List of 2013 Indian Premier League personnel changes

This is a list of all personnel changes for the 2013 Indian Premier League (IPL).

Trades
The trading window opened on 19 November 2012.

Signings
Retained players

Released players
In October 2012, the IPL franchise teams were offered the option of releasing any number of their players from their contracts ahead of the trading window and auction. This allowed teams to reduce player costs. The following players were released from their contracts.

†Signed as a replacement player for an undisclosed sum

Sunrisers Hyderabad Chennai Super Kings Delhi Daredevils Kings XI Punjab Kolkata Knight Riders Mumbai Indians Pune Warriors India Rajasthan Royals Royal Challengers Bangalore
 * Tekkami Atchuta Rao
 * Kedar Devdhar
 * Ishank Jaggi
 * Tanmay Mishra
 * Syed Quadri
 * Sneha Kishore
 * Sunny Sohal
 * Tanmay Srivastava
 * Arjun Yadav
 * Yo Mahesh
 * Abhinav Mukund
 * Sudeep Tyagi
 * K Vasudevadas
 * G Vignesh
 * Prashant Naik
 * Puneet Bisht
 * Robin Bist
 * Sunny Gupta
 * Kuldeep Raval
 * Aavishkar Salvi
 * Vikas Mishra
 * Tejashwi Yadav
 * Zafir Patel
 * Love Ablish
 * Amit Yadav
 * Paras Dogra
 * Vikramjeet Malik
 * Abhishek Nayar
 * Nitin Saini
 * Chirag Jani
 * Sanju Samson
 * Iresh Saxena
 * Jaydev Unadkat
 * Sujit Nayak
 * Jaydev Shah
 * Kamran Khan
 * Harshad Khadiwale
 * Mohnish Mishra
 * Sachin Rana
 * Deepak Chahar
 * Aakash Chopra
 * Aditya Dole
 * Samad Fallah
 * Faiz Fazal
 * Sumit Narwal
 * Pankaj Singh
 * Amit Paunikar
 * Abhishek Raut
 * Pinal Shah
 * Amit Singh
 * Dishant Yagnik
 * Raju Bhatkal
 * CM Gautam
 * Abrar Kazi
 * Ryan Ninan
 * Asad Pathan
 * S Thiyagarajan
 * Prasanth Parameswaran

Withdrawn players
The following players withdrew from the tournament.

Auction
The players' auction for the 2013 season was held on 3 February in Chennai. The Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club prevented their players (Michael Lumb, Alex Hales and Samit Patel in particular) from participating in the IPL and the auction to avoid losing them for the County Championship.

Sold players
All player contracts are for this season only.

Players list

 * First tier ($400,000):


 * 1) 🇦🇺 Michael Clarke
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Ricky Ponting


 * Second tier ($300,000):
 * 1) 🇿🇦 Johan Botha


 * Third tier ($200,000):


 * 1) 🇮🇳 Manpreet Gony
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Aaron Finch
 * 3) 🇦🇺 Matthew Wade
 * 4) 🇦🇺 Glenn Maxwell
 * 5) 🇦🇺 Doug Bollinger
 * 6) 🇦🇺 Dirk Nannes
 * 7) 🇦🇺 John Hastings
 * 8) 🇿🇦 Herschelle Gibbs
 * 9) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Prior


 * Fourth tier ($100,000):
 * Capped:


 * 1) 🇮🇳 R. P. Singh
 * 2) 🇮🇳 Abhishek Nayar
 * 3) 🇮🇳 Sudeep Tyagi
 * 4) 🇮🇳 Jaydev Unadkat
 * 5) 🇱🇰 Upul Tharanga
 * 6) 🇱🇰 Dinesh Chandimal
 * 7) 🇱🇰 Rangana Herath
 * 8) 🇱🇰 Thilan Samaraweera
 * 9) 🇱🇰 Dilhara Fernando
 * 10) 🇦🇺 Phillip Hughes
 * 11) 🇦🇺 Adam Voges
 * 12) 🇦🇺 Daniel Christian
 * 13) 🇦🇺 James Faulkner
 * 14) 🇦🇺 Moisés Henriques
 * 15) 🇦🇺 James Hopes
 * 16) 🇦🇺 Stephen O'Keefe
 * 17) 🇦🇺 Callum Ferguson
 * 18) 🇦🇺 Josh Hazlewood
 * 19) 🇦🇺 Clinton McKay
 * 20) 🇦🇺 Kane Richardson
 * 21) 🇦🇺 Tim Paine
 * 22) 🇦🇺 Travis Birt
 * 23) 🇿🇦 Vernon Philander
 * 24) 🇳🇿 Nathan McCullum
 * 25) 🇳🇿 Scott Styris
 * 26) 🇳🇿 Martin Guptill
 * 27) 🇳🇿 Jesse Ryder
 * 28) 🇹🇹 Darren Bravo
 * 29) 🇱🇨 Darren Sammy
 * 30) 🇧🇧 Fidel Edwards
 * 31) 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ravi Bopara


 * Uncapped:


 * 1) 🇦🇺 Ben Cutting
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Nic Maddinson
 * 3) 🇦🇺 Nathan Coulter-Nile


 * Fifth tier ($50,000):
 * Capped:


 * 1) 🇮🇳 Pankaj Singh
 * 2) 🇮🇳 Wasim Jaffer
 * 3) 🇱🇰 Ajantha Mendis
 * 4) 🇱🇰 Suraj Randiv
 * 5) 🇱🇰 Prasanna Jayawardene
 * 6) 🇱🇰 Thisara Perera
 * 7) 🇱🇰 Farveez Maharoof
 * 8) 🇱🇰 Jeevan Mendis
 * 9) 🇱🇰 Sachithra Senanayake
 * 10) 🇱🇰 Tharanga Paranavitana
 * 11) 🇱🇰 Dilruwan Perera
 * 12) 🇱🇰 Dhammika Prasad
 * 13) 🇱🇰 Chanaka Welegedara
 * 14) 🇦🇺 Luke Pomersbach
 * 15) 🇦🇺 Trent Copeland
 * 16) 🇿🇦 Ryan McLaren
 * 17) 🇿🇦 Richard Levi
 * 18) 🇿🇦 Rory Kleinveldt
 * 19) 🇳🇿 Jacob Oram
 * 20) 🇹🇹 Denesh Ramdin
 * 21) 🇹🇹 Ravi Rampaul
 * 22) 🇬🇾 Devendra Bishoo
 * 23) 🇯🇲 Ricardo Powell
 * 24)  Kieran Powell
 * 25) 🇧🇧 Tino Best
 * 26) 🇯🇲 Jerome Taylor
 * 27) 🇬🇾 Christopher Barnwell


 * Uncapped:


 * 1) 🇦🇺 Joe Burns
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Daniel Harris
 * 3) 🇦🇺 Ben Rohrer
 * 4) 🇦🇺 Alister McDermott
 * 5) 🇮🇪 Kevin O'Brien


 * Sixth tier ($20,000):
 * Capped:


 * 1) 🇱🇰 Kaushal Silva
 * 2) 🇱🇰 Akila Dananjaya
 * 3) 🇱🇰 Chamara Kapugedera
 * 4) 🇱🇰 Jehan Mubarak
 * 5) 🇱🇰 Lahiru Thirimanne
 * 6) 🇱🇰 Seekkuge Prasanna
 * 7) 🇱🇰 Shaminda Eranga
 * 8) 🇱🇰 Dilshan Munaweera
 * 9) 🇱🇰 Nuwan Pradeep
 * 10) 🇦🇺 Ben Laughlin
 * 11) 🇿🇦 Dane Vilas
 * 12) 🇿🇦 Paul Harris
 * 13) 🇿🇦 Lonwabo Tsotsobe
 * 14) 🇿🇦 Charl Langeveldt
 * 15) 🇬🇾 Veerasammy Permaul
 * 16) 🇯🇲 Danza Hyatt


 * Uncapped:


 * 1) 🇱🇰 Kusal Perera
 * 2) 🇦🇺 Cameron Boyce
 * 3) 🇿🇦 Quinton de Kock
 * 4) 🇿🇦 Aaron Phangiso
 * 5) 🇿🇦 Chris Morris
 * 6) 🇿🇦 Henry Davids
 * 7) 🇿🇦 Rilee Rossouw
 * 8) 🇿🇦 Jandre Coetzee
 * 9) 🇿🇦 Alistair Gray
 * 10) 🇿🇦 Dwaine Pretorius
 * 11) 🇿🇦 Stiaan van Zyl
 * 12) 🇿🇦 David Wiese
 * 13) 🇿🇦 Andrew Birch
 * 14) 🇧🇧 Jason Holder