Franchise cricket is a major contributor to the popularity of T20 cricket. Cricket’s biggest market, India’s franchise T20 League ‘Indian Premier League’ or IPL has completely changed cricket. World’s best cricketers are looking forward to playing in this cricket tournament which started in 2008. Many people give more importance to this franchise league than even the national team. The 16th season of this cricket league is sitting on Friday (March 31) through various changes. The Indian Premier League (IPL) was launched by the BCCI to counter the rebel Indian Cricket League (ICL). Over time it has become one of the most expensive sporting events in the world. If you can play in this highly profitable tournament, you can earn money, like you can swell your bank account, and also get fame. That’s why IPL is adored by cricketers all over the world.

So adorable that many people don’t even care to play in this tournament except for the national team. The IPL is such an influential tournament that it even has a separate slot in the ICC’s annual calendar. Although there are international matches of several teams including Bangladesh during this year’s IPL, many of the big stars of the teams will play in this tournament excluding the country’s game. Many are looking forward to playing even if they have not yet received permission. All the big stars of Indian cricket are playing in this year’s IPL, as well as almost all the big stars of world cricket will be seen. Let’s take a look at the complete squads of all the teams in this year’s IPL.

Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (injured), Nitish Rana (captain), Rahmanullah Gurbaz (Afghanistan), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell (West Indies), Sunil Narine (West Indies), Shardul Tagore, Lockie Ferguson (New Zealand), Umesh Yadav, Tim Southee (New Zealand), Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Anukul Roy, Rinku Singh, Narayan Jagadeshan, Vaibhav Arora, Suyas Sharma, David Vise (Namibia), Kulowant Khejrolia, Mandeep Singh, Liton Das, and Shakib Al Hasan.

Chennai Super Kings: Mahendra Singh Dhoni (captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Devon Conway (New Zealand), Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Subhranshu Senapati, Moeen Ali (England), Shivam Dubey, Rajavardhan Hungerzkar, Dwayne Pretorius (South Africa), Mitchell Santner (New Zealand), Deepak Chahar, Tushar Deshpande, Mukesh Chowdhury, Mathisha Pathirana (Sri Lanka), Simarjit Singh, Prashant Solanki, Mahesh Thaksina (Sri Lanka), Ajinkya Rahane, Ben Stokes (England), Shaik Rashid, Nishant Sindhu, Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand), Ajay Mondal, Bhagat Verma, and Sisanda Magala.

Mumbai Indians: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Devald Brevis (South Africa), Tilak Verma, Jofra Archer (England), Tim David (Australia), Mohammad Arshad Khan, Ramandeep Singh, Hrithik Sawkin, Arjun Tendulkar, Tristan Stubbs (South Africa), Kumar Karthikiya, Jason Behrendorf (Australia), Akash Madhwal, Cameron Green (Australia), Jhai Richardson (Australia), Piyush Chawla, Duane Jansen (South Africa), Vishnu Vinod, Shams Mullaney, Nehal Wadhera and Raghav Goyal.

Delhi Capitals: David Warner (Australia/captain), Akshar Patel, Prithvi Shaw, Anrikh Narkhia (South Africa), Mitchell Marsh (Australia), Sarfraz Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Mustafizur Rahman, Kuldeep Yadav, Khalil Ahmed, Chetan Sakaria, Lalit Yadav, Ripal Patel, Yash Dhul, Rovman Powell (West Indies), Praveen Dubey, Lungi Ngidi (South Africa), Vicky Astwal, Aman Khan, Phil Salt (England), Ishant Sharma, Mukesh Kumar, Monish Pandey, Riley Russo (South Africa) ) and Abhishek Porel.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (South Africa/captain), Virat Kohli, Glenn McWell (Australia), Mohammad Siraj, Harshal Patel, Wannidu Hasaranga (Sri Lanka), Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Rajat Patidar, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Jos Hazlewood (Australia), Mahipal Lamroer, Finn Allen (New Zealand), Suyas Prabhudesai, Korn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, David Willey (England), Race Topley (England), Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandag, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav and Mitchell Bracewell (New Zealand).

Punjab Kings: Shikhar Dhawan (captain), Shah Rukh Khan, Matthew Short (Australia), Prabhusimran Singh, Vanuka Rajapaksa (Sri Lanka), Jitesh Sharma, Raj Bawa, Rishi Dhawan, Liam Livingstone (England), Atharva Taide, Arshdeep Singh, Nathan Ellis (Australia), Baltej Singh, Kagiso Rabada (South Africa), Harpreet Brar, Rahul Chahar, Sam Curran (England), Sikandar Raja (Zimbabwe), Harpreet Bhatia, Vidvyat Kaverappa, Shivam Singh, and Mohit Ratha.

Rajasthan Royals: Sanju Samson (captain), Yasshwi Jaisawaal, Shimron Hetmyer (West Indies), Devdut Parikal, Jos Buttler, Dhruv Jurel, Ryan Parag, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult (New Zealand), Obed McCoy (West Indies), Navdeep Saini, Kuldeep Sen, Kuldeep Yadav, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yojvendra Chahal, KC Cariappa, Jason Holder (West Indies), Donovan Ferreira (South Africa), Kunal Rathore, Adam Zampa (Australia), KM Asif, Murugan Ashwin, Akash Vasishta, Abdul PA and Joe Root (England).

Sunrisers Hyderabad: Aiden Markram (captain), Abdul Samad, Umran Malik, Washington Sundar, Rahul Tripathi, Abhishek Sharma, Karthik Tyagi, T Natarajan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Janssen (South Africa), Glenn Phillips (New Zealand), Fazlhaq Farooqui (Afghanistan), Harry Brook (England), Mayank Agarwal, Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa), Adil Rashid (England), and Mayank Markande. Confused Sharma, Samarath Vyas, Ranveer Singh, Upendra Singh Yadav, Mayank Dagar, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Akil Hossain (West Indies), and Anmolpreet Singh.

Gujarat Titans: Hardik Pandya (captain), Shubman Gill, David Miller (South Africa), Abhinav Manohar, Sai Sudarshan, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade (Australia), Rashid Khan (Afghanistan), Rahul Tewatia, Vijay Shankar, Mohammad Shami, Algeria Joseph, Yash Dayal, Pradeep Sangwan, Darshan Nalkande, Jayant Yadav, R Sai Kishore, Noor Ahmed, Kane Williamson (New Zealand), Oden Smith (West Indies), KS Bharat, Shivam Mavi, Urvil Patel, Joshua Little, and Mohit Sharma.