IPL 2020: Complete Team Squads, Full Player Lists of All 8 Teams For Season 13 In UAE

While Mumbai Indians and Chennai continued to retain a core group of players, franchises like Kings Eleven Punjab, Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders roped in some major overseas T20 stars like Pat Cummins, Eoin Morgan, Glen Maxwell to bolster their existing squads.

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The fierce rivalry between two of the most successful teams in IPL history will resume later in the evening when defending champions Mumbai Indians lock horns with Chennai Super Kings in the tournament opener later at UAE's capital city Abu Dhabi later in the evening. The season opener will be a repeat of the finals in the 2019 edition of the tournament as Mumbai Indians defeated Chennai Super Kings by a single run in one of the most pulsating encounters in the history of the league. While Mumbai Indians with four IPL titles, rightly claim of being the most successful team in the tournament history, CSK are only second to them with 3 IPL trophies in their kitty. While MI and CSK look for yet another stellar campaign to add more silverware in their trophy cabinet, the six other teams in the fray for the thirteenth edition won't make it one bit easy for them as they have the arsenal in their squads to challenge the big guns to the hilt. The 2020 IPL auction held in Kolkata in December 2019, witnessed a major reshuffle in the squads for various franchises with the think tanks making some by way of splurging major amounts to get their combinations right. While Mumbai Indians and Chennai continued to retain a core group of players, franchises like Kings Eleven Punjab, Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders roped in some major overseas T20 stars like Pat Cummins, Eoin Morgan, Glen Maxwell to bolster their existing squads. Here is a list of the skipper of the 8 IPL franchises for the 2020 edition of the IPL CHENNAI SUPER KINGS: MS Dhoni (Captain & Wicketkeeper) KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: Dinesh Karthik (Captain & Wicketkeeper) MUMBAI INDIANS: Rohit Sharma (Captain) SUNRISERS HYDERABAD : David Warner (Captain) ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE: Virat Kohli (Captain) KINGS XI PUNJAB : KL Rahul (Captain & Wicketkeeper) DELHI CAPITALS : Shreyas Iyer (Captain) RAJASTHAN ROYALS: Steve Smith (Captain) Here is a look at the complete squads for all 2020 edition of the Indian Premier League CHENNAI SUPER KINGS SQUAD: MS Dhoni (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Imran Tahir, Deepak Chahar, Faf du Plessis, Shardul Thakur, Mitchell Santner, Dwayne Bravo, Josh Hazlewood, Kedar Jadhav, Karn Sharma, Piyush Chawla, Ambati Rayudu, Lungi Ngidi, Sam Curran, Monu Kumar, Shane Watson, Sai KishoreNarayan Jagadeesan, Ruturaj Gaikwad, KM Asif, Ravindra Jadeja, Murali Vijay KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS SQUAD: Dinesh Karthik (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Andre Russell, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Nitish Rana, Prasidh Krishna, Rinku Singh, Sandeep Warrier, Shivam Mavi, Shubman Gill, Siddhesh Lad, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Eoin Morgan, Varun Chakravarthy, Tom Banton, Rahul Tripathi, Chris Green, M Siddharth, Nikhil Naik, Ali Khan MUMBAI INDIANS SQUAD: Rohit Sharma (Captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Quinton de Kock (Wicketkeeper), Kieron Pollard, Sherfane Rutherford, Suryakumar Yadav, Anmolpreet Singh, Chris Lynn, Saurabh Tiwary, Dhawal Kulkarni, Mitchell McClenaghan, Rahul Chahar, Trent Boult, Mohsin Khan, Prince Balwant Rai Singh, Digvijay Deshmukh, Hardik Pandya, Jayant Yadav, Krunal Pandya, Anukul Roy, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ishan Kishan, Aditya Tare, James Pattinson SUNRISERS HYDERABAD SQUAD: David Warner (Captain), Jonny Bairstow (Wicketkeeper), Kane Williamson, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammad Nabi, Rashid Khan, Manish Pandey, Virat Singh, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mitchell Marsh, Fabian Allen, Vijay Shankar, Sanjay Yadav, Wriddhiman Saha (Wicketkeeper), Shreevats Goswami, Bavanaka Sandeep, Basil Thampi, Priyam Garg, Abdul Samad, Khaleel Ahmed, Sandeep Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Billy Stanlake, T Natarajan, Abhishek Sharma ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE SQUAD: Virat Kohli (Captain), AB de Villiers, Dale Steyn, Aaron Finch, Yuzvendra Chahal, Gurkeerat Mann, Devdutt Padikkal, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Isuru Udana, Moeen Ali, Pawan Negi, Shivam Dube, Washington Sundar, Chris Morris, Pavan Deshpande Parthiv Patel (Wicketkeeper), Joshua Philippe (Wicketkeeper), Shahbaz Ahmad KINGS XI PUNJAB SQUAD: KL Rahul (Captain & Wicketkeeper), Chris Gayle, Mayank Agarwal, Nicholas Pooran, Glenn Maxwell, James Neesham, Chris Jordan, Krishnappa Gowtham, Karun Nair, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Sheldon Cottrell, Ishan Porel, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Shami, Mujeeb ur Rahman, Arshdeep Singh, Hardus Viljoen, M Ashwin, J Suchith, Harpreet Brar, Darshan Nalkande, Deepak Hooda, Tajinder Singh Dhillon, Prabhsimran Singh. DELHI CAPITALS SQUAD: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Prithvi Shaw, Shikhar Dhawan Rishabh Pant (Wicketkeeper), Ravichandran Ashwin, Alex Carey, Kagiso Rabada, Shimron Hetmyer, Ajinkya Rahane, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra, Avesh Khan, Sandeep Lamichhane, Keemo Paul, Mohit Sharma, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Harshal Patel, Marcus Stoinis, Chris Woakes, Tushar Deshpande, Daniel Sams RAJASTHAN ROYALS SQUAD: Steve Smith (Captain), Jos Buttler (Wicketkeeper), Sanju Samson, Jofra Archer, Ben Stokes, Robin Uthappa, David Miller, Ankit Rajpoot, Mahipal Lomror, Manan Vohra, Riyan Parag, Mayank Markande, Shreyas Gopal, Varun Aaron, Jaydev Unadkat, Kartik Tyagi, Akash Singh, Oshane Thomas, Andrew Tye, Rahul Tewatia, Shashank Singh, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anirudha Joshi, Tom Curran, Anuj Rawat