List of players for the IPL 2016 draft
After the addition of the two new franchises into the Indian Premier League (IPL), namely Rajkot and Pune, the list of players available for selection for the newly inducted teams has been released.
Also read: IPL 2016: Teams and full players list
Each of the two franchises would pick 5 players from the released draft, and the remaining would go for auctions. The draft pick would be held tomorrow, i.e. 15 December 2015, and the auctions would be held on February 6 next year.
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The two new franchises were added after the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals were suspended from the IPL by the Honourable Supreme Court of India, on the recommendations of the Justice Lodha Committee that was appointed to investigate the Corruption Scandal of 2013.
The list of players included in the draft is as given below.
| Name | Country | 2014 IPL matches | 2015 IPL matches | Total IPL matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin | India | 16 | 14 | 97 |
| Stuart Binny | India | 13 | 13 | 58 |
| MS Dhoni | India | 16 | 17 | 129 |
| Ravindra Jadeja | India | 16 | 17 | 111 |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | India | 8 | 11 | 52 |
| Abhishek Nayar | India | 5 | 0 | 60 |
| Ashish Nehra | India | 5 | 0 | 60 |
| Irfan Pathan | India | 10 | 0 | 98 |
| Ajinkya Rahane | India | 13 | 14 | 81 |
| Suresh Raina | India | 16 | 17 | 132 |
| Sanju Samson | India | 13 | 14 | 38 |
| Mohit Sharma | India | 16 | 16 | 47 |
| Rahul Sharma | India | 2 | 0 | 44 |
| Baba Aparajith | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Ankush Bains | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rajat Bhatia | India | 12 | 2 | 82 |
| Eklavya Dwivedi | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Deepak Hooda | India | 0 | 14 | 14 |
| Vikramjit Malik | India | 1 | 0 | 13 |
| Mithun Manhas | India | 12 | 0 | 55 |
| Ronit More | India | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Kaun Nair | India | 11 | 14 | 27 |
| Pawan Negi | India | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| Ishwar Pandey | India | 13 | 10 | 25 |
| Pradeep Sahu | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dinesh Salunkhe | India | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Barinder Saran | India | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ankit Sharma | India | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| Pratyush Singh | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pravin Tambe | India | 13 | 10 | 26 |
| Rahul Tewatia | India | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Sagar Trivedi | India | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dishant Yagnik | India | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| Kyle Abbott | South Africa | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Samuel Badree | West Indies | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| Dwayne Bravo | West Indies | 1 | 17 | 91 |
| Ben Cutting | Australia | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Faf du Plessis | South Africa | 15 | 17 | 45 |
| James Faulkner | Australia | 13 | 13 | 45 |
| Matt Henry | New Zealand | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michael Hussey | Australia | 9 | 4 | 59 |
| Brendon McCullum | New Zealand | 14 | 14 | 76 |
| Christopher Morris | South Africa | 0 | 11 | 27 |
| Kane Richardson | Australia | 7 | 0 | 10 |
| Dwayne Smith | West Indies | 16 | 16 | 52 |
| Steven Smith | Australia | 10 | 14 | 46 |
| Tim Southee | New Zealand | 3 | 7 | 15 |
| Juan Theron | South Africa | 0 | 1 | 10 |
| Andrew Tye | Australia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Shane Watson | Australia | 13 | 10 | 78 |