2012 Champions League Twenty20 squads

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

Coach: Paul Strang^[1]

No. Player[2] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 48 Gareth Hopkins (c & wk) (1976-11-24)24 November 1976 (aged 35) Right — 9 Andre Adams (1975-07-17)17 July 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium 1 Michael Bates (1983-10-11)11 October 1983 (aged 28) Right Left-arm medium-fast — Bradley Cachopa (1988-08-08)8 August 1988 (aged 24) Right — 22 Colin de Grandhomme (1986-07-22)22 July 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm fast-medium 31 Martin Guptill (1986-09-30)30 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break 16 Ronnie Hira (1987-01-23)23 January 1987 (aged 25) Left Left-arm slow 6 Anaru Kitchen (1984-02-21)21 February 1984 (aged 28) Right Slow left arm orthodox — Mitchell McClenaghan (1986-06-11)11 June 1986 (aged 26) Left Left-arm medium-fast — Azhar Mahmood (1975-02-28)28 February 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Bruce Martin (1980-04-25)25 April 1980 (aged 32) Right Slow left arm orthodox 32 Chris Martin (1974-12-10)10 December 1974 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium 37 Kyle Mills (1979-03-15)15 March 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 18 Colin Munro (1987-03-11)11 March 1987 (aged 25) Left Right-arm medium-fast 10 Lou Vincent (1978-11-11)11 November 1978 (aged 33) Right Right-arm medium

Coach: Stephen Fleming

No. Player[3] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 7 Mahendra Singh Dhoni (c & wk) (1981-07-07)7 July 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 3 Suresh Raina (1986-11-27)27 November 1986 (aged 25) Left Right-arm off break 4 Doug Bollinger (1981-07-24)24 July 1981 (aged 31) Left Left-arm fast-medium 6 Wriddhiman Saha (1984-10-24)24 October 1984 (aged 27) Right — 8 Murali Vijay (1984-04-01)1 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm off break 9 Yo Mahesh (1987-12-21)21 December 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm medium-fast 12 Ravindra Jadeja (1988-12-06)6 December 1988 (aged 23) Left Slow left arm orthodox 13 Francois du Plessis (1984-07-13)13 July 1984 (aged 28) Right Leg break 27 Shadab Jakati (1980-11-27)27 November 1980 (aged 31) Left Slow left arm orthodox 28 Ben Hilfenhaus (1983-03-15)15 March 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 33 Subramaniam Badrinath (1980-08-30)30 August 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 48 Michael Hussey (1975-05-27)27 May 1975 (aged 37) Left Right-arm medium 81 Albie Morkel (1981-06-10)10 June 1981 (aged 31) Left Right-arm medium-fast 92 Nuwan Kulasekara (1982-07-22)22 July 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm medium-fast 99 Ravichandran Ashwin (1986-09-17)17 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break

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) (1977-05-27)27 May 1977 (aged 35) Right Right-arm medium ** Virender Sehwag (1978-10-20)20 October 1978 (aged 33) Right Right-arm off break 3 Ross Taylor (1984-03-08)8 March 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm off break 6 Unmukt Chand (1993-03-26)26 March 1993 (aged 19) Right Right-arm off break 12 Andre Russell (1988-04-29)29 April 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast 15 Pawan Negi (1993-01-06)6 January 1993 (aged 19) Left Slow left arm orthodox 24 Kevin Pietersen (1980-06-27)27 June 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 31 David Warner (1986-10-27)27 October 1986 (aged 25) Left Leg break 35 Naman Ojha (wk) (1983-07-20)20 July 1983 (aged 29) Right — 36 Venugopal Rao (1982-02-26)26 February 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm off break 55 Ajit Agarkar (1977-12-04)4 December 1977 (aged 34) Right Right-arm fast-medium 56 Irfan Pathan (1984-10-27)27 October 1984 (aged 27) Left Left-arm medium-fast 65 Morné Morkel (1984-10-06)6 October 1984 (aged 28) Left Right-arm fast 77 Aavishkar Salvi (1981-10-20)20 October 1981 (aged 30) Right Right-arm medium-fast 87 Umesh Yadav (1987-10-25)25 October 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast

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) (1980-09-23)23 September 1980 (aged 32) Left Left-arm medium 0 Shahid Afridi (1980-03-01)1 March 1980 (aged 32) Right Leg break googly 7 Sean Ervine (1982-12-06)6 December 1982 (aged 29) Left Right-arm medium 8 Liam Dawson (1990-03-01)1 March 1990 (aged 22) Right Slow left arm orthodox 14 James Vince (1991-03-14)14 March 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium 15 Michael Carberry (1980-09-29)29 September 1980 (aged 32) Left Right-arm off break 16 Michael Bates (wk) (1990-10-10)10 October 1990 (aged 21) Right — 17 Dimitri Mascarenhas (1977-10-30)30 October 1977 (aged 34) Right Right-arm fast-medium 18 David Griffiths (1985-09-10)10 September 1985 (aged 27) Left Right-arm fast 19 Danny Briggs (1991-04-30)30 April 1991 (aged 21) Right Slow left arm orthodox 25 Chris Wood (1990-06-27)27 June 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm fast-medium 32 Glenn Maxwell (1988-10-14)14 October 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 33 Kabir Ali (1980-11-24)24 November 1980 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast 38 Hamza Riazuddin (1989-12-19)19 December 1989 (aged 22) Right Right-arm fast-medium 46 Bilal Shafayat (1984-07-10)10 July 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium-fast

Coach: Trevor Bayliss

No. Player[9] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 5 Gautam Gambhir (c) (1981-10-14)14 October 1981 (aged 30) Left Leg break 3 Jacques Kallis (1975-10-16)16 October 1975 (aged 36) Right Right-arm fast-medium 6 Laxmi Ratan Shukla (1981-05-06)6 May 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 9 Manoj Tiwary (1985-11-14)14 November 1985 (aged 26) Right Leg break googly 14 Mohammed Shami (1990-03-09)9 March 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium 21 Iqbal Abdulla (1989-12-02)2 December 1989 (aged 22) Left Slow left arm orthodox 22 Rajat Bhatia (1979-10-22)22 October 1979 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 27 Ryan ten Doeschate (1980-06-30)30 June 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 28 Yusuf Pathan (1982-11-17)17 November 1982 (aged 29) Right Right-arm off break 36 Manvinder Bisla (1984-12-27)27 December 1984 (aged 27) Right — 42 Brendon McCullum (wk) (1981-09-27)27 September 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium 55 Lakshmipathy Balaji (1981-09-27)27 September 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast 58 Brett Lee (1976-11-08)8 November 1976 (aged 35) Right Right-arm fast 74 Sunil Narine (1988-05-26)26 May 1988 (aged 24) Left Right-arm off break 75 Shakib Al Hasan (1987-03-24)24 March 1987 (aged 25) Left Slow left arm orthodox

Coach: Geoffrey Toyana

No. Player[10] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 73 Alviro Petersen (c) (1980-11-25)25 November 1980 (aged 31) Right Right-arm off break — Temba Bavuma (1990-05-17)17 May 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium — Gulam Bodi (1979-01-04)4 January 1979 (aged 33) Left Slow left-arm wrist-spin 58 Zander de Bruyn (1975-07-05)5 July 1975 (aged 37) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Quinton de Kock (1992-12-17)17 December 1992 (aged 19) Left — 4 Neil McKenzie (1975-11-24)24 November 1975 (aged 36) Right Right-arm medium — Pumelela Matshikwe (1984-06-19)19 June 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium — Chris Morris (1987-04-30)30 April 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Dirk Nannes (1976-05-16)16 May 1976 (aged 36) Right Left-arm fast 54 Ethan O'Reilly (1985-12-27)27 December 1985 (aged 26) Right Right-arm fast — Dwaine Pretorius (1989-03-29)29 March 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Sohail Tanvir (1984-12-12)12 December 1984 (aged 27) Left Left-arm medium-fast, Slow left arm orthodox 86 Jean Symes (1986-11-13)13 November 1986 (aged 25) Left Slow left arm orthodox 10 Thami Tsolekile (wk) (1980-10-09)9 October 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break

Coach: Robin Singh

No. Player[11] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 3 Harbhajan Singh (c) (1980-07-03)3 July 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 1 Thisara Perera (1989-04-03)3 April 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 9 Ambati Rayudu (1985-09-23)23 September 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm off break 10 Sachin Tendulkar (1973-04-24)24 April 1973 (aged 39) Right Right-arm off break, Leg break googly 13 Munaf Patel (1983-07-12)12 July 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium-fast 16 Suryakumar Yadav (1990-09-14)14 September 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm medium 19 Dinesh Karthik (wk) (1985-06-01)1 June 1985 (aged 27) Right — 30 Dhawal Kulkarni (1988-12-10)10 December 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium 30 Pragyan Ojha (1986-09-05)5 September 1986 (aged 26) Left Slow left arm orthodox 45 Rohit Sharma (1987-04-30)30 April 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm off break 50 Dwayne Smith (1983-04-12)12 April 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium 55 Kieron Pollard (1987-05-12)12 May 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm medium-fast 88 Richard Levi (1988-01-14)14 January 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm medium 99 Lasith Malinga (1983-08-28)28 August 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast 25 Mitchell Johnson (1981-11-02)2 November 1981 (aged 30) Left Left-arm fast

Coach: Lachlan Stevens

No. Player[12] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 26 Marcus North (c) (1979-07-28)28 July 1979 (aged 33) Left Right-arm off break 12 Tom Beaton (1990-11-28)28 November 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium 19 Michael Beer (1984-06-09)9 June 1984 (aged 28) Right Slow left arm orthodox 5 Paul Collingwood (1976-05-26)26 May 1976 (aged 36) Right Right-arm medium 13 Nathan Coulter-Nile (1987-10-11)11 October 1987 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast 41 Ryan Duffield (1988-06-20)20 June 1988 (aged 24) Left Left-arm fast-medium 28 Ben Edmondson (1978-09-28)28 September 1978 (aged 34) Left Right-arm fast-medium 74 Herschelle Gibbs (1974-02-23)23 February 1974 (aged 38) Right Right-arm bowler 31 Brad Hogg (1971-02-06)6 February 1971 (aged 41) Left Slow left-arm wrist-spin 37 Simon Katich (1975-08-21)21 August 1975 (aged 37) Left Slow left-arm wrist-spin 10 Mitchell Marsh (1991-10-20)20 October 1991 (aged 20) Right Right-arm medium 15 Joe Mennie (1988-12-24)24 December 1988 (aged 23) Right Right-arm fast-medium 20 Shaun Marsh (1983-07-09)9 July 1983 (aged 29) Left Slow left arm orthodox 11 Nathan Rimmington (1982-11-11)11 November 1982 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 34 Luke Ronchi (wk) (1981-04-23)23 April 1981 (aged 31) Right —

Coach: Naved Anjum

No. Player[13] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style — Shoaib Malik (c) (1982-02-01)1 February 1982 (aged 30) Right Right-arm off break — Qaiser Abbas (1982-05-07)7 May 1982 (aged 30) Left Slow left arm orthodox — Sarfraz Ahmed (1978-12-11)11 December 1978 (aged 33) Left Left-arm fast-medium — Shakeel Ansar (wk) (1978-11-11)11 November 1978 (aged 33) Right — — Mohammad Ayub (1979-09-13)13 September 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm off break — Umaid Asif (1984-04-30)30 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Bilawal Bhatti (1991-09-17)17 September 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Raza Hasan (1992-07-08)8 July 1992 (aged 20) Right Slow left arm orthodox — Ali Khan (1989-08-01)1 August 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Imran Nazir (1981-12-16)16 December 1981 (aged 30) Right Leg break — Faisal Naved (1980-03-02)2 March 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium — Naved-ul-Hasan (1978-02-28)28 February 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Haris Sohail (1989-01-09)9 January 1989 (aged 23) Left Left-arm medium — Shahid Yousuf (1986-06-15)15 June 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm medium-fast

Coach: Corey Richards

No. Player[14] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 24 Brad Haddin (c & wk) (1977-10-23)23 October 1977 (aged 34) Right — 33 Shane Watson (1981-06-17)17 June 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm fast-medium 27 Pat Cummins (1993-05-08)8 May 1993 (aged 19) Right Right-arm fast 8 Josh Hazlewood (1991-01-08)8 January 1991 (aged 21) Left Right-arm fast-medium 21 Moisés Henriques (1987-02-01)1 February 1987 (aged 25) Right Right-arm fast-medium 45 Michael Lumb (1980-02-12)12 February 1980 (aged 32) Left Right-arm medium 15 Nathan McCullum (1980-09-01)1 September 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm off break 53 Nic Maddinson (1991-12-21)21 December 1991 (aged 20) Left Slow left arm orthodox — Ian Moran (1979-08-16)16 August 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 20 Peter Nevill (1985-10-13)13 October 1985 (aged 26) Right — 72 Stephen O'Keefe (1984-12-09)9 December 1984 (aged 27) Right Slow left arm orthodox 99 Ben Rohrer (1981-03-26)26 March 1981 (aged 31) Left — 19 Steve Smith (1989-06-02)2 June 1989 (aged 23) Right Leg break googly 56 Mitchell Starc (1990-01-30)30 January 1990 (aged 22) Left Left-arm fast 7 Dominic Thornely (1978-10-01)1 October 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium, Right-arm off break

Coach: Matthew Maynard

No. Player[15] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 34 Martin van Jaarsveld (c) (1974-06-18)18 June 1974 (aged 38) Right Right-arm medium, Right-arm off break 24 Farhaan Behardien (1983-10-09)9 October 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium 19 Henry Davids (1980-01-19)19 January 1980 (aged 32) Right Right-arm medium-fast 36 Marchant de Lange (1990-10-13)13 October 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm fast 17 AB de Villiers (1984-02-17)17 February 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm medium 22 Paul Harris (1978-11-02)2 November 1978 (aged 33) Right Slow left arm orthodox 20 Heino Kuhn (wk) (1984-04-01)1 April 1984 (aged 28) Right — — Eden Links (1989-03-25)25 March 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 80 Ethy Mbhalati (1981-11-18)18 November 1981 (aged 30) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Mangaliso Mosehle (1990-04-24)24 April 1990 (aged 22) Right — — Rowan Richards (1984-07-08)8 July 1984 (aged 28) Left Left-arm fast-medium 1 Jacques Rudolph (1981-05-04)4 May 1981 (aged 31) Left Leg break googly 52 Roelof van der Merwe (1984-12-31)31 December 1984 (aged 27) Right Slow left arm orthodox 8 Alfonso Thomas (1977-02-09)9 February 1977 (aged 35) Right Right-arm fast-medium 96 David Wiese (1985-05-18)18 May 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm medium-fast

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) (1985-03-13)13 March 1985 (aged 27) Right — 7 Samuel Badree (1981-03-09)9 March 1981 (aged 31) Right Leg break 15 Adrian Barath (1990-04-14)14 April 1990 (aged 22) Right Right-arm off break 46 Darren Bravo (1989-02-06)6 February 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 20 Kevon Cooper (1989-02-02)2 February 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm medium 51 Rayad Emrit (1981-03-08)8 March 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Shannon Gabriel (1988-04-28)28 April 1988 (aged 24) Right Right-arm fast-medium 1 Sherwin Ganga (1982-02-13)13 February 1982 (aged 30) Left Right-arm off break 3 Jason Mohammed (1986-09-23)23 September 1986 (aged 26) Right Right-arm off break — Evin Lewis (1991-12-27)27 December 1991 (aged 20) Left — — Yannick Ottley (1991-09-07)7 September 1991 (aged 21) Right Slow left arm orthodox 40 William Perkins (1986-10-08)8 October 1986 (aged 26) Right — 14 Ravi Rampaul (1984-10-15)15 October 1984 (aged 27) Left Right-arm fast-medium 54 Lendl Simmons (1985-01-25)25 January 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm medium-fast — Navin Stewart (1983-06-13)13 June 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm fast-medium

Coach: Dave Nosworthy

No. Player[18] Nat Date of birth Batting Bowling style 25 Thilina Kandamby (c) (1982-06-04)4 June 1982 (aged 30) Left Leg break — Fawad Alam (1985-10-08)8 October 1985 (aged 27) Left Slow left arm orthodox 6 Shivnarine Chanderpaul (1974-08-16)16 August 1974 (aged 38) Left Leg break 26 Dilhara Fernando (1979-07-19)19 July 1979 (aged 33) Right Right-arm fast-medium 55 Umar Gul (1984-04-14)14 April 1984 (aged 28) Right Right-arm fast-medium 89 Charith Jayampathi (1991-02-01)1 February 1991 (aged 21) Left Left-arm medium-fast — Chinthaka Jayasinghe (1978-05-19)19 May 1978 (aged 34) Right Right-arm medium 34 Andrew McDonald (1981-06-05)5 June 1981 (aged 31) Right Right-arm fast-medium — Dilshan Munaweera (1989-04-24)24 April 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm off break 24 Jacob Oram (1978-07-28)28 July 1978 (aged 34) Left Right-arm fast-medium 41 Seekkuge Prasanna (1985-06-27)27 June 1985 (aged 27) Right Leg break 27 Bhanuka Rajapaksa (1991-10-24)24 October 1991 (aged 20) Left Right-arm medium 15 Sameera de Zoysa (1987-01-31)31 January 1987 (aged 25) Left — 18 Sachithra Senanayake (1985-02-09)9 February 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm off break 44 Upul Tharanga (wk) (1985-02-02)2 February 1985 (aged 27) Left —

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) (1983-11-28)28 November 1983 (aged 28) Left Leg break 2 Phil Jaques (1979-05-03)3 May 1979 (aged 33) Left Left-arm medium 3 Adil Rashid (1988-02-17)17 February 1988 (aged 24) Right Leg break 5 Joe Root (1990-12-30)30 December 1990 (aged 21) Right Right-arm off break 7 Iain Wardlaw (1985-06-29)29 June 1985 (aged 27) Right Right-arm fast-medium 8 David Miller (1989-06-10)10 June 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm off break 9 Adam Lyth (1987-09-25)25 September 1987 (aged 25) Left Right-arm medium-fast, Right-arm off break 11 Ryan Sidebottom (1978-01-15)15 January 1978 (aged 34) Left Left-arm fast-medium 12 Oliver Hannon-Dalby (1989-06-20)20 June 1989 (aged 23) Left Right-arm medium-fast 17 Steven Patterson (1983-10-03)3 October 1983 (aged 29) Right Right-arm medium-fast 19 Gary Ballance (1989-11-22)22 November 1989 (aged 22) Left Right-arm slow 21 Jonny Bairstow (wk) (1989-09-26)26 September 1989 (aged 23) Right Right-arm bowler 23 Moin Ashraf (1992-01-05)5 January 1992 (aged 20) Right Right-arm fast-medium 30 Azeem Rafiq (1991-02-27)27 February 1991 (aged 21) Right Right-arm off break — Dan Hodgson (1990-02-26)26 February 1990 (aged 22) Right —

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