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Bangalore Team Owner : Vijay Mallya
Captain : Rahul Dravid
The Bangalore team was bought by Vijay Mallya’s UB Group for $111.6 million to own the team for 10 years. ‘Icon player’ Rahul Dravid is the captain of Bangalore Royal Challengers. Team India’s bowling coach, Venkatesh Prasad is the coach of the team.

Strengths: Some big hitters in Peitersen, Ryder, Taylor, Utthapa.
Weaknesses: Utthapa's form, Peitersen's short stay, lack of options in Indian players, lack of cameraderie in the team.
Contenders for the title: Slim Chance
Probable Position: 5th or 6th.
Expectation : Your point of views about this team " Bangalore Royal Challengers".

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Viraj Vilas Kadbe Palani, Amarnath Manpreet Gony, Srikkanth Anirudha, Murali Vijay, Napoleon Einstein, George Bailey, Stephen Fleming, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Subramaniam Badrinath, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Matthew Hayden, Michael Hussey, Shadab Jakati, Joginder Sharma, Arun Karthik, Sudeep Tyagi, Suresh Kumar, Palani Amarnath, Ravichandran Ashwin, Makhaya Ntini, Jacob Oram, Parthiv Patel (wk), Suresh Raina, Thilan Thushara, Muttiah Muralitharan

The Chennai team was bought by India Cements for $91 million to own the team for 10 years. Team India ODI and T20 skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni is the captain of Chennai Super Kings. Former South Africa cricket team captain Kepler Wessels is the coach of the team.

Strengths: Dhoni's captaincy; some big hitters in Raina, Hayden, Hussey; all-rounder strength of Morkel and Flintoff; bowling champs like Murali, Ntini and Gony.
Weaknesses: Flintoff's short stay; uncertainty of Joginder Sharma.
Contenders for the title: Very Strong
Probable Position: Top 3
Expectation : Your point of views about this team " Chennai Super Kings ".

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VVS Laxman, Sanjay Bangar, Halhadar Das (wk), Herschelle Gibbs, Scott Styris, D Kalyankrishna, Abhinav Kumar, Dwayne Smitha, Adam Gilchrist (wk), Pragyan Ojha, Dwaraka Ravi Teja, PM Sarvesh Kumar, Shahid Afridi, Rohit Sharma, RP Singh, Harmeet Singh, Jas Karandeep Singh, Manvinder Bisla, Chamara Silva, Andrew Symonds, Chaminda Vaas, Venugopal Rao, Paidikalva Vijaykumar, Arjun Yadav, Ryan Harris, Shoaib Ahmed, Tirumalsetti Suman, Nuwan Zoysa






Strengths: Explosive Batting.
Weaknesses: Form of the batsmen, weak bowling attack, non-cohesive group.
Contenders for the title: Very Slim Chance
Probable Position: 6th or below
Expectation : Your point of views about this team " Deccan Charges "

Strengths: Explosive Batting, Good Fielding, Good Bowling, Good replacements for Foreign players.
Weaknesses: Poor Indian bench strength.
Contenders for the title: Fair Chance
Probable Position: Top 5
Expectation : Your point of views about this team " Kings XI Punjab "

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Sourav Ganguly, Aakash Chopra, Abhishek Banerjee, Aditya Dole, Ajantha Mendis, Ajit Agarkar, Ameya Shrikhande, Amit Das, Angelo Mathews, Anureet Singh, Anushtup Mazumdar, Arindam Ghosh, Ashok Dinda, Avik Chowdhury, Bhavin Thakkar, Brad Hodge, Brendon McCullum, Chetan Suryavanshi, Cheteshwar Pujara, Chris Gayle, David Hussey, Debabrata Das, Dhiran Salvi, Gaurav Chabbra, Gnaneswara Rao, Iqbal Abdulla, Ishant Sharma, Ishwar Chowdhury, Kshemal Waingankar, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, M Sanauth, Mark Cameron, Mashrafe Bin Mortaza, Mohnish Parmar, Moises Henriques, Murali Kartik, Murtaza Hussain, Nataraj Behara, P Prashant, Prashant Parmeshwar, Rajesh Verma, Ricky Ponting, Rohan Prem, S Niyaz, Sachin Rana, Sanjay Bangar, Sanjib Sanyal, Sanju Samson, Shatrunjay Gaekwad, Sheldon Jackson, Shoaib Sheikh, Sourav Sarkar, Sunny Singh, Vinit Indulkar, Wriddhiman Saha, Yashpal Singh

Kolkata Team Owner: Shah Rukh Khan/Juhi Chawla
Captain: Saurav Ganguly
The Kolkata team is owned by Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan, actress Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta for $75.09 million for a 10-year period. ‘Icon player’ Sourav Ganguly is the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders. Australia’s John Buchanan is the coach of the team.

Strengths: A good and complete lineup, Sachin and Sanath are a delight to watch any day.
Weaknesses: Chokers(???)
Contenders for the title: Great Chance
Probable Position: Top 4
Expectation : Your point of views about this team "Mumbai Indians"

Strengths: A complete lineup, explosive batting, some hidden talents.
Weaknesses: Can they repeat the magic again?
Contenders for the title: Great Chance
Probable Position: Top 4
Expectation : Your point of views about this team "Rajasthan Royals"

South Africa is the host of 2nd season of IPL Twenty20 League. The opening match will be started on April 18, 2009 at Newlands stadium in Cape Town and final match will be held in Johannesburg.

South Africa’s 8 cities will be celebrated IPL 2009’s all matches. 59 matches will be kicked in 8 different cities. They are Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Pretoria, East London, Kimberly, Bloemfontein and Port Elizabeth and the opening match will be kicked off between Rajasthan Royals (the inaugural champions) vs Royal Challengers Bangalore.



Fist semifinal will be taken place at SuperSport Park, Centurion and the second semifinal and final will be kicked off at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg.