The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League is around the corner and teams have already started practising for IPL 2021, which is starting on April 9 in Chennai.
The teams filled the gaps well during the IPL 2021 auction and plugged the necessary holes to put their best foot forward for the upcoming season of the IPL.
The tournament will be played across six cities in India — Delhi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru and Ahmedabad. The playoffs will take place totally in Ahmedabad including the final. There will also be no home advantage for any of the teams this season.
The first game of the tournament will be played between Virat Kohli’s Royal Challengers Bangalore and defending champions Mumbai Indians, led by Rohit Sharma.
The final of the tournament will be played on May 30.
Here are the full squads for IPL 2021:
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: MS Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, C Hari Nishanth, Cheteshwar Pujara, Deepak Chahar, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Harisankar Reddy, Imran Tahir, K Bhagath Varma, K Gowtham, Karn Sharma, KM Asif, Lungi Ngidi, Mitchell Santner, Moeen Ali, Narayan Jagadeesan, R Sai Kishore, Ravindra Jadeja, Robin Uthappa, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Sam Curran, Shardul Thakur, Suresh Raina, Josh Hazlewood (pulled out of IPL 2021)
DELHI CAPITALS: Ajinkya Rahane, Amit Mishra, Anrich Nortje, Avesh Khan, Axar Patel, Chris Woakes, Ishant Sharma, Kagiso Rabada, Lalit Yadav, Lukman Meriwala, Manimaran Siddharth, Marcus Stoinis, Praveen Dubey, Prithvi Shaw, R Ashwin, Ripal Patel, Rishabh Pant, Sam Billings, Shikhar Dhawan, Shimron Hetmyer, Steven Smith, Tom Curran, Umesh Yadav, Vishnu Vinod, Shreyas Iyer (ruled out of IPL 2021)
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Ben Cutting, Dinesh Karthik, Harbhajan Singh, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Karun Nair, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Pat Cummins, Pawan Negi, Prasidh Krishna, Rahul Tripathi, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shakib Al Hasan, Sheldon Jackson, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Tim Seifert, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravathi, Venkatesh Iyer
MUMBAI INDIANS: Rohit Sharma, Adam Milne, Aditya Tare, Anmolpreet Singh, Anukul Roy, Arjun Tendulkar, Chris Lynn, Dhawal Kulkarni, Hardik Pandya, Ishan Kishan, James Neesham, Jasprit Bumrah, Jayant Yadav, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Marco Jansen, Mohsin Khan, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Piyush Chawla, Quinton de Kock, Rahul Chahar, Saurabh Tiwary, Suryakumar Yadav, Trent Boult, Yudhvir Singh Charak
PUNJAB KINGS: KL Rahul, Arshdeep Singh, Chris Gayle, Chris Jordan, Darshan Nalkande, Dawid Malan, Deepak Hooda, Fabian Allen, Harpreet Brar, Ishan Porel, Jalaj Saxena, Jhye Richardson, Mandeep Singh, Mayank Agarwal, Mohammed Shami, Moises Henriques, Murugan Ashwin, Nicholas Pooran, Prabhsimran Singh, Ravi Bishnoi, Riley Meredith, Sarfaraz Khan, Saurabh Kumar, Shahrukh Khan, Utkarsh Singh
RAJASTHAN ROAYLS: Sanju Samson, Akash Singh, Andrew Tye, Anuj Rawat, Ben Stokes, Chetan Sakariya, Chris Morris, David Miller, Jaydev Unadkat, Jos Buttler, Kartik Tyagi, KC Cariappa, Kuldip Yadav, Liam Livingstone, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Mayank Markande, Mustafizur Rahman, Rahul Tewatia, Riyan Parag, Shivam Dube, Shreyas Gopal, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Jofra Archer (unavailable for initial stages)
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Adam Zampa, Daniel Christian, Daniel Sams, Devdutt Padikkal, Glenn Maxwell, Harshal Patel, Finn Allen, Kane Richardson, KS Bharat, Kyle Jamieson, Mohammed Azharuddeen, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Pavan Deshpande, Rajat Patidar, Sachin Baby, Shahbaz Ahmed, Suyash Prabhudessai, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: David Warner, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Basil Thampi, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jagadeesha Suchith, Jason Holder, Jonny Bairstow, Kane Williamson, Kedar Jadhav, Khaleel Ahmed, Manish Pandey, Jason Roy, Mohammad Nabi, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Priyam Garg, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, Virat Singh, Wriddhiman Saha
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CAPTAIN |
TEAM |
TEAM VALUE |
|
MS DHONI |
CHENNAI SUPER KINGS |
INR 82.45 CRORE |
|
RISHABH PANT |
DELHI CAPITALS |
INR 81.35 CRORE |
|
EOIN MORGAN |
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS |
INR 81.80 CRORE |
|
ROHIT SHARMA |
MUMBAI INDIANS |
INR 81.35 CRORE |
|
KL RAHUL |
PUNJAB KINGS |
INR 66.2 CRORE |
|
SANJU SAMSON |
RAJASTHAN ROYALS |
INR 71.35 CRORE |
|
VIRAT KOHLI |
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE |
INR 84.65 CRORE |
|
DAVID WARNER |
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD |
INR 78.05 CRORE |
This year’s IPL promises to be another blockbuster event and players will look to make the most of the tournament and get some practice in the conditions with the World T20 scheduled to take place later this year in October-November in India.