Entries for the ‘Deccan Chargers’ Category
The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle, who acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million. The Chargers were one of the favourites to win the inauguaral edition of the IPL, but the team finished at the bottom of the table in the inaugural edition, winning only 2 of their 14 matches.
From 2009, the team will be captained by former Australian wicket keeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist who replaced the captain of the inaugural season, VVS Laxman. In 2008, Laxman was intended to be the Icon Player for the team but he relinquished his Icon Player Status and settled for a signing amount of $375,000, which allowed the team to bid for costly players and still remain under the salary cap.
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 second IPL auction, the franchise acquired two West Indian players — Fidel Edwards for a fee of $150,000, and Dwayne Smith for $100,000.
16th Indian Premier League Cricket Match between Chennai Super Kings v Deccan Chargers is scheduled at Durban on 27th April from 12.30 pm local time (11:00 GMT). Live Cricket Match and Hasan Online Sports will publish links to watch free online cricket match streaming and embed media players from different sources for free live [...]
Deccan Chargers, last year’s winners of the wooden spoon, are the form team this season and lead the league after two matches. Their opponents at Kingsmead, however, are likely to present a tougher challenge than did Kolkata Knight Riders and Bangalore Royal Challengers.
Despite a star-studded batting line-up Deccan were last season’s whipping boys and the [...]
