Celebrity Cricket League (CCL 2024): Another season of Celebrity Cricket League kicked off on Friday, February 23 with eight teams fighting with cricketing action across five different cities.
The competition kicked off with the first match played between Mumbai Heroes and Kerala Strikers at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium and will run till March 17.
Bengal Tigers, Bhojpuri Dabanggs, Chennai Rhinos, Karnataka Bulldozers, Kerala Strikers, Mumbai Heroes, Punjab De Sher and Telugu Warriors are the teams participating in this year’s campaign.
Telugu Warriors are the defending champions of the competition, having defeated Bhojpuri Dabanggs by six wickets in the last edition's grand finale.
Notably, Telugu Warriors are the most successful team with four titles so far.
Format: The eight teams are divided into two groups and each team will play a total of four games in the league phase before the competition moves to the playoffs.
The top two ranked teams will make it to the first Qualifier while the third and fourth-ranked teams will face off in the eliminator.
Each game will feature four different innings of 10 overs each.
CCL 2024: Full Schedule & Match Timings (All Times in IST)
February 23, Friday
Match 1 - Mumbai Heroes vs Kerala Strikers, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, 6.30 pm
February 24, Saturday
Match 2 - Bhojpuri Dabanggs vs Telugu Warriors, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, 2 pm
Match 3 - Kerala Strikers vs Bengal Tigers, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, 6.30 pm
February 25, Sunday
Match 4 - Chennai Rhinos vs Punjab De Sher, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, 2 pm
Match 5 - Mumbai Heroes vs Karnataka Bulldozers, Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, 6.30 pm
March 1, Friday
Match 6 - Chennai Rhinos vs Bhojpuri Dabbangs, Hyderabad, 2 pm
Match 7 - Telugu Warriors vs Punjab De Sher, Hyderabad, 6.30 pm
March 2, Saturday
Match 8 - Karnataka Bulldozers vs Bengal Tigers, Hyderabad, 2 pm
Match 9 - Telugu Warriors vs Kerala Strikers, Hyderabad, 6.30 pm
March 3, Sunday
Match 10 - Mumbai Heroes vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs, Hyderabad, 2 pm
Match 11 - Chennai Rhinos vs Karnataka Bulldozers, Hyderabad, 6.30 pm
March 8, Friday
Match 12 - Punjab De Sher vs Bengal Tigers, Chandigarh, 6.30 pm
March 9, Saturday
Match 13 - Bengal Tigers vs Bhojpuri Dabbangs, Chandigarh, 2 pm
Match 14 - Punjab De Sher vs Mumbai Heroes, Chandigarh, 6.30 pm
March 10, Sunday
Match 15 - Telugu Warriors vs Karnataka Bulldozers, Trivandrum, 2 pm
Match 16 - Chennai Rhinos vs Kerala Strikers, Trivandrum, 6.30 pm
March 15, Friday
Qualifier 1, Vizag, 2 pm
Eliminator, Vizag, 6.30pm
March 16, Saturday
Qualifier 2, Vizag, 6.30 pm
March 17, Sunday
Final, Vizag, 6.30 pm
Celebrity Cricket League 2024: Live streaming details
The CCL 2024 can be live-streamed on the JioCinema app and website whereas Sony Ten 5 will provide the live telecast of the competition.
Celebrity Cricket League 2024: Full Squads
Bengal Tigers: Jisshu Sengupta (c), Ananda Chowdhury, Sandy, Uday, Indrasish, Mohan, Suman, Joy, Joe, Yusuf, Jeetu Kamal, Jammy, Ratnadip Ghosh, Aditya Roy Banerjee, Arman Ahamed, Manty, Rahul Mazumdar, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Boney, Sourav Das.
Bhojpuri Dabanggs: Manoj Tiwari (c), Ravi Kishan, Shailesh Sinha, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Pravesh Lal Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Anshuman Singh Rajpoot, Khesari Lal Yadav, Asghar Khan, Ayaz Khan, Jay Yadav, Vikas Singh Virappan, Ajhoy Sharma, Vikas Jha, Baivaw Rai, Sudhir Singh.
Chennai Rhinos: Arya (c), Ashok Selvan, Kalai Arasan, Vishnu Vishal, Jiiva, Mirchi Shiva, Bharath Niwas, Ramana, Satya, Dasarathan, Sharan, Aadhav, Balasaravanan, Vikranth, Shantanu, Prithivi.
Karnataka Bulldozers: Pradeep (c), Rajeev H, Sudeep Kiccha, Chandan, Arjun Yogi, Nirup Bhandari, Nanda Kishore, Sagar Gowda, Suneel Rao, Jayram Karthik, Prathap, Prasanna, Shiva Rajkumar, Ganesh, Krishna, Sourav Lokesh.
Kerala Strikers: Kunchacko Boban (c), Manikuttan, Asif Ali, Rajeev Pillai, Unni Mukundam, Arjun Nandakumar, Indrajit Sukumaran, Siddharath Menon, Antony Pepe, Vijay Yesudas, Shafeeq Rahman, Vivek Gopan, Saiju Kurup, Vinu Mohan, Nikhil K Menon, Prajod Kalabhavan, Jean Paul Lal, Sanju Shivaram, Siju Wilson, Prashanth Alexander.
Mumbai Heroes: Ritesh Deshmukh (c), Shabir Ahluwalia, Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Sohail Khan, Bobby Deol, Jay Bhanushali, Saqib Saleem, Freddie Daruwala, Raja Bherwani, Sharad Kelkar, Apoorva Lakhia, Sameer Kochar, Sidhant Muley, Madhav Deochake, Vatsal Sheth, Adarsh Balakrishna, Rajniesh Dugali, Nishant Dahiya, Navdeep Tomar, Sandeep Juwatkar, Jatin Sarna, Amit Sial.
Punjab de Sher: Sonu Sood (c), Jimmy Shergil, Gulzar Chahar, Babbal Rai, Aryaman Sapru, Navraj Hans, Yuvraj Hans, Mukul Dev, Arjan Bajwa, Harmeet Singh, Ayushmann Khurrana, Gurpreet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Jassie Gill, Rahul Dev, Gavie Chahal, Dev Kharoud.
Telugu Warriors: Akhil Akkineni (c), Tarun, Vishwa, Prince, Sushanth, Khayyum, Harish, Sachin Joshi, Ashwin Babu, Sai Dharam Teja, Aadarsh, Nanda Kishore, Nikhil, Raghu, Samrat.