IPL 2020: Domestic Powerhouses Karnataka, Mumbai, Delhi Continue To Field Bulk Of Cricketers In Season 13 At UAE

IPL 13 in the UAE is once again witnessing Indian cricketers from powerhouses like Mumbai, Delhi and Karnataka lock horn with their counterparts from states who are giving the domestic giants a run for their money.

KXIP openers KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal play for Karnataka in domestic cricket ( Image: BCCI)

Over a decade  since its inception in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL) has shrunk the cricketing boundaries across the nation and extended the expanse of Indian cricket to newer pastures. While the traditional staples and breeding grounds of Indian cricket in Mumbai, Karnataka, Delhi and Tamil Nadu continue to breed and groom bulk of the talent who look to have the skill and pedigree to don the Blue Jersey for Team India, it has been very heartening to see how cricketing prodigies from the relatively unknown towns have come through the ranks and made a mark in the marquee Indian Premier League. While, the Rohits and Rahanes from Mumbai, the Kohli, Dhawans and  Pants from Delhi and the Ashwins and Karthiks from TN continue to be the poster boys in the Indian Premier League (IPL); MS Dhoni from Jharkhand, Ravindra Jadeja from Kutch and Sanju Samson from Kerala are prominent examples of small town stars rubbing horns and competing fiercely with the big town boys in this T20 carnival and become cricketing icons and role models for budding cricketers in their own state. The biggest positive of the Indian Premier League is having cricketers from the so called 'non-cricketing' states like Abdul Samad (Jammu and Kashmir) and Riyan Parag (Assam) roped in by the franchises in the IPL auction and feature alongside the T20 stalwarts from both Indian and the world in the marquee T20 league. This fine blend of cricketers coming form the domestic powerhouses and has worked wonders for the future of Indian cricket IPL 13 in the UAE is once again witnessing Indian cricketers from powerhouses like Mumbai, Delhi, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu lock horn with their counterparts from states who are giving the domestic giants a run for their money. While some of the state team mates will share the dressing room play on the same sides, others will battle it out with their own state comrades in this fascinating T20 carnival So let us look at which domestic teams in the Indian cricket circuit have the honour of fielding the most cricketers in the thirteenth edition of the IPL Karnataka - KL Rahul (KXIP), Mayank Agarwal (KXIP), Devdutt Padikkal (RCB), Manish Pandey (SRH), Robin Uttappa (RR), Karun Nair (KXIP), Jagadeesha Suchith (KXIP), Shreyas Gopal (RR), Prasidh Krishna (KKR), Krishnappa Gowtham (KXIP), Pavan Deshpande (RCB) and Aniruddha Joshi (RR) Mumbai - Prithvi Shaw (DC), Rohit Sharma (MI), Shreyas Iyer (DC), Ajinkya Rahane (DC), Suryakumar Yadav (MI), Shivam Dubey (RCB), Aditya Tare (MI), Siddhesh Lad (MI) , Yashasvi Jaiswal (RR), Dhawal Kulkarni (MI), Tushar Deshpande (DC), Shardul Thakur (CSK) Tamil Nadu - R Ashwin (KXIP), Dinesh Karthik (KKR), M Vijay (CSK), T Natarajan (SRH), Washington Sundar (RCB), Vijay Shankar (SRH), M Siddharth (CSK), Narayan Jagadeesan (CSK), Varun Chakravarthy (KKR), Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore (CSK) Delhi - Virat Kohli (RCB), Shikhar Dhawan (DC), Nitish Rana (KKR), Rishabh Pant (DC) , Navdeep Saini (RCB),Pawan Negi (RCB), Lalit Yadav, Amit Mishra* (DC), Ishant Sharma (DC) and Anuj Yadav (RR) Punjab - Shubman Gill (KKR), Mandeep Singh (KXIP), Manan Vohra (RR) , Gurkeerat Singh Mann (RCB), Mayank Markande (RR), Harpreet Brar (KXIP), Sandeep Sharma (SRH), Siddharth Kaul (SRH), Prabhsimran Singh (KXIP), Arshdeep Singh (KXIP) Uttar Pradesh - Kuldeep Yadav (KKR), Shivam Mavi (KKR), Priyam Garg (SRH), Kartik Tyagi (RR), Rinku Singh (KKR), Ankit Rajpoot (RR), Bhuvneshwar Kumar* (SRH) Rajasthan - Deepak Chahar (CSK), Rahul Chahar (MI), Kamlesh Nagarkoti (KKR), Ravi Bishnoi (KXIP), Mahipal Lomror (RR), Khaleel Ahmed (SRH) and Akash Singh (RR) Bengal - Mohammad Shami (KXIP), Wridhhiman Saha (SRH), Shahbaz Nadeem (RCB), Ishan Porel (KXIP), Shreevats Goswami (SRH) Jharkhand - MS Dhoni (CSK) , Saurabh Tiwari (MI),  Ishan Kishan (MI), Varun Aaron (RR), Virat Singh (SRH) Haryana - Yuzvendra Chahal (RCB), Rahul Tewatia (RR), Mohit Sharma (DC), Harshal Patel (DC), Jayant Yadav (MI) Gujarat - Jasprit Bumrah (MI), Axar Patel (KXIP) and Parthiv Patel (RCB), Piyush Chawla (CSK) Hyderabad - Ambati Rayadu (CSK), Mohammad Siraj (RCB), Bavanaka Sandeep (SRH) Maharashtra - Ruturaj Gaikwad (CSK), Rahul Tripathi (KKR), Nikhil Naik (KKR)  and Digvijay Deshmukh (MI) Baroda - Hardik Pandya (MI) , Krunal Pandya (MI), Deepak Hooda (KXIP) Kerala - Sanju Samson (RR), Basil Thampi (SRH), Sandeep Warrier (KKR), KM Asif (CSK) Saurashtra - Ravindra Jadeja (CSK), Jaydev Unadkat (RR) Andhra Pradesh - Prithvi Raj (SRH) Vidharbha - Umesh Yadav (RCB) Assam - Riyan Parag (RR) Meghalaya - Sanjay Yadav (SRH) *States for cricketers are the ones which they represented in the domestic season ahead of IPL 13  Players Ruled Out Of IPL 2020 Due To Injury Delhi Capitals - Amit Mishra and Ishant Sharma Sunrisers Hyderabad - Bhuvneshwar Kumar