Deccan Chargers known in short as DC is a franchise that represents the city of Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. They won the second season held in South Africa in 2009. The team is led by Adam Gilchrist and coached by Darren Lehmann, both former Australian Test and One-Day Cricketers.
They finished last in the inaugural season of the IPL, and as the champions in the next season.
Franchise History
The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by theDeccan Chronicle corporation. The media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on 24 January 2008. Later, another media group, Group M India picked up a 20% stake in the franchise.
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. From the 2009 season, the team changed the colour of the jersey (from beige and black to sparkling silver and blue) and the logo (from gold and red to white and blue).
There is no Icon Player for the team as the former captain V.V.S. Laxman rejected the offer to be an icon player in order to give a chance to the younger players.
There are reports suggesting a buyout of the franchise by gujarat based Adani Group for a sum of $300 million, almost three times the value the team was purchased for initially.
Logo and Team Jersey
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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.The other Indian players are Rohit Sharma, Venugopal Rao, Monish Mishra .
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,the team captain V.V.S.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.
2009 season
New Administration And Support Staff
After the debacle of 2008, the team management sacked the entire administration associated with the tournament in that year. They removed their CEO J.Kalyankrishnan, Coach Robin Singh and the Captain V.V.S.Laxman and replaced them with Tim Wright, the former Australian batsman Darren Lehmann and former Australian Wicket-Keeper Adam Gilchrist respectively.
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. 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 an 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 a sensational 85 off just 35 balls to put the Daredevils out of the competition and give the Chargers their first IPL final against the Royal Challengers Bangalore.
In the final match, Gilchrist got out for a duck in the first over, however the Chargers managed to recover and posted 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.
2010 season
New COO
On the 11th of August 2009, Dinesh Wadhwa, former Regional Manager of ICICI Bank was appointed COO for 2010.
New Signing
Foreign Inclusions-
Kemar Roach
Mitchell Marsh
Domestic Inclusions-
Anirudh Singh
Monish Mishra
Ashish Reddy
Bodapati Sumanth
Rahul Sharma.
Contracts Bought Out-
Chamara Silva
Nuwan Zoysa
Conflict
On June 3, 2010 newspapers across India carried a story that former CEO Tim Wright is suing the owners of Deccan Chargers for £10m over failure to pay a Severance Guarantee clause contained in Mr Wright's contract. In February 2009 Mr V Shankar, DC chairman had issued a press notice claiming Wright was avoiding India over visa irregularities. On June 5 Times of India quoted a Chargers senior official as saying the management had in fact decided to "do away with him". A hearing in the High Court in London is believed to be imminent.
On the 15th of February Deccan Chargers issued a legal notice to Indian Premier League for shifting their matches out of Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam due to the Telangana unrest. The Chargers accused IPL of ignoring the safety assurances given by the Andhra Pradesh government. However DC did not withdraw from 2010 IPL edition. It simply wanted to highlight the potential of Hyderabad and Visakhapatnam as prospective venues.
In this season, Deccan Chargers will play their home matches in D.Y. Patil Stadium Navi Mumbai, Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur, Maharashtra and in Barabati Stadium, Cuttack, Orissa.
Champions League Twenty20
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 participated 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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