Deccan Chargers is a team in the Indian Premier League that represents Hyderabad city. Kumar Sangakkara will be the captain from 2011 session of IPL.This franchise of IPL is owned by Deccan Chronicle, a famous media group. Deccan Chronicle bought the franchise for $107 million on January 24, 2008.Deccan Chargers is the only team to have won by a margin of 10 wickets in IPL 2007 – 08.The Home Stdium for the Deccan Chargers is VCA Stadium Recreation Club.Deccan Charges have lost all the matches in their home stadium.The only team to have announced to change its captain after Season One was DC. They changed their captain from VVS Laxman to Adam Gilchrist.Deccan Chargers looks very prepared for the fresh season of IPL 2011.Lets see.....:)
2008 season
Players
The franchise initially acquired star players Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Shahid Afridi, Scott Styris and Herschelle Gibbs. The main bowlers purchased by the franchise were R.P. Singh, Nuwan Zoysa,andChaminda Vaas.The other Indian players are Rohit Sharma, Venugopal Rao.
Despite the fact that the team was one of the favourites to win the inaugural edition of the IPL, the team failed to reach the semi-finals. Andrew Symonds, who was Deccan's most expensive player, batted only 3 innings before leaving to play for the Australian national team. In addition,the team captain V.V.S. Laxman had an injury which ended his season after 6 games. Only three bowlers R. P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha andShahid Afridi took more than 4 wickets in the competition. In this 14 match period, the team went winless at home and only managed 2 wins overall, one against the Mumbai Indians and one against the Chennai Super Kings and as a result they finished at the bottom of the table.
2009 season
In low key trading of players, the Deccan Chargers management had placed Shahid Afridi and Herschelle Gibbs up for sale, a direct result of their below par performance during the 2008 season. However, no franchise owners were interested in purchasing these two players. Later, the Deccan Chargers management severed all ties withShahid Afridi, due to his disagreement with former Deccan Chargers captain V.V.S.Laxman. Also, Former India all-rounder Sanjay Bangar was transferred to the Kolkata Knight Riders.
New signings
Before the second player auction took place the management signed Queensland all-rounder Ryan Harris owing to a strong recommendation from Coach Darren Lehmann. In the resulting auction the Deccan Chargers franchise acquired two West Indian players, Fidel Edwards for a fee of $150,000, and Dwayne Smith for $100,000. Seven new domestic players were also signed up; Tirumalasetti Suman and Abhinav Kumar who are batsmen, bowler Shoaib Maqsusi from the Hyderabad team signed after their consistent performances on the domestic circuit. Baroda batsman Azhar Bilakhia and two fast bowlers from Punjab, Jaskarandeep Singh and Harmeet Singh.
2010 season
New COO
On 11 August 2009, Dinesh Wadhwa, former Regional Manager of ICICI Bank was appointed chief operating officer for 2010.
New COO
Owner | Deccan Chronicle | |
Captain | Dale Steyn | |
Name of Player | Auction Price | Original Country |
Dale Steyn (Captain) | Rs. 5.46 Crore ($ 1,200,000) | South Africa |
Cameron White | Rs. 5 Crore ($ 1,100,000) | Australia |
Daniel Christian | Rs. 4.14 Crore ($ 910,000) | Australia |
Kumar Sangakkara | Rs. 3.2 Crore ($ 700,000) | Sri Lanka |
Kevin Pietersen | Rs. 3 Crore ($ 650,000) | England |
Pragyan Ojha | 2.27 Crore ($ 500,000) | India |
Ishant Sharma | Rs. 2.05 Crore ($ 450,000) | India |
Amit Mishra | Rs. 1.36 Crore ($ 300,000) | India |
Shikhar Dhawan | Rs. 1.36 Crore ($ 300,000) | India |
JP Duminy | Rs. 1.36 Crore ($ 300,000) | South Africa |
Manpreet Gony | Rs. 1.31 Crore ($ 290,000) | India |
Rusty Theron | Rs. 38.6 Lakh ($ 85,000) | South Africa |
Michael Lumb | Rs. 36.40 Lakh ($ 80,000) | England |
Chris Lynn | Rs. 9 Lakh ($ 20,000) | Australia |
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