Kochi Tuskers

Kochi Tuskers Kerala represents the city of Kochi, Kerala. It is Owned by Kochi Cricket Private Limited.

Kochi Tuskers came into IPL first time for the year 2011 season.

KTK bought 17 players in the IPL 2011 auction, signing  Mahela Jayawardene, VVS Laxman, Brad Hodge, Owais Shah , Michael Klinger , off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan , Sreesanth, RP Singh, Ramesh Powar, Vinay Kumar and Steve O'Keefe, Ravindra Jadeja, Steve Smith, Thisara Perera and John Hastings. Two renowned Wicket-Keeper batsmen were signed, Brendon McCullum who is the leading run scorer in Twenty20 Internationals and Parthiv Patel. But KTK lost both the Australians all-rounders Steve Smith and John Hastings for the 2011 season due to injuries, without either of them playing a game for KTK. ^[20]

The Srilankan players playing in IPL were asked to return by May 5th for a camp for upcoming Engalnd tour by the Srilankan Cricket Board. KTK's captain Mahela Jayawardene and Thisara Perera were supposed to leave the team early, but BCCI and the Sri Lankan board came to an agreement and the players will now have to return only by May 18th. On May 18 2011, Parthiv Patel lead the tuskers against Chennai Super Kings in their last group match of IPL 2011 season as skipper Mahela Jayawardene had to leave for national duty

Current Squad for the 2011 Indian Premier League :

Captain	Mahela Jayawardene
Name of Player	Auction Price	Original Country
Mahela Jayawardene (Captain)	Rs. 6.90 Crore ($ 1,500,000)	Sri Lanka
Muttiah Muralitharan	Rs. 5 Crore ( $ 1,100,000)	Sri Lanka
S Sreesanth	Rs. 4.10 Crore ($ 900,000)	India
Ravindra Jadeja	Rs. 4.32 Crore ($ 950,000)	India
Rudra Pratap Singh	Rs. 2.30 Crore ($ 500,000)	India
Brendon McCullum	Rs. 2.20 Crore ($ 475,000)	New Zealand
Brad Hodge	Rs. 1.93 Crore ($ 425,000)	New Zealand
VVS Laxman	Rs. 1.85 Crore ($ 400,000)	India
Parthiv Patel	Rs. 1.32 Crore ($ 290,000)	India
Steven Smith	Rs. 92 Lakh ($ 200,000)	Australia