Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2016: Complete groups and squad list

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Cricket Celebrity League (CCL) 2016 is set to commence on January 23 with the inaugural match to be played between Mumbai Heroes and the new entrant of the year, Punjab De Sher at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru. The tournament will feature eight teams representing film industries from eight languages. There has been one change made from the season with Veer Maratha being replaced by Punjab De Sher. The new side is co-owned by Punjabi actor Navraj Hans and Film Producer Puneet Singh. It is a well known fact that India is crazy about both Bollywood and Cricket. So, a tournament that brings them a mixture of both surely is widely watched among the young Indian audience.

The previous five seasons were held in February-March. However, this year’s schedule includes Asia Cup 2016 and ICC World T20 2016 which is why CCL 2016 was preponed from its usual time. The matches will be live telecasted on Sun TV. A press conference announcing the start of CCL 6 was held a couple of days back in Mumbai. They also announced a CSR initiative, where they would support restoring the lives of acid-attack victims in association of Rotary Club of Deonar. The final of the tournament will be played on February 14.

Here is the list of teams featuring in CCL6:

Bengal Tigers: Jisshu (c), Dev, Rahul, Amitabh, Joy, Suman, Uday, Vinaayak, SRV, Indrashish Yousuf, Debraj, Raja, Mohan, Sandy, Saugata
Bhojpuri Dabanggs: Manoj Tiwari (c), Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Ram pravesh Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Ajhoy Sharrma, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Praksh Jais, Ayaz Khan, Shailesh Sinha, Vaibhav rai, Asgar Rashid Khan, Vikas Singh, Akbar Naqvi, Gajender Pratap Dwivedi, Jay Prakash Yadav, Raj Chouhan, Pawan Singh, Bobby Singh, Pradeep Pandey, Yash Kumar

Chennai Rhinos: Aarya (c), Jiva, Vishnu, Vikranth, Ramana, Prithivi, Shanthnu, Ashok, Balaji, Sharan, Sanjay, Bharath, Bose, Shaam, Uday

Karnataka Bulldozers: Sudeep (c), Darshan, Rajeev, Tharun Chandra, Tarun Sudhir, Dhruv, Vishwas, Pradeep, Rahul, Chetan, Dharma, Sunil Rao, Jayram Karthik, Abhimanyu, Mahesh, Rajesh, Mayur Patel

Kerala Strikers: Mohan Lal (c), Asif Ali, Unni Mukundan, Rajeev Pillai, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Manikuttan, Arjun Nandakumar, Manty, Vinu Mohan, Suresh Nair, Prajodh Kalabavan, Riyaz Khan

Mumbai Heroes: Ritesh Deshmukh (c), Bobby Deol, Aftab Shivdasani, Amit Purohit, Apoorva Lakhia, Armaan Kohli, Indraneil Sengupta, Jeetu Varma, Kabir Sadanand, Raja Bherwani, Rohit Roy, Samir Kochhar, Sangram Singh, Shabir Ahluwalia, Suniel Shetty, Varun Badola, Vatsal Sheth, Saqib Saleem, Rajneesh Duggal, Jay Bhanushali, Dino Morea, Manoje Biddvai, Sharad Kelkar

Punjab De Sher: SOnu Sood (c), Jimmy Shergil, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Jassi Gill, Rahul Dev, Gavie Chahal, Dev Kharoud, Gulzar Chahal, Babbal Rai, Mika Singh, Aryaman Sapru, Navraj Hans, Yuvraj Hans, Mukul Dev

Telugu Warriors: Akhil Akkineni (c), Aadarsh, Nanda Kishore, Nikhil, Raghu, Sachin Joshi, Samrat, Srikanth, Taraka Ratna, Tarun, Vishwa, Prince, Sushanth, Dharam, Khayyum