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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