The Indian National Cricket Team had been performing well in the cricket industry for quite some time. The team had served some of their best performances throughout the years and had deemed to be one of the most popular teams in the world. 

India’s popularity in cricket has taken the world to the point that they tend to be featured in cricket news almost all of the time and cricket odds almost seem to be in favour of them every time they have an upcoming match. 

The Indian sports league called the Indian Premier League or the IPL also became one of the world’s most popular sports leagues to exist. The teams under the IPL are proven to be worth watching out for as they had once sheltered the players of the Indian National Cricket Team that dominates cricket odds nowadays. 

Let us take a look on some of India’s most popular players and the teams that they had once belonged in the famous Indian sports league of the IPL. 

Virat Kohli (team captain, Royal Challengers Bangalore)

MS Dhoni (team captain, Chennai Super Kings)

Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians)

Suresh Raina (Chennai Super Kings)

Shikhar Dhawan (Delhi Capitals)

Yuvraj Singh (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Rishabh Pant (Delhi Capitals)

K.L. Rahul (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

Hardik Pandya (Mumbai Indians)

Gautam Gambhir (former team captain, Kolkata Knight Riders)

Vijay Shankar (Sunrisers Hyderabad)

Aside from the popular members of the India National Cricket Team, there are also some renowned players from other national teams who had a history of playing in the IPL teams. Some of them are the following: 

• West Indies’ former captain Chris Gayle once played for the Kings XI Punjab

• South Africa’s T20I and Test captain Faf du Plessis had a history of playing for the Chennai Super Kings

• South Africa’s AB de Villiers became one of the Royal Challengers Bangalore

• Sri Lanka’s T20I captain Lasith Malinga also played for the Mumbai Indians 

• Australia’s former captain David Warner once became a part of the Sunrisers Hyderabad

• Australia’s occasional captain Shane Watson also had a history of being in the Chennai Super Kings

Those are just some of the players who had played for the IPL. This only proves how the IPL serves as a great training ground for world-class cricketers. The popularity of the IPL can always be justified by the number of exceptional players that once took a part in it.