This is a list of all the personnel changes for the 2015 Indian Premier League. 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 & 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.

S.No Nat Name Moving from Moving to Ref
1 India Iqbal Abdullah Rajasthan Royals Royal Challengers Bangalore [1]
2 India Manvinder Bisla Kolkata Knight Riders Royal Challengers Bangalore [1]
3 India Parthiv Patel Royal Challengers Bangalore Mumbai Indians [1]
4 India Unmukt Chand Rajasthan Royals Mumbai Indians [1]
5 India Vinay Kumar Kolkata Knight Riders Mumbai Indians [1]
6 India Mandeep Singh Kings XI Punjab Royal Challengers Bangalore [1]

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.No Nat Player Purse left
(₹) in crores
Chennai Super Kings[2]
1 India Mahendra Singh Dhoni 5[3]
2 India Ashish Nehra
3 India Baba Aparajith
4 New Zealand Brendon McCullum
5 Trinidad and Tobago Dwayne Bravo
6 Barbados Dwayne Smith
7 South Africa Faf du Plessis
8 India Ishwar Pandey
9 New Zealand Matt Henry
10 India Mithun Manhas
11 India Mohit Sharma
12 India Pawan Negi
13 India R Ashwin
14 India Ravindra Jadeja
15 Trinidad and Tobago Samuel Badree
16 India Suresh Raina
17 India Ronit More
Delhi Daredevils[2]
18 South Africa Jean-Paul Duminy 40[3]
19 India Kedar Jadhav
20 India Manoj Tiwary
21 India Mohammed Shami
22 Australia Nathan Coulter-Nile
23 South Africa Quinton de Kock
24 India Saurabh Tiwary
25 India Shahbaz Nadeem
26 India Mayank Agarwal
27 South Africa Imran Tahir
28 India Jayant Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders[2]
29 India Gautam Gambhir 13[3]
30 Jamaica Andre Russell
31 Australia Chris Lynn
32 India Kuldeep Yadav
33 India Manish Pandey
34 India Suryakumar Yadav
35 South Africa Morne Morkel
36 Australia Pat Cummins
37 India Piyush Chawla
38 India Robin Uthappa
39 Netherlands Ryan ten Doeschate
40 Bangladesh Shakib Al Hasan
41 Trinidad and Tobago Sunil Narine
42 India Umesh Yadav
43 India Veer Pratap Singh
44 India Yusuf Pathan
Kings XI Punjab[2]
45 India Axar Patel 11.8[3]
46 India Anureet Singh
47 South Africa Beuran Hendricks
48 South Africa David Miller
49 Australia George Bailey
50 Australia Glenn Maxwell
51 India Gurkeerat Singh
52 India Karanveer Singh
53 India Manan Vohra
54 India Mandeep Singh
55 Australia Mitchell Johnson
56 India Parvinder Awana
57 India Rishi Dhawan
58 India Sandeep Sharma
59 India Shardul Thakur
60 Australia Shaun Marsh
61 India Shivam Sharma
62 Sri Lanka Thisara Perera
63 India Virender Sehwag
64 India Wriddhiman Saha
Mumbai Indians[2]
65 India Rohit Sharma 10[3]
66 India Aditya Tare
67 India Ambati Rayudu
68 New Zealand Corey Anderson
69 India Harbhajan Singh
70 India Jasprit Bumrah
71 Australia Josh Hazlewood
72 Trinidad and Tobago Kieron Pollard
73 Sri Lanka Lasith Malinga
74 South Africa Marchant de Lange
75 India Pawan Suyal
76 India Shreyas Gopal
77 Trinidad and Tobago Lendl Simmons
78 India Unmukt Chand
79 India Vinay Kumar
80 India Parthiv Patel
Rajasthan Royals[2]
81 Australia Shane Watson 13[3]
82 India Abhishek Nayar
83 India Ajinkya Rahane
84 India Ankit Sharma
85 Australia Ben Cutting
86 India Deepak Hooda
87 India Dhawal Kulkarni
88 India Dishant Yagnik
89 Australia James Faulkner
90 Australia Kane Richardson
91 India Karun Nair
92 India Pravin Tambe
93 India Rahul Tewatia
94 India Rajat Bhatia
95 India Sanju Samson
96 Australia Steve Smith
97 India Stuart Binny
98 New Zealand Tim Southee
99 India Vikramjeet Malik
Royal Challengers Bangalore[2]
100 India Virat Kohli 21[3]
101 South Africa AB de Villiers
102 Jamaica Chris Gayle
103 Australia Mitchell Starc
104 Australia Nic Maddinson
105 India Varun Aaron
106 India Yuzvendra Chahal
107 South Africa Rilee Rossouw
108 India Vijay Zol
109 India Yogesh Takawale
110 India Abu Nechim Ahmed
111 India Harshal Patel
112 India Ashok Dinda
113 India Sandeep Warrier
114 India Manvinder Bisla
115 India Iqbal Abdulla
Sunrisers Hyderabad[2]
116 India Shikhar Dhawan 20.85[3]
117 India Ashish Reddy
118 India Bhuvneshwar Kumar
119 India Chama Milind
120 South Africa Dale Steyn
121 Australia David Warner
122 India Ishant Sharma
123 India Karn Sharma
124 India Lokesh Rahul
125 Australia Moises Henriques
126 India Naman Ojha
127 India Parvez Rasool
128 India 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]

Country Capped Uncapped Total
Entered Sold Entered Sold Entered Sold
 Australia 22 5 15 3 37 8
 England 6 3 0 0 6 3
 India 23 13 209 30 232 43
 Ireland 1 0 0 0 1 0
 New Zealand 13 5 0 0 13 5
 South Africa 17 5 5 0 22 5
 Sri Lanka 17 1 0 0 17 1
 West Indies 10 1 3 0 13 1
 Zimbabwe 2 0 0 0 2 0
Total 111 33 232 33 343 66

Sold players

Name Nat IPL
Matches 		IPL team(s) IPL 2014 team Capped /
uncapped 		Base Price
in ₹ (in
lakhs)[5] 		IPL 2015 team Auctioned
price in ₹
(in lakhs)
Michael Hussey Australia 55 Chennai Super Kings / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 150 Chennai Super Kings 150
Irfan Pathan India 98 Delhi Daredevils / Kings XI Punjab / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 150 Chennai Super Kings 150
Rahul Sharma India 44 Deccan Chargers / Pune Warriors India / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Chennai Super Kings 30
Kyle Abbott South Africa 0 Kings XI Punjab Capped 30 Chennai Super Kings 30
Andrew Tye Australia 0 Uncapped 20 Chennai Super Kings 20
Pratyush Singh India 0 Uncapped 10 Chennai Super Kings 10
Ankush Bains India 0 Rajasthan Royals Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Chennai Super Kings 10
Eklavya Dwivedi India 0 Pune Warriors India Uncapped 10 Chennai Super Kings 10
Yuvraj Singh India 84 Kings XI Punjab / Pune Warriors India / Royal Challengers Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 200 Delhi Daredevils 1600
Angelo Mathews Sri Lanka 35 Pune Warriors India / Kolkata Knight Riders Capped 150 Delhi Daredevils 750
Zaheer Khan India 70 Mumbai Indians / Royal Challengers Bangalore Mumbai Indians Capped 100 Delhi Daredevils 400
Amit Mishra India 86 Deccan Chargers / Delhi Daredevils / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 10 Delhi Daredevils 350
Shreyas Iyer India 0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 260
Gurinder Sandhu Australia 0 Capped 30 Delhi Daredevils 170
Jaydev Unadkat India 33 Kolkata Knight Riders / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 50 Delhi Daredevils 110
Domnic Joseph India 0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 75
Albie Morkel South Africa 85 Chennai Super Kings / Royal Challengers Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 30 Delhi Daredevils 30
Marcus Stoinis Australia 0 Uncapped 20 Delhi Daredevils 25
CM Gautam India 12 Delhi Daredevils / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Uncapped 20 Delhi Daredevils 20
Srikar Bharat India 0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 10
KK Jiyas India 0 Uncapped 10 Delhi Daredevils 10
Murali Vijay India 75 Chennai Super Kings / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 50 Kings XI Punjab 300
Nikhil Naik India 0 Uncapped 10 Kings XI Punjab 30
Yogesh Golwalkar India 0 Uncapped 10 Kings XI Punjab 10
KC Cariappa India 0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 240
James Neesham New Zealand 4 Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Kolkata Knight Riders 50
Brad Hogg Australia 10 Rajasthan Royals Capped 50 Kolkata Knight Riders 50
Aditya Garhwal India 0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 25
Sheldon Jackson India 0 Royal Challengers Bangalore Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 15
Sumit Narwal India 7 Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 10
Vaibhav Rawal India 0 Uncapped 10 Kolkata Knight Riders 10
Aaron Finch Australia 36 Rajasthan Royals / Delhi Daredevils / Pune Warriors India / Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 100 Mumbai Indians 320
Pragyan Ojha India 91 Deccan Chargers / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 50 Mumbai Indians 50
Abhimanyu Mithun India 16 Royal Challengers Bangalore Capped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
Mitchell McClenaghan New Zealand 0 Capped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
Aiden Blizzard Australia 7 Mumbai Indians Uncapped 30 Mumbai Indians 30
Hardik Pandya India 0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
Akshay Wakhare India 0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
Nitish Rana India 0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
Siddhesh Lad India 0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
Jagadeesha Suchith India 0 Uncapped 10 Mumbai Indians 10
Chris Morris South Africa 16 Chennai Super Kings Capped 50 Rajasthan Royals 140
Rusty Theron South Africa 9 Deccan Chargers / Kings XI Punjab Capped 30 Rajasthan Royals 30
Barinder Sran India 0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
Dinesh Salunkhe India 6 Rajasthan Royals Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
Sagar Trivedi India 0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
Pardeep Sahu India 0 Uncapped 10 Rajasthan Royals 10
Dinesh Karthik India 106 Delhi Daredevils / Kings XI Punjab / Mumbai Indians Delhi Daredevils Capped 200 Royal Challengers Bangalore 1050
Darren Sammy Saint Lucia 20 Sunrisers Hyderabad Sunrisers Hyderabad Capped 100 Royal Challengers Bangalore 280
David Wiese South Africa 0 Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 280
Sean Abbott Australia 0 Capped 50 Royal Challengers Bangalore 100
Adam Milne New Zealand 0 Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 70
Sarfaraz Khan India 0 Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 50
Subramaniam Badrinath India 95 Chennai Super Kings Capped 30 Royal Challengers Bangalore 30
Jalaj Saxena India 0 Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 10
Shishir Bhavane India 0 Uncapped 10 Royal Challengers Bangalore 10
Trent Boult New Zealand 0 Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 380
Praveen Kumar India 85 Kings XI Punjab / Royal Challengers Bangalore / Mumbai Indians Mumbai Indians Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 220
Kevin Pietersen England 32 Deccan Chargers / Delhi Daredevils / Royal Challengers Bangalore Delhi Daredevils Capped 200 Sunrisers Hyderabad 200
Eoin Morgan England 32 Royal Challengers Bangalore / Kolkata Knight Riders Capped 150 Sunrisers Hyderabad 150
Ravi Bopara England 15 Kings XI Punjab Capped 100 Sunrisers Hyderabad 100
Kane Williamson New Zealand 0 Capped 50 Sunrisers Hyderabad 60
Laxmi Ratan Shukla India 46 Kolkata Knight Riders / Delhi Daredevils Delhi Daredevils Capped 30 Sunrisers Hyderabad 30
Padmanabhan Prasanth India 0 Kochi Tuskers Kerala Uncapped 10 Sunrisers Hyderabad 10
Hanuma Vihari India 17 Sunrisers Hyderabad Uncapped 10 Sunrisers Hyderabad 10
Siddarth Kaul India 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.

Player Team Reason
New Zealand James Neesham Kolkata Knight Riders Injury[7]
Australia Chris Lynn Kolkata Knight Riders Hamstring Injury[7]
England Kevin Pietersen Sunrisers Hyderabad Other reasons[8]
Australia Kane Richardson Rajasthan Royals Personal reasons[9]
Australia Josh Hazlewood Mumbai Indians National team commitment[10]
Australia Aaron Finch Mumbai Indians Hamstring injury[11]
India Mohammed Shami Delhi Daredevils Knee injury[12]
India Laxmi Ratan Shukla Sunrisers Hyderabad Illness[13]
New Zealand Adam Milne Royal Challengers Bangalore Heel Injury[14]
New Zealand Corey Anderson Mumbai Indians Fractured Finger[15]
Australia Shaun Marsh Kings XI Punjab National team commitment[16]
Australia Mitchell Johnson Kings XI Punjab National team commitment[16]

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.

Player Replaced Team Reason for replacement
England Azhar Mahmood New Zealand James Neesham Kolkata Knight Riders Injury[7]
South Africa Johan Botha Australia Chris Lynn Kolkata Knight Riders Injury[7]
India Bipul Sharma India Laxmi Ratan Shukla Sunrisers Hyderabad Illness[13]
India Sreenath Aravind New Zealand Adam Milne Royal Challengers Bangalore Heel Injury[14]
Australia Ben Hilfenhaus Australia Aaron Finch Mumbai Indians Hamstring injury[17]
New Zealand Colin Munro Australia Josh Hazlewood Mumbai Indians National team commitment[18]
England Alex Hales New Zealand Corey Anderson Mumbai Indians Fractured Finger[19]

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