Celebrity Cricket League: CCL 2023 schedule, venues, squads, live TV, and more
Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2023 will commence on February 18 in Raipur with Bengal Tigers facing Karnataka Bulldozers in the opening match of the season.
CCL 2023 will see the participation of eight teams from eight film industries (Bengali, Bhojpuri, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu) across India.
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“The Biggest Sportainment Property Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) that brings together actors from 8 Film Industries on to cricket field is back,” the organisers said last month.
Ahead of the new season, CCL organisers hosted a ‘curtain raiser’ event in Mumbai on February 4.
“The plan is just to enjoy the game and give more than 100 per cent on the ground to bring home the Cup,” said Kerala Strikers’ captain Kunchacko Boban.
Here is all you need to know about CCL 2023. Check out CCL 2023 schedule, venues, squads, captains, live TV information, and more.
CCL 2023 teams
Bengal Tigers, Bhojpuri Dabanggs, Chennai Rhinos, Karnataka Bulldozers, Kerala Strikers, Mumbai Heroes, Punjab De Sher, Telugu Warriors.
CCL 2023 format
There are eight teams in CCL 2023 and they will play in a round-robin stage. Each team will play four matches in the league stage. The top four sides in the points table will qualify for the semi-finals. The table-topper faces the fourth-placed team in the first semi-final while the second and third-placed sides meet in the second semi-final.
CCL 2023 venues
Raipur, Lucknow, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, Jodhpur, Hyderabad.
CCL 2023 Live TV information
CCL 2023 matches will be telecast live on nine channels – Zee Anmol Cinema, &Pictures Hindi, Zee Cinemalu Telugu, Zee Thirai Tamil, Zee Picchar Kannada, Zee Bangla Cinema, Zee Biskope, Flowers Malayalam, and PTC Punjabi.
Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2023 Squads
Bengal Tigers: Jisshu Sengupta (captain), Uday, Indrasish, Mohan, Suman, Joy, Joe, Yusuf, Jeetu Kamal, Jammy, Ratnadip Ghosh, Ananda Chowdhury, Sandy, Aditya Roy Banerjee, Arman Ahamed, Manty, Rahul Mazumder, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Boney, Sourav Das. Owners: Boney Kapoor, Raj Shah.
Bhojpuri Dabanggs: Manoj Tiwari (captain), Ravi Kishan, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Asgar Khan, Ayaz Khan, Jay Yadav, Vikas Singh Virappan, Ajhoy Sharma, Shailesh Sinha, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Parvesh Lal Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Anshuman Singh Rajpoot, Khesari Lal Yadav, Vikas Jha, Baivaw Rai, Sudhir Singh. Owner: Anand Bihari Yadav.
Chennai Rhinos: Arya (captain), Vishnu Vishal, Jiiva, Vikranth, Shantanu, Prithivi, Ashok Selvan, Kalai Arasan, Mirchi Shiva, Bharath Niwas, Ramana, Satya, Dasarathan, Sharan, Aadhav, Balasaravanan.
Karnataka Bulldozers: Pradeep (captain), H Rajeev, Kichcha Sudeep, Suneel Rao, Jayram Karthik, Prathap, Prasanna, Shiva Rajkumar, Ganesh, Krishna, Saurav Lokesh, Chandan, Arjun Yogi, Nirup Bhandari, Nanda Kishore, Sagar Gowda. Owner: Ashok Kheny.
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Kerala Strikers: Kunchacko Boban (captain), Asif Ali, Rajeev Pillai, Unni Mukundan, Arjun Nandakumar, Indrajit Sukumaran, Siddharth Menon, Manikuttan, Vijay Yesudas, Shafeeq Rahman, Vivek Gopan, Saiju Kurup, Vinu Mohan, Nikhil K Menon, Prajod Kalabhavan, Antony Pepe, Jean Paul Lal, Sanju Sivaram, Siju Wilson, Prashanth Alexander. Owners: Mohanlal, Rajkumar, Sripriya, Shaji, Jaison.
Mumbai Heroes: Riteish Deshmukh (captain), Suniel Shetty, Aftab Shivdasani, Sohail Khan, Bobby Deol, Jay Bhanushali, Saqib Saleem, Shabir Ahluwalia, Raja Bherwani, Sharad Kelkar, Apoorva Lakhia, Sameer Kochar, Sidhant Muley, Madhav Deochake, Freddie Daruwala, Vatsal Sheth, Adarsh Balakrishna, Rajniesh Dugali, Nishant Dahiya, Navdeep Tomar, Sandeep Juwatkar. Owner: Sohail Khan.
Punjab De Sher: Sonu Sood (captain), Jimmy Shergil, Ayushman Khurrana, Gurpeet Ghuggi, Binnu Dhillon, Jassi Gill, Rahul Dev, Gavie Chahal, Dev Kharoud, Gulzar Chahal, Babbal Rai, Aryaman Sapru, Navraj Hans, Yuvraj Hans, Mukul Dev, Arjan Bajwa, Harmeet Singh. Owners: Navraj Hans, Puneet Singh.
Telugu Warriors: Akhil Akkineni (captain), Sachin Joshi, Ashwin Babu, Sai Dharam Tej, Aadarsh, Nanda Kishore, Nikhil, Raghu, Samrat, Taraka Ratna, Tarun, Vishwa, Prince, Sushanth, Khayyum, Harish. Owner: Sachiin J Joshi. Mentor: Venkatesh.
India’s Biggest Sportainment Event Celebrity Cricket League (#CCL) with 8 teams from across 8 languages starts on 18th February.#A23 #ParleHappyHappy#CCL2023@ZEECorporate @ParleFamily @A23Games pic.twitter.com/vwY4TKxLCX
— CCL (@ccl) February 11, 2023
Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2023 schedule
February 18 (Saturday)
Bengal Tigers vs Karnataka Bulldozers – 2:30 PM (Raipur)
Chennai Rhinos vs Mumbai Heroes – 7 PM (Raipur)
February 19 (Sunday)
Kerala Strikers vs Telugu Warriors – 2:30 PM (Lucknow)
Punjab De Sher vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs – 7 PM (Lucknow)
February 25 (Saturday)
Chennai Rhinos vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs – 2:30 PM (Jaipur)
Bengal Tigers vs Telugu Warriors – 7 PM (Jaipur)
February 26 (Sunday)
Kerala Strikers vs Karnataka Bulldozers – 2:30 PM (Jaipur)
Punjab De Sher vs Mumbai Heroes – 7 PM (Jaipur)
March 4 (Saturday)
Punjab De Sher vs Telugu Warriors – 2:30 PM (Bengaluru)
Chennai Rhinos vs Karnataka Bulldozers – 7 PM (Bengaluru)
March 5 (Sunday)
Bengal Tigers vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs – 2:30 PM (Thiruvananthapuram)
Kerala Strikers vs Mumbai Heroes – 7 PM (Thiruvananthapuram)
March 11 (Saturday)
Kerala Strikers vs Bhojpuri Dabanggs – 2:30 PM (Jodhpur)
Punjab De Sher vs Karnataka Bulldozers – 7 PM (Jodhpur)
March 12 (Sunday)
Chennai Rhinos vs Telugu Warriors – 2:30 PM (Jodhpur)
Bengal Tigers vs Mumbai Heroes – 7 PM (Jodhpur)
March 18 (Saturday)
Semi-final 1 (1 vs 4) – 2:30 PM (Hyderabad)
Semi-final 2 (2 vs 3) – 7 PM (Hyderabad)
March 19 (Sunday)
Final – 7 PM (Hyderabad)
CCL’s past champions
- 2011 – Chennai Rhinos
- 2012 – Chennai Rhinos
- 2013 – Karnataka Bulldozers
- 2014 – Karnataka Bulldozers
- 2015 – Telugu Warriors
- 2016 – Telugu Warriors
- 2017 – Telugu Warriors
- 2018 – Tournament not held
- 2019 – Mumbai Heroes
- 2020 – Tournament not held
- 2021 – Tournament not held
- 2022 – Tournament not held
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