Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers

Personnel
Captain	Kumar Sangakkara
Coach	Darren Lehmann
Owner	The Deccan Chronicle
Team information
City	Hyderabad
Colors
Founded	2008
Home ground	Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium (Capacity: 40,000) ACA-VDCA Stadium (Capacity: 25,000)
History
IPL wins	1 (2009)
Official website	http://www.deccanchargers.com/
2011 Indian Premier League

Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (Telugu: హైదరాబాద్ డెక్కన్ చార్జర్స్) known in short as DC or 'Chargers' is a cricket franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. They won the Second season held in South Africa in 2009. For season 4 of the IPL the team was led by Kumar Sangakkara first and later by Cameron White and coached by Darren Lehmann, former Australian Test and One-Day Cricketer.

They finished last in the inaugural season of the IPL, and as the champions in the next season.

Franchise history

The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by the Deccan Chronicle corporation. The media group acquired the franchise for an amount of USD 107 million on 24 January 2008. Later, another media group, Group M India picked up a 20% stake in the franchise.

The team's name reflects the Rohit Sharma's association with the Deccan Chronicle newspaper, which in turn derives its name from the Deccan plateau that makes up the majority of the southern portion of the Indian peninsula.

The Chargers logo is a charging bull. From the 2009 season, the team changed the colour of the jersey (from beige and black to sparkling silver and blue) and the logo (from gold and red to white and blue).

There is no Icon Player for the team as the former captain V.V.S. Laxman rejected the offer to be an icon player in order to free funds and enable the franchise to buy & encourage younger players.

There were reports suggesting a buyout of the franchise by Gujarat based Adani Group for a sum of $300 million, almost three times the value the team was purchased for initially.

Indian Premier League

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,and Chaminda Vaas.The other Indian players are Rohit Sharma, Venugopal Rao.

Performance

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 and Shahid 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

New administration and support staff

After the debacle of 2008, the team management sacked the entire administration associated with the tournament in that year. They removed their CEO J.Kalyankrishnan, Coach Robin Singh and the Captain V.V.S.Laxman and replaced them with Tim Wright, the former Australian batsman Darren Lehmann and former Australian Wicket-Keeper Adam Gilchrist respectively. Many new players were taken from domestic circuit and also few new international players were signed. The 2008 sponsor Jaypee Group withdrew its sponsorship due to the 2008 debacle. After this, Deccan chargers went through a complete makeover from the previous season, colors of the team were changed from pale brown to vibrant blue, the logo was changed to display a more vibrant charging bull and Deccan Chronicle became the primary sponsor for the team.

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Deccan chargers players posing along with Tollywood Actor Venkatesh during 2009 season Jersey Launch

Tradings

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 with Shahid 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.

Performance

With the below-par performance in the inaugural season and finishing at the bottom, Deccan staged an inspired comeback in 2009 by winning the second IPL season. After having an undefeated run in the initial league stage, the team suffered minor setbacks by losing some close matches. But the return of Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma regaining form and the continuing exuberance of captain Adam Gilchrist bolstered the side. Some luck came in Deccan's way, towards the end of the league stage, with Kings Punjab and Rajasthan Royals losing key matches, enabling the Chargers into the semi-finals. During the semi-finals against the Delhi Daredevils, who were at the top of the table, few gave the Chargers a chance of an outside win. But against the odds, Gilchrist scored a sensational 85 off just 35 balls to put the Daredevils out of the competition and give the Chargers their first IPL final against the Royal Challengers Bangalore.

In the final match, Gilchrist got out for a duck in the first over, however the Chargers managed to recover and posted a total of 143 for the loss of 6 wickets. Many felt that a good defending total could have been a further 20-30 runs. The Chargers came out with all guns blazing right from the first ball, and this spirited effort ensured that they successfully defended the total, winning the game by 6 runs and lifting the prized IPL trophy.

2010 season

New COO

On 11 August 2009, Dinesh Wadhwa, former Regional Manager of ICICI Bank was appointed chief operating officer for 2010.

New Signing

Foreign Inclusions-

• Kemar Roach, Mitchell Marsh

Domestic Inclusions-

• Anirudh Singh, Mohnish Mishra, Ashish Reddy, Bodapati Sumanth, Rahul Sharma

Contracts Bought Out-

• Chamara Silva, Nuwan Zoysa

Champions League Twenty20

Main article: Twenty20 Champions League

The Twenty20 Champions League is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies.The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League

2008 season

Main article: 2008 Twenty20 Champions League

2008 Season was cancelled due to 2008 Mumbai Attacks but Qualifying teams from India, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were compensated for the losses incurred.

2009 season

Main article: 2009 Twenty20 Champions League

On account of emerging as the winners of the 2009 season of the Indian Premier League, the team participated in the inaugural edition of the T20 Champions League, along with two other Indian teams; the runners-up of IPL 2009, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Delhi Daredevils, the toppers of the league-stage points table.

They were knocked out in the group stages after losing to the Somerset Sabres and Trinidad & Tobago, who they were drawn against in Group A.

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10 October, 2009 20:00 Scorecard Bulletin

Deccan Chargers 153/9 (20.0 overs)	v	Somerset Sabres 157/9 (20.0 overs)
VVS Laxman 46 Ben Phillips 3/31		Alfonso Thomas 30 RP Singh 3/23

Somerset Sabres won by 1 wicket Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Daryl Harper and Rudi Koertzen Player of the match: Alfonso Thomas

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14 October, 2009 20:00 Scorecard Bulletin

Trinidad and Tobago 149/7 (20.0 overs)	v	Deccan Chargers 146/9 (20.0 overs)
William Perkins 38 Fidel Edwards 3/32		Adam Gilchrist 51 Dwayne Bravo 3/24

Trinidad & Tobago won by 3 runs Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Daryl Harper and Rudi Koertzen Player of the match: Dwayne Bravo

2010 Season

Main article: 2010 Champions League Twenty20

The Deccan Chargers having lost to the Royal Challengers Bangalore at the 3rd place play-off failed to quailfy for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 while the IPL champions Chennai Super Kings, runners-up Mumbai Indians along with Royal Challengers proceeded to the event that was played in South Africa.

IPL Auction 2011

The much awaited Auction on 8th & 9th Jan 2011, lived up to the expectation; in fact it exceeded in many ways. Daniel Christian was termed as million dollar baby as he was hardly known to the world cricket at that point of time. Chargers did pick very good players in Cameron White, JP Duminy, Ishant Sharma, Dale Steyn & not to forget the obvious skipper Kumar Sangakkara.

IPL 2011 season

The Chargers got to play IPL matches at Home after almost 3 years, but dismal performance at home ground continued with win against RCB being only exception. However in the away matches Chargers did beat DD, MI, KTK, PWI & KXIP in their den. They ended on a high with 3 consecutive wins but could not scale up above 7th position in the league standings.

Chargers Squad And Administration

Administration

Team Administration Table

Position	Name
Owner	Deccan Chronicle, Deccan Chargers Sporting Ventures Ltd
COO & Director, Operation	E. Venkatram Reddy
General Manager, Operation	Girish Dongre
Manager - Brand & Marketing	Ajitabh Rajan
Brand Ambassador	Saina Nehwal

Team Sponsors

Team Sponsors Table

Sponsor Type	Sponsor Name
Principal Sponsors	UltraTech Cement
Apparel Sponsor	Puma AG
Co-Sponsors	Linc Pens, Kingfisher, McDowell's No.1,playup.
Electronic Media Partner	TV5
Radio Media Partner	BIG FM 92.7
Medical Partner	Apollo Hospitals

Fixtures and results

Indian Premier League

Overall results

	Matches	Wins	Loses	No Result	% Win	Position
2008	14	2	12	0	14%	8
2009	16	9	7	0	56%	1
2010	14	8	6	0	57%	4
2011	14	6	8	0	42%	7
Total	56	25	33	0	45.66%

2008 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	20 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Kolkata	Lost by 5 wickets
2	22 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 9 Wickets
3	24 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 3 wickets
4	27 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Mumbai	Won by 10 Wickets, MoM – Adam Gilchrist – 109* (48)
5	1 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 7 wickets
6	3 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Bangalore	Lost by 3 runs
7	6 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Chennai	Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Adam Gilchrist – 54 (36)
8	9 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Jaipur	Lost by 8 wickets
9	11 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 23 runs
10	15 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Delhi	Lost by 12 runs
11	18 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 25 runs
12	23 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Mohali	Lost by 6 wickets
13	25 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 5 wickets
14	27 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 7 wickets
Total				Overall Record - Won 2 of 14 games Failed to make Playoffs

2009 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	19 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Cape Town	Won by 8 wickets, MoM – R. P. Singh – 4/22(3.4 ov)
2	22 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Cape Town	Won by 24 Runs, MoM – Adam Gilchrist - 71 runs(45 balls)
3	25 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Durban	Won by 12 Runs, MoM - Pragyan Ojha 3/21(4Ov)
4	27 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Durban	Won by 6 wickets, MoM - H Gibbs - 69 runs(56 balls)
5	30 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Centurion	Lost by 6 wickets
6	2 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Port Elizabeth	Lost by 3 wickets
7	4 May	Template:Cr-IPL	East London	Lost by 78 runs
8	6 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Centurion	Won by 19 Runs, MoM – Rohit Sharma - 38, 4/6 (2 overs, Hat-trick)
9	9 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Kimberley	Lost by 3 Wickets
10	11 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Kimberley	Won by 53 runs, MoM - Dwayne Smith - 47 runs(32 balls - 4 Sixes)
11	13 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Durban	Lost by 12 runs
12	16 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Johannesburg	Won by 6 wickets, MoM - Rohit Sharma 32 runs(13 balls - 3 Fours - 2 Sixes)
13	17 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Johannesburg	Lost by 1 run
14	21 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Centurion	Lost by 12 runs
15	22 May(semi-final)	Template:Cr-IPL	Centurion	Won by 6 wickets, MoM – Adam Gilchrist - 85 runs(35 balls - 10 Fours - 5 Sixes)
16	24 May (final)	Template:Cr-IPL	Johannesburg	Won by 6 runs.
Total				Overall Record - Won 9 of 16 games Qualified for Champions League Twenty20 - 2009 Deccan Chargers Won the - DLF IPL 2009.

2010 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	12 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai	Lost by 11 Runs.
2	14 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Chennai	Won by 31 Runs - MoM - Chaminda Vaas - 4/21
3	19 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Cuttack	Won by 6 Runs - MoM - Andrew Symonds - 53 runs
4	21 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Cuttack	Won by 10 Runs -MoM- Andrew Symonds - 3 wickets
5	26 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Ahmedabad	Lost by 8 wickets
6	28 March	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai	Lost by 41 Runs
7	1 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Kolkata	Lost by 24 Runs
8	3 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Mumbai	Lost by 63 Runs
9	5 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Nagpur	Lost by 2 Runs
10	8 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Bangalore	Won by 7 wickets - MoM - Tirumalasetti Suman - 78 runs
11	10 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Nagpur	Won by 6 wickets - MoM - Ryan Harris - 3/18
12	12 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Nagpur	Won by 13 runs - MoM - Harmeet Singh
13	15 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Dharamsala	Won by 5 wickets MoM - Rohit Sharma - 68* runs
14	18 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Delhi	Won by 11 Runs MoM - Andrew Symonds - 54 runs
15	22 April [Semi Final]	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai	Lost by 38 Runs.
16	24 April [3rd Place Play-off]	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai	Lost by 9 Wickets.
Total				Overall Record - Won 8 of 16 Games

2011 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	9 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 8 wickets
2	11 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Kolkata	Lost by 9 runs
3	14 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Won by 33 runs MoM - Dale Steyn 3/24(4 ov)
4	16 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 8 wickets
5	19 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Delhi	Won by 16 Runs,MoM - Sunny Sohal - 62 Runs
6	24 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 37 Runs
7	27 April	Template:Cr-IPL	Kochi	Won by 55 runs,MoM - Ishant Sharma - 5/12(3 ov)
8	1 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Chennai	Lost by 19 Runs
9	3 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 20 runs
10	5 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 4 wickets
11	10 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad	Lost by 6 wickets
12	14 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Mumbai	Won by 10 runs MoM - Amit Mishra - 18/6 balls and took 1/18
13	16 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai	Won by 6 wickets MoM - Amit Mishra - 26/2(4 ov)
14	21 May	Template:Cr-IPL	Dharamsala	Won by 82 runs MoM - S Dhawan - 95 runs (not out)
Total				Overall Record: Won 6 of 14 games Failed to make it to Playoffs

2012 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result
1	7 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Vishakapatnam
2	9 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Vishakapatnam
3	14 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Delhi
4	17 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Jaipur
5	19 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	TBA
6	22 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	TBA
7	24 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Kolkata
8	26 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Navi Mumbai
9	29 April 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Mumbai
10	1 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad
11	4 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Chennai
12	6 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Bangalore
13	8 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad
14	13 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Mohali
15	18 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad
16	20 May 2012	Template:Cr-IPL	Hyderabad
Total

Awards. Records and Statistics

Awards Won

Award	Player name	Year	Achievement
Player of the Tournament	Adam Gilchrist	2009	495 Runs and 15 dismissals
Under-23 Success of the Tournament	Rohit Sharma	2009	362 runs and 11 wickets ( including a hat-trick )
Purple Cap	RP Singh	2009	23 Wickets
Purple Cap	Pragyan Ojha	2010	21 Wickets

Results Summary

Opposition	Span	Mat	Won	Lost	Tied	NR	%
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	8	4	4	0	0	50.00
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	8	3	5	0	0	42.85
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	8	3	5	0	0	33.33
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	8	2	6	0	0	28.57
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	8	4	4	0	0	50.00
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	7	1	6	0	0	14.29
Template:Cr-IPL	2008-2011	9	5	4	0	0	55.56
Template:Cr-IPL	2011	1	1	0	0	0	100.00
Template:Cr-IPL	2011	2	1	1	0	0	50.00

Most catches

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	Ct	Max	Ct/Inn
HH Gibbs	2008-2010	33	33	22	2	0.666
RG Sharma	2008-2010	45	45	22	3	0.488
A Symonds	2008-2010	28	28	16	2	0.571
RP Singh	2008-2010	42	42	16	3	0.380
RJ Harris	2009-2010	16	16	10	2	0.625
PP Ojha	2008-2010	44	44	9	2	0.204
Y Venugopal Rao	2008-2010	33	33	7	2	0.212

DC Facts and Trivia

• Deccan Chargers Sporting Ventures, owners of the franchise, is being sued by former CEO Tim Wright for £10m for alleged breach of contract.

• Adam Gilchrist holds the record for Highest number of sixes hit in all the IPL matches. He hit 54 sixes until now.

• Deccan Chargers skipper Adam Gilchrist held the records for scoring the fastest hundred and fifty in IPL for the 2008 and 2009 seasons, though Yusuf Pathan broke the record for scoring the fastest century in the 2010 IPL.

• 155 - The highest partnership for any wicket in IPL was made by Adam Gilchrist and VVS Laxman for the first wicket against Mumbai Indians.

• Lost all but one game that were played at Hyderabad.

• Deccan Chronicle owns Deccan Chargers in collaboration with M Group.

• Andrew Symonds is the most expensive player for the Deccan Chargers.

• Adam Gilchrist won the Player of Tournament Award for IPL 2009.

• Rohit Sharma won the best Under-23 Player of the Tournament award for IPL 2009.

• Deccan Chargers did not win a single home game in the IPL 2008 or CLT20 2009.

• Jaypee Group was the Team Sponsor in IPL 2008 for DC.

• Won their first match at home against Royal Challengers Bengaluru in IPL 2011

• Adam Gilchrist and Herschelle Gibbs are associated with DC official sponsor Puma AG.

• Andrew Symonds was the most expensive foreign player in IPL-2008.

External links

• Official Deccan Chargers Website
• Deccan Chargers Team Squad 2012