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Tata IPL 2022: Complete squad of all 10 teams competing this season

KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)

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The 2022 season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is around the corner, with two new teams, Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants joining the IPL bandwagon. The season promises more action than ever seen before given the changes in rules and players move to different franchises in the auction held in February this year.

As the 10 teams are gearing up for an absorbing two months of T20 cricketing action, check out the complete squad list of all 10 IPL teams for the 2022 season. 

Mumbai Indians squad: 

Rohit Sharma (c), Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Ramandeep Singh, Anmolpreet Singh, Dewlad Brevis, Rahul Buddhi, Kieron Pollard, Tim David, Fabian Allen, Hrithik Shokeen, Arjun Tendulkar, Sanjay Yadav, Daniel Sams, Aryan Juyal (wk), Ishan Kishan (wk), Jasprit Bumrah, Arshad Khan, Jaydev Unadkat, Mayank Markande, Tymal Mills, Riley Meredith, Murugan Ashwin, Basil Thampi

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Chennai Super Kings squad: 

MS Dhoni (c/wk), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shubhransh Senapati, Hari Nishanth, Moeen Ali, Dwayne Bravo, Ravindra Jadeja, Dwaine Pretorius, Bhagath Verma, Mitchell Santner, Robin Uthappa, Devon Conway, N Jagadeesan, Deepak Chahar, KM Asif, Tushar Deshpande, Maheesh Theekshana, Simranjeet Singh, Chris Jordan, Adam Milne, Mukesh Choudhary, Prashant Solanki, Rajvardhan Hangargekar

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Kolkata Knight Riders squad: 

Shreyas Iyer (C), Baba Indirajith, Aman Hakim Khan, Pratham Singh, Ajinkya Rahane, Ramesh Kumar, Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Aaron Finch, Abhijeet Tomar, Venkatesh Iyer, Anukul Roy, Mohammad Nabi, Shivam Mavi, Sam Billings (wk), Sheldon Jackson (wk), Ashok Sharma, Pat Cummins, Chamika Karunaratene, Sunil Narine, Rashik Salam, Varun Chakravarthy, Umesh Yadav

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Delhi Capitals squad: 

Rishabh Pant (c/wk), Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Yash Dhull, Mandeep Singh, Ashwin Hebbar, Rovamn Powell, Mitchell Marsh, Ripan Patel, Axar Patel, Lal, Lalit Yadav, Srikar Bharat (wk), Tim Seifert (wk), Vicky Ostwal, Anrich Nortje, Shardul Thakur, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mustafizur Rahman, Lungi Ngidi, Khaleel Ahmed, Chetan Sakariya, Praveen Dudey, Kuldeep Yadav

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Punjab Kings squad:  

Mayank Agarwal (c), Prerak Mankand, Shikhar Dhawan, Bhanuka Rajapaksa, Liam Livingstone, Atharva Taide, Benny Howell, Shahrukh Khan, Baltej Singh, Ansh Patel, Rishi Dhawan, Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Jitesh Sharma (wk), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Arshdeep Singh, Odean Smith, Sandeep Singh, Writtick Chaterjee, Raj Bawa, Nathan Ellis, Ishan Porell, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Vaibhav Arora

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad: 

Faf du Plessis (c), Virat Kohli, Suyash Prabhudesai, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed,  Wanindu Hasaranga, David Williey, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Anuj Rawat (wk), Finn Allen (wk), Luvinith Sisodia, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Josh Hazelwood, Akash Deep, Jason Behrendorff, Chama V Milind, Karn Sharma, Siddarth Kaul

Sunrisers Hyderabad squad: 

Kane Williamson (c), Aiden Markram, Shashank Singh, Ravikumar Samarth, Priyam Garg, Rahul Tripathi, Abdul Samad, Washington Sundar, Marco Jansen, Sean Abbott, Abhishek Sharma, Shreyas Gopal, Glenn Phillips (wk), Nicholas Pooran (wk), Umran Malik (wk), Saurabh Dubey, Romario Shepherd, Fazalhaq Farooqi, Jagadeesha Suchith, Kartik Tyagi, T Natrajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar

Rajasthan Royals squad: 

Sanju Samson (c/wk), Karun Nair, Rassie van der Dussen, Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Riyan Parag, Yashasvi Jaiswal, James Neesham, Anunay Singh, Daryl Mitchell, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jos Buttler (wk), Dhruv Jruel (wk), Shubham Garhwal, Kuldip Yadav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Navdeep Saini, Obed McCoy, Kuldeep Sen, Tejas Baroka, KC Cariappa, Yuzvendra Chahal, Trent Boult, Prasidh Krishna

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Lucknow Super Giants squad: 

KL Rahul (c/wk), Manan Vohra, Evin Lewis, Manish Pandey, Marcus Stoinis, Kyle Mayers, Deepak Hooda, Karan Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Krishnappa Gowtham, Jason Holder, Ayush Badoni, Quinton de Kock (wk), Ravi Bishnoi, Dushmantha Chameera, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav, Ankit Rajpoot, Mark Wood, Avesh Khan

Gujarat Titans squad: 

Hardik Pandya, Shubhman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Abhinav Manohar, David Millier, Gurkreeat Singh Maan, Vijay Shankar, Rahul Tewatia, Mathew Wade (wk), Wriddhiman Saha, Rahamanullah Gurbaz, Domnic Drakes, Jayant Yadav, Rashid Khan, Varun Aaron, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Alzarri Joseph, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishor

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IPL 2022: Weight of captaincy removed, a stress free Kohli could be dangerous news for opposition: Maxwell

KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)

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Virat Kohli nowadays looks “stress-free” without the burden of captaincy weighing him down, a dangerous sign for the opposition teams in the upcoming IPL, feels Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate Glenn Maxwell.

Kohli, who relinquished RCB captaincy after last year’s IPL, has also resigned from T20 and Test captaincy while being removed from the ODI leadership role. Maxwell feels that Kohli now is no longer the “in-your-face” aggressive cricketer that he used to be and that has been pleasantly surprising.

“He knows he’s handing the captaincy over, which I think is potentially a big burden for him. It might have been something that’s been weighing him down for a while and now that he’s been able to release it, it might be dangerous news for opposition teams,” Maxwell told RCB Podcast. The flamboyant Australian is happy that Kohli is in that phase when he would actually be enjoying being out there in the thick of things.

“It is amazing for him to be relaxed a bit and actually enjoy the next few years of his career without any of that sort of external pressure. I think playing against him in earlier days, he was a fiery competitor, getting in your face. He’s always trying to impose himself on the game. Impose himself on the opposition.” The Australian all-rounder is loving the cricketing conversations he is having with Kohli and is himself surprised that the former India skipper has become a close friend. “Something I’ve noticed more from him this year is he’s been really measured with his emotions. He’s actually been really measured with his decision-making. He’s certainly really surprised me and probably how close we’ve both gotten to each other as well this year. Being able to talk about the game in a calm manner,” Maxwell said.

“Because you do see that over-excited, in your face style when you play against him. But to play with him and have really good conversations about the game, I’ve really enjoyed that.”

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PCB calls former ICC Academy head curator Lumsden to oversee Gddafi track, Aaqib wants “Indian curators’ help” for turners

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Facing scathing and continuous criticism over the pitches prepared for the first two Tests against Australia at home, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) summoned former ICC Academy head curator Toby Lumsden to oversee the preparations for the final game at Gaddafi Stadium starting Monday.

In the two Tests so far, eight centuries have been scored — six by Pakistani batters and two by Australia in Karachi. Both games have produced over 2300 runs with 14 wickets falling in Pindi and 28 in Karachi. Both Tests ended in draws.

The PCB has confirmed that Lumsden has reached Lahore on a 10-day assignment and will use his experience to help the local curators prepare the third Test surface. A PCB official said he will also help the local curators understand the modern requirements for preparing pitches.

Lumsden, who has also been a curator at Australia’s Melbourne Cricket Ground, is presently supervising all the preparation work in Lahore where the pitch is expected to produce a result after the first two tests have been drawn. Lumsden is not the first foreign curator to be hired by the PCB which has in the past also brought in other foreign curators during home series to help in preparing pitches.

A reliable source from within the board said that PCB Chairman, Ramiz Raja has been focusing a lot on the improvement of pitches in Pakistan. “He wants to also change and improve the process of preparing pitches and Lumsden might also be given a longer assignment to help train the local curators,” he said.

Get services of Indian curators to prepare “turners”, says Aaqib Javed

Pakistan’s former Test pacer and acclaimed coach Aaqib Javed wants PCB to pick brains of Indian curators, who have been regularly preparing rank turners in their own backyard. “Why go anywhere else? I would say find out from the curators in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai etc how they prepare the turners on which Indian spinners dominate. I am surprised until now Pakistan has not been able to produce pure turning tracks, which will help our spinners, Aaqib said on a YouTube channel.

He insisted that Pakistan could only beat Australia through spin as the Pakistani pace bowlers were not as experienced as the visiting quickies.

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IPL 2022: Prescence of Ashwin and Chahal makes RR’s director of cricket Kumar Sangakkara confident of turnaround

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Rajasthan Royals director of cricket and head coach Kumar Sangakkara believes they have a “very competent” squad at their disposal to script a turnaround after three dismal IPL seasons.

“We know we had quite a bit of work to do in the off-season with regards to our team. I think we managed to identify the key areas which needed our attention and having had a proper process when it comes to selecting players at the auction, we managed to kind of hit the markers that we set for ourselves,” said the Sri Lankan legend in a team statement. “I think the franchise has done an amazing job to put this exciting and strong squad together,” he added. Commenting on the make-up of his squad, Sangakkara said the presence of Yuzvendra Chahal and R Ashwin will make a huge difference.

“We’ve got the two best spinners in the IPL in terms of off-spin and leg-spin in Chahal and Ashwin. We have Boult, Prasidh, Saini, Coulter-Nile, McCoy, which makes up for a very exciting pace unit supported by of course the retentions of Yashasvi, Samson and Buttler. “We have secured depth in every department, with Neesham, Mitchell and van der Dussen being exciting cricketers. We’ve got some really exciting and young cricketers from India as well. The main thing is that we have a very competent side. We tried to get the core right and get the right players for the roles.

“But now, the main thing irrespective of what the squad is, is actual match performance on the field, and how we can give everyone the freedom to go out there and perform,” expressed Sangakkara. Asked what the team learned from last season’s disappointing second part of the campaign, Kumar said, “I think there were a lot of different reasons for that, not just one or two.

“Whether it was player availability, split tournament, bigger break, and not the best of match performances in terms of batting or bowling. But that is all in the past now, and that’s why the squad has changed.” Explaining the additions of his compatriot Lasith Malinga and Paddy Upton to the Royals’ coaching staff, the former Sri Lankan captain added: “My job really is to add value to the franchise through myself or through people that I would recommend. “It’s first about what value that person brings and how constantly they can help us improve. It’s pretty obvious for everyone to see the standards of both Lasith and Paddy. They’ve had stellar careers with their respective teams in their jobs and can prove to be vital elements in our quest for the title.” He also paid tribute to former Royals captain Shane Warne, who passed away earlier this month.

“He’s a great loss for the cricket world, a great loss for cricketers around the world, because he was such an approachable guy, who had great knowledge. He was a very good friend, and I really enjoyed my time with him, the conversations we used to have. I think everyone will miss him.”

In the 2022 IPL mega auction, Rajasthan Royals bought Ashwin for Rs. 5 crores. The team then got Chahal for a whopping sum of R2s. 6.5 crores. The two spinners bring in plenty of IPL experience and variation into the team’s bowling attack.

Ashwin has played 167 IPL matches and picked 145 wickets with his off-spin while leggie Chahal has 139 wickets from 114 IPL matches.

(With inputs from PTI)

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IPL 2022: Here’s the full schedule, match timing and venues for season 15

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Cricket fans the world over are in for a treat come March 26 as ten teams begin their campaign to emerge on top of the points table and lift the Tata Indian Premier League 2022 trophy. Yes, the action will continue for over two months and fans would get to see a total of 72 T20 games if all goes well. With the addition of Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants in season 15, it remains to be seen, if the new franchises will be able to dent the hopes of teams like Chennai Super Kings, Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians or Hyderabad Sunrisers.

As fans await the opening game on March 26 between defending champions CSK and KKR, here’s a look at the complete schedule, timing and venue of IPL 2022: 

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Novak Djokovic, Russian players expected to compete at French Open

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Novak Djokovic will be allowed to play at the French Open even if he is not vaccinated against COVID-19 as long as the coronavirus situation in France remains stable, organizers said Wednesday.

Russian tennis players, including top-ranked Daniil Medvedev, will also be admitted to play in the tournament but as neutral athletes because of the war started by their country in neighbouring Ukraine.

Organizers said there is nothing at the moment preventing Djokovic from defending his title at the clay-court Grand Slam. France this week lifted measures requiring the need to wear face masks in most settings and allowing people who aren’t vaccinated back into restaurants, sports arenas and other venues.

At this stage there is nothing to stop him returning to the courts,” French Open director Amelie Mauresmo said at a news conference.

Djokovic was deported from Australia in January after a legal battle over whether he should be allowed to enter the country, forcing him to miss the Australian Open. He told the BBC last month that he was willing to miss upcoming Grand Slam tournaments as well if they required him to get vaccinated.

Djokovic has won the French Open twice and has a total of 20 major titles, one short of the record held by Rafael Nadal after the Spaniard won this year’s Australian Open.

French tennis federation president Gilles Moretton said that although Djokovic is now free to play, French authorities might be forced to introduce new restrictions if the virus situation deteriorates before the tournament starts on May 22.

It is not up to us,” Moretton said. Today there is a little virus that is going around. We are quite confident that the lights are green, but we are all cautious about what has happened over the last two years.”

Asked whether Russian tennis players will be allowed to compete at the tournament in the light of the war in Ukraine, organizers said they plan to stick to decisions suspending Russia and ally Belarus but allowing their players to compete as neutral athletes.

The seven groups that run the sport around the world have condemned the war; cancelled events in Russia and Belarus; kicked those two nations out of the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup team competitions; and announced on March 1 that players from those countries will be allowed to compete in WTA, ATP and Grand Slam tournaments but not under the name or flag of Russia or Belarus.

We are holding this line,” said Amelie Oudea-Castera, the French tennis federation director general.

Other sports, including track and field, soccer and figure skating, have barred Russian and Belarusian athletes from competition.

Wimbledon organizers are having conversations with the British government about whether Russian players should be allowed to compete at the grass-court tournament this year if they dont distance themselves from President Vladimir Putin.

Oudea-Castera said French organizers don’t plan to start a detailed and individualized analysis of players’ individual situations, which can be extraordinarily dependent on the family situations experienced by each of them.”

Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, the day Medvedev was assured of moving atop the ATP rankings for the first time while competing at the Mexico Open.

Watching the news from home, waking up here in Mexico, was not easy, Medvedev said then. By being a tennis player, I want to promote peace all over the world. We play in so many different countries; Ive been in so many countries as a junior and as a pro. It’s just not easy to hear all this news. … I’m all for peace.

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IEA says 3 million bpd of Russian oil, products could be shut in next month

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Three million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian oil and products may not find their way to market beginning in April in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday, as sanctions bite and buyers hold off.

“We see a reduction in total exports of 2.5 million bpd, of which crude accounts for 1.5 million bpd and products 1 million bpd,” the IEA said in its monthly oil report.

Additionally, it projected lower Russian domestic demand for oil products.

“These losses could deepen should bans or public censure accelerate,” the Paris-based agency said.

The IEA lowered its forecast for world oil demand for the second to fourth quarters of 2022 by 1.3 million bpd noting rising commodity prices and sanctions on Russia “are expected to appreciably depress global economic growth” and impact inflation.

For the full year it cut its growth forecast by 950,000 bpd to 2.1 million bpd for an average of 99.7 million bpd.

That would mean a third year of demand below pre-pandemic levels.

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BMW cuts car unit profit forecast due to Russia-Ukraine war

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BMW lowered its profit margin expectations for its automotive segment for 2022 due to the war in Ukraine, the German carmaker said on Wednesday.

BMW Group now predicts its earnings before interest and taxation (EBIT) margin in its car segment in a range of 7-9% due to the war’s effects on production. Without the impact of war, the company would have targeted a range of 8-10%, it said.

The premium carmaker, which sold a record 2.52 million vehicles last year despite semiconductor shortages, reported a 10.3% earnings margin for 2021, its highest since 2017.

BMW said production interruptions should continue to be expected due to the war, adding it was able to continue to source parts from western Ukraine and was maintaining a high level of flexibility in its production network to minimize disruption.

The company said the war in Ukraine made it difficult to give accurate guidance for 2022 and that it could not factor any potential long-term implications of the war into its forecast.

Supply bottlenecks for semiconductor components are also likely to remain an issue, said BMW, which does not expect the situation to improve until the second half of 2022.

BMW, which more than doubled pre-pandemic earnings in 2021 to 16 billion euros ($17.67 billion), said it expects a significant increase in pre-tax profit for the current year as a result of the full consolidation of BMW Brilliance in China.

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Russian request to freeze UEFA sanctions on its teams denied

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The ban on Russian football teams from European competition was upheld Tuesday by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The urgent CAS ruling an interim judgment pending a full appeal hearing in the weeks ahead does not apply to Russia’s chances of being reinstated for World Cup qualifying.

Russian athletes and teams have been banned from dozens of sports since the country invaded Ukraine last month.

The ban by FIFA is part of a similar but separate appeal by the Russian soccer federation which could be decided by CAS this week. Russia had been scheduled to play Poland on March 24 in the World Cup qualifying playoffs.

Tuesday CAS verdict gives an indication of how the court might also act on the Russian request to freeze the FIFA ban.

Last week, FIFA awarded a bye to Poland. That country’s football federation and players have said they would refuse to play Russia.

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