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Deccan Chargers is the franchise that represents the city of
Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League. From 2009, the team will
be led by Adam Gilchrist and coached by Darren Lehmann, both
former Australian Test cricketers.
The Deccan Chargers franchise is owned by Deccan Chronicle. The
media group acquired the franchise from IPL for $107 million on
January 24, 2008. It is announced that from 2009 season onwards
the team will change its jersey(from beige-black to sparkling
silver-blue), logo and also the team will have much more hype in
it.
Despite the fact that the team was one of the favourites to win
the inauguaral edition of the IPL, the team failed to reach the
semi-finals. In addition, Andrew Symonds (Deccan's most
expensive player) batted only 3 innings before leaving to play
for the Australian national team, and team captain Laxman had
his season ended by an injury after 6 games. Only 3 Deccan
bowlers, R. P. Singh, Pragyan Ojha and Shahid Afridi, took more
than 4 wickets in the competition. In this 14 match period, the
team went winless at home and only managed 2 wins overall, one
against the Mumbai Indians and one against the Chennai Super
Kings. They finished at the bottom of the table.
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