Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians




Mumbai Indians will be representative of the city of Mumbai in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Sachin Tendulkar, also the Icon Player for the team and coached by Lalchand Rajput, the former Manager of the Indian Cricket Team.

Reliance Industries Limited through its subsidiary Reliance Retail Ltd purchased the rights for the Mumbai franchise of Indian Premier league for a total of $111.9 million during the auction on January 24, 2008. The RIL bid has made the Mumbai Indians the most expensive franchise in IPL.

The team logo has the Sudarshan Chakra with the team’s name engraved in it. The team’s colour will be blue. The choice of the name “Indians” for a regional competition is widely regarded as a blunder.

The mascot is still unknown.

Players
Sachin Tendulkar is the designated icon player and also captain for Mumbai Indians. During the player auction Mumbai Indians successfully bid for 7 players, including two of the heroes of Indian Twenty-20 world cup side in Harbhajan Singh and Robin Uthappa. Sanath Jayasuriya was also another prized catch, along with South African legend Shaun Pollock. The team also added the Sri Lankan speedster Lasith Malinga.

Outside of the player auction, the franchise has also signed up Ajinkya Rahane and Abhishek Nayar (from Mumbai), Yogesh Takawale (from Maharashtra) and Pinal Shah (from Baroda)

Name - Age - Country - Position
Batsmen

Sachin Tendulkar (Captain) - 35 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Robin Uthappa - 22 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Loots Botsman - 30 - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman
Ashley Prince - 30 - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman
Manish Pandey - 18 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Saurabh Tiwari - 18 - India - Left-handed Batsman
Wicket Keepers

Yogesh Takawale - 23 - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper
Pinal Shah - 20 - India - Right-handed Batsman - Wicket keeper
All Rounders

Sanath Jayasuriya - 37 - Sri Lanka - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
Shaun Pollock - 35 - South Africa - Right-arm medium-fast
Ajinkya Rahane - 19 - India - Right-arm medium
Bowlers

Harbhajan Singh - 27 - India - Right-arm off-break
Lasith Malinga - 24 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast
Dilhara Fernando - 29 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm fast-medium
Abhishek Nayar - 24 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
Ashish Nehra - 28 - India - Left-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching staffFront Office:


Owner - Reliance Industries Limited
CEO - R Balachandran
President - Mukesh Ambani
Coaches:

Head Coach - Lalchand Rajput
Assistant Head Coach - TBA
Physiotherapist - TBA

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Bangalore Royal Challengers



Bangalore Royal Challengers is the team that is going to represent the city of Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament to be held in India. The team is owned by the liquor magnate Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group. Charu Sharma is the CEO of the team and Rahul Dravid, the captain of the team is the Icon Player. Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain, has also been signed as a member of the management team. Venkatesh Prasad, the former Indian fast bowler and the present bowling coach of India has been declared the coach for the team.

Bangalore team was won by Vijay Mallya, who paid US$111.6 million for it. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, next only to Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries’ bid of $111.9 million for the Mumbai team.

Indian actresses Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif were signed as the brand ambassadors of the franchise.

Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, either ‘No. 1 McDowell’s’ or ‘Royal Challenge’ with the team. Ultimately, ‘Royal Challenge’ was chosen, and hence the team was given the name ‘Bangalore Royal Challengers’. The jersey colours of the team are red and golden yellow, and the logo consists of the RC emblem with ‘Bangalore Royal Challengers’ in standard format.


Players
The players in the team (except for Rahul Dravid, who was the Icon Player), were selected in an auction conducted by BCCI on 20 February 2008. South Africa’s Jacques Kallis at $900,000 became the costliest player to be selected to play for the Royal Challengers. This meant that Rahul Dravid, being the Icon Player would be paid $1,035,000 (15% more than the highest bid player in the team). Other players selected included the Indian Test cricket captain Anil Kumble along with his team-mates Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan, West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Aussies Nathan Bracken and Cameron White, South Africa’s Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper) and Dale Steyn.

Name - Age - Country - Position
Batsmen

Rahul Dravid (Captain/Icon Player) - 35 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Shivnarine Chanderpaul - 33 - West Indies - Left-handed Batsman
Wasim Jaffer - 30 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Misbah-ul-Haq - 33 - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman
Ross Taylor - 24 - New Zealand - Right-handed Batsman
Arun Kumar J. - 33 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Appanna K. P. - 19 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Bharat Chipli - 25 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Wicket Keepers

Mark Boucher - 31 - South Africa - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper
Shreevats Goswami - 18 - India - Left-hand Batsman / Wicket keeper
Devraj Patil - 23 - India - Right-handed Batsman / Wicket keeper
Allrounders

Jacques Kallis - 32 - South Africa - Right-arm fast-medium
Cameron White - 24 - Australia - Right-handed Leg-break googly
Sunil Joshi - 37 - India - Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox spin
Akhil B. - 30 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
Virat Kohli - 19 - India - Right-arm medium
Bowlers

Anil Kumble - 37 - India - Right-arm leg-break googly
Zaheer Khan - 29 - India - Left-arm medium-fast
Nathan Bracken - 30 - Australia - Left-arm fast-medium
Dale Steyn - 24 - South Africa - Right-arm fast
Praveen Kumar - 21 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
Abdur Razzak - 25 - Bangladesh - Slow left-arm orthodox
Vinay Kumar R. - 24 - India - Right-arm medium-fast
Administration and coaching staff

Front Office:

Owner- Vijay Mallya
CEO - Charu Sharma
Adviser - Martin Crowe
Coaches:

Head Coach - Venkatesh Prasad
Assistant Head Coach - TBA
Physiotherapist - TBA

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings



Chennai Super Kings is the Chennai franchise for the Indian Premier League. The team will be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels. There is no Icon Player for the team.

Chennai Super Kings are a part of the eight club Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by India Cements, who paid $91 million to acquire the rights of the franchise for the next 10 years. Former India test player Kris Srikkanth is the brand ambassador for the franchise, and another former Indian opener V. B. Chandrasekhar will be the chief selector. The brand ambasssadors for the team will be South Indian actor, Vijay and actress, Nayantara.

The M.A.Chidambaram stadium (often referred to as Chepauk, the place where the stadium is located) will be the home ground of the IPL team. The theme song of Chennai Super Kings, penned by Vairamuthu, is presently being composed by G V Prakash Kumar.

The name “Super Kings” is to honor the rulers of the golden era of Tamil culture, the team logo has a Lion to reflect the King of the Jungle. In addition the word “Super” is colloquially used in the state of Tamil Nadu to reflect all things thrilling and exciting and is a word of the lips of almost every one in Tamil Nadu. Incidentally the Chennai team playing in the ICL (the rebel league) is named as “Chennai Superstars”.

Players
Chennai Super Kings are one of the three franchises with no icon player. The lack of an icon player benefited the Super Kings during the bidding as they managed to bid successfully on two (Dhoni & Muralitharan) of the six A listed players.

The team plans to have twenty three players on its roster. Besides the list of players already acquired, the team will pick the remaining members from the three catchment areas - Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Railways - that have been allocated to it.

Name - Age - Country - Position
Batsmen

Matthew Hayden - 36 - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
Stephen Fleming - 35 - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman
Suresh Raina - 21 - India - Left-handed Batsman
Michael Hussey - 32 - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
Anirudha Srikkanth - 21 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Subramaniam Badrinath - 28 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Napoleon Einstein - 18 - India - Right-handed Batsman
Wicketkeepers

Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain) - 26 - India - Right-handed Wicket keeper
Parthiv Patel - 22 - India - Left-handed Wicket keeper
All Rounders

Jacob Oram - 28 - New Zealand - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium-fast
Albie Morkel - 28 - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
Shadab Jakati - 27 - India - Slow left-arm orthodox spin
Abhinav Mukund - 18 - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm leg-break
Viraj Kadbe - 18 - India - Right-arm leg-break
Bowlers

Muttiah Muralitharan - 35 - Sri Lanka - Right-arm off-break
Joginder Sharma - 24 - India - Right-arm fast-medium
Makhaya Ntini - 30 - South Africa - Right-arm fast
R. Ashwin - 21 - India - Right-arm off-break
Sudeep Tyagi - 20 - India - Right-arm fast-medium
Lakshmipathy Balaji - 26 - India - Right-arm fast-medium

Administration and Coaching Staff

Owner - India Cement Ltd.
CEO - TBA
Ambassador - Kris Srikkanth, film stars Joseph Vijay and Nayantara
Chief Selector - V. B. Chandrasekhar
Coaches:

Head Coach - Kepler Wessels
Assistant Coach - TBA
Physiotherapist - Tommy Simsek
Physical Trainer - Gregory King

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians



Coach: Lalchand Rajput

Player Age Country Cost (USD)
Sachin Tendulkar ♠ (c) 34 India $1,121,250 ♠
Sanath Jayasuriya 38 Sri Lanka $975,000
Harbhajan Singh 27 India $850,000
Robin Uthappa 22 India $800,000
Shaun Pollock 34 South Africa $550,000
Lasith Malinga 24 Sri Lanka $350,000
Loots Bosman 30 South Africa $175,000
Ashwell Prince 30 South Africa $175,000
Dilhara Fernando 28 Sri Lanka $150,000
Abhishek Nayar 24 India
Manish Pandey 18 India
Ajinkya Rahane 19 India
Pinal Shah 20 India
Yogesh Vijay Takawale 23 India
Saurabh Tiwary 18 India
Ashish Nehra 29 India

Total purchase price $5,146,250

Punjab Kings

Punjab Kings



Coach: Tom Moody

Player Age Country Cost (USD)
Yuvraj Singh ♠ (c) 26 India $1,063,750 ♠
Irfan Pathan 23 India $925,000
Brett Lee 31 Australia $900,000
Kumar Sangakkara 30 Sri Lanka $700,000
Sreesanth 25 India $625,000
Mahela Jayawardene 30 Sri Lanka $475,000
Piyush Chawla 19 India $400,000
Ramnaresh Sarwan 27 West Indies $225,000
Simon Katich 32 Australia $200,000
Ramesh Powar 29 India $170,000
James Hopes 29 Australia $324,000[12]
Luke Pomersbach 23 Australia $50,000
Ajitesh Argal 19 India
Karan Goel 21 India
Uday Kaul 20 India
Kyle Mills 28 New Zealand $150,000
VRV Singh 23 India
Tanmay Srivastava 18 India
Total purchase price $5,733,750

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders




Coach: John Buchanan

Player Age Country Cost (USD)
Sourav Ganguly ♠ (c) 35 India $1,092,500 ♠
Ishant Sharma 19 India $950,000
Chris Gayle 28 West Indies $800,000
Brendon McCullum 26 New Zealand $700,000
David Hussey 30 Australia $625,000
Shoaib Akhtar 32 Pakistan $425,000
Murali Kartik 31 India $425,000
Ricky Ponting 33 Australia $400,000
Ajit Agarkar 30 India $330,000
Umar Gul 23 Pakistan $150,000
Tatenda Taibu 24 Zimbabwe $125,000
Siddarth Kaul 17 India
Iqbal Abdulla 18 India
Mohammad Hafeez 27 Pakistan
Salman Butt 23 Pakistan Total purchase price $6,022,500

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals

Coach: Shane Warne


Shane Warne (c) 38 Australia $450,000
Yusuf Pathan 25 India $475,000
Graeme Smith 27 South Africa $475,000
Mohammad Kaif 27 India $675,000
Munaf Patel 24 India $275,000
Younis Khan 30 Pakistan $225,000
Justin Langer 37 Australia $200,000
Kamran Akmal 26 Pakistan $150,000
Shane Watson 27 Australia $125,000
Dimitri Mascarenhas 30 England $100,000
Morne Morkel 23 South Africa $60,000
Ravindra Jadeja 19 India
Taruwar Kohli 19 India

Pankaj Singh 22 India
Anup Revandkar 20 India

Sohail Tanvir 23 Pakistan
Total purchase price $3,210,000