Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers is a cricket team in India. The team is represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL). They are the current champion of the IPL. V V S Laxman was led the team in the first edition of the IPL. In second edition, Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist is skipped. They finished eighth position in the first IPL. The team is owned by Deccan Chronicle, a newspaper based Hyderabad. The group earned the franchise from IPL for 107 million dollars. Later, another media group, Group M India picked up a 20 per cent stake in the franchise.

Their victory in the IPL 2009 is to qualify the Airtel Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20). The team is in the group A in the tournament.

The squad of Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is here: Adam Gilchrist (captain and wicketkeeper), VVS Laxman, Rohit Sharma, Andrew Symonds, Fidel Edwards, Scott Styris, Chaminda Vaas, RP Singh, Ryan Harris, Pragyan Ojha, Y Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Azhar Bilakhia, Harmeet Singh, Shoaib M Shoaib

Adam Gilchrist, Ryan Harris, Andrew Symonds (Australia), Fidel Edwards (West Indies), Scott Styris (New Zealand) and Chaminda Vaas (Sri Lanka) are the foreign players. Eleven players of the squad are international players, except T Suman, S Ahmed, H Singh and A Bilakhia.

Darren Lehmann is coach of the team.