KC Cariappa | Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 80 |
| Aaron Finch | Gujarat Lions | 100 | 100 |
| Sam Billings | Delhi Daredevils | 30 | 30 |
| Tirumalasetti Suman | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 10 |
| Ankush Bains | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 10 |
| Umang Sharma | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 10 |
| Peter Handscomb | Rising Pune Supergiant | 30 | 30 |
| Jitesh Sharma | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 10 |
| Armaan Jaffer | Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 10 |
| Jason Holder | Kolkata Knight Riders | 50 | 70 |
| Thisara Perera | Rising Pune Supergiant | 100 | 100 |
| Ben Cutting | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 50 | 50 |
| Andrew Tye | Gujarat Lions | 30 | 50 |
| Praveen Dubey | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 35 |
| Rajagopal Sathish | Kolkata Knight Riders | 20 | 20 |
| Vijay Shankar | Sunrisers Hyderabad | 10 | 35 |
| Shadab Jakati | Gujarat Lions | 20 | 20 |
| Akshay Karnewar | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 10 |
| Akshdeep Nath | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 10 |
| Manan Sharma | Kolkata Knight Riders | 10 | 10 |
| Baba Aparajith | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 10 |
| Deepak Chahar | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 10 |
| Kishore Kamath | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 140 |
| Pardeep Sahu | Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 10 |
| Krunal Pandya | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 200 |
| Deepak Punia | Mumbai Indians | 10 | 10 |
| Swapnil Singh | Kings XI Punjab | 10 | 10 |
| Khaleel Ahmed | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |
| Jaydev Shah | Gujarat Lions | 20 | 20 |
| Pratyush Singh | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |
| Ashok Dinda | Rising Pune Supergiant | 50 | 50 |
| Kane Richardson | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 200 | 200 |
| Samuel Badree | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 50 | 50 |
| Joel Paris | Delhi Daredevils | 30 | 30 |
| Scott Boland | Rising Pune Supergiant | 50 | 50 |
| Vikramjeet Malik | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 20 | 20 |
| Pawan Suyal | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |
| Adam Zampa | Rising Pune Supergiant | 30 | 30 |
| Amit Mishra | Gujarat Lions | 10 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | Rising Pune Supergiant | 10 | 10 |
| Chama Milind | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |
| Vikas Tokas | Royal Challengers Bangalore | 10 | 10 |
| Farhaan Behardien | Kings XI Punjab | 30 | 30 |
| Akhil Herwadkar | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |
| Mahipal Lomror | Delhi Daredevils | 10 | 10 |

### Unsold players
#### Batsmen

* Martin Guptill
* Michael Hussey
* Cameron White
* Mahela Jayawardene
* David Hussey
* Usman Khawaja
* Owais Shah
* Adam Voges
* Hashim Amla
* Rilee Rossouw
* Joe Burns
* George Bailey
* Subramaniam Badrinath
* Tamim Iqbal
* Marlon Samuels
* Richard Levi
* Darren Bravo
* Nic Maddinson
* Cheteshwar Pujara
* Michael Klinger
* Aiden Blizzard
* Abhinav Mukund
* Dean Elgar
* Lahiru Thirimanne
* Reeza Hendricks
* Mithun Manhas
* Alex Ross
* Udit Birla
* Srikkanth Anirudha
* Evin Lewis
* Samarth Singh
* Prashant Chopra
* Ishank Jaggi
* Robin Bist
* Swapnil Asnodkar
* Himanshu Rana
* Tanmay Srivastava
* Asad Pathan
* Shalabh Srivastava
* Shubham Chaubey
* Shivam Chaudhary
* Chirag Gandhi
* Prashant Gupta
* Mohit Hooda
* Govinda Poddar
* Aditya Waghmode
* Mohammad Saif
* Rajesh Sharma
* Mohammed Taha
* Manpreet Juneja
* Vijay Zol
* Debabrata Das
* Saurabh Wakaskar
* Ankit Bawne
* Apoorv Wankhade
* Virat Singh
* Paul Valthaty
* Rinku Singh

#### Bowlers

* James Pattinson
* Nathan Lyon
* Mthokozisi Shezi
* Shaun Tait
* Pragyan Ojha
* Munaf Patel
* Shannon Gabriel
* Jackson Bird
* Nuwan Kulasekara
* Ajantha Mendis
* Sachithra Senanayake
* Fidel Edwards
* Jerome Taylor
* Cameron Boyce
* Hardus Viljoen
* Rahul Sharma
* Parvinder Awana
* Taskin Ahmed
* Dushmantha Chameera
* Krishmar Santokie
* Pankaj Singh
* Sudeep Tyagi
* Ben Laughlin
* Michael Beer
* Tino Best
* Veerasammy Permaul
* Beuran Hendricks
* Devendra Bishoo
* Sulieman Benn
* HS Sharath
* CV Stephen
* Rajwinder Singh
* Vinay Choudhary
* Aniket Choudhary
* Hardik Patel
* Saurabh Kumar
* Krishna Das
* Seth Rance
* Pulkit Narang
* Tabraiz Shamsi
* Karanveer Singh
* Jasinder Singh
* Mitrakant Yadav
* Rishi Arothe
* Nikit Dhumal
* Mohammad Javed
* Akshay Chauhan
* Tushar Deshpande
* Sayan Ghosh
* Israr Azim
* Prasidh Krishna
* Shubham Mavi
* M Mohammed
* Chandrakant Sakure
* Basant Mohanty
* Balwinder Sandhu
* Aswin Crist
* Alok Pratap Singh
* Royston Dias
* Baltej Singh
* Harmeet Singh Bansal
* Prasanth Parameswaran
* Rahul Shukla
* Bhargav Bhatt
* Ali Murtaza
* Domnic Joseph
* Basil Thampi
* Krishnakant Upadhyay
* Navdeep Saini
* Yuvraj Chudasama
* KK Jiyas
* Ronit More
* Veer Pratap Singh
* Pankaj Jaiswal
* Rahil Shah
* Rajesh Bishnoi
* Babashafi Pathan
* Siddharth Trivedi
* Avesh Khan

#### Wicket Keepers

* Brad Haddin
* Johnson Charles
* Mushfiqur Rahim
* Shane Dowrich
* Ben Dunk
* Morne van Wyk
* Tim Ludeman
* CM Gautam
* Nitin Saini
* Nicholas Pooran
* Cameron Bancroft
* Pinal Shah
* Sadiq Kirmani
* Pradeep Malik
* Jaskaranvir Singh Sohi
* Avi Barot
* Manvinder Bisla
* Ian Dev Singh
* Arun Karthik
* Srikar Bharat
* Shreevats Goswami
* Smit Patel
* Mahesh Rawat
* Dishant Yagnik
* Kedar Devdhar
* Vishant More

#### All-Rounders

* Tillakaratne Dilshan
* Chris Jordan
* Ravi Bopara
* Manoj Tiwary
* Robin Peterson
* James Neesham
* Wayne Parnell
* Henry Davids
* Johan Botha
* Vernon Philander
* Jeevan Mendis
* Dilruwan Perera
* Ashton Agar
* Darren Sammy
* Nathan McCullum
* Sean Abbott
* Shehan Jayasuriya
* Narsingh Deonarine
* Soumya Sarkar
* Dasun Shanaka
* Milinda Siriwardana
* George Worker
* Grant Elliott
* Rayad Emrit
* Antony Dhas
* Juan Theron
* Abhishek Nayar
* Isuru Udana
* Kevon Cooper
* Dilshan Munaweera
* Doug Bracewell
* Anton Devcich
* Seekkuge Prasanna
* Kevin O'Brien
* Christopher Barnwell
* Dwaine Pretorius
* Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad
* Sachin Rana
* Dinesh Salunkhe
* Gurinder Singh
* Priyank Panchal
* Baba Indrajith
* Jatin Saxena
* Sagar Trivedi
* Amit Verma
* Chirag Jani
* Akash Bhandari
* Faiz Fazal
* Nikhil Dutta
* Aniruddha Joshi
* Suboth Bhati
* Aamir Gani
* David Mathias
* Hiten Dalal
* Rohan Raje
* Dharmendrasinh Jadeja
* Ravi Jangid
* J. Kousik
* Pargat Singh
* Washington Sundar
* Rahul Dagar
* Mayank Dagar
* Sunil Raju
* Mayur Sanap
* Bandeep Singh
* Milind Tandon
* Rahul Tripathi
* Saurabh Dubey
* Venkatesh Iyer
* Rohit Sharma
* Mayank Sidhana
* Shashank Singh
* Chandra Pal Singh
* Tanveer-Ul-Haq
* Shubham Ranjane
* Ashok Menaria
* Yogesh Nagar
* Milind Kumar
* Sumit Narwal
* Biplab Samantray
* Rush Kalaria
* Jalaj Saxena
* Raiphi Gomez
* Kuldeep Hooda
* Vaibhav Rawal
* Padmanabhan Prasanth
* Jay Bista
* Kshitiz Sharma
* Shrikant Mundhe
* Abhishek Raut
* Rohan Prem
* Manjeet Kumar Chaudhary
* Rahul Tewatia
* Amit Yadav

## Support staff changes

* In October 2012, Jacques Kallis was appointed head coach of the Kolkata Knight Riders. Kallis, who was the batting consultant during the 2012 season, replaced Trevor Bayliss at the position.
* In October 2012, Simon Katich was appointed assistant coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, replacing Vijay Dahiya.
* In December 2012, Anil Kumble stepped down as the mentor of Mumbai Indians.
* In December 2012, Gary Kirsten was sacked as the Delhi Daredevils head coach.
* 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.
| 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 | | |