List of 2012 Indian Premier League personnel changes

The players auction for the 2012 Indian Premier League (fifth season) was held on 4 February 2012 in Bangalore. Each player in the auction pool had a base price under which franchise owners cannot bid. Players were allowed to set their base price between $20,000 to $400,000.

IPL authority has increased the number of players in each squad to 33 from the previous limit of 30 and also has increased the salary cap by $2 million. According to the new IPL rule each team can have 33 players and a maximum of 11 overseas players in their squad and they can spend up to $2 million at auction.

The players of Kochi Tuskers Kerala (KTK) were included in the players auction. The franchise of Kochi IPL team was terminated by BCCI in September, 2011.

Sold players

The list of players sold at 2012 IPL Players Auction where Pune Warriors India did not take part.

Nat	Player	Team	Winning bid	Base price
	Brendon McCullum	Template:Cr-IPL	$900,000	$400,000
	Ravindra Jadeja	Template:Cr-IPL	$2,000,000	$100,000
	Muttiah Muralitharan	Template:Cr-IPL	$200,000	$200,000
	Mahela Jayawardene	Template:Cr-IPL	$1,400,000	$300,000
	Herschelle Gibbs	Template:Cr-IPL	$50,000	$50,000
	Brad Hodge	Template:Cr-IPL	$475,000	$200,000
	Parthiv Patel	Template:Cr-IPL	$650,000	$200,000
	Dinesh Chandimal	Template:Cr-IPL	$50,000	$50,000
	Andre Russell	Template:Cr-IPL	$450,000	$50,000
	Mitchell Johnson	Template:Cr-IPL	$300,000	$300,000
	R. P. Singh	Template:Cr-IPL	$600,000	$200,000
	Vinay Kumar	Template:Cr-IPL	$1,000,000	$100,000
	Sreesanth	Template:Cr-IPL	$400,000	$400,000
	Ramesh Powar	Template:Cr-IPL	$160,000	$100,000
	Brad Hogg	Template:Cr-IPL	$180,000	$100,000
	Sunil Narine	Template:Cr-IPL	$700,000	$50,000
	Robin Peterson	Template:Cr-IPL	$100,000	$100,000
	Daniel Harris	Template:Cr-IPL	$70,000	$50,000
	Kevon Cooper	Template:Cr-IPL	$50,000	$50,000
	James Faulkner	Template:Cr-IPL	$190,000	$100,000
	Azhar Mahmood	Template:Cr-IPL	$200,000	$100,000
	Thisara Perera	Template:Cr-IPL	$650,000	$50,000
	Marchant de Lange	Template:Cr-IPL	$50,000	$50,000
	Darren Bravo	Template:Cr-IPL	$100,000	$100,000
	Doug Bracewell	Template:Cr-IPL	$50,000	$50,000

Players List

The list of players for IPL 2012 Players Auction has been finalized by BCCI. Earlier Ravi Bopara pulled out of the IPL 2012 Players auction but changed his mind and is in the list of preliminary English players for auction.

$400,000

Graeme Swann (England); VVS Laxman, Sreesanth (India); Brendon McCullum (New Zealand).

$300,000

Mitchell Johnson (Australia); James Anderson (England); Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka).

$200,000

Brad Hodge, Peter Siddle, Steven Smith (Australia); Ian Bell, Owais Shah, Matt Prior, Chris Tremlett, Luke Wright, Rikki Clarke (England); RP Singh, Parthiv Patel (India); Vernon Philander, Nicky Boje (South Africa); Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka).

$100,000

Capped: Brad Hogg, Stuart MacGill, Xavier Doherty, Adam Voges, Stephen O'Keefe (Australia); Azhar Mahmood, Jade Dernbach, Ravi Bopara, Simon Jones (England); Ravindra Jadeja, Vinay Kumar, Ramesh Powar, VRV Singh (India); Jacob Oram, Tim Southee, Kyle Mills (New Zealand); Mark Boucher, Justin Kemp, Neil McKenzie, Robin Peterson, Alviro Petersen, Morne van Wyk, Ryan McLaen, Imran Tahir (South Africa); Dilhara Fernando (Sri Lanka); Ramnaresh Sarwan, Marlon Samuels, Denesh Ramdin, Dwayne Smith, Ravi Rampaul, Fidel Edwards, Daren Ganga, Darren Bravo (West Indies); Brendan Taylor, Raymond Price (Zimbabwe).

Uncapped: Ben Cutting, James Faulkner (Australia) and Tom Maynard (England).

$50,000

Capped: Jason Krejza, Ben Laughlin, Luke Ronchi, Shane Harwood, Usman Khawaja (Australia); Tamim Iqbal (Bangladesh); Mal Loye (England); Lou Vincent, Ian Butler, Andy McKay, Rob Nicol, Doug Bracewell (New Zealand); Herschelle Gibbs, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Rory Kleinveldt, Marchant de Lange (South Africa); Upul Tharanga, Farveez Maharoof, Chamara Kapugedera, Ajantha Mendis, Thisara Perera, Dinesh Chandimal, Rangana Herath, Chanaka Welegedara (Sri Lanka); Lendl Simmons, Sulieman Benn, Andre Russell, Devendra Bishoo, Adrian Barath, Sunil Narine (West Indies); Hamilton Masakadza, Charles Coventry, Prosper Utseya (Zimbabwe).

Uncapped: Cameron Borgas, Lee Carseldine, Ben Edmondson, Peter Forrest, Daniel Harris, Michael Klinger, Michael Neser (Australia); Jason Roy (England); Tom Cooper (Netherlands); Kevin O’Brien, Niall O’Brien (Ireland); Johan van der Wath, Ahmed Amla, Dillon du Preez, Robert Frylinck, Richard Levi (South Africa); Kevon Cooper (West Indies).

$20,000

Capped: Josh Hazlewood, Trent Copeland (Australia); Adam Milne (New Zealand); Jacques Rudolph, Paul Harris, Gulam Bodi, Vaughn van Jaarsveld, Andrew Puttick (South Africa); Thilina Kandamby, Thilan Thushara, Jeevan Mendis, Dilruwan Perera, Lahiru Thirimanne, Kosala Kulasekara, Nuwan Pradeep (Sri Lanka); Andre Fletcher, Krishmar Santokie (West Indies); Keegan Meth, Tino Mawoyo (Zimbabwe).

Uncapped: Tim Cruickshank, Aaron Heal, Ashton May, Alister McDermott, Aaron O’Brien, Ben Rohrer, Daniel Smith (Australia); Farhaan Behardien, Henry Davids, CJ de Villiers, Daryn Smit, JJ Smuts, Craig Thyssen (South Africa); Sachithra Senanayake (Sri Lanka); Samuel Badree, Jonathan Carter (West Indies).

Broadcast

The proceedings of the IPL 2012 Players Auction was telecasted live by MAX, the official broadcaster of IPL.

References

• IPL 2012 Blogs

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