2014 Celebrity Cricket League

2014 Celebrity Cricket League

Cricket format	Twenty20
Tournament format(s)	Round-robin and playoffs
Host(s)	India
Champions	Karnataka Bulldozers
Participants	8
Matches played	19
Official website	www.ccl.in

The 2014 Celebrity Cricket League, abbreviated as CCL 4 or CCL 2014 is the fourth season of the Celebrity Cricket League, which is a non-professional men's cricket league in India, established in 2011. The competition featured eight teams, with the addition of the Veer Marathi and Bhojpuri Dabbangs.

The CCL 2014 is scheduled to take place from 25 January 2014 to 23 February 2014.

All the matches of the tournament will be played on weekends only. The start timings of the matches is 15:00 hrs IST and 19:00 hrs IST.

Karnataka Bulldozers are the defending CCL Champions. They defeated Telugu Warriors in the finals of CCL 2013.

Teams

The 8 participating teams were divided into 2 groups. Group A consists of Karnataka Bulldozers, Kerala Strikers, Bhojpuri Dabbangs and Mumbai Heroes. Group B consists of Telugu Warriors, Veer Marathi, Chennai Rhinos and Bengal Tigers.

Each team will play against all of the other teams in the opposite group during the league stage, and the top four teams qualify to play in the semi-finals.

Venues

The matches of CCL 2014 will take place in Mumbai, Bangalore, Dubai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Cuttack and Ranchi.

The matches of CCL 2015^[1][2] will take place in Mumbai, Bangalore, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kochi, Cuttack and Ranchi.

Squads

Mumbai Heroes	Chennai Rhinos	Telugu Warriors	Karnataka Bulldozers	Kerala Strikers	Bengal Tigers	Veer Marathi	Bhojpuri Dabanggs
Suniel Shetty (Captain) Aftab Shivdasani (Vice Captain) Sohail Khan Bobby Deol Sonu Sood Ashish Chowdhry Vatsal Sheth Shabir Ahluwalia Angad Bedi Apoorva Lakhia Varun Badola Kabir Sadanand Raja Bherwani Sunny Singh Sachin Joshi Manav Gohil Tushar Jalota Varun Rao Indraneil	Vishal (Captain) Vikranth (Vice Captain) Arya Bharath Bose Venkat Jiiva Jithan Ramesh Nithin Sathya Prem Kumar Prithvi Rajan Ramana Sanjay Bharathi Shaam Sharan Shanthanu Shiva Srikanth Sundar Ramu Vishnu Uday	Venkatesh (Captain) Akkineni Akhil (Vice Captain) Srikanth Tarun Nitin Raghu Ram Charan Teja Ajay Rajiv Kanakala Nikhil Karteek Samrat Aadarsh Prince Nandakishore Vishwa Harshvardhan Sunny Giri Adetya	Sudeep (Captain) Dhruv Sharma (Vice Captain) Pradeep Tharun Chandra Rahul Saurav Vishwas Rajeev Abhimanyu Darshan Chiranjeevi Sarja Diganth. M Chethan Dharma Kreethiraj Tarun Sudhir Jayram Karthik Sunil Rao Bhaskar Himmath Mahesh SP Manjunath Avanish	Rajeev Pillai (Captain) Bineesh Kodiyeri (Vice Captain) Mohan Lal Nivin Pauly Asif Ali Krishna Kumar Unni Mukundan Shyam Mohan Manikuttan Vivek Gopan Saiju Kurup Prajod Kalabhavan Arjun Nandakumar Santhosh Sleeba Rakendhu Kumar Suresh Nair Riyaz Khan Shafique Rehman Rahul Madhav Munna Simon Arun Benny	Jisshu (c) Dev Indrasish ROY Rahul JOY Mukharjee Gourav Amitabh (WK) Soham Chakraborty Vivek Raja Sandy Sougata Debraj Mohan Ruban Herok Arjun Sumon Arijit Joydeep Partha Jeet Prasun Prosenjit Chatterjee (mentor)	Riteish Deshmukh (Captain) Mahesh Manjrekar (Vice Captain) Ajit Parab Ankush Chaudhary Manoje Biddvai Sharad Kelkar Nupur Dhudwadkar Rahul Gore Rajesh Shringarpure Sanjay Narvekar Siddarth Jadhav Upendra Limaye Siddhant Mooley Rahul Sugandh Raiees Lashkaria Madhav Deochakke Vijay Kenkre Makrand Deshpande Siddharth Chandekar Aniket Vishwasrao Samir Dharmadhikari	Manoj Tiwari (Captain) Dinesh Lal Yadav (Vice Captain) Ravi Kishan Pravesh Lal Yadav Uday Tiwari Vikrant Singh Ajhoy Sharma Aditya Ojha Prakash Jaish Ayaz Khan Sushil Singh Abhay Sinha Kesari Lal Yadav Jay Yadav Surya Dwivedi Vikash Singh Pawan Singh Santosh Singh Ajay Srivastav Anil Samrat

Points system

• Won (W): 2
• Lost (L): 0
• Tied (T): 1
• No Result (but play started) (NR): 1
• Abandoned without a ball bowled (A): 1
• Total points (Pts)
• Net run rate (NRR)(runs per over scored less runs per over conceded, adjusting team batting first to overs of team batting second in rain rule matches, adjusting to team's full allocation if all out, and ignoring no result matches)

Points table

Team	Pld	W	L	T	NR	A	Pts	NRR
Karnataka Bulldozers (C)	4	3	0	1	0	0	7	+1.805
Kerala Strikers (R)	4	3	0	0	0	1	7	+0.267
Bhojpuri Dabanggs	4	3	1	0	0	0	6	+2.000
Mumbai Heroes	4	2	2	0	0	0	4	+1.433
Telugu Warriors	4	2	2	0	0	0	4	+0.203
Chennai Rhinos	4	1	2	1	0	0	3	-0.733
Bengal Tigers	4	0	3	0	0	1	1	-3.700
Veer Marathi	4	0	4	0	0	0	0	-2.139

Note: The top four teams qualified for Semifinals.

Knockout stage

	Semifinals					Final
	Rank 2	Kerala Strikers	129-2 (18.3 Overs)
	Rank 3	Bhojpuri Dabanggs	128-9 (20 Overs)
						Kerala Strikers		175-7 (20 Overs)
						Karnataka Bulldozers		211-2 (20 Overs)
	Rank 1	Karnataka Bulldozers	184-6 (20 Overs)
	Rank 4	Mumbai Heroes	105-10 (18.1 Overs)

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References

1. "CCL- Celebrity Cricket League 2015 Schedule". 11 December 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2011.
2. "Celebrity Cricket League 2015". 11 December 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2014.
3. "ccl schedule". ccl.in.