The Celebrity Cricket League (CCL) 2023 season has officially announced its squads for the tournament. A total of eight teams are participating in the CCL 2023, with Bengal Tigers, Punjab De Sher, Kerala Strikers, Karnataka Bulldozers, Chennai Rhinos, Telugu Warriors, Mumbai Heroes and Bhojpuri Dabanggs. Each team comprises of players from the film industry, and are captained by famous movie stars. The Bengal Tigers team includes Uday, Indrasish, Mohan, Suman, Joy, Joe, Yusuf, Jeetu Kamal, Jammy, Ratnadip Ghosh, Ananda Chowdhury, Sandy, Aditya Roy Banerjee, Arman Ahamed, Manty, Rahul Mazumdar, Gaurav Chakrabarty, Boney, and Sourav Das. The Bhojpuri Dabanggs team includes Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Ram Pravesh Yadav, Uday Tiwari, Ajhoy Sharma, Vikrant Singh, Aditya Ojha, Prakash Jais, Ayaz Khan, Shailesh Sinha, Vaibhav Raj, Asgar Rashid Khan, Vikas Singh, Akbar Naqvi, Gajender Pratap Dwivedi, Jay Prakash Yadav, Raj Chohan, Pawan Singh, Bobby Singh, Pradeep Pandey, and Yash Kumar. The Chennai Rhinos team includes Arya, Vishnu Vishal, Jiiva, Vikranth, Shantanu, Prithivi, Ashok Selvan, Kalai Arasan, Mirchi Shiva, Bharath Niwas, Ramana, Satya, Dasarathan, Sharan, Aadhav, and Balasaravanan. The Karnataka Bulldozers team includes Pradeep, Rajeev H, Sudeep Kiccha, Suneel Rao, Jayram Karthik, Prathap, Prasanna, Shiva Rajkumar, Ganesh, Krishna, Sourav Lokesh, Chandan, Arjun Yogi, Nirup Bhandari, Nanda Kishore, and Sagar Gowda. The Kerala Strikers team includes Kunchacko Boban, Indrajith, Asif Ali, Rajeev Pillai, Nivin Pauly, Manikuttan, Saiju Kurup, Riyaz Khan, Rakendhu, Vinu Mohan, Bineesh Kodiyeri, Vivek Gopan, Prajod Kalabhavan, sreeshand, Madan mohan, Shafique Rehman, Rahul Madhav, Unni Mukundan, Bala, Munna Simon, Nikhil Menon, and Rejith Menon. The Mumbai Heroes team includes Ritesh Deshmukh, 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, Jatin Sarna, and Amit Sial. The Punjab De Sher team includes Sonu Sood, Mika Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Ayushmann Khurana, Binnu Dhillon, Manvir Sran, Rahul Dev, Navraj Hans, Jazzy B, Harmeet Singh, Piyush Malhotra, Gulzar Chahal, Roshan Prince, Amrinder Gill, Angad Bedi,Yuvraj Hans, Raju Sharma, Dilraj Khurana, etc. The Telugu Warriors team includes Akhil Akkineni, Venkatesh, Sachin Joshi, Sudheer Babu, Tarun, Prince Cecil, Sai Dharam Tej, Ajay, ESD, Ashwin Babu, Aadarsh Balakrishna, Nandakishore, Nikhil, Siddarth, Prabhu, Raghu, Sushanth, Srikanth, Taraka Ratna, Samrat Reddy, and Viswa. The latest news is that Mumbai Heroes have signed up Bollywood actor Varun Dhawan as their new captain.
