2014 IPL: Teams Line-Up

The 2014 IPL auction has become history and the teams are looking forward to get onto the field during the extravaganza. Some teams splashed their money at players whereas some teams played it wisely. Among the eight IPL teams, Rajasthan Royals had a successful auction after they acquired players with a mix of both youth and experience. Royal Challengers Bangalore spent over 14 crores for Yuvraj Singh which makes the dashing southpaw the highest paid cricketer in the IPL. With all the IPL teams raring to go for the next stage, we bring you the possible playing XI for all eight IPL teams.

 

Chennai Super Kings

1. Faf Du Plessis*

2. Brendon McCullam*

3. Suresh Raina

4. Baba Aparajith

5. Mahendra Singh Dhoni

6. Dwayne Bravo*

7. Ravindra Jadeja

8. R Ashwin

9. Ben Hilfenhaus*

10. Mohit Sharma

11. Ashish Nehra

 

Delhi Daredevils

1. Murali Vijay

2. Mayank Agarwal

3. Kevin Pietersen*

4. Ross Taylor*

5. Dinesh Karthick

6. Manoj Tiwary

7. Jimmy Neesham*

8. Nathan Coulter-Nile*

9. Jaydev Undakat

10. Shahbaz Nadeem

11. Shami Ahmed

 

Kings XI Punjab

1. Virender Sehwag

2. Cheteshwar Pujara

3. Wriddhiman Saha

4. George Bailey*

5. David Miller*

6. Glenn Maxwell*

7. Rishi Dhawan

8. Mitchell Johnson*

9. Sandeep Sharma

10. Parvinder Awana

11. Murali Kartik

 

Kolkata Knight Riders

1. Manvinder Bisla

2. Gautam Gambhir

3. Jacques Kallis*

4. Robin Uthappa

5. Shakib Al Hasan*

6. Yusuf Pathan

7. Debabrata Das

8. Piyush Chawla

9. Sunil Narine*

10. Umesh Yadav

11. Morne Morkel*

 

Mumbai Indians

1. Mike Hussey*

2. Aditya Tare

3. Ambati Rayudu

4. Rohit Sharma

5. Kieron Pollard*

6. Corey Anderson*

7. Jalaj Saxena

8. Harbhajan Singh

9. Lasith Malinga*

10. Zaheer Khan

11. Pragyan Ojha

 

Rajasthan Royals

1. Unmukt Chand

2. Ajinkya Rahane

3. Sanju Samson

4. Shane Watson*

5. Steve Smith*

6. James Faulkner*

7. Stuart Binny

8. Abhishek Nayar

9. Rajat Bhatia

10. Tim Southee*

11. Pravin Tambe

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore

1. Chris Gayle*

2. Parthiv Patel

3. Virat Kohli

4. Yuvraj Singh

5. AB de Villiers*

6. Albie Morkel*

7. Vijay Zol

8. Shadab Jakati

9. Mitchell Starc*

10. Varun Aaron

11. Ashok Dinda

 

Sunrisers Hyderabad

1. Aaron Finch*

2. Shikhar Dhawan

3. David Warner*

4. Y. Venugopal Rao

5. Naman Ojha

6. Darren Sammy*

7. Irfan Pathan

8. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

9. Amit Mishra

10. Dale Steyn*

11. Ishant Sharma

“Player” represents a Wicket Keeper

“Player” represents a Captain

“Player*” represents an overseas cricketer.

When looking at all the teams, each and every team looks balanced which is good for the tournament which is scheduled to begin in the second week on April and will end on June 3.