The IPL 2018 in it’s 11th avatar is scheduled to run from Apr 7 – May 27, 2018. Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are again part of this season after their 2-yr ban. Dhoni returns to his favorite team, the CSK while Dinesh Karthik has been appointed the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders to show that he is quite capable of leading a team.
IPL 2018 Teams
Update Apr 28, 2018: Steve Smith steps down from Rajasthan Royals as captain (replaced by Rahane) after the recent ball-tampering controversy during the recent Aus-SA series in South Africa. In a similar vein David Warner also resigns from the Sunrisers Hyderabad as captain. Both the Aussie players have been handed down a 1 year ban from cricket for their actions.
Following are the team composition for IPL- 11.
Sunrisers Hyderabad
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Tanmay Agarwal | India |
| Khaleel Ahmed | India |
| Basil Thampi | India |
| Ricky Bhui | India |
| Bipul Sharma | India |
| Carlos Brathwaite | Barbados |
| Shikhar Dhawan | India |
| Shreevats Goswami | India |
| Mehdi Hasan | India |
| Deepak Hooda | India |
| Chris Jordan | England |
| Siddarth kaul | India |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | India |
| Mohammad Nabi | Afghanistan |
| T Natarajan | India |
| Manish Pandey | India |
| Yusuf Pathan | India |
| Rashid Khan | Afghanistan |
| Sachin Baby | India |
| Wriddhiman Saha | India |
| Sandeep Sharma | India |
| Shakib Al Hasan | Bangladesh |
| Billy Stanlake | Australia |
| Kane Williamson | New Zealand |
Kings XI Punjab
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Ravichandran Ashwin (C) | India |
| Akshdeep Nath | India |
| Mayank Agarwal | India |
| Mayank Dagar | India |
| Ben Dwarshuis | Australia |
| Aaron Finch | Australia |
| Chris Gayle | Jamaica |
| Manzoor Dar | India |
| David Miller | South Africa |
| Mujeeb Ur Rahman | Afghanistan |
| Karun Nair | India |
| Axar Patel | India |
| KL Rahul | India |
| Ankit Rajpoot | India |
| Pradeep Sahu | India |
| Mohit Sharma | India |
| Barinder Sran | India |
| Marcus Stoinis | Australia |
| Manoj Tiwary | India |
| Andrew Tye | Australia |
| Yuvraj Singh | India |
Rajasthan Royals
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Ankit Sharma | India |
| Anureet Singh | India |
| Jofra Archer | Barbados |
| Stuart Binny | India |
| Aryaman Birla | India |
| Jos Buttler | England |
| Dushmantha Chameera | Sri Lanka |
| Prashant Chopra | India |
| Shreyas Gopal | India |
| Krishnappa Gowtham | India |
| Dhawal Kulkarni | India |
| Ben Laughlin | Australia |
| Mahipal Lomror | India |
| Sudhesan Midhun | India |
| Ajinkya Rahane (C) | India |
| Sanju Samson | India |
| Jatin Saxena | India |
| D’Arcy Short | Australia |
| Ben Stokes | England |
| Rahul Tripathi | India |
| Jaydev Unadkat | India |
| Zahir Khan | Afghanistan |
Royal Challengers Bangalore
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Virat Kohli (C) | India |
| Moeen Ali | England |
| Murugan Ashwin | India |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | India |
| Aniket Choudhary | India |
| Nathan Coulter-Nile | Australia |
| Colin de Grandhomme | Zimbabwe |
| Quinton de Kock | South Africa |
| Pavan Deshpande | India |
| AB de Villiers | South Africa |
| Aniruddha Joshi | India |
| Sarfaraz Khan | India |
| Kulwant Khejroliya | India |
| Brendon McCullum | New Zealand |
| Mandeep Singh | India |
| Mohammed Siraj | India |
| Pawan Negi | India |
| Parthiv Patel | India |
| Navdeep Saini | India |
| Tim Southee | New Zealand |
| Manan Vohra | India |
| Washington Sundar | India |
| Chris Woakes | England |
| Umesh Yadav | India |
Mumbai Indians
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Rohit Sharma (C) | India |
| Jasprit Bumrah | India |
| Rahul Chahar | India |
| Pat Cummins | Australia |
| Ben Cutting | Australia |
| Akila Dananjaya | Sri Lanka |
| JP Duminy | South Africa |
| Ishan Kishan | India |
| Siddhesh Lad | India |
| Evin Lewis | Trinidad & Tobago |
| Sharad Lumba | India |
| Mayank Markande | India |
| Mitchell McClenaghan | New Zealand |
| Mohsin Khan | India |
| Mustafizur Rahman | Bangladesh |
| MD Nidheesh | India |
| Hardik Pandya | India |
| Krunal Pandya | India |
| Kieron Pollard | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Anukul Roy | India |
| Pradeep Sangwan | India |
| Tajinder Singh | India |
| Aditya Tare | India |
| Saurabh Tiwary | India |
| Suryakumar Yadav | India |
| Pragyan Ojha | India |
Chennai Super Kings
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| MS Dhoni (C) | India |
| KM Asif | India |
| Sam Billings | England |
| Chaitanya Bishnoi | India |
| Dwayne Bravo | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Deepak Chahar | India |
| Faf du Plessis | South Africa |
| Harbhajan Singh | India |
| Imran Tahir | South Africa |
| Ravindra Jadeja | India |
| Kedar Jadhav | India |
| Narayan Jagadeesan | India |
| Kshitiz Sharma | India |
| Monu Kumar | India |
| Lungi Ngidi | South Africa |
| Suresh Raina | India |
| Ambati Rayudu | India |
| Mitchell Santner | New Zealand |
| Kanishk Seth | India |
| Karn Sharma | India |
| Dhruv Shorey | India |
| Shardul Thakur | India |
| Murali Vijay | India |
| Shane Watson | Australia |
| Mark Wood | England |
Kolkata Knigth Riders
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Dinesh Karthik (C) | India |
| Piyush Chawla | India |
| Cameron Delport | South Africa |
| Ishank Jaggi | India |
| Mitchell Johnson | Australia |
| Kuldeep Yadav | India |
| Chris Lynn | Australia |
| Kamlesh Nagarkoti | India |
| Sunil Narine | Trinidad and Tobago |
| Nitish Rana | India |
| Andre Russell | Jamaica |
| Javon Searles | Barbados |
| Shivam Mavi | India |
| Shubman Gill | India |
| Rinku Singh | India |
| Mitchell Starc | Australia |
| Robin Uthappa | India |
| Vinay Kumar | India |
| Apporv Wankhade | India |
Delhi Daredevils
| Player | Country |
|---|---|
| Gautam Gambhir (C) | India |
| Abhishek Sharma | India |
| Avesh Khan | India |
| Trent Boult | New Zealand |
| Dan Christian | Australia |
| Sayan Ghosh | India |
| Gurkeerat Singh | India |
| Shreyas Iyer | India |
| Sandeep Lamichhane | Nepal |
| Manjot Kalra | India |
| Glenn Maxwell | Australia |
| Amit Mishra | India |
| Mohammed Shami | India |
| Chris Morris | South Africa |
| Colin Munro | New Zealand |
| Shahbaz Nadeem | India |
| Naman Ojha | India |
| Rishabh Pant | India |
| Harshal Patel | India |
| Kagiso Rabada | South Africa |
| Jason Roy | England |
| Vijay Shankar | India |
| Prithvi Shaw | India |
| Rahul Tewatia | India |
| Jayant Yadav | India |