As per the press release by BCCI Secretary, the final of Pepsi Indian Premier League 2014 will now be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. Earlier it was Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai who were to host the finals.
Playoff and Final Schedule Changes
Tue May 27 – Qualifier 1 to be played at Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Wed May 28 – Eliminator to be played at Brabourne Stadium, Cricket Club of India, Mumbai
Fri May 30 – Qualifier 2 to be played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
Sun Jun 1 – IPL Final to be played at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
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In the 2014th edition of IPL, Kevin Pietersen was named as captain of Delhi Daredevils. Former England star was chosen as DD captain due to his superb T20 record. Though he missed the last edition due to injury but in 2012, he scored 305 runs at an outstanding average of 61.
“I feel incredibly honoured to have been asked to captain the Delhi Daredevils in this year’s IPL. I am very much looking forward to working alongside Gary Kirsten. We have a fantastic squad with a good blend of youth and experience and a brilliant coaching set up. We hope to bring our incredible fans a lot of happiness this season,” Pietersen said on his appointment as captain.
Delhi Daredevils have also named Dinesh Karthik as vice captain and Gary Kirsten as their coach for IPL 2014.
Chennai Super Kings Team For IPL 2014
MS Dhoni (captain/wk), Baba Aparajith, Ravichandran Ashwin, Samuel Badree, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, John Hastings, Matt Henry, Ben Hilfenhaus, Ravindra Jadeja, Brendon McCullum, Mithun Manhas, Ronit More, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, Ishwar Pandey, Suresh Raina, Vijay Shankar, Mohit Sharma,Dwayne Smith.
Delhi Daredevils Team For IPL 2014
Kevin Pietersen (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Quinton de Kock, Jean-Paul Duminy, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Siddarth Kaul, Milind Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jimmy Neesham ,Wayne Parnell, HS Sharath, Rahul Sharma , Laxmi Shukla, Rahul Shukla, Ross Taylor, Manoj Tiwary, Saurabh Tiwary, Jaydev Unadkat, Murali Vijay, Jayant Yadav.
Kolkata Knight Riders Team For IPL 2014
Gautam Gambhir (captain), Manvinder Bisla (wk), Piyush Chawla, Pat Cummins, Debabrata Das, Jacques Kallis, Kuldeep Yadav, Chris Lynn, Sayan Mondal, Morne Morkel, Sunil Narine, Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Veer Pratap Singh, Andre Russell, Shakib Al Hasan, Ryan ten Doeschate, Robin Uthappa (wk), Vinay Kumar, Suryakumar Yadav, Umesh Yadav
Mumbai Indians Team For IPL 2014
Rohit Sharma (captain), Corey Anderson, Jasprit Bumrah, Marchant de Lange, Ben Dunk, Chidhambaram Gautam (wk), Shreyas Gopal, Harbhajan Singh, Josh Hazlewood, Michael Hussey, Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga, Sushant Marathe, Pragyan Ojha, Kieron Pollard, Ambati Rayudu (wk), Krishmar Santokie, Jalaj Saxena, Pawan Suyal, Aditya Tare (wk), Apoorv Wankhade.
Rajasthan Royals Team For IPL 2014
Shane Watson(captain), Amit Mishra , Ankit Sharma, Ankush Bains, Rajat Bhatia, Stuart Binny,Unmukt Chand, Kevon Cooper, Ben Cutting, James Faulkner, Brad Hodge, Deepak Hooda, Iqbal Abdulla, Dhawal Kulkarni, Vikramjeet Malik, Karun Nair, Abhishek Nayar, Ajinkya Rahane, Kane Richardson, Sanju Samson, Steven Smith, Tim Southee,Pravin Tambe, Rahul Tewatia, Dishant Yagnik.
Royal Challengers Banglore Team For IPL 2014
Virat Kohli(captain), Varun Aaron, Abu Nechi, Yuzvendra Chahal, AB de Villiers, Ashok Dinda, Chris Gayle, Shadab Jakati, Nic Maddinson, Tanmay Mishra, Albie Morkel, Muttiah Muralitharan, Harshal Patel, Parthiv Patel, Ravi Rampaul, Sachin Rana, Sandeep Warrier , Mitchell Starc, Yogesh Takawale, Yuvraj Singh, Vijay Zol.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Team For IPL 2014
Shikhar Dhawan(captain), Srikkanth Anirudha, Ashish Reddy, Ricky Bhui, Aaron Finch, Moises Henriques, Jason Holder, Manpreet Juneja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Chama Milind, Amit Mishra, Naman Ojha (wk), Prasanth Parameswaran, Parvez Rasool, Irfan Pathan, Amit Paunikar, Lokesh Rahul, Darren Sammy, Ishant Sharma,Karn Sharma, Dale Steyn, Brendan Taylor, Venugopal Rao, David Warner.
Due to general elections, the IPL governing body has decided to shift the first two weeks of Indian Premier League to United Arab Emirates. This season will commence from 16th April 2014 and the final will be played on June 1, 2014.
Reports say as many as 16 matches which are scheduled from Wednesday 16th April to Wednesday 30th April will be shifted to UAE and from 1st to 13th May, matches might move to Bangladesh if permission is not granted by Indian government. Remaining matches from May 13 will be played in India.
The updated schedule of IPL will be available soon.
