Gujarat Lions is the newly launched franchise in the Indian Premier League and team will play their first edition of tournament in 2016. Suresh Raina was appointed the captain of side for Vivo IPL 2016 which is starting from 9 April. Intex is the owner of Gujarat Lions (GL) franchise.
In the first players draft, Gujarat Lions owner picked five players Suresh Raina, Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo. Team will pick more players in the players auction which will be held on 6 February 2016.
Let’s have a look at the full players list and squad of Gujarat Lions for ninth Indian Premier League.
Gujarat Lions Squad 2016
| Indian Domestic Players | Overseas Players |
| Suresh Raina (Captain) | Brendon McCullum (New Zealand) |
| Ravindra Jadeja | James Faulkner (Australia) |
| Praveen Kumar | Dwayne Bravo (West Indies) |
| Dinesh Karthik | Dwayne Smith (West Indies) |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | Dale Steyn (South Africa) |
| Ishan Kishan | Andrew Tye (Australia) |
| Paras Dogra | Aaron Finch (Australia) |
| Eklavya Dwivedi | |
| Pradeep Sangwan | |
| Pravin Tambe | |
| Shivil Kaushik | |
| Sarabjit Ladda | |
| Jaydev Shah | |
| Amit Mishra | |
| Shadab Jakati | |
| Umang Sharma | |
| Akshdeep Nath |