List of 2013 Indian Premier League personnel changes

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

Retirement

Date	Name	Team(s) played (years)	Age	Notes	Ref.
18 August 2012	V. V. S. Laxman	Deccan Chargers (2008–2010) Kochi Tuskers Kerala (2011)	37	Went unsold at the 2012 auction. Retired from international cricket on 18 August 2012. Became the mentor-ambassador for the Sunrisers Hyderabad.[1]	[2]
29 October 2012	Sourav Ganguly	Kolkata Knight Riders (2008–2010) Pune Warriors India (2011–2012)	40	Retired from all forms of cricket on 28 October 2012.	[3]
31 October 2012	Paul Collingwood	Delhi Daredevils (2009–2010) Rajasthan Royals (2011–2012)	36	Did not return after being released from his contract.	[4]

Trades

The trading window opened on 19 November 2012.^[5]

Date	Trade		Ref
12 February 2013	To Delhi Daredevils Ashish Nehra	To Pune Warriors India Ross Taylor	[6]

Signings

Nat	Player	Team	Ref.
	CM Gautam	Delhi Daredevils
	Ishwar Pandey	Pune Warriors India	[7]
	Parvez Rasool	Pune Warriors India
	Tirumalasetti Suman	Pune Warriors India
	Sandeep Warrier	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[8]
	Sheldon Jackson	Royal Challengers Bangalore
	Abhinav Mukund	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[9]
	Sunny Sohal	Royal Challengers Bangalore	[10]
	Lokesh Rahul	Royal Challengers Bangalore
	Harmeet Singh	Rajasthan Royals	[11]
	Sachin Baby	Rajasthan Royals
	Sanju Samson	Rajasthan Royals	[12]
	Jalaj Saxena	Mumbai Indians	[13]
	Rishi Dhawan	Mumbai Indians
	Baba Aparajith	Chennai Super Kings
	Vijay Shankar	Chennai Super Kings
	Mohit Sharma	Chennai Super Kings
	Ankit Rajpoot	Chennai Super Kings
	Imtiyaz Ahmed	Chennai Super Kings
	Ronit More	Chennai Super Kings
	Karthikeyan R	Chennai Super Kings
	Steve Smith	Pune Warriors India	[14]
	Tamim Iqbal	Pune Warriors India	[14]
	Hanuma Vihari	Sunrisers Hyderabad
	Sachin Rana	Sunrisers Hyderabad
	Karn Sharma	Sunrisers Hyderabad

  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.^[15] The following players were released from their contracts.^[5]

Nat	Player	Team	Contract	Signed
	Darren Bravo	Deccan Chargers	$100,000	2012
	Daniel Christian	Deccan Chargers	$900,000	2011
	Manpreet Gony	Deccan Chargers	$290,000	2011
	Daniel Harris	Deccan Chargers	$70,000	2012
	George Bailey	Chennai Super Kings	$50,000	2011
	Doug Bollinger	Chennai Super Kings	$700,000	2011
	Joginder Sharma	Chennai Super Kings	$150,000	2011
	Suraj Randiv	Chennai Super Kings	$80,000	2011
	Scott Styris	Chennai Super Kings	$200,000	2011
	Gulam Bodi	Delhi Daredevils	†	2012
	Doug Bracewell	Delhi Daredevils	$50,000	2012
	Aaron Finch	Delhi Daredevils	$300,000	2011
	Glenn Maxwell	Delhi Daredevils	†	2012
	Venugopal Rao	Delhi Daredevils	$700,000	2011
	Kyle Abbott	Kings XI Punjab	†	2012
	Ben Cutting	Kings XI Punjab	†	2012
	James Faulkner	Kings XI Punjab	$190,000	2012
	Ramesh Powar	Kings XI Punjab	$160,000	2012
	Nathan Rimmington	Kings XI Punjab	$20,000	2011
	Stuart Broad	Kings XI Punjab	$400,000	2011
	Richard Levi	Mumbai Indians	†	2012
	Davy Jacobs	Mumbai Indians	$190,000	2011
	Clint McKay	Mumbai Indians	$110,000	2011
	Thisara Perera	Mumbai Indians	$650,000	2012
	Michael Clarke	Pune Warriors India	†	2012
	Sourav Ganguly	Pune Warriors India	†	2011
	Callum Ferguson	Pune Warriors India	$300,000	2011
	Nathan McCullum	Pune Warriors India	$100,000	2011
	Jesse Ryder	Pune Warriors India	$150,000	2011
	Graeme Smith	Pune Warriors India	$500,000	2011
	James Hopes	Pune Warriors India	$350,000	2011
	Johan Botha	Rajasthan Royals	$950,000	2011
	Dinesh Chandimal	Rajasthan Royals	$50,000	2012
	Paul Collingwood	Rajasthan Royals	$250,000	2011
	Owais Shah	Rajasthan Royals	†	2012
	Mohammad Kaif	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$130,000	2011
	Charl Langeveldt	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$140,000	2011
	Dirk Nannes	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$650,000	2011
	Luke Pomersbach	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000	2011
	Rilee Rossouw	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$20,000	2011

†Signed as a replacement player for an undisclosed sum

Released uncapped Indian players

Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Tekkami Atchuta Rao
• Kedar Devdhar
• Ishank Jaggi
• Tanmay Mishra
• Syed Quadri
• Sneha Kishore
• Sunny Sohal
• Tanmay Srivastava
• Arjun Yadav

Chennai Super Kings

• Yo Mahesh
• Abhinav Mukund
• Sudeep Tyagi
• K Vasudevadas
• G Vignesh

Delhi Daredevils

• Prashant Naik
• Puneet Bisht
• Robin Bist
• Sunny Gupta
• Kuldeep Raval
• Aavishkar Salvi
• Vikas Mishra
• Tejashwi Yadav
• Zafir Patel

Kings XI Punjab

• Love Ablish
• Amit Yadav
• Paras Dogra
• Vikramjeet Malik
• Abhishek Nayar
• Nitin Saini

Kolkata Knight Riders

• Chirag Jani
• Sanju Samson
• Iresh Saxena
• Jaydev Unadkat

Mumbai Indians

• Sujit Nayak
• Jaydev Shah
• Kuldeep Yadav

Pune Warriors India

• Kamran Khan
• Harshad Khadiwale
• Mohnish Mishra
• Sachin Rana

Rajasthan Royals

• Deepak Chahar
• Aakash Chopra
• Aditya Dole
• Samad Fallah
• Faiz Fazal
• Sumit Narwal
• Pankaj Singh
• Amit Paunikar
• Abhishek Raut
• Pinal Shah
• Amit Singh
• Dishant Yagnik

Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Raju Bhatkal
• CM Gautam
• Abrar Kazi
• Ryan Ninan
• Asad Pathan
• S Thiyagarajan
• Prasanth Parameswaran

Withdrawn players

The following players withdrew from the tournament.

Player	Team	Reason	Ref
JP Duminy	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Injury	[16]
Varun Aaron	Delhi Daredevils	Injury	[16]
Michael Clarke	Pune Warriors India	Back and hamstring problems	[17]
Sreenath Aravind	Royal Challengers Bangalore	Injury
Kevin Pietersen	Delhi Daredevils	Knee injury	[18]

Auction

Country	Players
	Entered	Sold
India	7	6
Sri Lanka	26	6
Australia	32	13
South Africa	21	4
West Indies	14	5
New Zealand	5	3
England	2	0
Ireland	1	0
Total	108	37

The players' auction for the 2013 season was held on 3 February in Chennai.^[19] 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.^[20]

Sold players

All player contracts are for this season only.^[21]

Nat	Player	Team	Base price	Winning bid
	Christopher Barnwell	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000	$50,000
	Johan Botha	Delhi Daredevils	$300,000	$450,000
	Daniel Christian	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$100,000	$100,000
	Michael Clarke	Pune Warriors India	$400,000	$400,000
	Nathan Coulter-Nile	Mumbai Indians	$100,000	$450,000
	Akila Dananjaya	Chennai Super Kings	$20,000	$20,000
	Quinton de Kock	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$20,000	$20,000
	Fidel Edwards	Rajasthan Royals	$100,000	$210,000
	James Faulkner	Rajasthan Royals	$100,000	$400,000
	Manpreet Gony	Kings XI Punjab	$200,000	$500,000
	Moisés Henriques	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$100,000	$300,000
	Jason Holder	Chennai Super Kings	$20,000	$20,000
	Phillip Hughes	Mumbai Indians	$100,000	$100,000
	Ben Laughlin	Chennai Super Kings	$20,000	$20,000
	Glenn Maxwell	Mumbai Indians	$200,000	$1,000,000
	Nathan McCullum	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$100,000	$100,000
	Clint McKay	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$100,000	$100,000
	Ryan McLaren	Kolkata Knight Riders	$50,000	$50,000
	Ajantha Mendis	Pune Warriors India	$50,000	$725,000
	Jeevan Mendis	Delhi Daredevils	$50,000	$50,000
	Chris Morris	Chennai Super Kings	$20,000	$625,000
	Dirk Nannes	Chennai Super Kings	$200,000	$600,000
	Abhishek Nayar	Pune Warriors India	$100,000	$675,000
	Jacob Oram	Mumbai Indians	$50,000	$50,000
	Kusal Perera	Rajasthan Royals	$20,000	$20,000
	Thisara Perera	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$50,000	$675,000
	Luke Pomersbach	Kings XI Punjab	$50,000	$300,000
	Ricky Ponting	Mumbai Indians	$400,000	$400,000
	Ravi Rampaul	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000	$290,000
	Kane Richardson	Pune Warriors India	$100,000	$700,000
	Jesse Ryder	Delhi Daredevils	$100,000	$260,000
	Darren Sammy	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$100,000	$425,000
	Sachithra Senanayake	Kolkata Knight Riders	$50,000	$625,000
	Pankaj Singh	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$50,000	$150,000
	R. P. Singh	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$100,000	$400,000
	Sudeep Tyagi	Sunrisers Hyderabad	$100,000	$100,000
	Jaydev Unadkat	Royal Challengers Bangalore	$100,000	$525,000

Players list

Players list^[22]

• 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