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Venue :5th Match Group A, Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad
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T20 Champions Twenty20 League 2009-10 Twenty20 match Match
Deccan Chargers History:
The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle. The media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on January 24, 2008. Later, another media group, Group M India picked up a 20% stake in the franchise. [2]
The team's name reflects the association with the Deccan Chronicle newspaper, which in turn derives its name from the Deccan plateau that makes up the majority of the southern portion of the Indian peninsula.
The Chargers logo is a charging bull. [3] From the 2009 season, the team changed the colors of its jersey (from beige and black to sparkling silver and blue) and the logo (from gold and red to white and blue).
2008 Season
Players
The franchise initially acquired star players Adam Gilchrist, Andrew Symonds, Shahid Afridi, Scott Styris and Herschelle Gibbs. The main bowlers purchased by the franchise were R.P. Singh, Nuwan Zoysa and Chaminda Vaas.
Performance
Despite the fact that the team was one of the favourites to win the inaugural edition of the IPL, the team failed to reach the semi-finals. Andrew Symonds, who was Deccan's most expensive player, batted only 3 innings before leaving to play for the Australian national team. In addition, team captain Laxman had an injury which ended his season after 6 games. Only three bowlers R. P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Shahid Afridi took more than 4 wickets in the competition. In this 14 match period, the team went winless at home and only managed 2 wins overall, one against the Mumbai Indians and one against the Chennai Super Kings and as a result they finished at the bottom of the table. Team was heavily let down with poor fielding and bowling.
2009 Season
New Administration And Support Staff
After the debacle of 2008, the team management sacked the entire previous administration. They sacked their CEO J.Kalyankrishnan, Coach Robin Singh and later Captain V.V.S.Laxman and replaced them with Tim Wright(later he too resigned after violating Foreigners Act), the former Australian batsman Darren Lehmann and former Australian Wicket-Keeper Adam Gilchrist respectively.
CEO Resignation
The new CEO of the team, Tim Wright, resigned after he was alleged to have violated Foreigners Registration Act of India.[4] Later, team Vice-President Venkat Reddy said that team would not have a CEO for 2009 season.
Tradings
In low key trading of players, the Deccan Chargers management had placed Shahid Afridi and Herschelle Gibbs up for sale, a direct result of their below par performance during the 2008 season. However, no franchise owners were interested in purchasing these two players. Later, the Deccan Chargers management severed all ties with Shahid Afridi, due to his disagreement with former Deccan Chargers captain V.V.S.Laxman. Also, Former India all-rounder Sanjay Bangar transferred to the Kolkata Knight Riders.
New-Signings
Before the second player auction took place the management signed Queensland all-rounder Ryan Harris owing to a strong recommendation from Coach Darren Lehmann. In the resulting auction the Deccan Chargers franchise acquired two West Indian players, Fidel Edwards for a fee of $150,000, and Dwayne Smith for $100,000
Seven new domestic players were also signed up; Tirumalasetti Suman and Abhinav Kumar who are batsmen, bowler Shoaib Maqsusi from the Hyderabad team signed after their consistent performances on the domestic circuit. M.S.Bisla, a Wicket-Keeper from Himachal Pradesh, Baroda batsman Azhar Bilakhia and two fast bowlers from Punjab, Jaskarandeep Singh and Harmeet Singh.
Performance
With the below-par performance in the inaugural season and finishing at the bottom, Deccan staged an inspired comeback in 2009 by winning the second IPL season . After having a undefeated run in the initial league stage, the team suffered minor setbacks by losing some close matches. But the return of Andrew Symonds, Rohit Sharma regaining form and the continuing exuberance of captain Adam Gilchrist bolstered the side. Some luck came in Deccan's way, towards the end of the league stage, with Kings Punjab and Rajasthan Royals losing key matches, enabling the Chargers into the semi-finals. During the semi-finals against the Delhi Daredevils, who were at the top of the table, few gave the Chargers a chance of an outside win. But against the odds, Gilchrist scored 85 off 35 balls to put the Daredevils out of the competition and give the Chargers their first IPL final against the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Last year IPL champion
In the final match, Gilchrist got out for a duck in the first over, however the Chargers managed to recover and post a total of 143 for the loss of 6 wickets. Many felt that a good defending total could have been a further 20-30 runs. The Chargers came out with all guns blazing right from the first ball, and this spirited effort ensured that they successfully defended the total, winning the game by 6 runs and lifting the prized IPL trophy.
Awards Won By Deccan Players
- Player of the Tournament 2009: Adam Gilchrist: 495 Runs and 15 dismissals
- Under-23 Success of the Tournament 2009: Rohit Sharma: 362 runs and 11 wickets ( including a hat-trick )
- Purple Cap 2009: RP Singh: 23 Wickets
2010 Season
New COO
On the 11th of August 2009, Dinesh Wadhwa, former Regional Manager of ICICI Bank was appointed COO for 2010.
Champions League T20
The Twenty20 Champions League is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies.The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League
2008 Season
2008 Season was cancelled due to 2008 Mumbai Attacks but Qualifying teams from India, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals were compensated with the losses incurred.
2009 Season
On account of emerging as the winners of the 2009 season of the Indian Premier League, the team will be participating in the inaugural edition of the T20 Champions League, along with two other Indian teams; the runners-up of IPL 2009, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Delhi Daredevils, the toppers of the league-stage points table.
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