IPL 20-20 Teams

Mumbai Indians
Owned by Mr. Mukesh Ambani and Reliance Industries Limited for $111.9 million.Batsmen
Sachin Tendulkar (Captain)
Sanath Jayasuriya
Robin Uthappa
Loots Bosman
Ashwell Prince
Ajinkya Rahane
Manish Pandey
Saurabh Tiwary All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Shaun Pollock
Abhishek Nayar
Dwayne Bravo
Dominic Thornely
Luke Ronchi - Wicket keeper
Yogesh Takawale - Wicket keeper
Pinal Shah - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Harbhajan Singh
Lasith Malinga
Dilhara Fernando
Ashish Nehra

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Owned by Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group for $111.6 million.Batsmen
Rahul Dravid (Captain)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Wasim Jaffer
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor
Appanna K. P.
Bharat Chipli All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Jacques Kallis
Cameron White
Sunil Joshi
Balachandra Akhil
Virat Kohli
Ashley Noffke
Mark Boucher - Wicket keeper
Shreevats Goswami - Wicket keeper
Devraj Patil - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Anil Kumble
Zaheer Khan
Nathan Bracken
Dale Steyn
Praveen Kumar
Abdur Razzak
Vinay Kumar

Deccan Chargers

Owned by Deccan Chronicle for $107 million.Batsmen
V. V. S. Laxman (Captain)
Rohit Sharma
Herschelle Gibbs
Venugopal Rao
Chamara Silva
Arjun Yadav
Paidikalva Vijaykumar
D Ravi Teja All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Andrew Symonds
Shahid Afridi
Scott Styris
Sanjay Bangar
Adam Gilchrist - Wicket keeper
Halhadar Das - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Rudra Pratap Singh
Chaminda Vaas
Nuwan Zoysa
Pragyan Ojha
Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna
M Sarveesh Kumar
Chennai Super Kings
Owned by India Cements and N Srinivasan for $91 million.Batsmen
Matthew Hayden
Stephen Fleming
Suresh Raina
Michael Hussey
Anirudha Srikkanth
Subramaniam Badrinath
Arun Karthik
Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Jacob Oram
Albie Morkel
Shadab Jakati
Abhinav Mukund
Viraj Kadbe
Napoleon Einstein
Selvam Suresh Kumar
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain) - Wicket keeper
Parthiv Patel - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Muttiah Muralitharan
Joginder Sharma
Makhaya Ntini
R Ashwin
Manpreet Gony
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Palani Amarnath

Delhi DareDevils

Owned by GMR Holdings for $84 million.Batsmen
Virender Sehwag (Captain)
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Gautam Gambhir
Manoj Tiwary
Shikhar Dhawan All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Daniel Vettori
Shoaib Malik
Farveez Maharoof
Rajat Bhatia
Mithun Manhas
Mayank Tehlan
Dinesh Karthik - Wicket keeper
AB de Villiers - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Mohammad Asif
Glenn McGrath
Brett Geeves
Pradeep Sangwan
Yo Mahesh
Amit Mishra

Kings XI Punjab

Owned by Preity Zinta, Ness Wadia, Karan Paul (Apeejay Surendera Group) and Mohit Burman (Dabur) for $76 million.Batsmen
Yuvraj Singh (Captain)
Mahela Jayawardene
Ramnaresh Sarwan
Simon Katich
Luke Pomersbach
Karan Goel
Uday Kaul
Tanmay Srivastava
Sahil Kukreja
Sunny Sohal
Shaun Marsh All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Irfan Pathan
Ramesh Powar
James Hopes
Wilkin Mota
Kumar Sangakkara - Wicket keeper
Pankaj Dharmani - Wicket keeper
Nitin Saini - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Brett Lee
Shanthakumaran Sreesanth
Piyush Chawla
Vikram Raj Vir Singh
Kyle Mills
Ajitesh Argal
Rishi Dhawan

Kolkata Knight Riders

Owned by Shah Rukh Khan, Juhi Chawla Mehta and Jai Mehta (Red Chillies Entertainment) for $75.09 million.Batsmen
David Hussey
Ricky Ponting
Salman Butt
Akash Chopra
Cheteshwar Pujara
Rohan Banerjee
Yashpal Singh
Debabrata Das
Brad Hodge All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
Chris Gayle
Ajit Agarkar
Mohammad Hafeez
Iqbal Abdulla
Laxmi Ratan Shukla
Tatenda Taibu - Wicket keeper
Wriddhiman Saha - Wicket keeper
Brendon McCullum - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Ishant Sharma
Shoaib Akhtar
Murali Kartik
Umar Gul
Siddarth Kaul
Ranadeb Bose
Sourashish Lahiri
Ashoke Dinda

Rajasthan Royals

Owned by Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram) for $67 million.Batsmen
Graeme Smith
Mohammad Kaif
Younis Khan
Anoop Revandkar
Taruwar Kohli
Niraj Patel All Rounders/Wicket Keepers
Yusuf Pathan
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Shane Watson
Sohail Tanvir
Ravindra Jadeja
Siddharth Trivedi
Swapnil Asnodkar
Sumit Khatri
Kamran Akmal - Wicket keeper
Mahesh Rawat - Wicket keeper Bowlers
Shane Warne (Captain)
Munaf Patel
Pankaj Singh
Morne Morkel

Champions League Cricket

The Board of Control for Cricket in India, Cricket Australia, and Cricket South Africa today announced the rescheduling of the inaugural edition of the Champions League Cricket Tournament from September-October to early December.The three founding member boards reiterated that this was a goodwill response to a request from the International Cricket Council (ICC) to consider new playing dates for 2008.The first Champions League Cricket Tournament will now be contested from 3 – 10 December inclusive, the three cricket boards said in a joint statement today.Eight teams, consisting of the reigning winners and runners-up from the domestic Twenty20 competitions in India, Australia and South Africa, plus the reigning Twenty20 champion Sialkot from Pakistan and the reigning Twenty20 Cup champion from England, Middlesex, have been invited to contest the 2008 Champions League Cricket Tournament.The inaugural contest was announced on 30 July this year, offering teams US$6 million of prize money, the biggest prize money in world cricket for cricket at a domestic competition level. The prize money, including US$3 million for the winning team, will be shared between the teams and their players. The Governing Council of the event together with its founding cricket boards believe the significant prize money to be shared between teams and players will ensure that the benefits of the event will foster cricket’s development by injecting new funding into domestic-level cricket and at the same time will handsomely reward domestic-level cricketers and provide a unique opportunity for a higher public profile for players at the level below international cricket.The 2008 date change for the event was agreed to by the event’s Governing Council after receiving an ICC request to consider alternative dates in 2008 in order to offer a clearer window after the ICC Champions Trophy, which is currently scheduled for September 2008.“While the Champions League Cricket Tournament is a domestic tournament not affected by ICC Event rules, we have agreed to the ICC request as a gesture of goodwill,” the joint Champions League Cricket Tournament statement said.Lalit Modi, Chairman and Commissioner of the Indian Premier League and Vice President BCCI said: “We are happy that we were able to find a window during the first week of December for the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20. There was a gap in between the One-Day Internationals and Tests against the touring England squad and that will enable both the Rajasthan Royals and the Chennai Super Kings to regroup and focus on the inaugural edition of the Champions League Twenty20.”To facilitate the change in Australia, Cricket Australia, Cricket South Africa and the West Australian Cricket Association, as the venue operator, have also agreed to reschedule the 3 mobile Australia-South Africa Test due to be played at the WACA ground in Perth, Western Australia to start on 17 December 2008 instead of 12 December.This creates a window between the 3 mobile Australia-New Zealand Test at Adelaide, due to start on 28 November, and the new dates for the 3 mobile Perth Test, which will allow Australian and South African players to participate in the Champions League Cricket Tournament.CA Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland and CSA CEO Gerald Majola said they had consulted players and player associations, the WACA and other stakeholders to assess the feasibility and impact of making the Test match playing date changes.“We were pleased with the WACA reaction that the new playing dates offer local fans, including corporate groups wanting to entertain at the cricket, good dates for pre-Christmas Test match enjoyment, and we also took feedback from players that the changes could be accommodated without compromising what will be a defacto World Test Cricket Championship bout between Australian and South Africa during December and January,” they said.“The changes can be made without compromising cricket’s premium format and allow the significant benefits which the new Champions League Cricket Tournament will offer grassroots cricket to be delivered”.

Indian Premier League

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