Saturday, April 26, 2008

Who’s leaving and Who’s coming?

The coming weeks will see some Australian, New Zealand and West Indian players leaving to play for their countries. Lets take a stock of who’s leaving and who’s coming in. The re-org would shake up teams a bit in their upcoming matches which could reflect in the final result.

Bangalore Royal Challengers
Ashley Noffke and Ross Taylor leave on May 1
Shivnarine Chanderpaul will leave on May 15
Misbah-ul-Haq has arrived
Dale Steyn will arive on April 27

Chennai Super Kings
Hayden and Hussey leave on May 1
Jacob Oram catches the flight on April 30
Stephen Fleming will not be on bench
Makhaya Ntini will arrive on April 27

Delhi Daredevils
Daniel Vettori leaves on April 30
AB de Villiers will arrive on April 27

Deccan Chargers
Andrew Symonds will leave on May 1
Gibbs will get into action

Rajasthan Royals
No one’s leaving
Graeme Smith, Younis Khan, Sohail Tanveer have arrived
Dimitri Mascarenhas will available between May 12 to 26

Kolkata Knight Riders
McCullum will leave on April 30
Ponting will leave on May 1
Chris Gayle will leave on May 15
Salman Butt, Tatenda Taibu and Umar gul will fill the void

Kings XI Punjab
Brett Lee, Simon Katich and Kyle Mills will leave on April 28
No foreign replacements coming in

Mumbai Indians
Dwayne Bravo will leave on May 15 Loots Bosman will arrive on April 27 Domnic Thornley will be fit to play from the third match