Indian Premier League (IPL) Teams

The 44-day carnival is all set to become a path breaking cricket tournament of the latest T20 slam-bang version of the game. A total of eight franchise from across the country owned by Bollywood personalities to Corporate giants who are leaving no stone unturned to give their best in this inaugural competition.

The fierce battle is on the cards with a total of 59 matches spread over 44 days dishing out the best of cricketing talent from across the globe fighting it out to claim the top honours. The USP of this highly-anticipated mega-venture is that everybody from Cricket Boards to Players has come under one umbrella to make this cricketing extravaganza a huge success.

DECCAN CHARGERS

V. V. S. Laxman (Captain), Andrew Symonds, R. P. Singh, Rohit Sharma, Adam Gilchrist Shahid Afridi, Herschelle Gibbs, Chaminda Vaas, Scott Styris, Nuwan Zoysa, Chamara Silva, Venugopal Rao, Arjun Yadav, Pragyan Ojha, P Vijay Kumar, D Ravi Teja, D Kalyan Krishna, N Sarveesh Kumar and Halhadar Das and Coach: Robin Singh

KOLKATA NIGHT RIDERS

Sourav Ganguly (Captain), Brendon McCullum, Ricky Ponting, Chris Gayle, David Hussey, Mohammed Hafiz, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wriddhiman Saha, Ajit Agarkar, Ashok Dinda, Murali Kartik, Ishant Sharma, Debabrata Das, Siddarth Kaul, Iqbal Abdullah and Coach: John Buchanan.

DELHI DAREDEVILS

Virender Sehwag (Captain), Gautam Gambhir, Manoj Tiwary, Mohammad Asif, Daniel Vettori, Dinesh Kartik, Shoaib Malik, Glenn McGrath, Abraham de Villiers, Tillekeratne Dilshan, Farveez Maharoof, Amit Misra, Pradeep Sangwan, Brett Geeves, Rajat Bhatia, Shikhar Dhawan, Yo Mahesh, Mitthun Manhas, Mayank Tehlan, Tejaswi Yadav, Yogesh Nagar and Coach: Greg Shipperd.

CHENNAI SUPERKINGS

MS Dhoni (Captain), Muttiah Muralitharan, Jacob Oram, Albie Morkel, Suresh Raina Matthew Hayden, Stephen Fleming, Michael Hussey, Parthiv Patel, Joginder Sharma Makhaya Ntini, Nuwan Zoysa, R. Ashwin, Viraj Khadge Aniruddha Srikkanth, Napolean Einstein, Sudeep Tyagi, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Abhinav Mukund, Subramaniam Badrinath, Shadab Jakati and Coach: Keppler Wessels.

MUMBAI INDIANS

Sachin Tendulkar (Captain), Sanath Jayasuriya, Harbhajan Singh, Robin Uthappa, Shaun Pollock, Lasith Malinga, Dilhara Fernando, Loots Bosman, Ajinkya Rahane, Abhishek Nayar, Yogesh Takawale, Saurabh Tiwary, Pinal Shah, Ashwell Prince, Manish Pandey, Ashish Nehra and Coach: Lalchand Rajput

BANGALORE ROYAL CHALLENGERS

Rahul Dravid (Captain), Jacques Kallis, Anil Kumble, Cameron White, Zaheer Khan, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Nathan Bracken, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Wasim Jaffer, Misbah-Ul-Haq, Ross Taylor, Abdur Razzaq, Virat Kohli, Appanna K. P., Bharat Chipli, Shreevats Goswami, J Arun Kumar, Devraj Patil, Sunil Joshi, B Akhil, Praveen Kumar, Vinay Kumara and Coach: Venkatesh Prasad

RAJASTHAN ROYALS

Shane Warne (Captain), Mohammad Kaif, Graeme Smith, Yusuf Pathan, Munaf Patel, Younis Khan, Justin Langer, Kamran Akmal, Dmitri Mascarenhas, Shane Watson, Sohail Tanvir, Morne Morkeland, Ravindra Jadeja, Taruwar Kohli and Coach: Shane Warne

KINGS XI

Yuvraj Singh (Captain), Irfan Pathan, Brett Lee, Kumar Sangakkara, S Sreesanth, Mahela Jayawardene, Piyush Chawla, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Simon Katich, Romesh Powar, James Hopes, Kyle Mills, Luke Pomersbach VRV Singh, Uday Kaul, Karan Goel, Tanmay Srivastava, Ajitesh Argal and Coach: Tom Moody