Monday, April 1, 2013

IPL 2013 Teams - Indian Premier League 2013 Team Previews- (IPL 6)

 IPL 2013 Teams - Indian Premier League 2013 Team Previews



KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Coach: Dav Whatmore
Performance in 2012: Crowned the champions after a run of 10 wins in their last 13 games took them to their maiden final.
X-factor: Shahrukh Khan. Ok, just kidding! On a more serious note, it’s got to be Sunil Narine. 24 wickets in 15 games last year, plus titles like unreadable and unplayable make him sound dangerous already.
Full squad: Brad Haddin, Brendon McCullum, Brett Lee, Debabrata Das, Eoin Morgan, Gautam Gambhir, Iqbal Abdulla, Jacques Kallis, James Pattinson, Lakshmipathy Balaji Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Manoj Tiwary, Manvinder Bisla, Mohammad Shami, Pradeep Sangwan, Rajat Bhatia, Ryan McLaren, Ryan ten Doeschate, Sachithra Senanayake, Sarabjit Singh Ladda, Shakib Al Hasan, Sunil Narine, Yusuf Pathan.
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS
Coach: Stephen Fleming
Performance in 2012: Chennai had such a poor league stage, that you had to rub your eyes when they walked out on the pitch for the final against Kolkata Knight Riders. They lost, but will take pride in the fact that they came back brilliantly to make their fourth final in five years.
X-Factor: Ravindra Jadeja, the $2 million man, did not justify his price tag in his first season with CSK, but we expect he will come up trumps this year. He’s had a good run with the national team, and should do much better than take 12 wickets and score just 191 runs in 19 matches.
Full squad: Akila Dananjaya, Albie Morkel, Anirudha Srikkanth, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, B Aparajith, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ben Laughlin, Christopher Morris, Dirk Nannes, Dwayne Bravo, Francois Du Plessis, Imtiaz Ahmed, Jason Holder, Michael Hussey, Mohit Sharma, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Murali Vijay, Nuwan Kulasekara, R Karthikeyan, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Ronit More, Shadab Jakati, Subramaniam Badrinath, Suresh Raina, Vijay Shankar, Wriddhiman Saha.
MUMBAI INDIANS
Coach: John Wright
Performance in 2012: They finished third last season, with their most memorable moment being a last-ball finish against CSK. They won 10 of their 16 matches.
X-factor: Lasith Malinga beats Kieron Pollard to be chosen MI’s X-factor. The Sri Lankan is, easily, the most feared bowler in the IPL. Last year, he took 22 wickets in 14 matches. He has a total of 83 wickets at an average of 16.63.
Full squad: Abu Nechim Ahmed, Akshar Patel, Aditya Tare, Aiden Blizzard, Ambati Rayudu, Amitoze Singh, Dhawal Kulkarni, Dinesh Karthik, Dwayne Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Harbhajan Singh, Jacob Oram, Jalaj Saxena, James Franklin, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga, Mitchell Johnson, Munaf Patel, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Philip Hughes, Pawan Suyal, Pragyan Ojha, Ricky Ponting, Rishi Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Sachin Tendulkar, Suryakumar Yadav, Sushant Marathe, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal.
DELHI DAREDEVILS
Coach: Eric Simons
Performance in 2012: Finished 1st in the league stage, but wilted in the playoffs.
X-factor: The usual choice would be Virender Sehwag (495 runs in 16 matches last season), but we’ll go with Unmukt Chand. The U-19 skipper was India’s hero  during the World Cup winning campaign last year and has also got his first mainstream ad. He should be given a chance to show what he can do.
Full squad: Ajit Agarkar, Andre Russell, Arisht Singhvi, Ashish Nehra, CM Gautam, David Warner, Gulam Bodi, Irfan Pathan, Jeevan Mendis, Jesse Ryder, Johan Botha, Kedar Jadhav, Kevin Pietersen, Mahela Jayawardene, Manpreet Juneja, Morne Morkel, Naman Ojha, Pawan Negi, Roelof Van Der Merwe, Royston Dias, Siddarth Kaul, Sujit Nayak, Shahbaz Nadeem, Umesh Yadav, Unmukt Chand, Varun Aaron, Venugopal Rao, Virender Sehwag, Yogesh Nagar.
KINGS XI PUNJAB
Coach: WV Raman
Performance in 2012: Punjab are not good at winning must-win matches. For three years in a row, they have failed to do so. Last year they won and lost an equal number of games, failing to win more than two games in a row.
X-factor: Azhar Mahmood is the man. We like this guy — he’s a terrorizing presence in the team and can do everything. He fields, bats and bowls. In 2012, he slammed 186 runs in 11 matches and also took 14 wickets. He’s holds a British passport now, and can play in the IPL.
Full squad: Adam Gilchrist, Aniket Choudhary, Azhar Mahmood, Bhargav Bhatt, Bipul Sharma, David Hussey, David Miller, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Luke Pomersbach, Manan Vohra, Mandeep Singh, Manpreet Gony, Nitin Saini, Parvinder Awana, Paul Valthaty, Piyush Chawla, Praveen Kumar, R Sathish, Ryan Harris, Sandeep Sharma, Shaun Marsh, Siddharth Chitnis, Sunny Singh.
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD
Performance in 2012: Well, they were Deccan Chargers before this. The team came second from bottom last year — never really hitting the highs they’re capable of.
Coach: Tom Moody
X-factor: Dale Steyn. He’s fast, lethal and ruthless. He has taken wickets all over the world and is probably the most effective bowler in all three formats. Last year, he took 18 wickets in 12 games. His best figures were 3/8.
Of course, Shikhar Dhawan is another huge factor, but his injury means he may miss part of the season.
Full squad: Akshath Reddy, Amit Mishra, Anand Rajan, Ankit Sharma, Ashish Reddy, Biplab Samantray, Cameron White, Chris Lynn, Clint McKay, Dale Steyn, Darren Sammy, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, Hanuma Vihari, Ishant Sharma, Jean-Paul Duminy, Karan Sharma, Kumar Sangakkara, Nathan McCullum, Parthiv Patel, Quinton de Kock, Sachin Rana, Shikhar Dhawan, Sudeep Tyagi, Thalaivan Sargunam, Thisara Perera, Veer Pratap Singh.
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE
Coach: Ray Jennings
Performance in 2012: Considering how their batting lineup looks like, their fifth place finish was downright poor. But they lost out on a playoff berth because of net run-rate — showing why it’s so important to avoid those close encounters.
X-factor: He scored 733 runs in 15 matches last year, at a strike-rate of 160.74, with 46 fours and 59 sixes. He is from West Indies. He is a left-handed batsman. And, he is cool. Chris Gayle it is.
Full squad: AB De Villiers, Abhimanyu Mithun, Abhinav Mukund, Andrew McDonald, Arun Karthik, Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, Christopher Barnwell, Daniel Christian, Daniel Vettori, Harshal Patel, Jaidev Unadkat, K P Appanna, Karun Nair, Mayank Agarwal, Moises Henriques Murali Kartik, Muttiah Muralitharan, Pankaj Singh, Prasanth Parameswaran, R Vinay Kumar, Ravi Rampaul, Rudra Pratap Singh, S Aravind, Sandeep Warrier, Saurabh Tiwary, Sheldon Jackson, Sunny Sohal, Syed Mohammad, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Vijay Zol, Virat Kohli, Zaheer Khan.
PUNE WARRIORS
Coach: Praveen Amre
Performance in 2012: Last! The only memorable moment is that of Sourav Ganguly running in celebration after taking a wicket, his hair desperately trying to keep up with him. And to top it all, they don’t have Michael Clarke this season due to injury.
X-factor: Parveez Rasool. He’s had a great Ranji season and is the first IPL player from J&K. He took seven wickets in the tour game against Australia, and even though the IPL is a different ball game, we expect to make a mark. No one really knows what he can do and that will work for him.
Full squad: Abhishek Nayar, Ajantha Mendis, Ali Murtaza, Angelo Mathews, Anustup Majumdar, Ashoke Dinda, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Dheeraj Jadhav, Eklavya Dwivedi, Harpreet Singh, Ishwar Pandey, Kane Richardson, Krishnakant Upadhyay Luke Wright, Mahesh Rawat, Manish Pandey, Marlon Samuels, Michael Clarke, Mitchell Marsh, Mithun Manhas, Parveez Rasool, Rahul Sharma, Raiphi Gomez, Robin Uthappa, Ross Taylor, Shrikant Wagh, Steve Smith, Tirumalasetti Suman, Tamim Iqbal, Udit Birla, Yuvraj Singh, Wayne Parnell.
RAJASTHAN ROYALS
Coach: Rahul Dravid (captain also)
Performance in 2012: Finished seventh in the table, reaffirming that belief that they would never hit the highs of the 2008 championship winning season.
X-factor: Shane Watson will be dying to prove a point to the CA officials after the treatment meted out to him. If he fires, like his country wants him to, then he can carry Rajasthan on his shoulders with aplomb.
Full squad: Ajinkya Rahane, Ajit Chandila, Ankeet Chavan, Amit Singh, Ashok Menaria, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Dishant Yagnik, Fidel Edwards, Harmeet Singh, James Faulkner, Kevon Cooper, Kusal Janith Perera, Owais Shah, Pravin Tambe, Rahul Dravid, Rahul Shukla, S Sreesanth, Sachin Baby, Samuel Badree, Sanju Samson, Shane Watson, Shaun Tait, Shreevats Goswami, Siddharth Trivedi, Stuart Binny.

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