This is a list of all personnel changes for the 2020 Indian Premier League.
The BCCI set the deadline of 14 November for both the trading window and the list of each IPL team's retained and released players.
Kings XI Punjab's skipper Ravichandran Ashwin for months was rumoured to be transferred to Delhi Capitals before eventually being transferred in November. Ajinkya Rahane, Trent Boult and Mayank Markande got salary raise during pre-auction trades.
The released players were announced on 15 November 2019. Robin Uthappa, Yuvraj Singh and Chris Lynn were the prominent names among the released players. Jaydev Unadkat, the costliest Indian player in 2019 auction, was also released.
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The team retentions were announced on 15 November 2019.
The auction was conducted on 19 December 2019 in Kolkata. The teams will have an additional purse balance of Rs.3 crores in addition to balance remaining of their original Rs. 85 crores. A total of 971 players including 258 overseas players have registered for the 2019 IPL Auctions, wheres a maximum of 73 positions are to be filled. Later, the Governing Council sent the eight franchises the final list of players, which has been trimmed from the original 971 to 332, including 19 Indian capped players. The final list also includes 24 new players that were added after those names were requested by the franchises.
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The following players withdrew from the tournament either due to injuries or because of other reasons.