shantanu_rooney
Chairman of Selectors
Squads
Chennai Super Kings
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.
• Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c)(wk)
• Matthew Hayden
• Michael Hussey
• Muttiah Muralitharan
• Makhaya Ntini
• Stephen Fleming
• Jacob Oram
• Albie Morkel
• Suresh Raina
• Joginder Sharma
• S Badrinath
• Parthiv Patel
• L Balaji
• Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan
• Srikkanth Anirudha
• R Ashwin
• Abhinav Mukund
• Napoleon Einstein
• Shadab Jakati
• V.Viraj Kadbe
• Manpreet Gony
• Arun Karthik
• Palani Amarnath
Bangalore Royal Challengers
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.
• Rahul Dravid (c)
• Jacques Kallis
• Anil Kumble
• Zaheer Khan
• Mark Boucher (wk)
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul
• Nathan Bracken
• Ross Taylor
• Dale Steyn
• Praveen Kumar
• Ashley Noffke
• Cameron White
• Virat Kohli
• Wasim Jaffer
• Abdur Razzaq
• Shreevats Goswami
• Sunil Joshi
• Balachandra Akhil
• Bharat Chipli
• R Vinay Kumar
• J Arun Kumar
• Devraj Patil
• KP Appanna
Kolkata Knight Riders
Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the Indian cricket team is the icon player and led the Kolkata franchise. The team also includes the Australian captain Ricky Ponting, allrounder Chris Gayle, David Hussey and wicket keeper batsman Brendon McCullum. The main bowlers are Ishant Sharma, Ajit Agarkar and Murali Karthik. Others include Umar Gul and Salman Butt. Australian batsman Brad Hodge is a recent addition to the squad.
• Saurav Ganguly (c)
• Ricky Ponting
• Brad Hodge
• Shoaib Akthar
• Chris Gayle
• Ishant Sharma
• Umar Gul
• Brendon McCullum (wk)
• Salman Butt
• Ajit Agarkar
• David Hussey
• Mohammed Hafeez
• Murali Karthik
• Tatenda Taibu
• Ranadeb Bose
• Akash Chopra
• Cheteshwar Pujara
• Iqbal Abdulla
• Siddharth Kaul
• LR Shukla
• Saurashish Lahiri
• Rohan Banerjee
• Wriddhiman Saha
• Debrata Das
• Yashpal Singh
Deccan Chargers
The Chargers were among the most aggressive bidders during the first Indian Premier League player auction. The franchise added a lot of explosive power in batting by acquiring some renowned big hitters like Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Shahid Afridi, Scott Styris and Herschelle Gibbs. In addition to all these players, the franchise also includes the Indian test player V.V.S. Laxman, who is a Hyderabad local. They are also employing the services of well-known pacers R.P. Singh, Nuwan Zoysa and Chaminda Vaas. It's been announced by the franchise that Laxman will captain the side during the tournament.
V.V.S. Laxman was supposed to be the Icon Player for the Deccan Chargers, but this meant that the players mentioned above could not be bought as Icon Player's earn 15% more than the next highest earner in the team. However, VVS Laxman relinquished his Icon Player Status, and instead of earning $1 million like other Icon players he earns $375,000, which allows the team to buy the big names and still remain under the salary cap.
• VVS Laxman (c)
• Adam Gilchrist (wk)
• Herschelle Gibbs
• Shahid Afridi
• Andrew Symonds
• Chaminda Vaas
• Scott Styris
• VVS Laxman
• Rohit Sharma
• RP Singh
• Chamara Silva
• Nuwan Zoysa
• Venugopal Rao
• Pragyan Ojha
• Sanjay Bangar
• N Arjun Yadav
• Shishir Hattangadi
• D Ravi Teja
• P Vijay Kumar
• P.M.Sarveesh Kumar
• Halhadar Das
• D Kalyankrishna
Delhi Daredevils
Virender Sehwag has been accorded the icon player status in the Delhi team.
• Virendra Sehwag (c)
• Gautam Gambhir
• Glenn McGrath
• Shoaib Malik
• Mohammed Asif
• Daniel Vettori
• AB de Villiers
• TM Dilshan
• Dinesh Karthik (wk)
• Farveez Maharoof
• Manoj Tiwary
• Pradeep Sangwan
• Amit Mishra
• Mithun Manhas
• Yo Mahesh
• Shikhar Dhawan
• Brett Geeves
• Rajat Bhatia
• Mayank Tehlan
• Yogesh Nagar
• Tejashwi Yadav
Kings XI Punjab
India middle order batsman Yuvraj Singh is the designated icon player for the franchise and will also captain the team. In addition to Yuvraj, the team also contains the promising Indian allrounder Irfan Pathan, maverick Indian pacer S. Sreesanth, Aussie speedster Brett Lee and the Sri Lankan duo of Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara in its ranks.
• Yuvraj Singh (c)
• Mahela Jayawardene
• Kumar Sangakkara (wk)
• Brett Lee
• Irfan Pathan
• S Sreesanth
• Ramnaresh Sarwan
• James Hopes
• Kyle Mills
• Simon Katich
• Piyush Chawla
• Ramesh Powar
• VRV Singh
• Shaun Marsh
• Luke Pomersbach
• Tanmay Srivastava
• Ajitesh Argal
• Karan Goel
• Pankaj Dharmani
• Uday Kaul
• Sunny Sohal
• Wilkin Mota
• Yash Gandhi
• Sahil Kukreja
• Rishi Dhawan
• Nitin Saini
Rajasthan Royals
Rajasthan Royals was the least active franchise during the player auction. The team does not have a designated icon player, which saved a lot of cap space for the franchise. However the franchise was surprisingly low key during the auction, and in the end got penalized by the IPL organizing committee for failing to meet the minimum bidding criteria of $3.3 million. The highest bid by Rajasthan Royals was for the Indian middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif, who came off the board at $675,000. Shane Warne has been named the coach and captain of the side. The Royals are unique as they are the only side to have an English cricketer in their squad, Hampshire's all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas. The Rajasthan Royals also selected Justin Langer and Morne Morkel in the player auction, but both declined to instead play County Cricket .
• Shane Warne (c)
• Graeme Smith
• Younis Khan
• Shane Watson
• Kamran Akmal (wk)
• Dimitri Mascarenhas
• Sohail Tanvir
• Mohammed Kaif
• Munaf Patel
• Yusuf Pathan
• Pankaj Singh
• Ravindra Jadeja
• Taruvar Kohli
• Anup Revandhkar
• Dinesh Salunkhe
• Siddharth Trivedi
• Aditya Angle
• Swapnil Asnodkar
• Sumit Khatri
• Parag More
• Mahesh Rawat
• Jaydev Shah
