The 9th edition of Indian Premier League is set to kick off on 9 April 2016 and teams are almost ready to get into the action. Players auction for Vivo IPL 2016 was held on 6th February in Bengaluru in which franchises, team owners, coaches and some captains took part to get the perfect players in their respective squads. The most expensive cricketer of the auction was Shane Watson who was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for 9.5 Crore INR.
A total of 94 players were sold in the auction including 28 overseas cricketers. 351 went under the hammer in auction. Richard Madley was the auctioneer in Vivo Indian Premier League auction. Let’s have a look at the full list of squads, teams, players, coaches and captains for respective eight franchises in the competition.
Vivo IPL 2016 Teams Squad
Team | Coach | Captain | Players |
Mumbai Indians | Ricky Ponting | Rohit Sharma | Vinay Kumar, Jasprit Bumrah, Corey Anderson, Mitchell McClenaghan, Unmukt Chand, Shreyas Gopal, Siddhesh Dinesh Lad, Nathu Singh, Jos Buttler, Deepak Punia, Kishore Pramod Kamath, Jitesh Sharma, Lasith Malinga, Nitish Rana, Krunal Pandya, Hardik Pandya, Marchant de Lange, J Suchitch, Ambati Rayudu, Parthiv Patel, Martin Guptill, Harbhajan Singh, Akshay Wakhare, Kieron Pollard, Tim Southee. Read more about team here. |
Rising Pune Supergiants | Stephen Fleming | MS Dhoni | Ajinkya Rahane, Steve Smith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kevin Pietersen, Irfan Pathan, Thisara Perera, Jaskaran Singh, Rudra Pratap Singh, Baba Aparajith, Ankush Bains, Deepak Chahar, Mitchell Marsh, Ashok Dinda, Rajat Bhatia, George Bailey, M. Ashwin, Adam Zampa, Ishwar Pandey, Usman Khawaja, Peter Handscomb, Saurabh Tiwary, Albie Morkel, Ankit Sharma, Scott Boland. Read more about team here. |
Gujarat Lions | Brad Hodge | Suresh Raina | Brendon McCullum, Ishan Kishan, Aaron Finch, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Akshdeep Nath, Dale Steyn, Umang Sharma, James Faulkner, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shadab Jakati, Amit Mishra, Jaydev Shah, Sarabjit Ladda, Shivil Kaushik, Dinesh Karthik, Pravin Tambe, Pradeep Sangwan, Eklavya Dwivedi, Paras Dogra, Andrew Tye, Dwayne Smith, Praveen Kumar. Read more about team here. |
Kolkata Knight Riders | Jacques Kallis | Gautam Gambhir | Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Manan Ajay Sharma, Chris Lynn, Rajagopal Sathish, Jason Holder, Ankit Singh Rajpoot, Jaydev Unadkat, Manish Pandey, Sheldon Jackson, Colin Munro, Piyush Chawla, Shaun Tait, Morne Morkel, Shakib Al Hasan, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Singh Yadav, Andre Russell, Suryakumaar Yadav, Brad Hogg. Read more about team here. |
Delhi Daredevils | Paddy Upton | Zaheer Khan | JP Duminy, Rishabh Pant, Pawan Negi, Christopher Morris, Mahipal Lomror, Mayank Agarwal, Pawan Suyal, Sam Billings, Syed Khaleel Ahmed, Imran Tahir, Akhil Arvind Herwadkar, Pratyush Singh, Chama Milind, Shreyas Iyer, Karun Nair, Nathan Coulter Nile, Carlos Brathwaite, Joel Paris, Sanju Sampson, Jayant Yadav, Mohammad Shami, Quinton de Kock, Travis Head. Read more about team here. |
Kings XI Punjab | Sanjay Bangar | David Miller | Pardeep Sahu, Swapnil Singh, Armaan Jaffer, K.C. Cariappa, Mohit Sharma, Nikhil Shankar Naik, Manan Vohra, Rishi Dhawan, Farhaan Behardien, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Kyle Abbott, Shardul Narendra Thakur, Marcus Stoinis, Anureet Singh, Sandeep Sharma, Mitchel Johnson, Akshar Patel, Wriddhiman Saha, Shaun Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Murali Vijay. Read more about team here. |
Royal Challengers Bangalore | Daniel Vettori | Virat Kohli | Chris Gayle, Stuart Binny, AB De Villiers, Mitchell Starc, Kedar Jadhav, Adam Milne, Akshay Karnewar, Praveen Dubey, Vikas Tokas, Vikramjeet Malik, Sachin Baby, Iqbal Abdulla, Varun Aaron, KL Rahul, Kane Richardson, Sarfaraz Khan, Abu Nechim Ahmed, Samuel Badree, Sreenath Arvind, Travis Head, Parvez Rasool, Mandeep Singh, Shane Watson, Harshal Patel, David Wiese, Yuzvendra Singh Chahal. Read more about team here. |
Sunrisers Hyderabad | Tom Moody | David Warner | Yuvraj Singh, Kane Williamson, Vijay Shankar, Aditya Tare, Tirumalasetti Suman, Trent Boult, Ashish Nehra, Deepak Hooda, Abhimanyu Mithun, Shikhar Dhawan, Naman Ojha, Brinder Singh Sran, Ashish Reddy, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ben Cutting, Karn Sharma, Mustafizur Rahman, Bipul Sharma, Eoin Morgan, Ricky Bhui, Moises Henriques, Siddarth Kaul. Read more about team here. |
Bangalore Win the IPL match