The Hyderabad Deccan Chargers (often abbreviated as DC) was a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, Telangana, that competed in the Indian Premier League (IPL) from 2008 to 2012. The team was owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited who won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise at US$107 million. VVS Laxman and Robin Singh were appointed as the captain and the coach for their first season in 2008. After finishing last in that season, the DC sacked their coach and removed their captain and replaced them with Darren Lehmann and Adam Gilchrist under whom they won their only IPL title in 2009, when they defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the final. They reached the semi-finals again in 2010 but failed to reach past the group stages before the team was folded in 2012. They qualified for the Champions League Twenty20 only once, for the 2009 season, but failed to advance past the group stage. Lehmann remained as the coach for the DC but they were forced to replace Gilchrist with Kumar Sangakkara in 2011 after they lost former to the Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 auction. Sangakkara remained as the captain until the middle of the 2012 season before he was replaced by Cameron White following the poor performances. Sangakkara later returned as captain as the move did not yield the desired results for the Deccan Chargers.

On 15 September 2012, the Deccan Chargers' IPL contract was terminated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which was concerned about overdue payments to the players. The Hyderabad franchise was later acquired by the Sun TV Network for ₹85.05 crore (US$10 million) per year in a bid which also retained 20 players.

Pragyan Ojha made the most appearances for the DC with 56 matches and was also the team's leading wicket-taker with 62 wickets. Gilchrist was the team's leading run scorer with 1,289 runs while Gilchrist and Rohit Sharma were the only batsmen to have scored more than 1,000 runs for the team. White's batting average of 38.86 was the highest for the DC while Shahid Afridi had the best strike rate at 176.08 among players who have batted in over five innings for the team. Andrew Symonds registered the first century for the DC when he scored 117 runs off 53 balls which was also the highest individual score for any DC batsman. Gilchrist became the only other centurion for the DC when he reached the three-figure mark three days later. In bowling, Dale Steyn had the best bowling average (18.25) among the players who have bowled more than 20 overs. Ishant Sharma was the only bowler to take a five-wicket haul for the DC. Ashish Reddy had the lowest bowling strike rate for the team while Steyn had the best economy rate among the players who bowled over 20 overs at 14.8 and 6.33 respectively. Amit Mishra was the only bowler to claim a hat-trick for the DC. In fielding, Herschelle Gibbs and Rohit Sharma took the most catches for the team (22) while Gilchrist had effected 41 dismissals, the most for a wicket-keeper, consisting of 27 catches and 14 stumpings.

The first list includes all players who played in at least one match for DC and is initially listed alphabetically by their last name. The second list comprises all those players who captained the team in at least one match, initially arranged in the order of the first match as captain.

Players

Key

• † – Captain
• ‡ – Wicket-keeper
• First – Year of DC debut
• Last – Year of last match for DC
• * – Batsman remained not out

Deccan Chargers capped cricketers

General						Batting						Bowling				Fielding
Name	Nationality	First	Last	Mat	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	100	50	Avg	Overs	Wkt	BBI	Ave	Ca	St
Shahid Afridi	Pakistan	2008	2008	10	9	1	81	33	0	0	10.12	30.0	9	3/28	25.00	4	–
Shoaib Ahmed	India	2009	2009	8	3	1	1	1*	0	0	0.50	17.0	5	2/20	30.40	4	–
Sanjay Bangar	India	2008	2008	11	7	1	47	17*	0	0	7.83	25.0	4	2/34	54.75	2	–
Azhar Bilakhia	India	2009	2010	7	7	2	69	22	0	0	13.80	–	–	–	–	1	–
Sumanth Bodapati	India	2010	2010	5	4	3	35	16	0	0	35.00	–	–	–	–	4	–
Bharat Chipli	India	2011	2012	19	17	6	244	61*	0	1	22.18	1.0	0	–	–	2	–
Dan Christian	Australia	2011	2012	21	20	4	335	39	0	0	20.93	72.4	19	2/13	30.68	13	–
Halhadar Das	India	2008	2008	1	1	0	2	2	0	0	2.00	–	–	–	–	0	–
Kedar Devdhar ‡	India	2011	2011	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	1
Shikhar Dhawan	India	2011	2012	29	29	3	969	95*	0	7	37.26	8.0	4	1/7	16.50	11	–
Kalyankrishna Doddapaneni	India	2008	2008	3	1	0	3	3	0	0	3.00	8.0	2	1/30	43.50	1	–
JP Duminy	South Africa	2011	2012	19	19	6	449	74	0	3	34.53	30.0	5	1/3	49.40	8	–
Ravi Teja Dwaraka	India	2008	2012	30	23	5	361	60	0	1	20.05	3.0	1	1/19	28.00	11	–
Fidel Edwards	West Indies	2009	2009	8	4	2	12	8*	0	0	6.00	29.2	8	3/32	26.12	0	–
Herschelle Gibbs	South Africa	2008	2010	33	33	3	805	69*	0	0	26.83	–	–	–	–	22	–
Adam Gilchrist †‡	Australia	2008	2010	48	48	1	1289	109*	1	8	27.42	–	–	–	–	27	14
Manpreet Gony	India	2011	2012	9	3	1	4	4	0	0	2.00	33.0	7	3/31	41.47	1	–
Daniel Harris	Australia	2012	2012	4	4	0	111	47	0	0	27.75	3.0	0	–	–	2	–
Ryan Harris	Australia	2009	2010	16	10	5	66	15	0	0	13.20	61.4	20	3/18	23.15	10	–
Ishank Jaggi	India	2011	2012	5	5	1	43	25	0	0	10.75	–	–	–	–	2	–
Abhishek Jhunjhunwala	India	2012	2012	5	3	1	24	19	0	0	12.00	6.0	1	1/13	38.00	2	–
Abhinav Kumar	India	2009	2010	1	1	0	1	1	0	0	1.00	–	–	–	–	0	–
Vijay Kumar	India	2008	2008	9	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25.2	4	1/17	49.75	0	–
Chris Lynn	Australia	2012	2012	1	1	0	6	6	0	0	6.00	–	–	–	–	1	–
Mitchell Marsh	Australia	2010	2010	3	2	0	28	15	0	0	14.00	10.0	2	1/19	44.00	0	–
Amit Mishra	India	2011	2012	28	14	7	84	25*	0	0	12.00	100.2	32	4/9	22.96	3	–
Mohnish Mishra	India	2010	2010	11	11	0	166	41	0	0	15.09	–	–	–	–	1	–
Pragyan Ojha	India	2008	2011	56	16	7	7	2	0	0	0.77	194.1	62	3/21	22.19	11	–
Parthiv Patel ‡	India	2012	2012	14	13	2	194	45	0	0	17.63	–	–	–	–	5	1
Anand Rajan	India	2011	2012	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	16.5	6	3/27	26.50	0	–
Akshath Reddy	India	2012	2012	5	4	1	73	42	0	0	24.33	–	–	–	–	0	–
Ashish Reddy	India	2012	2012	9	5	1	35	10*	0	0	8.75	27.1	11	3/25	7.77	0	–
Kemar Roach	West Indies	2010	2010	2	1	0	10	10	0	0	10.00	8.0	0	–	–	1	–
Kumar Sangakkara †‡	Sri Lanka	2011	2012	25	25	1	558	82	0	2	23.25	–	–	–	–	17	2
Ankit Sharma	India	2012	2012	9	4	1	18	15	0	0	6.00	24.1	4	1/9	41.25	0	–
Ishant Sharma	India	2011	2011	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	44.0	11	5/12	28.54	3	–
Rahul Sharma	India	2010	2010	6	4	1	29	14*	0	0	9.66	20.4	5	2/42	33.40	1	–
Rohit Sharma	India	2008	2010	47	46	6	1219	76*	0	8	30.47	48.0	14	4/6	25.14	22	–
Chamara Silva	Sri Lanka	2008	2008	3	3	1	43	23*	0	0	20.00	1.0	0	–	–	3	–
Anirudh Singh	India	2009	2010	5	4	0	63	40	0	0	15.75	–	–	–	–	3	–
Harmeet Singh	India	2009	2011	18	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	54.5	14	2/23	30.85	4	–
Jaskaran Singh	India	2009	2010	8	5	4	8	4*	0	0	8.00	17.0	6	2/18	28.50	0	–
R. P. Singh	India	2008	2010	44	22	10	51	10	0	0	4.25	161.0	54	4/22	23.59	17	–
Dwayne Smith	West Indies	2009	2010	11	11	1	237	49	0	0	23.70	17.5	2	1/22	80.00	6	–
Sunny Sohal	India	2011	2011	11	10	0	249	62	0	2	24.90	–	–	–	–	0	–
Dale Steyn	South Africa	2011	2012	24	11	2	55	13	0	0	6.11	92.1	32	3/8	18.50	5	–
Scott Styris	New Zealand	2008	2009	12	11	2	153	36*	0	0	17.00	–	–	–	–	3	–
Andrew Symonds	Australia	2008	2010	30	29	4	849	117*	1	5	33.96	–	–	–	–	17	–
Suman Tirumalasetti	India	2009	2010	28	28	8	559	78*	0	2	27.95	22.0	8	2/14	21.37	6	–
Chaminda Vaas	Sri Lanka	2008	2010	13	11	3	81	20	0	0	10.12	47.0	18	3/21	19.72	0	–
VVS Laxman †	India	2008	2010	19	19	2	228	52	0	1	16.94	–	–	–	–	4	–
Cameron White †	Australia	2011	2012	19	19	4	583	78	0	5	38.86	–	–	–	–	5	–
Arjun Yadav	India	2008	2008	8	6	1	49	16	0	0	9.80	–	–	–	–	1	–
Venugopal Rao	India	2008	2010	35	30	5	498	71*	0	2	19.92	–	–	–	–	8	–
Nuwan Zoysa	Sri Lanka	2008	2008	3	2	1	11	10*	0	0	11.00	–	–	–	–	1	–

Captains

Deccan Chargers captains

No.	Name	First	Last	Mat	Won	Lost	NR	Win%
1	VVS Laxman †	2008	2008	6	1	5	0	16.6
2	Adam Gilchrist †‡	2008	2010	42	18	24	0	42.85
3	Kumar Sangakkara †‡	2011	2012	25	8	17	0	32.00
4	Cameron White †	2011	2012	4	2	2	0	50.00
Total				77	29	47	1	37.66

See also

• List of Indian Premier League centuries
• List of Indian Premier League records and statistics