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A revamped IPL this season

New entrants Sahara Pune Warriors have registered all 30 players for the upcoming edition of Indian Premier League, which start on April 8, while the Shah Rukh Khan co-owned Kolkata Knight Riders, which failed to make it to the semi-finals in the past three editions, have only 20 on their roster.

Defending champions and runners-up Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians have 24 and 23 players registered respectively.

Delhi Daredevils registered 29 players, RCB has 25 players. Kochi Tuskers Kerala, Deccan Chargers and Rajasthan Royals have named 27 players for the cash-rich league.

The Preity Zinta-Ness Wadia co-owned Kings XI Punjab have named 23 players.

While Rajasthan Royals, who were penalised financially, exhausted their full purse, Mumbai Indians had only US $1739 of their US $9 million purse remaining. This is due to Mumbai Indians opting to retain four players --- Sachin Tendulkar, Kieron Pollard, Lasith Malinga and Harbhajan Singh for US$ 4.5 million.

Deccan Chargers had the maximum amount, US $1.49 million, left after the buy-outs, followed by Kings XI Punjab, who had US $1.46 million (approx) left.

Chennai Super Kings

Chennai Super Kings are the defending champions. They completed a unique double last year, winning both the IPL and Champions League Twenty20.

The team, owned by India Cements, is based in Chennai and led by India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Team

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Suresh Raina

Murali Vijay

Wriddhiman Saha

Ravichandran Ashwin

Subramanium Badrinath

Joginder Sharma

Sudeep Tyagi

Abhinav Mukund

Aniruddha Shrikant

Ganapathi Vignesh

K Vasudevdas

Shadb Jakati

Vijaykumar Yomahesh.

Foreign

Albie Morkel

Michael Hussey

Dwayne Bravo

Doug Bollinger

Scott Styris

Ben Hilfenhaus

Nuwan Kulasekera

Suraj Randiv

George Bailey,

Faf du Plessis.

Mumbai Indians

Mumbai Indians finished runners-up in the last edition of the tournament.

The team, owned by Reliance Industries, is captained by Sachin Tendulkar and based in Mumbai.

Team:

Sachin Tendulkar

Harbhajan Singh

Rohit Sharma

Munaf Patel

Abu Nechim Ahmed

Aditya Tare

Ali Murtuza

Ambati Rayudu

Dhawal Kulkarni

Pawan Suyal

Rajagopal Sathish

Surul Kanwar

Surya Kumar Yadav

T Suman

Yazvendra Singh Chahal

Foreign

Kieron Pollard

Lasith Malinga

Andrew Symonds

Davy Jacobs

James Franklin

Moises Henriques

Alden Blizzard

Dilhara Fernando

Kolkata Knight Riders

Kolkata Knight Riders is the only team among the original eight franchises that never made it to the semi-finals.

The franchise, owned by Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and based in Kolkata, recently became the ire of local fans after they opted not to retain former India captain Sourav Ganguly in the IPL Players' Auction. 

Team:

Gautam Gambhir

Yusuf Pathan

Manoj Tiwary

Lakshmipathy Balaji

Jaidev Unadkat

Iqbal Abdulla

Laxmi Ratan Shukla

Manvinder Singh Bisla

Pradeep Sangwan

Rajat Bhatia

Sarabjit Ladda

Shami Ahmed

Shreevats Goswami.

Foreign

Jacques Kallis

Brad Haddin

Shakib Al Hassan

Brett Lee

Eoin Morgan

Ryan ten Doeschate

James Pattinson

Kochi Tuskers Kerala

The Indian Premier League's new entrants Kochi finally named their team and also released the team's logo.

The franchise is named 'Kochi Tuskers Kerala'.

Team:

VVS Laxman

S Sreesanth

R P Singh

Parthiv Patel

Ravindra Jadeja

Ramesh Powar

R Vinay Kumar

B Akhil

Chandan Madan

Deepak Chowghule

Kedar Jadhav

Raiphi Gomez

Sushant Marathe

Tanmay Srivastava

Y Gnanswara Rao

Yashpal Singh

Prashant Padmanabahan

Foreign

Mahela Jayawardene

Brendon McCullum

Steven Smith

Muttiah Muralitharan

Brad Hodge

Thisara Perera

Steve O'Keefe

Owais Shah

Michael Klinger

John Hastings.

Sahara Pune Warriors

Sahara Pune Warriors is the other new entrant in the fourth edition of the IPL, which kicks-off on April 8.

The team is owned by the Sahara Group and is based in Pune.

Team:

Yuvraj Singh

Robin Uthappa

Ashish Nehra

Murali Kartik

Abhishek Jhunjhunwala

Bhuvenshwar Kumar

Dheeraj Jadhav

Ekalavya Dwivedi

Ganesh Gaikwad

Harpreet Singh Bhatia

Harshad Khadiwale

Kamran Khan

Manish Pandey

Mithun Manhas

Mohnish Mishra

Rahul Sharma

Sachin Rana

Shrikant Wagh

Shrikant Mundhe

Imtiyaz Ahmed.

Foreign

Graeme Smith

Tim Paine

Angelo Mathews

Nathan McCullum

Callum Ferguson

Wayne Parnell

Mitchell Marsh

Jerome Taylor

Alfonso Thomas

Jesse Ryder

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore finished second in 2009, having lost to Deccan Chargers in the final.

The team is owned by liquor baron Vijay Mallya and based in Bangalore.

Teams:

Virat Kohli

Zaheer Khan

Saurabh Tiwary

Cheteshwar Pujara

Abhimanyu Mithun

Mohammed Kaif

Arun Karthik

CM Gautham

Abrar Kazi

Mayank Agarwal

Bharath Narayan

Raju Bhatkal

Sreenath Aravind

Ryan Ninan

Asad Khan Pathan

Foreign

Tillekratne Dilshan

AB de Villiers

Daniel Vettori

Dirk Nannes

Charl Langeveldt

Luke Pomersbach

Johan van der Wath

Rilee Rossouw

Nuwan Pradeep

Jonathan Vandiar

Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals stunned one and all when they won the inaugural IPL in 2008 under the leadership of Australian spin legend Shane Warne.

The team, owned by a consortium that includes Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra, was last year expelled by the BCCI but fought its way back after winning their case in the Mumbai high court.

The team is based in Jaipur.

Team:

Rahul Dravid

Pankaj Singh

Aakash Chopra

Abhishek Raut

Aditya Dole

Ajinkya Rahane

Amit Paunikar

Ashok Menaria

Deepak Chahar

Dishant Yagnik

Faiz Fazal

Nayan Doshi

Pinal Shah

Samad Fallah

Siddharth Trivedi

Stuart Binny

Amit Singh

Dinesh Salunkhe

Swapnil Asnodkar

Sumit Narwal

Ankeet Chavan

Foreign

Shane Warne

Shane Watson

Ross Taylor

Johan Botha

Paul Collingwood

Shaun Tait

Deccan Chargers

Deccan Chargers scripted a remarkable turnaround to win the 2009 IPL after having finished bottom of the standings in the previous season.

The team, owned by the Deccan Chronicle newspaper, is based in Hyderabad.

Team:

Shikhar Dhawan

Ishant Sharma

Pragyan Ojha

Amit Mishra

Manpreet Gony

Akash Bhandari

Anand Rajan

Ankit Nagendra

Arjun Yadav

Ashish Reddy

Bharat Chipli

DB Ravi Teja

Harmeet Singh Bansal

Ishank Jaggi

Ishan Malhotra

Jaydev Shah

Kedar Devdhar

Sunny Sohal

Foreign

Kevin Pietersen

Cameron White

Kumar Sangakkara

JP Duminy

Dale Steyn

Daniel Christian

Chris Lynn

Juan Theron

Michael Lumb.

Kings XI Punjab

Kings XI Punjab was the other franchise that was expelled by the BCCI last year, but made its way back after challenging their explusion in the Bombay high court.

Kings XI Punjab, owned by a consortium that includes Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, made it to the semi-finals in 2009 but failed to make it to the last four in the next two editions.

The team is based in Mohali, Punjab.

Team

Dinesh Karthik

Abhishek Nayar

Praveen Kumar

Piyush Chawla

Bhargav Bhatt

Bipul Sharma

Love Ablish

Mandeep Singh

Nitin Saini

Paras Dogra

Paul Valthaty

Shalabh Srivastava

Siddharth Chitnis

Sunny Singh

Vikramjeet Malik

Amit Yadav

Foreign

Adam Gilchrist

Shaun Marsh

David Hussey

Stuart Broad

Ryan Harris

Dimitri Masceranhas

Nathan Remington.

Delhi Daredevils

Delhi Daredevils were beaten in the semi-finals in the 2008 and 2009 edition, but failed to make it past the group stage last year.

The franchise, owned by GMR Group, is based in New Delhi.

Team:

Virender Sehwag

Irfan Pathan

Naman Ojha

Ajit Agarkar

Ashok Dinda

Umesh Yadav

Venugopal Rao

Aavishkar Salvi

Prashant Naik

Rajesh Pawar

Robin Bist

S Sriram

Tejashwi Yadav

Unmukt Chand

Varun Aaron

Vikash Mishra

Vivek Yadav

Yogesh Nagar

Shahbaz Nadeem

Foreign

David Warner

James Hopes

Morne Morkel

Aaron Finch

Mathew Wade

Roloef van der Merwe

Andrew McDonald

Travis Birt

Collin Ingram

Robert Frylinck.