List of Deccan Chargers cricketers

[1] The team was owned by Deccan Chronicle Holdings Limited who won the bid for the Hyderabad franchise at US$107 million.

[2] After finishing last in that season, the DC sacked their coach and removed their captain and replaced them with Darren Lehmann and Adam Gilchrist under whom they won their only IPL title in 2009, when they defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore by six runs in the final.

[6][7] Lehmann remained as the coach for the DC but they were forced to replace Gilchrist with Kumar Sangakkara in 2011 after they lost former to the Kings XI Punjab in the 2011 auction.

[10] On 15 September 2012, the Deccan Chargers' IPL contract was terminated by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), which was concerned about overdue payments to the players.

[11] The Hyderabad franchise was later acquired by the Sun TV Network for ₹85.05 crore (US$9.8 million) per year in a bid which also retained 20 players.