Deccan Chargers in 2010
The Deccan Chargers were a franchise cricket team based in Hyderabad, India, that competed in the Indian Premier League, a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India. They were one of the eight teams that competed in the 2010 Indian Premier League, making their third appearance in all IPL tournaments. The team was captained by Adam Gilchrist and coached by Darren Lehmann with Kanwaljit Singh and Mike Young as assistant coaches.
They began their season by losing their opening fixture of the IPL on 12 March against the Kolkata Knight Riders but five consecutive wins at the end of the group stage helped them to qualify for the semi-finals. They lost to Chennai Super Kings by 38 runs in the semi-final and to Royal Challengers Bangalore by 9 wickets in the third-place playoff to finish the tournament at fourth and failed to qualify for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.
Player Acquisition
Retained Players: Azhar Bilakhia, Ravi Teja Dwaraka, Herschelle Gibbs, Adam Gilchrist, Ryan Harris, Pragyan Ojha, Rohit Sharma, Jaskaran Singh, R. P. Singh, Dwayne Smith, Andrew Symonds, Suman Tirumalasetti, V. V. S. Laxman, Chaminda Vaas, Arjun Yadav, Venugopal Rao YalakaReleased Players: Shoaib Ahmed, Harmeet Singh Bansal, Manvinder Bisla, Halhadar Das, Kalyankrishna Doddapaneni, Fidel Edwards, Abhinav Kumar, Sarvesh Kumar, Vijaykumar Paidikalva, Chamara Silva, Scott Styris, Nuwan Zoysa
Added Players: Harmeet Singh Bansal, Sumanth Bodapati, Mitchell Marsh, Mohnish Mishra, Ashish Reddy, Kemar Roach, Rahul Sharma, Anirudh Singh
Squad
- Players with international caps are listed in bold.
- denotes a player who is unavailable for rest of the season.
- Signed Year denotes year from which player is associated with Deccan Chargers
Kit manufacturers and sponsors
Season Overview
Standings
- The four top ranked teams qualify for the knockout stage
- The winner, runner-up and winner of the third place playoff qualified for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.
Results by match
Fixtures
Group stage
Knockout stage
;Semi-Final;Third-place playoff
Statistics
Awards and achievements
Awards
;Man of the Match| No. | Date | Player | Opponent | Venue | Result | Contribution | Ref. |
| 1 |  Chaminda Vaas | Chennai Super Kings | Chennai | Won by 31 runs | 3/21 | ||
| 2 |  Andrew Symonds | Kings XI Punjab | Cuttack | Won by 6 runs | 53 & 1/22 | ||
| 3 | Andrew Symonds | Delhi Daredevils | Cuttack | Won by 10 runs | 35 & 3/21 | ||
| 4 |  Tirumalasetti Suman | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Bangalore | Won by 7 wickets | 78* | ||
| 5 | Ryan Harris | Chennai Super Kings | Nagpur | Won by 6 wickets | 3/18 | ||
| 6 | Harmeet Singh Bansal | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Nagpur | Won By 13 runs | 2/24 | ||
| 7 | Rohit Sharma | Kings XI Punjab | Dharmasala | Won By 5 wickets | 68* | ||
| 8 | Andrew Symonds | Delhi Daredevils | Delhi | Won by 11 runs | 54 |
;Season Awards
- Winner of the Purple Cap : Pragyan Ojha
Achievements
- Most maiden overs bowled in the 2010 IPL : Chaminda Vaas
- Best bowling strike-rate in the 2010 IPL : Ryan Harris
Footnotes