Squads for the second season of IPL released by Cricketarchive Staff Reporter

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Event:

Indian Premier League 2009

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DateLine: 14th March 2009

 

The teams for the second edition of the IPL has been announced by the respective franchises. A grand total of 269 cricketers will participate in the much awaited second season of the IPL of which 189 players are Indian.

 

The centrally contracted Indian players aside, the second season will see a host of additional Indian cricketers that have been drafted into the teams by the respective franchises from their catchment areas. There will be 80 international cricketers from West Indies, Australia, Bangladesh, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and England.

 

Squads for IPL Season 2

 

Bangalore Royal Challengers Squad :

 

International players : Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher, Dale Steyn, Roelof van der Merwe and Dillon du Preez (South Africa), Cameroon White and Nathan Bracken (Australia), Kevin Pietersen (England), Ross Taylor and Jesse Ryder (New Zealand)

 

Indian players : Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Praveen Kumar, Virat Kohli, Wasim Jaffer, Manish Pandey, Sreevats Goswami, Suteesh R, Pankaj Singh, Vinay Kumar, Bhuvanesh Kumar, Karan Sharma, Saurav Bandekar, Tinu Yohanan, Bharat Chipli, B Akhil, Devraj Patil, J Arun Kumar, KP Appana, Sunil Joshi, Gaurav Dhiman, Jitendra Patil, Udit Patel, Mithun A. Aravind S. Kedar Jadhav, Gautam CM, Raju Bhatkal, Rajesh Bishnoi, Ishank Jaggi and Rohit Sabharwal

 

Chennai SuperKings Squad :

 

International players : Muttaih Muralitharan and Thilhan Thushara (Sri Lanka), George Bailey, Matthew Hayden and Michael Hussey (Australia), Albie Morkel and Makhaya Ntini (South Africa), Jacob Oram and Stephen Fleming (New Zealand) and Andrew Flintoff (England)

 

Indian players : MS Dhoni, Parthiv Patel, S Badrinath, Suresh Raina, L. Balaji, M. Vijay, Joginder Sharma, Manpreet Singh Gony, R Ashwin, Sudeep Tyagi Abhinav Mukund, Viraj Kadbe, Shadab Jakati, Aniruddh Srikanth, Vidyut Sivaramakrishna, Palani Amarnath, KB Arun Karthik, N Einstein and Suresh Kumar

 

Delhi Daredevils :

 

International players : Owais Shah and Paul Collingwood (England), David Warner, Andrew McDonald, Dirk Nannes and Glen McGrath (Australia), AB de Villiers (South Africa), Farvez Mahroof and Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka) and Daniel Vettori (New Zealand)

 

Indian players : Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Dinesh Karthik, Manoj Tiwary, Rajat Bhatia, Mithun Manhas, Avishkar Salvi, Ashish Nehra, Yo Mahesh, Pradeep Sangwan, Amit Mishra, Umesh Yadav, Yogesh Nagar and Tejashwi Yadav

 

Deccan Chargers :

 

International players : Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds and Ryan Harris (Australia), Dwayne Smith and Fidel Edwards (West Indies), Chamara Silva, Chaminda Vaas and Nuwan Zoysa (Sri Lanka), Herschelle Gibbs (South Africa) and Scott Styris (New Zealand)

 

Indian players : VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Venugopal Rao, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Tirumalatti Suman, Arjun Yadav, Doddapaneni Kalyankrishnan, Abhinav Kumar, Manvinder Bisla, Jaskaran Deep Singh, Harmeet Singh, Sarvesh Kumar, Halhadar Das, Syed Mohammed and Shoaib Ahmed

 

Mumbai Indians :

 

International players : Lasith Malinga, Sanath Jayasuriya and Dilhara Fernando (Sri Lanka), Ryan McLaren and JP Duminy (South Africa), Graham Napier (England), Dwayne Bravo (West Indies), Luke Ronchi (Australia), Md. Ashraful (Bangladesh) and Kyle Mills (New Zealand)

 

Indian players : Sachin Tendulkar, Zaheer Khan, Harbhajan Singh, Abhishek Nayar, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jude Singh, Jaydev Shah, Shikar Dhawan,Raahil Shaikh, Yogesh Takewala, Pinal Shah, Rohan Raje, Chetanya Nande, Ajinkya Rahane and Sourabh Tiwary

 

Rajasthan Royals :

 

International players : Shane Warne, Shane Watson, Rob Quiney, Lee Carseldine, Shane Harwood and Shaun Tait (Australia), Graeme Smith, Tyron Henderson and Morne Morkel (South Africa) and Dimitri Mascarenhas.

 

Indian players : Md. Kaif, Munaf Patel, Dinesh Salunke, Swapnil Asnodkar, Niraj Patel, Ravindra Jadeja, Mahesh Rawat, Siddarth Trivedi, Anup Revandkar, Naman Ojha, Siddarth Chitinis, Paras Dogra, Amit Singh, Ahed Malik, Kamran Khan, Yusuf Pathan, Ashraf Makda, Raphi Vincent Gomez, Paul Valthaty, Srideep Mangela, Md. Arif, Gajendra Singh, Atul Sharma, Pratmesh Salunke, Pushkaraj Chavvan

 

Kolkata Knight Riders :

 

International players : Brad Hodge, Ricky Ponting, David Hussey, Mark Cameron and Moises Henriques (Australia), Angelo Mathews and Ajantha Mendis (Sri Lanka), Chris Gayle (West Indies), Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) and Mashrafe Mortaza (Bangladesh)

 

Indian players : Sourav Ganguly, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wridhiman Saha, Ajit Agarkar, Ishant Sharma, Ashoke Dinda, Debrata Das, Murali Karthik, Iqbal Abdulla, Akaash Chopra, Yaspal Singh, Cheteswar Pujara, Anureet Singh, Rajesh Verma, Sanjay Bangar, Monish Parmar, Aditya Dole, Amit Das, Gaurav Chabbra, S Niyaz, Sanjib Sanyal, Natraj Behar, Shatrujay Gaekwad, Rohan Prem, Gnansehwar Rao, Dhiran Salvi, Ameya Sri Khande, Anushtap Mazumdar, Vinit Indulkar, Sanju Samson, Prashanth Parameshwar, Arindam Ghosh, Bharuk Thakka, P Prashnath, Sourav Sarkar, Murtaza Hussain, Kshemal Waigmankar, Sheldon Jackson, Sunny Singh, Sachin Rana, MT Sanauth, Ishwar Chaudhury and Avik Chaudhary

 

Kings XI Punjab :

 

International players : Brett Lee, James Hopes, Shaun Marsh, Luke Pomersbach, Simon Katich and Burt Cockely (Australia), Jerome Taylor (West Indies), Ravi Bopara (England) and Mahela Jayawardene and Kumara Sangakkara (Sri Lanka)

 

Indian players : Yuvraj Singh, Irfan Pathan, S Sreesanth, Romesh Powar, VRV Singh, Karen Goel, Uday Kaul, Ryan Ninan, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Agral, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal and Yash Gandhi.