Deccan Chargers, a franchise that represents the city of pearls, Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League cricket season this year. This team is owned by Deccan Chronicle and the whole team is valued at $107 million, and was bought by Deccan on January 24, 2008.
Captained by V.V.S. Laxman, it is one of the high priced teams in the league. V.V.S. Laxman was named as the Icon Player of the team, but he opted out of that status, so that more money is bid for all the players of the team. Coach of the team is Robin Singh, a great all-rounder of his time. Players from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand are present in the team. Deccan Chargers also include the greatest wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist in their team.
Following are the players taken into the Deccan chargers team, with their bidding price -
- Andrew Symonds from Australia – US$ 1,350,000
- Rudra Pratap Singh from India – US$ 875,000
- Rohit Sharma from India – US$ 750,000
- Adam Gilchrist from Australia – US$ 700,000
- Shahid Afridi from Pakistan – US$ 675,000
- Herschelle Gibbs from South Africa – US$ 575,000
- V. V. S. Laxman (Captain) from India – US$ 375,000
- Chaminda Vaas from Sri Lanka – US$ 200,000
- Scott Styris from new Zealand – US$ 175,000
- Nuwan Zoysa from Sri lanka – US$ 110,000
- Chamara Silva from Sri Lanka – US$ 100,000
Apart from these International players, there are a few National level players taken into the team, like Arjun Yadav, Venugopal Rao, D Ravi Teja, Paidikalva Vijaykumar, Pragyan Ojha, M Sarveesh Kumar and Doddapaneni Kalyankrishna. Some of them are Under-22 cricket players for India.
Home ground of this team is “Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium” at Uppal, Hyderabad. J Krishnan is the CEO of the franchise.
Mascot for the team is a Charging bull, and the whole mascot represents 5 messages -
Charging bull shows strength, power and aggression. Red and gold bands are for Dominance and Victory.
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