The 19th season of the Indian Premier League is going to start from March 28. In the first match, defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Sunrisers Hyderabad. In the first phase, BCCI had released the schedule of only 20 matches and the remaining schedule may also be announced very soon. On one hand, there is Mumbai Indians who have never reached the finals after 2020, while on the other hand, RCB would like to defend their title and Chennai Super Kings will enter the field with the intention of winning their sixth title. There are many teams which will bring hopes of winning the trophy for the first time. Before the excitement of IPL begins, take a look at the squads of all the 10 teams. After last year’s mini auction, almost all the teams seem to have changed.

RCB squad
Rajat Patidar (captain), Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethel, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nuwan Thushara, Rasikh Salaam, Abhinandan Singh, Suyyash Sharma, Venkatesh Iyer, Jacob Duffy, Satwik Deswal, Mangesh Yadav, Jordan Cox, Vicky Ostwal Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishk Chauhan

CSK squad
Ruturaj Gaikwad (captain), Ayush Mhatre, MS Dhoni, Sanju Samson, Dewald Brewis, Urvil Patel, Shivam Dubey, Jamie Overton, Ramakrishna Ghosh, Noor Ahmed, Khalil Ahmed, Anshul Kamboj, Gurjapaneet Singh, Shreyas Gopal, Mukesh Chaudhary, Nathan Ellis, Akeal Hosein, Prashant Veer, Kartik Sharma, Matthew Short, Aman Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Matt Henry, Rahul Chahar, Jack Foulkes

KKR squad
Ajinkya Rahane, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Manish Pandey, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Rovman Powell, Sunil Narine, Umran Malik, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy, Cameron Green, Finn Allen, Mathisha Pathirana, Tejasvi Singh, Kartik Tyagi, Prashant Solanki, Rahul Tripathi, Tim Seifert, Mustafizur Rahman, Sarthak Ranjan, Daksh Kamra, Rachin Ravindra, Akash Deep

punjab kings squad
Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shashank Singh, Nehal Wadhera, Marcus Stoinis, Azmatullah Umzai, Marco Jansen, Harpreet Brar, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Musheer Khan, Pyala Avinash, Harnoor Pannu, Suryansh Shedge, Mitchell Owen, Xavier Bartlett, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar. Vaishak, Yash Thakur, Vishnu Vinod, Cooper Connolly, Ben Dwarshuis, Praveen Dubey, Vishal Nishad

Mumbai Indians squad
Hardik Pandya (captain), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Verma, Ryan Rickleton, Robin Minze, Raj Bawa, Raghu Sharma, Mitchell Santner, Corbin Bosch, Naman Dheer, Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult, Allah Gafnazar, Ashwini Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Will Jacks, Sherfane Rutherford, Mayank Markande, Shardul Thakur, Quinton de Kock, Danish Malewar, Mohammad Izhar, Atharva Ankolekar, Mayank Rawat

Delhi Capitals squad
Nitish Rana, Abhishek Porel, Ajay Mandal, Ashutosh Sharma, Axar Patel (captain), Dushmantha Chameera, Karun Nair, KL Rahul, Kuldeep Yadav, Madhav Tiwary, Mitchell Starc, Sameer Rizvi, T Natarajan, Tripurana Vijay, Tristan Stubbs, Vipraj Nigam, David Miller, Ben Duckett, Auqib Nabi, Pathum Nissanka, Lungi Ngidi, Sahil Parakh, Prithvi Shaw, Kyle Jamieson

SRH squad
Pat Cummins (captain), Travis Head, Abhishek Sharma, Aniket Verma, R Smrana, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Harsh Dubey, Kamindu Mendis, Harshal Patel, Brydon Carse, Jaydev Unadkat, Ishan Malinga, Zeeshan Ansari, Shivang Kumar, Salil Arora, Saqib Hussain, Omkar Tarmale, Amit Kumar, Prafulla Hinge, Cranes Fultra, Liam Livingstone, Shivam Mavi, Jack Edwards

Rajasthan Royals squad
Ryan Parag (captain), Ravindra Jadeja, Sam Curran, Donovan Ferreira, Sandeep Sharma, Shubham Dubey, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Luan-Dre Pretorius, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Yudhveer Singh Charak, Joffra Archer, Tushar Deshpande, Quena Mafaka, Nandre Berger, Ravi Bishnoi, Sushant Mishra, Yash Raj Punja, Vignesh Puthur, Ravi Singh, Aman Rao, Brijesh Sharma, Adam Milne, Kuldeep Sen

gujarat titans squad
Shubman Gill (captain), Sai Sudarshan, Kumar Kushagra, Anuj Rawat, Jos Buttler, Nishant Sindhu, Washington Sundar, Glenn Phillips, Arshad Khan, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Kagiso Rabada, Mohammed Siraj, Prasidh Krishna, Ishant Sharma, Gurnoor Singh Brar, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Sai Kishore, Jayant Yadav, Ashok Sharma, Jason Holder, Tom Banton, Prithvi Raj. Yera, Luke Wood

LSG squad
Abdul Samad, Ayush Badoni, Aiden Markram, Matthew Bretzke, Himmat Singh, Rishabh Pant (captain), Nicholas Pooran, Mitchell Marsh, Shahbaz Ahmed, Arshin Kulkarni, Mayank Yadav, Avesh Khan, Mohsin Khan, Manimaran Siddharth, Digvesh Rathi, Prince Yadav, Akash Singh, Mohammed Shami, Arjun Tendulkar, Wanindu Hasranga, Anrich Nortje, Mukul Chaudhary, Naman Tiwari, Akshat Raghuvanshi, Josh English

Before the start of IPL 2026, Gujarat Titans has appointed Vijay Dahiya as assistant coach. Vijay Dahiya is a former wicket-keeper batsman for India and represented the Indian cricket team in 19 ODIs and 2 Test matches. Played for Delhi in domestic cricket and became active in coaching after his cricket career ended.

Gujarat Titans team is busy strengthening its coaching staff. Earlier, GT franchise has appointed veteran Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden as the batting coach. Under his coaching, Delhi won the Ranji Trophy 2007-08 title. Vijay Dahiya’s name is held with great respect in Indian domestic cricket.

He has worked in the Indian Premier League before also. He has been the assistant coach of Lucknow Super Giants for the 2022 and 2023 seasons of IPL. Apart from being the assistant coach of Kolkata Knight Riders, he has also been a talent scout for Delhi Capitals.

Gujarat Titans’ performance in IPL

Gujarat Titans entered the Indian Premier League in 2022. In its very first season i.e. IPL 2022, Gujarat was successful in winning the trophy. After that, Gujarat also reached the final of IPL 2023, but in the final it had to face a 5-wicket defeat at the hands of CSK.

In IPL 2024, Gujarat Titans team could not even go to the playoffs and had to be content with eighth place in the points table. Gujarat made a comeback in the 2025 season and made it to the playoffs again. The Gujarat team was deprived of winning the second title as it had to face a 20-run defeat at the hands of Mumbai Indians in the eliminator.

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