Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2016 Teams and Players: Complete squad details

The CCL 2016 will commence on January 23 and will see teams battle it out for the title till February 14.

The Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2016 — a cricketing tournament for celebrities across the country — will get off to a grand start on January 23 with Mumbai Heroes scheduled to take on the newbies Punjab De Sher. The teams in the tournament will be divided in two groups with the South Indian teams including Chennai Rhinos, Kerala Strikers, Karnataka Bulldozers and Telugu Warriors slotted together in Group B. The Group A will consist teams from across the country including Mumbai Heroes, Punjab de Sher, Bengal Tigers and Bhojpuri Dabanggs. Telugu Warriors are the defending champions of the tournament.

The venues for the games include some famous and historic grounds like the Brabourne Stadium in Mumbai, Bangalore’s M Chinaswamy and Kochi’s Nehru Stadium amongst others. The final match of the tournament is scheduled for February 14 and will see teams compete for glory in the group stages following which they have a chance to make it to the semi-final and final if they win.

Here is the list of teams featuring in CCL6:

Bengal Tigers: Jisshu (c), Dev, Rahul, Amitabh, Joy, Suman, Uday, Vinaayak, SRV, Indrashish Yousuf, Debraj, Raja, Mohan, Sandy, Saugata
Bhojpuri Dabanggs: Manoj Tiwari (c), Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Ram pravesh Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Ajhoy Sharrma, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Praksh Jais, Ayaz Khan, Shailesh Sinha, Vaibhav rai, Asgar Rashid Khan, Vikas Singh, Akbar Naqvi, Gajender Pratap Dwivedi, Jay Prakash Yadav, Raj Chouhan, Pawan Singh, Bobby Singh, Pradeep Pandey, Yash Kumar

Chennai Rhinos: Aarya (c), Jiva, Vishnu, Vikranth, Ramana, Prithivi, Shanthnu, Ashok, Balaji, Sharan, Sanjay, Bharath, Bose, Shaam, Uday

Karnataka Bulldozers: Sudeep (c), Darshan, Rajeev, Tharun Chandra, Tarun Sudhir, Dhruv, Vishwas, Pradeep, Rahul, Chetan, Dharma, Sunil Rao, Jayram Karthik, Abhimanyu, Mahesh, Rajesh, Mayur Patel

Kerala Strikers: Mohan Lal (c), Asif Ali, Unni Mukundan, Rajeev Pillai, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Manikuttan, Arjun Nandakumar, Manty, Vinu Mohan, Suresh Nair, Prajodh Kalabavan, Riyaz Khan

Mumbai Heroes: Ritesh Deshmukh (c), Bobby Deol, Aftab Shivdasani, Amit Purohit, Apoorva Lakhia, Armaan Kohli, Indraneil Sengupta, Jeetu Varma, Kabir Sadanand, Raja Bherwani, Rohit Roy, Samir Kochhar, Sangram Singh, Shabir Ahluwalia, Suniel Shetty, Varun Badola, Vatsal Sheth, Saqib Saleem, Rajneesh Duggal, Jay Bhanushali, Dino Morea, Manoje Biddvai, Sharad Kelkar

Punjab De Sher: Sonu Sood (c), Jimmy Shergil, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Jassi Gill, Rahul Dev, Gavie Chahal, Dev Kharoud, Gulzar Chahal, Babbal Rai, Mika Singh, Aryaman Sapru, Navraj Hans, Yuvraj Hans, Mukul Dev

Telugu Warriors: Akhil Akkineni (c), Aadarsh, Nanda Kishore, Nikhil, Raghu, Sachin Joshi, Samrat, Srikanth, Taraka Ratna, Tarun, Vishwa, Prince, Sushanth, Dharam, Khayyum

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