Players choose IPL franchises for Champions League 2011

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Published on: Sep 17, 2011

The IPL franchises have emerged as clear winners when it comes to players deciding between playing for them or their home sides in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20.

The IPL franchises have emerged as clear winners when it comes to players deciding between playing for them or their home sides in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20. Eight players were originally nominated for two squads and were given 48 hours to decide which team they would play for before the final squads were announced today.

Brad Haddin, Doug Bollinger and Brett Lee have all chosen to play for their respective IPL franchise over New South Wales; Warriors have lost Jacques Kallis and Davy Jacobs to IPL teams; Trinidad & Tobago will be without the services of Dwayne Bravo, who will play for Chennai Super Kings, and Kieron Pollard, who is in the Mumbai Indians squad; and Aiden Blizzard has chosen Mumbai over the South Australia Redbacks.

Eleven of the thirteen teams have now announced their squads for the tournament, with the English counties who reach the Friends life t20 final to confirm their squads on August 27. The qualifying round for the Champions League begins on September 19, with the main tournament scheduled for September 23-October 9.

All the franchises have announced full-strength squads, which means there will be no rest for the India players, who only finish their tour of England on September 16.

GautamGambhir, who suffered a concussion during the ongoing Oval Test, is in the Kolkata Knight Riders' squad while MS Dhoni will lead Chennai Super Kings and SachinTendulkar will lead Mumbai Indians. Munaf Patel and Suresh Raina are the other players in the current India Test squad who will be involved in the Champions League. Mumbai have also included Harbhajan Singh, who pulled out of the England tour after the second Test with an abdominal muscle strain.

One big-name player missing from the squads was Andrew Symonds who was not named in Mumbai's XV. New South Wales chose to leave out the upcoming Pakistan-born batsman UsmanKhawaja, who wasgranteda visa to India after initially being denied it.

Cape Cobras: JP Duminy, Herschelle Gibbs, Justin Kemp, Rory Kleinveldt, CharlLangeveldt, Richard Levi, Johann Louw, Justin Ontong, Robin Peterson, Vernon Philander, Andrew Puttick, Michael Rippon, Owais Shah, Dale Steyn, Dane Vilas

Warriors: Johan Botha, Nicky Boje, Mark Boucher, Andrew Birch, Colin Ingram, Justin Kreusch, Lyall Meyer, MakhayaNtini, Wayne Parnell, Ashwell Prince, Jon-Jon Smuts, Kelly Smuts, Rusty Theron, Craig Thyssen, LonwaboTsotsobe

Mumbai Indians: Aiden Blizzard, YuzvendraChahal, James Franklin, Davy Jacobs, DhawalKulkarni, SuryakumarYadav, LasithMalinga, Ali Murtaza, Munaf Patel, Kieron Pollard, AmbatiRayudu, Rohit Sharma, Harbhajan Singh, T Suman, SachinTendulkar

Royal Challengers Bangalore: MayankAgarwal, S Aravind, RajuBhatkal, AB de Villiers, TillakaratneDilshan, Chris Gayle, ArunKarthik, ViratKohli, Mohammad Kaif, AbhimanyuMithun, J Syed Mohammed, Dirk Nannes, AsadPathan, SaurabhTiwary Daniel Vettori

Chennai Super Kings: R Ashwin, S Badrinath, Doug Bollinger, Dwayne Bravo, MS Dhoni, Michael Hussey, ShadabJakati, AlbieMorkel, Suresh Raina, SurajRandiv, WriddhimanSaha, S Anirudha, Tim Southee, Scott Styris, M Vijay

Kolkata Knight Riders: IqbalAbdulla, Shakib Al Hasan, L Balaji, RajatBhatia, ManvinderBisla, GautamGambhir, Brad Haddin, Jacques Kallis, Brett Lee, Eoin Morgan, YusufPathan, Shami Ahmed, Ryan ten Doeschate, ManojTiwary, JaidevUnadkat

New South Wales Blues: Stuart Clark, Patrick Cummins, Nathan Hauritz, Josh Hazelwood, MoisesHenriques, Phillip Hughes, Simon Katich, NicMaddinson, Steve O'Keefe, Ben Rohrer, Daniel Smith, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson

South Australia Redbacks: Cameron Borgas, Daniel Christian, Tom Cooper, Callum Ferguson, Daniel Harris, Michael Klinger, Nathan Lyon, Tim Ludeman, Aaron O'Brien, Gary Putland, Adil Rashid, Kane Richardson, ChaddSayers, James Smith, Shaun Tait

Auckland: Andre Adams, Jimmy Adams, Michael Bates, Colin de Grandhomme, Martin Guptill, Ronnie Hira, Gareth Hopkins, Anaru Kitchen, Bruce Martin, Chris Martin, Kyle Mills, Colin Munro, Daryl Tuffey, Rob Quiney, Lou Vincent

Trinidad & Tobago: Samuel Badree, Adrian Barath, Darren Bravo, Kevon Cooper, RayadEmrit, Daren Ganga, Sherwin Ganga, Shannon Gabriel, Jason Mohammed, Dave Mohammed, Sunil Narine, William Perkins, DeneshRamdin, Ravi Rampaul, Lendl Simmons

Ruhuna: MahelaUdawatte, DineshChandimal, SanathJayasuriya, JanakaGunaratne, MilindaSiriwardana, TM Sampath, Yashodha Lanka, ShihanKamileen, AmalAthulathmudali, AroshJanoda, ShalikaKarunanayake, OmeshWijesiriwardene, AlankaraAsanka Silva, ChinthakaPerera, BhanukaRajapaksa

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