IPL 2015: Complete List Of Players From All 8 Teams.
The dust over the cricket World Cup has yet to settle for cricket fans. However, the IPLtamasha begins today with the grand opening ceremony and we finally have the full list of all team members who are scheduled to play in the eighth edition of the Indian Premier League, or IPL as its known across the world. Which team do you think will lift the trophy this time around?
Chennai Super Kings
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MS Dhoni (c), Suresh Raina, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohit Sharma, Ashish Nehra, Irfan Pathan, Faf du Plessis, Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo, Dwayne Smith, Michael Hussey, Ishwar Pandey, Baba Aparajith, Mithun Manhas, Pawan Negi, Rahul Sharma, Ankush Bains, Pratyush Singh, Ronit More, Eklavya Dwivedi, Matt Henry, Samuel Badree, Andrew Tye, Kyle Abbott.
MXP Verdict: Great players led by a great captain, CSK will be a force to reckon with this year as well.
Delhi Daredevils
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JP Duminy (c), Yuvraj Singh, Zaheer Khan, Angelo Mathews, Amit Mishra, Mohammed Shami, Manoj Tiwary, Jaydev Unadkat, Saurabh Tiwary, Quinton de Kock, Mayank Agarwal, Imran Tahir, Albie Morkel, Kedar Jadhav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Srikar Bharat, Shreyas Iyer, Dominic Joseph Muthuswamy, CM Gautam, KK Jiyas, Travis Head, Shahbaz Nadeem, Marcus Stoinis, Gurinder Sandhu, Jayant Yadav.
MXP Verdict: Yuvraj Singh will be the star attraction and will carry the burden of expectation. The rest of the team will need to rally around him.
Kings XI Punjab
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George Bailey (c), Virender Sehwag, Glenn Maxwell, David Miller, Mitchell Johnson, Murali Vijay, Shaun Marsh, Akshar Patel, Sandeep Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Manan Vohra, Thisara Perera, Rishi Dhawan, Anureet Singh, Karanveer Singh, Nikhil Naik, Parvinder Awana, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Yogesh Golwalkar, Beuran Hendricks, Shivam Sharma, Shardul Thakur.
MXP Verdict: The surprise dark horse last year, KXP must strike from early and maintain their momentum from 2014. Sehwag will have a point or two to prove too.
Kolkata Knight Riders
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Gautam Gambhir (c), Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Robin Uthappa, Umesh Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Ryan ten Doeschate, Shakib Al Hasan, Kuldeep Yadav, Morne Morkel, Azhar Mahmood, Johan Botha, KC Cariappa, Piyush Chawla, Pat Cummins, Aditya Garhwal, Brad Hogg, Sheldon Jackson, Sumit Narwal, Veer Pratap Singh, Vaibhav Rawal, Suryakumar Yadav.
MXP Verdict: The turnaround team of IPL over the years, KKR will look to continue its good run.
Mumbai Indians
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Rohit Sharma (c), Harbhajan Singh, Lasith Malinga, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu, Lendl Simmons, Vinay Kumar,Corey Anderson, Aiden Blizzard, Jasprit Bumrah, Aditya Tare, Pawan Suyal, Mitchell McClenaghan, Marchant de Lange, Unmukt Chand, Aaron Finch, Parthiv Patel, Siddhesh Lad, Abhimanyu Mithun, Shreyas Gopal, Josh Hazlewood, Pragyan Ojha, Hardik Pandya, J Suchith, Akshay Wakhare, Nitish Rana.
MXP Verdict: Temperamental team that will need to find a winning formula to win the trophy.
Rajasthan Royals
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Shane Watson (c), Ajinkya Rahane, Steven Smith, Sanju Samson, Pravin Tambe, Tim Southee, James Faulkner, Karun Nair, Dhawal Kulkarni, Chris Morris, Vikramjeet Malik, Rajat Bhatia, Stuart Binny, Ben Cutting, Ankit Sharma, Brainder Sran, Deepak Hooda, Abhishek Nayar, Dinesh Salunkhe, Rahul Tewatia, Dishant Yagnik, Sagar Trivedi, Juan Theron, Pradeep Sahu.
MXP Verdict: They will miss Rahul Dravid terribly and must prove themselves worthy of their ex-captain.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
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Virat Kohli (c), Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Darren Sammy, Mitchell Starc, Dinesh Karthik, Subramanium Badrinath, Sean Abbott, Adam Milne, Nic Maddinson, Ashok Dinda, Manvinder Bisla, Varun Aaron, Vijay Zol, Sarfaraz Khan, Jalaj Saxena, Shishir Bhavane, Iqbal Abdullah, David Wiese, Rilee Rossouw, Abu Nechim, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal, Sandeep Warrier, Yogesh Takawale, Jalaj Saxena.
MXP Verdict: RCB, led by a resurgent Virat Kohli, will have a point or two to prove this year.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
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David Warner (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Dale Steyn, Karn Sharma, KL Rahul, Ishant Sharma, Trent Boult, Kane Williamson, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Naman Ojha, Praveen Kumar, Siddharth Kaul, Ashish Reddy, Parvez Rasool, Moises Henriques, Ravi Bopara, Ricky Bhui, Chama Milind, Eoin Morgan, Prasanth Padmanabhan, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Hanuma Vihari.
MXP Verdict: They have a couple of match-winners but look weak on paper to get past the league stages.
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