2012 Champions League Twenty20 squads

This is a list of the squads that qualified for the 2012 Champions League Twenty20.

Auckland Aces

Coach: Paul Strang^[1]

No. Player[2] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 48 Gareth Hopkins (c & wk) 24 November 1976 (aged 35) Right — 9 Andre Adams 17 July 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium 1 Michael Bates 11 October 1983 (aged 28) Right Left-arm medium-fast — Bradley Cachopa 8 August 1988 (aged 24) Right — 22 Colin de Grandhomme 22 July 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm fast-medium 31 Martin Guptill 30 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break 16 Ronnie Hira 23 January 1987 (aged 25) Left Left-arm slow 6 Anaru Kitchen 21 February 1984 (aged 28) Right Slow left arm orthodox — Mitchell McClenaghan 11 June 1986 (aged 26) Left Left-arm medium-fast — Azhar Mahmood 28 February 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Bruce Martin 25 April 1980 (aged 32) Right Slow left arm orthodox 32 Chris Martin 10 December 1974 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium 37 Kyle Mills 15 March 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 18 Colin Munro 11 March 1987 (aged 25) Left Right-arm medium-fast 10 Lou Vincent 11 November 1978 (aged 33) Right Right-arm medium

Chennai Super Kings

Coach: Stephen Fleming

No. Player[3] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk) 7 July 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 3 Suresh Raina 27 November 1986 (aged 25) Left Right-arm off break 4 Doug Bollinger 24 July 1981 (aged 31) Left Left-arm fast-medium 6 Wriddhiman Saha 24 October 1984 (aged 27) Right — 8 Murali Vijay 1 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm off break 9 Yo Mahesh 21 December 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm medium-fast 12 Ravindra Jadeja 6 December 1988 (aged 23) Left Slow left arm orthodox 13 Francois du Plessis 13 July 1984 (aged 28) Right Leg break 27 Shadab Jakati 14 April 1980 (aged 32) Left Slow left arm orthodox 28 Ben Hilfenhaus 15 March 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 33 Subramaniam Badrinath 30 August 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 48 Michael Hussey 27 May 1975 (aged 37) Left Right-arm medium 81 Albie Morkel 10 June 1981 (aged 31) Left Right-arm medium-fast 92 Nuwan Kulasekara 22 July 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm medium-fast 99 Ravichandran Ashwin 17 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break

Delhi Daredevils

Ahead of the tournament, Mahela Jayawardene was named the captain after Virender Sehwag stepped down from the position. Sehwag had captained the team for four of the past five years.^[4]

Coach: Eric Simons

No. Player[5] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 27 Mahela Jayawardene (c) 27 May 1977 (aged 35) Right Right-arm medium ** Virender Sehwag 20 October 1978 (aged 33) Right Right-arm off break 3 Ross Taylor 8 March 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm off break 6 Unmukt Chand 26 March 1993 (aged 19) Right Right-arm off break 12 Andre Russell 29 April 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast 15 Pawan Negi 6 January 1993 (aged 19) Left Slow left arm orthodox 24 Kevin Pietersen 27 June 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 31 David Warner 27 October 1986 (aged 25) Left Leg break 35 Naman Ojha (wk) 20 July 1983 (aged 29) Right — 36 Venugopal Rao 26 February 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm off break 55 Ajit Agarkar 4 December 1977 (aged 34) Right Right-arm fast-medium 56 Irfan Pathan 27 October 1984 (aged 27) Left Left-arm medium-fast 65 Morné Morkel 6 October 1984 (aged 28) Left Right-arm fast 77 Aavishkar Salvi 20 October 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast 87 Umesh Yadav 25 October 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast

Hampshire Royals

Hampshire were able to include Shahid Afridi in their squad as he was registered with the team, despite him having not played any matches in the 2012 Friends Life t20 due to visa issues. From the domestic tournament, Hampshire were unable to have Neil McKenzie and Simon Katich due to them having qualified with other teams.^[6][7]

Coach: Craig White

No. Player[8] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 4 James Adams (c) 23 September 1980 (aged 32) Left Left-arm medium 0 Shahid Afridi 1 March 1980 (aged 32) Right Leg break googly 7 Sean Ervine 6 December 1982 (aged 29) Left Right-arm medium 8 Liam Dawson 1 March 1990 (aged 22) Right Slow left arm orthodox 14 James Vince 14 March 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium 15 Michael Carberry 29 September 1980 (aged 32) Left Right-arm off break 16 Michael Bates (wk) 10 October 1990 (aged 21) Right — 17 Dimitri Mascarenhas 30 October 1977 (aged 34) Right Right-arm fast-medium 18 David Griffiths 10 September 1985 (aged 27) Left Right-arm fast 19 Danny Briggs 30 April 1991 (aged 21) Right Slow left arm orthodox 25 Chris Wood 27 June 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm fast-medium 32 Glenn Maxwell 14 October 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 33 Kabir Ali 24 November 1980 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast 38 Hamza Riazuddin 19 December 1989 (aged 22) Right Right-arm fast-medium 46 Bilal Shafayat 10 July 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium-fast

Kolkata Knight Riders

Coach: Trevor Bayliss

No. Player[9] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 5 Gautam Gambhir (c) 14 October 1981 (aged 30) Left Leg break 3 Jacques Kallis 16 October 1975 (aged 36) Right Right-arm fast-medium 6 Laxmi Ratan Shukla 6 May 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 9 Manoj Tiwary 14 November 1985 (aged 26) Right Leg break googly 14 Mohammed Shami 9 March 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium 21 Iqbal Abdulla 2 December 1989 (aged 22) Left Slow left arm orthodox 22 Rajat Bhatia 22 October 1979 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 27 Ryan ten Doeschate 30 June 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 28 Yusuf Pathan 17 November 1982 (aged 29) Right Right-arm off break 36 Manvinder Bisla 27 December 1984 (aged 27) Right — 42 Brendon McCullum (wk) 27 September 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 55 Lakshmipathy Balaji 27 September 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast 58 Brett Lee 8 November 1976 (aged 35) Right Right-arm fast 74 Sunil Narine 26 May 1988 (aged 24) Left Right-arm off break 75 Shakib Al Hasan 24 March 1987 (aged 25) Left Slow left arm orthodox

Highveld Lions

Coach: Geoffrey Toyana

No. Player[10] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 73 Alviro Petersen (c) 25 November 1980 (aged 31) Right Right-arm off break — Temba Bavuma 17 May 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium — Gulam Bodi 4 January 1979 (aged 33) Left Slow left-arm chinaman 58 Zander de Bruyn 5 July 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Quinton de Kock 17 December 1992 (aged 19) Left — 4 Neil McKenzie 24 November 1975 (aged 36) Right Right-arm medium — Pumelela Matshikwe 19 June 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium — Chris Morris 30 April 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Dirk Nannes 16 May 1976 (aged 36) Right Left-arm fast 54 Ethan O'Reilly 27 December 1985 (aged 26) Right Right-arm fast — Dwaine Pretorius 29 March 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Sohail Tanvir 12 December 1984 (aged 27) Left Left-arm medium-fast, Slow left arm orthodox 86 Jean Symes 13 November 1986 (aged 25) Left Slow left arm orthodox 10 Thami Tsolekile (wk) 9 October 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break

Mumbai Indians

Coach: Robin Singh

No. Player[11] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 3 Harbhajan Singh (c) 3 July 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 1 Thisara Perera 3 April 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 9 Ambati Rayudu 23 September 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm off break 10 Sachin Tendulkar 24 April 1973 (aged 39) Right Right-arm off break, Leg break googly 13 Munaf Patel 12 July 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium-fast 16 Suryakumar Yadav 14 September 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium 19 Dinesh Karthik (wk) 1 June 1985 (aged 27) Right — 30 Dhawal Kulkarni 10 December 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium 30 Pragyan Ojha 5 September 1986 (aged 26) Left Slow left arm orthodox 45 Rohit Sharma 30 April 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm off break 50 Dwayne Smith 12 April 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium 55 Kieron Pollard 12 May 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm medium-fast 88 Richard Levi 14 January 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm medium 99 Lasith Malinga 28 August 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast 25 Mitchell Johnson 2 November 1981 (aged 30) Left Left-arm fast

Perth Scorchers

Coach: Lachlan Stevens

No. Player[12] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 26 Marcus North (c) 28 July 1979 (aged 33) Left Right-arm off break 12 Tom Beaton 28 November 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium 19 Michael Beer 9 June 1984 (aged 28) Right Slow left arm orthodox 5 Paul Collingwood 26 May 1976 (aged 36) Right Right-arm medium 13 Nathan Coulter-Nile 11 October 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast 41 Ryan Duffield 20 June 1988 (aged 24) Left Left-arm fast-medium 28 Ben Edmondson 28 September 1978 (aged 34) Left Right-arm fast-medium 74 Herschelle Gibbs 23 February 1974 (aged 38) Right Right-arm bowler 31 Brad Hogg 6 February 1971 (aged 41) Left Slow left-arm chinaman 37 Simon Katich 21 August 1975 (aged 37) Left Slow left-arm chinaman 10 Mitchell Marsh 20 October 1991 (aged 20) Right Right-arm medium 15 Joe Mennie 24 December 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm fast-medium 20 Shaun Marsh 9 July 1983 (aged 29) Left Slow left arm orthodox 11 Nathan Rimmington 11 November 1982 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 34 Luke Ronchi (wk) 23 April 1981 (aged 31) Right —

Sialkot Stallions

Coach: Naved Anjum

No. Player[13] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style — Shoaib Malik (c) 1 February 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm off break — Qaiser Abbas 7 May 1982 (aged 30) Left Slow left arm orthodox — Sarfraz Ahmed 11 December 1978 (aged 33) Left Left-arm fast-medium — Shakeel Ansar (wk) 11 November 1978 (aged 33) Right — — Mohammad Ayub 13 September 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm off break — Umaid Asif 30 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Bilawal Bhatti 17 September 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Raza Hasan 8 July 1992 (aged 20) Right Slow left arm orthodox — Ali Khan 1 August 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Imran Nazir 16 December 1981 (aged 30) Right Leg break — Faisal Naved 2 March 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium — Naved-ul-Hasan 28 February 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Haris Sohail 9 January 1989 (aged 23) Left Left-arm medium — Shahid Yousuf 15 June 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm medium-fast

Sydney Sixers

Coach: Corey Richards

No. Player[14] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 24 Brad Haddin (c & wk) 23 October 1977 (aged 34) Right — 33 Shane Watson 17 June 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm fast-medium 27 Pat Cummins 8 May 1993 (aged 19) Right Right-arm fast 8 Josh Hazlewood 8 January 1991 (aged 21) Left Right-arm fast-medium 21 Moisés Henriques 1 February 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm fast-medium 45 Michael Lumb 12 February 1980 (aged 32) Left Right-arm medium 15 Nathan McCullum 1 September 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 53 Nic Maddinson 21 December 1991 (aged 20) Left Slow left arm orthodox — Ian Moran 16 August 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 20 Peter Nevill 13 October 1985 (aged 26) Right — 72 Stephen O'Keefe 9 December 1984 (aged 27) Right Slow left arm orthodox 99 Ben Rohrer 26 March 1981 (aged 31) Left — 19 Steve Smith 2 June 1989 (aged 23) Right Leg break googly 56 Mitchell Starc 30 January 1990 (aged 22) Left Left-arm fast 7 Dominic Thornely 1 October 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium, Right-arm off break

Titans

Coach: Matthew Maynard

No. Player[15] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 34 Martin van Jaarsveld (c) 18 June 1974 (aged 38) Right Right-arm medium, Right-arm off break 24 Farhaan Behardien 9 October 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 19 Henry Davids 19 January 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 36 Marchant de Lange 13 October 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm fast 17 AB de Villiers 17 February 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium 22 Paul Harris 2 November 1978 (aged 33) Right Slow left arm orthodox 20 Heino Kuhn (wk) 1 April 1984 (aged 28) Right — — Eden Links 25 March 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 80 Ethy Mbhalati 18 November 1981 (aged 30) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Mangaliso Mosehle 24 April 1990 (aged 22) Right — — Rowan Richards 8 July 1984 (aged 28) Left Left-arm fast-medium 1 Jacques Rudolph 4 May 1981 (aged 31) Left Leg break googly 52 Roelof van der Merwe 31 December 1984 (aged 27) Right Slow left arm orthodox 8 Alfonso Thomas 9 February 1977 (aged 35) Right Right-arm fast-medium 96 David Wiese 18 May 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm medium-fast

 Trinidad and Tobago

Trinidad and Tobago are without Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Sunil Narine, who all elected to play for Indian teams.^[16]

Coach: David Williams

No. Player[17] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 80 Denesh Ramdin (c & wk) 13 March 1985 (aged 27) Right — 7 Samuel Badree 9 March 1981 (aged 31) Right Leg break 15 Adrian Barath 14 April 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm off break 46 Darren Bravo 6 February 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 20 Kevon Cooper 2 February 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium 51 Rayad Emrit 8 March 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Shannon Gabriel 28 April 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast-medium 1 Sherwin Ganga 13 February 1982 (aged 30) Left Right-arm off break 3 Jason Mohammed 23 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break — Evin Lewis 27 December 1991 (aged 20) Left — — Yannick Ottley 7 September 1991 (aged 21) Right Slow left arm orthodox 40 William Perkins 8 October 1986 (aged 26) Right — 14 Ravi Rampaul 15 October 1984 (aged 27) Left Right-arm fast-medium 54 Lendl Simmons 25 January 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Navin Stewart 13 June 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium

Uva Next

Coach: Dave Nosworthy

No. Player[18] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 25 Thilina Kandamby (c) 4 June 1982 (aged 30) Left Leg break — Fawad Alam 8 October 1985 (aged 27) Left Slow left arm orthodox 6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul 16 August 1974 (aged 38) Left Leg break 26 Dilhara Fernando 19 July 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 55 Umar Gul 14 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm fast-medium 89 Charith Jayampathi 1 February 1991 (aged 21) Left Left-arm medium-fast — Chinthaka Jayasinghe 19 May 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium 34 Andrew McDonald 5 June 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Dilshan Munaweera 24 April 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 24 Jacob Oram 28 July 1978 (aged 34) Left Right-arm fast-medium 41 Seekkuge Prasanna 27 June 1985 (aged 27) Right Leg break 27 Bhanuka Rajapaksa 24 October 1991 (aged 20) Left Right-arm medium 15 Sameera de Zoysa 31 January 1987 (aged 25) Left — 18 Sachithra Senanayake 9 February 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm off break 44 Upul Tharanga (wk) 2 February 1985 (aged 27) Left —

Yorkshire Carnegie

Yorkshire's overseas player David Miller may only be available for their first match due to commitments in South African domestic cricket. Yorkshire were unable to include Andrew Hodd due to him only being on loan from Sussex and having not played any Twenty20 matches for Yorkshire.^[19]

Coach: Jason Gillespie

No. Player[20] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 26 Andrew Gale (c) 28 November 1983 (aged 28) Left Leg break 2 Phil Jaques 3 May 1979 (aged 33) Left Left-arm medium 3 Adil Rashid 17 February 1988 (aged 24) Right Leg break 5 Joe Root 30 December 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm off break 7 Iain Wardlaw 29 June 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm fast-medium 8 David Miller 10 June 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm off break 9 Adam Lyth 25 September 1987 (aged 25) Left Right-arm medium-fast, Right-arm off break 11 Ryan Sidebottom 15 January 1978 (aged 34) Left Left-arm fast-medium 12 Oliver Hannon-Dalby 20 June 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 17 Steven Patterson 3 October 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium-fast 19 Gary Ballance 22 November 1989 (aged 22) Left Right-arm slow 21 Jonny Bairstow (wk) 26 September 1941 (aged 71) Right Right-arm bowler 23 Moin Ashraf 5 January 1992 (aged 20) Right Right-arm fast-medium 30 Azeem Rafiq 27 February 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm off break — Dan Hodgson 26 February 1990 (aged 22) Right —

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External links

• 2012 Champions League Twenty20 squads on ESPN CricInfo