IPL to Move Out of India

The Latest Updateson IPL 2009:

On Tuesday 24th March 2009, IPL commissioner and Cricket South Africa Chief Executive Gerald Majola announced that South Africa will be the host country for second season of the DLF Indian Premier League. The schedule will start from April 18 2009. The venues are yet to be announced.

Out of three possible host destinations South Africa was the one which was most favourable climatic conditions and in order to telecast all matches at scheduled timing (4-00 p.m. and 8-00 p.m. IST) start of the games could be achieved more practically here than in England or New Zealand, which were the other venue nations being considered.

The English weather condition in April and early May was another reason to head the tournament to South Africa. The rain could affect almost 70% of the IPL matches if they would have been scheduled for England.

The teams will start flying to South Africa from April 1, 2009. Cape Town will be the destination for opening ceremony with the inaugural match being played on 18th April. Chances are that Wanderers in Johannesburg will be the venue for the grand finale. Five other cities have already been identified, Durban, Centurion, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town. East London and Bloemfontein are competing for a host city berth.

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, Gauvar 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, 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 Chavan

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 Waigankar, 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, Romesh Powar, VRV Singh, Karen Goel, Uday Kaul, Ryan Ninan, Wilkin Mota, Ajitesh Agral, Tanmay Srivastava, Sunny Sohal and Yash Gandhi.