A side view of Kumar Sangakkara in blue clothes, holding a bat against the background of green grass and light yellow pitch.
Kumar Sangakkara was the captain of the Deccan Chargers during their last season.

The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (often abbreviated as DC) was a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, that competed in the Indian Premier League (IPL) from 2008 to 2012.[1] The team was owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited who won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise at US$107 million.[2] VVS Laxman and Robin Singh were appointed as the captain and the coach for their first season in 2008.[2] After finishing last in that season, the DC sacked their coach and removed their captain and replaced them with Darren Lehmann and Adam Gilchrist under whom they won their only IPL title in 2009, when they defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the final.[3][4][5] They reached the semi-finals again in 2010 but failed to reach past the group stages before the team was folded in 2012. They qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 only once, for the 2009 season, but failed to advance past the group stage.[6][7] Lehmann remained as the coach for the DC but they were forced to replace Gilchrist with Kumar Sangakkara in 2011 after they lost former to the Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 auction.[8][9] Sangakkara remained as the captain until the middle of the 2012 season before he was replaced by Cameron White following the poor performances.[10] Sangakkara later returned as captain as the move did not yield the desired results for the Deccan Chargers.[10]

On 15 September 2012, the Deccan Chargers' IPL contract was terminated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which was concerned about overdue payments to the players.[11] The Hyderabad franchise was later acquired by the Sun TV Network for ₹85.05 crore (US$11 million) per year in a bid which also retained 20 players.[12][13]

Pragyan Ojha made the most appearances for the DC with 56 matches and was also the team's leading wicket-taker with 62 wickets.[14] Gilchrist was the team's leading run scorer with 1,289 runs while Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma were the only batsmen to have scored more than 1,000 runs for the team.[15] White's batting average of 38.86 was the highest for the DC while Shahid Afridi had the best strike rate at 176.08 among players who have batted in over five innings for the team.[16][17] Andrew Symonds registered the first century for the DC when he scored 117 runs off 53 balls which was also the highest individual score for any DC batsman.[18] Gilchrist became the only other centurion for the DC when he reached the three-figure mark three days later.[18] In bowling, Dale Steyn had the best bowling average (18.25) among the players who have bowled more than 20 overs.[14][19] Ishant Sharma was the only bowler to take a five-wicket haul for the DC.[20] Ashish Reddy had the lowest bowling strike rate for the team while Steyn had the best economy rate among the players who bowled over 20 overs at 14.8 and 6.33 respectively.[21][22] Amit Mishra was the only bowler to claim a hat-trick for the DC.[23][24] In fielding, Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma took the most catches for the team (22) while Gilchrist had effected 41 dismissals, the most for a wicket-keeper, consisting of 27 catches and 14 stumpings.[25][26]

The first list includes all players who played in at least one match for DC and is initially listed alphabetically by their last name.[α] The second list comprises all those players who captained the team in at least one match, initially arranged in the order of the first match as captain.[β][γ][δ][ε]

Players

Key
Deccan Chargers capped cricketers
General[27] Batting[28] Bowling[19] Fielding[25][26]
Name Nationality[ζ] First Last Mat Inn NO Runs HS 100 50 Avg Overs Wkt BBI Ave Ca St
Shahid Afridi  Pakistan 2008 2008 10 9 1 81 33 0 0 10.12 30.0 9 3/28 25.00 4 –
Shoaib Ahmed  India 2009 2009 8 3 1 1 1* 0 0 0.50 17.0 5 2/20 30.40 4 –
Sanjay Bangar  India 2008 2008 11 7 1 47 17* 0 0 7.83 25.0 4 2/34 54.75 2 –
Azhar Bilakhia  India 2009 2010 7 7 2 69 22 0 0 13.80 – – – – 1 –
Sumanth Bodapati  India 2010 2010 5 4 3 35 16 0 0 35.00 – – – – 4 –
Bharat Chipli  India 2011 2012 19 17 6 244 61* 0 1 22.18 1.0 0 – – 2 –
Dan Christian  Australia 2011 2012 21 20 4 335 39 0 0 20.93 72.4 19 2/13 30.68 13 –
Halhadar Das  India 2008 2008 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 2.00 – – – – 0 –
Kedar Devdhar ‡  India 2011 2011 1 – – – – – – – – – – – 0 1
Shikhar Dhawan  India 2011 2012 29 29 3 969 95* 0 7 37.26 8.0 4 1/7 16.50 11 –
Kalyankrishna Doddapaneni  India 2008 2008 3 1 0 3 3 0 0 3.00 8.0 2 1/30 43.50 1 –
JP Duminy  South Africa 2011 2012 19 19 6 449 74 0 3 34.53 30.0 5 1/3 49.40 8 –
Ravi Teja Dwaraka  India 2008 2012 30 23 5 361 60 0 1 20.05 3.0 1 1/19 28.00 11 –
Fidel Edwards  West Indies 2009 2009 8 4 2 12 8* 0 0 6.00 29.2 8 3/32 26.12 0 –
Herschelle Gibbs  South Africa 2008 2010 33 33 3 805 69* 0 0 26.83 – – – – 22 –
Adam Gilchrist †‡  Australia 2008 2010 48 48 1 1289 109* 1 8 27.42 – – – – 27 14
Manpreet Gony  India 2011 2012 9 3 1 4 4 0 0 2.00 33.0 7 3/31 41.47 1 –
Daniel Harris  Australia 2012 2012 4 4 0 111 47 0 0 27.75 3.0 0 – – 2 –
Ryan Harris  Australia 2009 2010 16 10 5 66 15 0 0 13.20 61.4 20 3/18 23.15 10 –
Ishank Jaggi  India 2011 2012 5 5 1 43 25 0 0 10.75 – – – – 2 –
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala  India 2012 2012 5 3 1 24 19 0 0 12.00 6.0 1 1/13 38.00 2 –
Abhinav Kumar  India 2009 2010 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1.00 – – – – 0 –
Vijay Kumar  India 2008 2008 9 – – – – – – – 25.2 4 1/17 49.75 0 –
Chris Lynn  Australia 2012 2012 1 1 0 6 6 0 0 6.00 – – – – 1 –
Mitchell Marsh  Australia 2010 2010 3 2 0 28 15 0 0 14.00 10.0 2 1/19 44.00 0 –
Amit Mishra  India 2011 2012 28 14 7 84 25* 0 0 12.00 100.2 32 4/9 22.96 3 –
Mohnish Mishra  India 2010 2010 11 11 0 166 41 0 0 15.09 – – – – 1 –
Pragyan Ojha  India 2008 2011 56 16 7 7 2 0 0 0.77 194.1 62 3/21 22.19 11 –
Parthiv Patel ‡  India 2012 2012 14 13 2 194 45 0 0 17.63 – – – – 5 1
Anand Rajan  India 2011 2012 6 – – – – – – – 16.5 6 3/27 26.50 0 –
Akshath Reddy  India 2012 2012 5 4 1 73 42 0 0 24.33 – – – – 0 –
Ashish Reddy  India 2012 2012 9 5 1 35 10* 0 0 8.75 27.1 11 3/25 7.77 0 –
Kemar Roach  West Indies 2010 2010 2 1 0 10 10 0 0 10.00 8.0 0 – – 1 –
Kumar Sangakkara †‡  Sri Lanka 2011 2012 25 25 1 558 82 0 2 23.25 – – – – 17 2
Ankit Sharma  India 2012 2012 9 4 1 18 15 0 0 6.00 24.1 4 1/9 41.25 0 –
Ishant Sharma  India 2011 2011 12 – – – – – – – 44.0 11 5/12 28.54 3 –
Rahul Sharma  India 2010 2010 6 4 1 29 14* 0 0 9.66 20.4 5 2/42 33.40 1 –
Rohit Sharma  India 2008 2010 47 46 6 1219 76* 0 8 30.47 48.0 14 4/6 25.14 22 –
Chamara Silva  Sri Lanka 2008 2008 3 3 1 43 23* 0 0 20.00 1.0 0 – – 3 –
Anirudh Singh  India 2009 2010 5 4 0 63 40 0 0 15.75 – – – – 3 –
Harmeet Singh  India 2009 2011 18 – – – – – – – 54.5 14 2/23 30.85 4 –
Jaskaran Singh  India 2009 2010 8 5 4 8 4* 0 0 8.00 17.0 6 2/18 28.50 0 –
R. P. Singh  India 2008 2010 44 22 10 51 10 0 0 4.25 161.0 54 4/22 23.59 17 –
Dwayne Smith  West Indies 2009 2010 11 11 1 237 49 0 0 23.70 17.5 2 1/22 80.00 6 –
Sunny Sohal  India 2011 2011 11 10 0 249 62 0 2 24.90 – – – – 0 –
Dale Steyn  South Africa 2011 2012 24 11 2 55 13 0 0 6.11 92.1 32 3/8 18.50 5 –
Scott Styris  New Zealand 2008 2009 12 11 2 153 36* 0 0 17.00 – – – – 3 –
Andrew Symonds  Australia 2008 2010 30 29 4 849 117* 1 5 33.96 – – – – 17 –
Suman Tirumalasetti  India 2009 2010 28 28 8 559 78* 0 2 27.95 22.0 8 2/14 21.37 6 –
Chaminda Vaas  Sri Lanka 2008 2010 13 11 3 81 20 0 0 10.12 47.0 18 3/21 19.72 0 –
VVS Laxman †  India 2008 2010 19 19 2 228 52 0 1 16.94 – – – – 4 –
Cameron White †  Australia 2011 2012 19 19 4 583 78 0 5 38.86 – – – – 5 –
Arjun Yadav  India 2008 2008 8 6 1 49 16 0 0 9.80 – – – – 1 –
Venugopal Rao  India 2008 2010 35 30 5 498 71* 0 2 19.92 – – – – 8 –
Nuwan Zoysa  Sri Lanka 2008 2008 3 2 1 11 10* 0 0 11.00 – – – – 1 –

Captains

A man wearing the white collared T-shirt.
Adam Gilchrist won the 2009 Indian Premier League as the captain for the Deccan Chargers.
Deccan Chargers captains
No. Name[29] First Last Mat Won Lost NR Win%
1 VVS Laxman † 2008 2008 6 1 5 0 16.6
2 Adam Gilchrist †‡ 2008 2010 42 18 24 0 42.85
3 Kumar Sangakkara †‡ 2011 2012 25 8 17 0 32.00
4 Cameron White † 2011 2012 4 2 2 0 50.00
Total 77 29 47 1 37.66

See also

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ^ Sorting as such may actually be considered incorrect, where their last name is used in a different manner to that of western names, but are listed as such for continuity with other lists and ease of understanding the page.
  2. ^ Many players have also represented other teams of the IPL, but only the records of their games for DC are given.
  3. ^ To sort these tables by any statistic, click on the Table sort icon icon in the column title.
  4. ^ These statistics are correct as of 21 October 2012, since then no matches have been played by the DC.
  5. ^ These statistics do not cover practice matches or matches abandoned without a toss.
  6. ^ The information in the nationality column is according to ESPNcricinfo. This information may not necessarily reflect the player's birthplace or citizenship.

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