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:

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.

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:

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.

Unsold players

 * 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) Mohammed 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) Nicholas 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 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.