List of 2015 Indian Premier League personnel changes

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		Iqbal Abdullah	Rajasthan Royals	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[1]
2		Manvinder Bisla	Kolkata Knight Riders	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[1]
3		Parthiv Patel	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Mumbai Indians	[1]
4		Unmukt Chand	Rajasthan Royals	Mumbai Indians	[1]
5		Vinay Kumar	Kolkata Knight Riders	Mumbai Indians	[1]
6		Mandeep Singh	Kings XI Punjab	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[1]

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		Mahendra Singh Dhoni	5[3]
2		Ashish Nehra
3		Baba Aparajith
4		Brendon McCullum
5		Dwayne Bravo
6		Dwayne Smith
7		Faf du Plessis
8		Ishwar Pandey
9		Matt Henry
10		Mithun Manhas
11		Mohit Sharma
12		Pawan Negi
13		R Ashwin
14		Ravindra Jadeja
15		Samuel Badree
16		Suresh Raina
17		Ronit More
Delhi Daredevils[2]
18		Jean-Paul Duminy	40[3]
19		Kedar Jadhav
20		Manoj Tiwary
21		Mohammed Shami
22		Nathan Coulter-Nile
23		Quinton de Kock
24		Saurabh Tiwary
25		Shahbaz Nadeem
26		Mayank Agarwal
27		Imran Tahir
28		Jayant Yadav
Kolkata Knight Riders[2]
29		Gautam Gambhir	13[3]
30		Andre Russell
31		Chris Lynn
32		Kuldeep Yadav
33		Manish Pandey
34		Suryakumar Yadav
35		Morne Morkel
36		Pat Cummins
37		Piyush Chawla
38		Robin Uthappa
39		Ryan ten Doeschate
40		Shakib Al Hasan
41		Sunil Narine
42		Umesh Yadav
43		Veer Pratap Singh
44		Yusuf Pathan
Kings XI Punjab[2]
45		Axar Patel	11.8[3]
46		Anureet Singh
47		Beuran Hendricks
48		David 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
62		Thisara Perera
63		Virender Sehwag
64		Wriddhiman Saha
Mumbai Indians[2]
65		Rohit Sharma	10[3]
66		Aditya Tare
67		Ambati Rayudu
68		Corey Anderson
69		Harbhajan Singh
70		Jasprit Bumrah
71		Josh Hazlewood
72		Kieron Pollard
73		Lasith Malinga
74		Marchant de Lange
75		Pawan Suyal
76		Shreyas Gopal
77		Lendl Simmons
78		Unmukt Chand
79		Vinay Kumar
80		Parthiv Patel
Rajasthan Royals[2]
81		Shane Watson	13[3]
82		Abhishek Nayar
83		Ajinkya 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[2]
100		Virat Kohli	21[3]
101		AB de Villiers
102		Chris Gayle
103		Mitchell Starc
104		Nic Maddinson
105		Varun Aaron
106		Yuzvendra Chahal
107		Rilee 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[2]
116		Shikhar Dhawan	20.85[3]
117		Ashish Reddy
118		Bhuvneshwar Kumar
119		Chama Milind
120		Dale 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

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

Player	Team	Reason
James Neesham	Kolkata Knight Riders	Injury[7]
Chris Lynn	Kolkata Knight Riders	Hamstring Injury[7]
Kevin Pietersen	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Other reasons[8]
Kane Richardson	Rajasthan Royals	Personal reasons[9]
Josh Hazlewood	Mumbai Indians	National team commitment[10]
Aaron Finch	Mumbai Indians	Hamstring injury[11]
Mohammed Shami	Delhi Daredevils	Knee injury[12]
Laxmi Ratan Shukla	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Illness[13]
Adam Milne	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Heel Injury[14]
Corey Anderson	Mumbai Indians	Fractured Finger[15]
Shaun Marsh	Kings XI Punjab	National team commitment[16]
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
Azhar Mahmood	James Neesham	Kolkata Knight Riders	Injury[7]
Johan Botha	Chris Lynn	Kolkata Knight Riders	Injury[7]
Bipul Sharma	Laxmi Ratan Shukla	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Illness[13]
Sreenath Aravind	Adam Milne	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Heel Injury[14]
Ben Hilfenhaus	Aaron Finch	Mumbai Indians	Hamstring injury[17]
Colin Munro	Josh Hazlewood	Mumbai Indians	National team commitment[18]
Alex Hales	Corey Anderson	Mumbai Indians	Fractured Finger[19]

• IPL 2015 player salary