List of 2015 Indian Premier League personnel changes explained

This is a list of all the personnel changes for the 2015 Indian Premier League (IPL). Apart from the players retained by their franchises, the rest entered the pool of players put up for auction. Notable names among these were Yuvraj Singh (released by Royal Challengers Bangalore), Pragyan Ojha and Zaheer Khan (released by Mumbai Indians), Kevin Pietersen (released by Delhi Daredevils) among others.

Trading window

There were 2 trading windows prior to the auction which was held on 16 February 2015. A third trading window opened after the auction. During these trading windows, franchises could trade players with other franchises.

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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. 63 crores for the 2015 edition. The salaries of the retained players was deducted from this purse.[2]

S.NoPlayerPurse left
in crores
Chennai Super Kings
1Mahendra Singh Dhoni5[3]
2Ashish Nehra
3Baba Aparajith
4 Brendon McCullum
5Dwayne Bravo
6Dwayne Smith
7Faf du Plessis
8Ishwar Pandey
9Matt Henry
10 Mithun Manhas
11 Mohit Sharma
12 Pawan Negi
13 R Ashwin
14Ravindra Jadeja
15Samuel Badree
16Suresh Raina
17Ronit More
Delhi Daredevils
1840
19 Kedar Jadhav
20 Manoj Tiwary
21 Mohammed Shami
22 Nathan Coulter-Nile
23Quinton de Kock
24 Saurabh Tiwary
25 Shahbaz Nadeem
26 Mayank Agarwal
27Imran Tahir
28 Jayant Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders
29 Gautam Gambhir13
30 Andre Russell
31 Chris Lynn
32 Kuldeep Yadav
33 Manish Pandey
34 Suryakumar Yadav
35Morne Morkel
36 Pat Cummins
37 Piyush Chawla
38 Robin Uthappa
39Ryan ten Doeschate
40Shakib Al Hasan
41Sunil Narine
42 Umesh Yadav
43 Veer Pratap Singh
44 Yusuf Pathan
Kings XI Punjab
45 Axar Patel11.8
46 Anureet Singh
47Beuran Hendricks
48David Miller
49 George Bailey
50 Glenn Maxwell
51 Gurkeerat Singh
52 Karanveer Singh
53 Manan Vohra
54 Mandeep Singh
55 Mitchell Johnson
56 Parvinder Awana
57 Rishi Dhawan
58 Sandeep Sharma
59 Shardul Thakur
60 Shaun Marsh
61 Shivam Sharma
62Thisara Perera
63 Virender Sehwag
64 Wriddhiman Saha
Mumbai Indians
65Rohit Sharma10
66Aditya Tare
67Ambati Rayudu
68Corey Anderson
69Harbhajan Singh
70Jasprit Bumrah
71Josh Hazlewood
72Kieron Pollard
73Lasith Malinga
74Marchant de Lange
75Pawan Suyal
76Shreyas Gopal
77Lendl Simmons
78Unmukt Chand
79 Vinay Kumar
80 Parthiv Patel
Rajasthan Royals
81Shane Watson13
82Abhishek Nayar
83Ajinkya Rahane
84 Ankit Sharma
85 Ben Cutting
86 Deepak Hooda
87 Dhawal Kulkarni
88 Dishant Yagnik
89 James Faulkner
90 Kane Richardson
91 Karun Nair
92 Pravin Tambe
93 Rahul Tewatia
94 Rajat Bhatia
95 Sanju Samson
96 Steve Smith
97 Stuart Binny
98 Tim Southee
99 Vikramjeet Malik
Royal Challengers Bangalore
100Virat Kohli21
101AB de Villiers
102Chris Gayle
103Mitchell Starc
104Nic Maddinson
105Varun Aaron
106 Yuzvendra Chahal
107Rilee Rossouw
108 Vijay Zol
109 Yogesh Takawale
110 Abu Nechim Ahmed
111 Harshal Patel
112 Ashok Dinda
113 Sandeep Warrier
114 Manvinder Bisla
115 Iqbal Abdulla
Sunrisers Hyderabad
116Shikhar Dhawan20.85
117 Ashish Reddy
118 Bhuvneshwar Kumar
119 Chama Milind
120Dale Steyn
121 David Warner
122 Ishant Sharma
123 Karn Sharma
124 Lokesh Rahul
125 Moises Henriques
126 Naman Ojha
127 Parvez Rasool
128 Ricky Bhui

Auction

Summary

66 players (43 Indians and 23 Overseas) were sold at the auction. Yuvraj Singh and Dinesh Karthik fetched the highest bids of 16 crore and 10.5 crore respectively. Angelo Mathews was the most costly foreign player at 7.5 crore. Many prominent players such as Kumar Sangakkara, Ross Taylor, Alex Hales, Cameron White and Tillakaratne Dilshan remained unsold at the auction.[4]

CountryCappedUncappedTotal
EnteredSoldEnteredSoldEnteredSold
22 5 15 3 37 8
6 3 0 0 6 3
23 13 209 30 232 43
1 0 0 0 1 0
13 5 0 0 13 5
17 5 5 0 22 5
17 1 0 0 17 1
10 1 3 0 13 1
2 0 0 0 2 0
Total 111 33 232 33 343 66

Sold players

Name IPL
Matches
IPL team(s)IPL 2014 teamCapped /
uncapped
Base Price
in (in
lakhs)[5]
IPL 2015 team Auctioned
price in
(in lakhs)
55 Chennai Super Kings / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 150 Chennai Super Kings 150
98 Delhi Daredevils / Kings XI Punjab / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 150 Chennai Super Kings 150
44 Deccan Chargers / Pune Warriors India / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Chennai Super Kings 30
0 Kings XI PunjabCapped 30 Chennai Super Kings 30
0 Uncapped 20 Chennai Super Kings 20
0 Uncapped 10 Chennai Super Kings 10
0 Rajasthan Royals Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Chennai Super Kings 10
0 Pune Warriors India Uncapped 10Chennai Super Kings 10
84 Kings XI Punjab / Pune Warriors India / Royal Challengers Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 200 Delhi Daredevils 1600
35 Pune Warriors India / Kolkata Knight Riders Capped 150 Delhi Daredevils 750
70 Mumbai Indians / Royal Challengers Bangalore Mumbai Indians Capped 100 Delhi Daredevils 400
86 Deccan Chargers / Delhi Daredevils / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 10 Delhi Daredevils 350
0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 260
0 Capped 30 Delhi Daredevils 170
33 Kolkata Knight Riders / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 50 Delhi Daredevils 110
0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 75
85 Chennai Super Kings / Royal Challengers Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 30 Delhi Daredevils 30
0 Uncapped 20 Delhi Daredevils 25
12 Delhi Daredevils / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Uncapped 20 Delhi Daredevils 20
0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 10
0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 10
75 Chennai Super Kings / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 50 Kings XI Punjab 300
0 Uncapped 10 Kings XI Punjab 30
0 Uncapped 10 Kings XI Punjab 10
0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 240
4 Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Kolkata Knight Riders 50
10 Rajasthan Royals Capped 50 Kolkata Knight Riders 50
0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 25
0 Royal Challengers Bangalore Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 15
7 Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 10
0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 10
36 Rajasthan Royals / Delhi Daredevils / Pune Warriors India / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 100 Mumbai Indians 320
91 Deccan Chargers / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 50 Mumbai Indians 50
16 Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
0 Capped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
7 Mumbai IndiansUncapped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
16 Chennai Super Kings Capped 50 Rajasthan Royals 140
9 Deccan Chargers / Kings XI Punjab Capped 30 Rajasthan Royals 30
0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
6 Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
106 Delhi Daredevils / Kings XI Punjab / Mumbai Indians Delhi Daredevils Capped 200 Royal Challengers Bangalore 1050
20 Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 100 Royal Challengers Bangalore 280
0 Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 280
0 Capped 50 Royal Challengers Bangalore 100
0 Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 70
0 Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 50
95 Chennai Super Kings Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 30
0 Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 10
0 Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 10
0 Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 380
85 Kings XI Punjab / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 220
32 Deccan Chargers / Delhi Daredevils / Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi Daredevils Capped 200 Sunrisers Hyderabad 200
32 Royal Challengers Bangalore / Kolkata Knight Riders Capped 150 Sunrisers Hyderabad 150
15 Kings XI Punjab Capped 100 Sunrisers Hyderabad 100
0 Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 60
46 Kolkata Knight Riders / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Sunrisers Hyderabad 30
Padmanabhan Prasanth 0 Kochi Tuskers Kerala Uncapped 10 Sunrisers Hyderabad 10
17 Sunrisers HyderabadUncapped 10 Sunrisers Hyderabad 10
11 Delhi Daredevils / Kolkata Knight Riders Delhi Daredevils Uncapped 10 Sunrisers Hyderabad 10
Source:Pepsi IPL 2015 Player Auction[6]

Withdrawn players

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

PlayerTeamReason
James NeeshamKolkata Knight RidersInjury[7]
Chris LynnKolkata Knight RidersHamstring Injury
Kevin PietersenSunrisers HyderabadOther reasons[8]
Kane RichardsonRajasthan RoyalsPersonal reasons[9]
Josh HazlewoodMumbai IndiansNational team commitment[10]
Aaron FinchMumbai IndiansHamstring injury[11]
Mohammed ShamiDelhi DaredevilsKnee injury[12]
Laxmi Ratan ShuklaSunrisers HyderabadIllness
Adam MilneRoyal Challengers BangaloreHeel Injury[13]
Corey AndersonMumbai IndiansFractured Finger[14]
Shaun MarshKings XI PunjabNational team commitment[15]
Mitchell JohnsonKings XI PunjabNational team commitment

Replacement signings

Players were signed as replacement of contracted players who were not available to play due to injuries and national commitments. Under IPL rules, the replacements have to be chosen from the pool of players who went unsold in the auction, and cannot be paid more than the players they are replacing, though they can be paid less.

PlayerReplacedTeamReason for replacement
Injury
Injury
Illness[16]
Heel Injury
Hamstring injury[17]
National team commitment[18]
Fractured Finger[19]

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: IPLT20.com – Mandeep Singh joins RCB ahead of 2015 season . 5 February 2015 . IPLT20.com . 13 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150406052543/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/5627/mandeep-singh-joins-rcb-ahead-of-2015-season . 6 April 2015 . dead .
  2. News: 123 players retained, 5 traded across teams for Pepsi IPL 2015 season . 15 December 2014 . IPLT20.com . 13 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150407034512/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2014/announcements/5599/123-players-retained-5-traded-across-teams-for-pepsi-ipl-2015-season . 7 April 2015 . dead .
  3. News: Player transfers before IPL 2015 . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 13 April 2015 .
  4. News: List of players sold and unsold in IPL 2015 auction . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 16 February 2015. 13 April 2015 .
  5. News: List of players up for auction. 15 February 2015 . ESPNcricinfo . 23 April 2015 .
  6. News: IPLT20.com – Indian Premier League Auction 2015. 16 February 2015 . IPLT20.com . 13 April 2015 .
  7. News: KKR bring in Botha, Mahmood as replacements . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 30 March 2015 . 13 April 2015 .
  8. News: SRH and Kevin Pietersen reach agreement over IPL 2015 . IPLT20.com . 25 March 2015 . 13 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150406053205/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/5655/srh-and-kevin-pietersen-reach-agreement-over-ipl-2015 . 6 April 2015 . dead .
  9. News: Kane Richardson withdraws from IPL . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 3 April 2015 . 13 April 2015 .
  10. News: Josh Hazlewood opts out of IPL . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 9 April 2015 . 13 April 2015 .
  11. News: Finch ruled out of rest of IPL season . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 9 April 2015 . 13 April 2015 .
  12. News: Shami ruled out of Pepsi IPL 2015 season . IPLT20.com . 23 April 2015 . 24 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150425213146/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6225/shami-ruled-out-of-pepsi-ipl-2015-season . 25 April 2015 . dead .
  13. News: Milne blow for Royal Challengers . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 22 April 2015 . 23 April 2015 .
  14. News: Injury brings Anderson's IPL to an end . ESPN . ESPNcricinfo . 23 April 2015 . 23 April 2015 .
  15. News: KXIP release Johnson and Marsh . IPL . IPL . 11 May 2015 . 16 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150514052419/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6694/kxip-release-johnson-and-marsh . 14 May 2015 . dead .
  16. News: Bipul Sharma to replace LR Shukla in SRH . IPL . IPL . 19 April 2015 . 19 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150421010242/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6096/bipul-sharma-to-replace-lr-shukla-in-srh . 21 April 2015 . dead .
  17. News: Hilfenhaus replaces Finch at MI . IPL . IPL . 24 April 2015 . 25 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150425083432/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6261/hilfenhaus-replaces-finch-at-mi . 25 April 2015 . dead .
  18. News: Colin Munro replaces Hazlewood in MI squad . IPL . IPL . 24 April 2015 . 25 April 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150426205524/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6250/colin-munro-replaces-hazlewood-in-mi-squad . 26 April 2015 . dead .
  19. News: Hales replaces Anderson at MI . IPL . IPL . 14 May 2015 . 16 May 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150516095054/http://www.iplt20.com/news/2015/announcements/6765/hales-replaces-anderson-at-mi . 16 May 2015 . dead .