Box Cricket League

Box Cricket League (BCL) is an Indian sports reality television show where celebrities are seen competing against each other in an indoor cricket game format.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Establishment

The BCL was inspired by the popularity of the Celebrity Cricket League, a T10 tournament with franchises in major Indian cities. The series is a unique collaboration of sports, celebrities and entertainment conceptualized by Marinating Films.^[10] The inaugural season had 8 teams competing against each other. For the second season, two additional teams were added.^[11]

History

First season

The inaugural season took place in 2014, which was contested by 8 teams – Chandigarh Cubs, Delhi Dragons, Rowdy Bangalore, Mumbai Tigers, Kolkata Baabu Moshayes, Jaipur Raj Joshiley, Pune Anmol Ratn and Ahmedabad Express. Delhi Dragons emerged as the inaugural BCL champions. The first season aired on Sony Entertainment Television India.^{[citation needed]}

Second season

The second season took place in 2016. Two new cricket teams, Chennai Swaggers and Lucknow Nawabs were added to the BCL. Again in Season 2, Delhi Dragons for the second time in a row and emerged as the 2 times champions of BCL.^[12] The second season aired on Colors TV.

Third season

The third season premiered on 25 February 2018.^[13] Lucknow Nawabs defeated the two-time champions Delhi Dragons and emerged as the winners of Season 3.^[14] The third aired on MTV India.^[15] RJ Sidhu was the commentator for BCL 3.^[16]

Fourth season

The fourth season premiered on 29 April 2019. The fourth season continued aired on MTV India. RJ Sidhu was the commentator for BCL 4.^{[citation needed]}

Series details

Season	Start Date	Final Date	Network	No. of Episodes
1 (2014-2015)	14 December 2014	15 January 2015	Sony Entertainment Television	25
2 (2016)	5 March 2016	28 May 2016	Colors TV	24
3 (2018)	25 February 2018	4 April 2018	MTV India	23
4 (2019)	29 April 2019	22 May 2019		18

Teams

The show consists of teams competing for grand prize.^[17]

Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4
1. Delhi Dragons 2. Chandigarh Cubs 3. Pune Anmol Ratan 4. Kolkata Babu Moshayes 5. Rowdy Bangalore 6. Mumbai Warriors 7. Jaipur Raj Joshiley 8. Ahmedabad Express	1. Delhi Dragons 2. Chennai Swaggers 3. Lucknow Nawabs 4. Chandigarh Cubs 5. Pune Anmol Ratan 6. Kolkata Babu Moshayes 7. Rowdy Bangalore 8. Mumbai Tigers 9. Jaipur Raj Joshiley 10. Ahmedabad Express	1. Delhi Dragons 2. Goa Killers 3. Kota Royals Rajasthan 4. Chennai Swaggers 5. Lucknow Nawabs 6. Chandigarh Cubs 7. Kolkata Babu Moshayes 8. Mumbai Tigers 9. Jaipur Raj Joshiley 10. Ahmedabad Express	1. Delhi Dragons 2. Goa Killer 3. Chennai Swaggers 4. Kolkata Babu Moshayes 5. Bengaluru Warriors 6. Azamgarh Royals

Teams' performances

Season & Year:	1 (2014-2015)	2 (2016)	3 (2018)	4 (2019)
No of Teams:	8	10	10	6
Ahmedabad Express	Semi-Finalists	10th	Semi-Finalists	Team defunct
Chandigarh Cubs	7th	Runners-up	7th	Team defunct
Delhi Dragons	Winners	Winners	Runners-up	Winners
Jaipur Raj Joshiley	Semi-Finalists	Semi-Finalists	6th	Team defunct
Kolkata Babu Moshayes	5th	7th	8th	5th
Mumbai Warriors	6th	Team defunct
Rowdy Bangalore	8th	6th	Team defunct
Pune Anmol Ratan	Runners-up	8th	Team defunct
Chennai Swaggers	Team did not exist	Semi-Finalists	5th	Runners-up
Lucknow Nawabs	Team did not exist	9th	Winners	Team defunct
<b>Mumbai Tigers</b>	Team did not exist	5th	Semi-Finalists	Team defunct
Goa Killers	Team did not exist		10th	6th
Kota Royals Rajasthan	Team did not exist		9th	Team defunct
Azamgarh Royals	Team did not exist			Semi-Finalists
Bengaluru Warriors	Team did not exist			Semi-Finalists

Team Members: Season 1

Chandigarh Cubs

Rowdy Bangalore

Kolkata Baabu Moshayes

Pune Anmol Ratn

Delhi Dragons

Mumbai Warriors

Jaipur Raj Joshiley

Ahmedabad Express

Team members: Season 2

Delhi Dragons

Chandigarh Cubs

Rowdy Bangalore

Kolkata Baabu Moshayes

Pune Anmol Ratn

Chennai Swaggers

Mumbai Tigers

Jaipur Raj Joshiley

Ahmedabad Express

Lucknow Nawabs

Team members: Season 3

Lucknow Nawabs

Delhi Dragons

Ahmadabad Express

Kolkata Babu Moshayes

Chandigarh Cubs

Jaipur Raj Joshiley

Chennai Swaggers

Mumbai Tigers

Team members: Season 4

Azamgarh Royals	Bengaluru Warriors	Chennai Swaggers	Delhi Dragons	Goa Killers	Kolkata Babu Moshayes
Alok Narula (Captain) Paras Babbar Abhishek Kapur (Wk) Sikha Singh Shah Abhishek Verma Pratap Hada Puneet Sachdeva Pari Sahni Manit Joura Anjum Fakih Gaurav Sharma Vineet Kumar Chaudhary Aly Goni Vipul Gupta	Kunal Pant (Captain) (Wk) Gulshan Nain Shiv Narayanan Rohit Purohit Srikant Maski Jaswir Kaur Shweta Mehta Erica Fernandes Karan Khandelwal Pearl V Puri Vikas Khokar Waseem Mushtaq Karan Manocha Sangeeta Kapure	Shobhit Attray (Captain) Mayur Mehta Savant Singh Premi (Wk) Charu Mehra Neeraj Malviya Kashish Thakur Vishal Aditya Singh Ribbhu Mehra Ashwini Kaul Tinaa Datta Shruti Panwar Dilzan Wadia Deepika Singh	Karan Wahi (Captain) Aadesh Chaudhary Puru Chibber (Wk) Chitrashi Rawat Sahil Anand (Wk) Rafi Malik Rakshit Pant Kushagre Dua Aditi Gupta Meherzan Mazda Surbhi Jyoti Neha Pendse Meenal Shah Ranjan Chhabra	Rajneesh Duggal (Captain) Pooja Banerjee Riya Deepsi Zaan Khan Hiten Tejwani Mayank Gandhi (Wk) Behzaad Khan Sachin Kumar Shraddha Arya Jasleen Matharu Kunwar Amar Ashish Mehrotraa Reyaansh Chadha Gagan Malik Krip Suri Nancy James Abhinav Kapoor Isha Anand Sharma	Suyyash Rai (Captain) Barkha Sengupta (Captain) Kishwer Merchant Rai Parth Samthaan Ashish Sharma (Wk) Aparna Dixit Karam Rajpal Maninder Singh Puneet Chouksey Firoza Khan Siddharth Bhardwaj Puneet Panjwani Vin Rana Balraj Syal (Captain) Sailesh Gulabani Puneet Panjwani Gaurav S Bajaj Nibedita Pal Anita Hassanandani Mohit Sharma Aryan Pandit

BCL Season 1 Details

Host: Kavita Kaushik and VJ Andy
Commentators: Aparshakti and Ruchi

League table

Place	Pool A
	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
4	Pune Anmol Ratan	4	3	1	6	1.72
5	Kolkata Babu Moshayes	4	1	3	2	−7.42
7	Chandigarh Cubs	4	1	3	2	−15.82
8	Rowdy Bangalore	4	1	3	2	−16.08
-	Pool B
	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
1	Delhi Dragons	4	4	0	8	25
2	Jaipur Raj Joshiley	4	3	1	6	18.31
3	Ahmedabad Express	4	2	2	4	6.39
6	<b>Mumbai Warriors</b>	4	1	3	2	−12.10

•   advanced to Semi-Finals

Play-Offs

Semi-Final 1
Pune Anmol Ratan	201/7 (10 overs)	Pune Anmol Ratan won by 94 runs
vs				Finale
Jaipur Raj Joshiley	107/7 (10 overs)			Pune Anmol Ratan	121/9 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 10 wickets
Semi-Final 2				vs
Delhi Dragons	164/1 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 25 runs		Delhi Dragons	123/0 (7 overs)
vs
Ahmedabad Express	139/4 (10 overs)

Awards of the Series

Award	Winner	Status
Player of the Series Male	Aadesh Chaudary (DD)	458 Runs & 4 Wickets
Player of the Series Female	Additi Gupta (CC)	60 Runs & 2 Wickets
Entertainer of the Series	Ajaz Khan	–

BCL Season 2 Details

Host: Pritam Singh, Sumeet Vyas (Ep-1 to 18 & 21 to 24), Ajay Chaudhary (Ep-19) and Mohit Daga (Ep-20)^{[citation needed]}
Commentators: Aparshakti, Shardul Pandit, RJ Urmin and RJ Sidhu^{[citation needed]}

League table

Pool A
Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Chandigarh Cubs	4	4	0	8	21.9
Jaipur Raj Joshiley	4	3	1	6	2.86
<b>Mumbai Tigers</b>	4	2	2	4	6.7
Rowdy Bangalore	4	1	3	2	−0.5
Ahmedabad Express	4	0	4	0	−30.96
Pool B
Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Delhi Dragons	4	4	0	8	23.07
Chennai Swaggers	4	3	1	6	25.03
Kolkata Babu Moshayes	4	1	3	2	−15.4
Pune Anmol Ratan	4	1	3	2	−15.5
Lucknow Nawabs	4	1	3	2	−17.2

•   advanced to Semi-Finals

Play-Offs

Semi-Final 1
Chandigarh Cubs	154/4 (10 overs)	Chandigarh won by 6 runs
vs				Finale
Chennai Swaggers	149/2 (10 overs)			Chandigarh Cubs	130/5 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 9 wickets
Semi-Final 2				vs
Delhi Dragons	137/6 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 1 run		Delhi Dragons	135/1 (7.1 overs)
vs
Jaipur Raj Joshiley	136/2 (10 overs)

Awards of the Series

Award	Winner
Woman of the Series	Additi Gupta (CC)
Man of the Series	Karan Wahi (DD)
Wicket Keeper of the Series	Ashish Sharma (DD)
Most Popular Player (Online Vote)	Tanya Sharma (LN)
Best Player of the Series	Karan Wahi (DD)

BCL Season 3 Details

Host: VJ Benafsha Soonawalla and VJ Ayesha
Commentators: Shardul Pandit, RJ Urmin and RJ Sidhu

League table

Pool A
Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Ahmedabad Express	4	3	1	6	5.21
<b>Mumbai Tigers</b>	4	3	1	6	2.27
Jaipur Raj Joshiley	4	3	1	6	1.31
Chandigarh Cubs	4	1	3	2	−3.22
Kota Royals Rajasthan	4	0	4	0	−7.43
Pool B
Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	NRR
Lucknow Nawabs	4	3	1	6	6.32
Delhi Dragons	4	3	1	6	6.3
Chennai Swaggers	4	3	1	6	4.5
Kolkata Babu Moshayes	4	1	3	2	−7.68
Goa Killers	4	0	4	0	−10.19

•   advanced to Semi-Finals

Play-Offs

Semi-Final 1
Delhi Dragons	212/6 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 92 runs
vs				Finale
Ahmedabad Express	121/7 (10 overs)			Delhi Dragons	157/7 (10 overs)	Lucknow Nawabs won by 6 wickets
Semi-Final 2				vs
Lucknow Nawabs	215/0 (10 overs)	Lucknow Nawabs won by 102 runs		Lucknow Nawabs	158/4 (9.1 overs)
vs
<b>Mumbai Tigers</b>	113/5 (10 overs)

Awards of the Series

Award	Winner
Boy of the Series	Uday Tiwary (LN)
Girl of the Series	Additi Gupta (DD)

BCL Season 4 Details

Host: VJ Benafsha Soonawalla
Dugout Buddies: Faizy Boo and Pratik Sehajpal^{[citation needed]}
Commentators: Kunal Pandit and RJ Sidhu^{[citation needed]}
4th Umpire: Rakhi Sawant

League table

Team	Pld	W	L	T	Pts	NRR
Delhi Dragons	5	5	0	–	10	5.31
Azamgarh Royals	5	3	2	–	6	1.9
Chennai Swaggers	5	3	2	–	6	0.84
Bengaluru Warriors	5	3	2	–	6	0.28
Kolkata Baabu Moshayes	5	1	4	–	2	−4.51
Goa Killer	5	0	5	–	0	−6.22

•   advanced to Semi-Finals

Matches

Date	Match No.	Toss	Summary			Result	Man of the Match	Woman of the Match	Player of the Match	All time Favorite of the Match
29 April 2019	1	Delhi Dragons won the toss and elected to field.	Azamgarh Royals 185/3 (10 overs) Alok Narula [C]	vs	Delhi Dragons 190/3 (9.1 overs) Karan Wahi [C]	Delhi Dragons won by 7 wickets	Sahil Anand (DD)	Shikha Singh Shah (AR)	Rafi Malik (DD)	Purru Chibber (DD)
30 April 2019	2	Chennai Swaggers won the toss and elected to bat.	Chennai Swaggers 228/3 (10 overs) Shobhit Attray [C]	vs	Goa Killer 214/6 (10 overs) Rajneesh Duggal [C]	Chennai Swaggers won by 15 runs	Savant Singh Premi (CS)	Pooja Banerjee (GK)	Mayank Gandhi (GK)	Pooja Banerjee (GK)
1 May 2019	3	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes won the toss and elected to field.	Bengaluru Warriors 178/6 (10 overs) Kunal Pant [C]	vs	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes 147/5 (10 overs) Suyyash Rai [C]	Bengaluru Warriors won by 31 runs	Rohit Purohit (BW)	Erica Fernandes (BW)	Shiv Narayanan (BW)	Shiv Narayanan (BW)
2 May 2019	4	Goa Killer won the toss and elected to field.	Azamgarh Royals 197/3 (10 overs) Alok Narula [C]	vs	Goa Killer 159/7 (10 overs) Rajneesh Duggal [C]	Azamgarh Royals won by 39 runs	Abhishek Verma (AR)	Shikha Singh Shah (AR)	Paras Babbar (AR)	Zaan Khan (GK)
3 May 2019	5	Bengaluru Warriors won the toss and elected to field.	Delhi Dragons 219/1 (10 overs) Karan Wahi [C]	vs	Bengaluru Warriors 182/2 (10 overs) Kunal Pant [C]	Delhi Dragons won by 38 runs	Karan Wahi (DD)	Aditi Gupta (DD)	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)	Rakshit Pant (DD)
6 May 2019	6	Chennai Swaggers won the toss and elected to field.	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes 191/2 (10 overs) Suyyash Rai [C]	vs	Chennai Swaggers 195/2 (9.4 overs) Shobhit Attray [C]	Chennai Swaggers won by 8 wickets	Vishal Aditya Singh (CS)	Firoza Khan (KBM)	Savant Singh Premi (CS)	Suyyash Rai (KBM)
7 May 2019	7	Chennai Swaggers won the toss and elected to bat.	Chennai Swaggers 142/5 (10 overs) Shobhit Attray [C]	vs	Bengaluru Warriors 146/5 (9.4 overs) Kunal Pant [C]	Bengaluru Warriors won by 5 wickets	Srikant Maski (BW)	Shruti Panwar (CS)	Karan Khandelwal (BW)	Shiv Narayanan (BW)
8 May 2019	8	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes won the toss and elected to field.	Azamgarh Royals 231/2 (10 overs) Alok Narula [C]	vs	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes 181/3 (10 overs) Suyyash Rai [C]	Azamgarh Royals won by 51 runs	Abhishek Verma (AR)	Pari Sahni (AR)	Paras Babbar (AR)	Suyyash Rai (KBM)
9 May 2019	9	Delhi Dragons won the toss and elected to bat.	Delhi Dragons 224/4 (10 overs) Karan Wahi [C]	vs	Goa Killer 114/5 (10 overs) Rajneesh Duggal [C]	Delhi Dragons won by 111 runs	Sahil Anand (DD)	Meenal Shah (DD)	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)	Aashish Mehrotra (GK)
10 May 2019	10	Chennai Swaggers won the toss and elected to field.	Azamgarh Royals 128/7 (10 overs) Alok Narula [C]	vs	Chennai Swaggers 129/0 (8 overs) Shobhit Attray [C]	Chennai Swaggers won by 10 wickets	Savant Singh Premi (CS)	Charu Mehra (CS)	Shobhit Attray (CS)	Mayur Mehta (CS)
13 May 2019	11	Bengaluru Warriors won the toss and elected to field.	Goa Killer 112/8 (10 overs) Rajneesh Duggal [C]	vs	Bengaluru Warriors 114/1 (5.4 overs) Kunal Pant [C]	Bengaluru Warriors won by 9 wickets	Shiv Narayanan (BW)	Shweta Mehta (BW)	Karan Khandelwal (BW)	Srikant Maski (BW)
14 May 2019	12	Delhi Dragons won the toss and elected to bat.	Delhi Dragons 219/2 (10 overs) Karan Wahi [C]	vs	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes 136/5 (10 overs) Barkha Sengupta [C]	Delhi Dragons won by 84 runs	Purru Chibber (DD)	Aditi Gupta (DD)	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)	Ashish Sharma (KBM)
15 May 2019	13	Chennai Swaggers won the toss and elected to field.	Delhi Dragons 200/4 (10 overs) Karan Wahi [C]	vs	Chennai Swaggers 189/5 (10 overs) Shobhit Attray [C]	Delhi Dragons won by 12 runs	Purru Chibber (DD)	Meenal Shah (DD)	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)	Ribbhu Mehra (CS)
16 May 2019	14	Bengaluru Warriors won the toss and elected to field.	Azamgarh Royals 182/6 (10 overs) Alok Narula [C]	vs	Bengaluru Warriors 121/6 (10 overs) Kunal Pant [C]	Azamgarh Royals won by 62 runs	Abhishek Verma (AR)	Shikha Singh Shah (AR)	Paras Babbar (AR)	Srikant Maski (BW)
17 May 2019	15	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes won the toss and elected to bat.	Kolkata Baabu Moshayes 260/4 (10 overs) Balraj Syal [C]	vs	Goa Killer 216/3 (10 overs) Rajneesh Duggal [C]	Kolkata Babbu Moshayes won by 45 runs	Parth Samthaan (KBM)	Firoza Khan (KBM)	Zaan Khan (GK)	Ashish Sharma (KBM)

Play-Offs

20 May 2019
Semi-Final 1
Azamgarh Royals	147/7 (10 overs)	Chennai Swaggers won by 6 wickets		22 May 2019
vs				Final
Chennai Swaggers	152/4 (8.4 overs)			Delhi Dragons	179/7 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 17 runs
21 May 2019				vs
Semi-Final 2				Chennai Swaggers	163/4 (10 overs)
Bengaluru Warriors	183/3 (10 overs)	Delhi Dragons won by 8 wickets
vs
Delhi Dragons	185/2 (9.4 overs)

Play-Offs Awards

	Man of the Match	Woman of the Match	Player of the Match	All time Favorite of the Match
Semi-Final 1	Shobhit Attray (CS)	Charu Mehra (CS)	Mayur Mehta (CS)	Charu Mehra (CS)
Semi-Final 2	Rafi Malik (DD)	Meenal Shah (DD)	Purru Chibber (DD)	Shiv Narayanan (BW)
Final	Rafi Malik (DD)	Charu Mehra (CS)	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)	Shruti Panwar (CS)

Awards of the Series

Award	Winner
Player of the Series- Male	Purru Chibber (DD)
Player of the Series- Female	Shweta Mehta (BW)
Man of the Series	Aadesh Chaudhary (DD)
Woman of the Series	Shikha Singh Shah (AR)
Superstar of the Series- Male	Kashish Thakur (CS)
Superstar of the Series- Female	Khushi Shah (CS)

Other Versions

Box Cricket League - Punjab (BCL Punjab)

• The BCL Punjab took place in 2015 with Punjab Television Actors. Most of Punjabi Actors from BCL were also a part of BCLP Teams.^[18]

Box Cricket League - Marathi (BCL Marathi)

• The BCL Marathi rolled three seasons in years 2014, 2015 and 2016. Players were from the Marathi Television Industry.

Box Cricket League - Kannada (BCL Sandalwood)

• The BCL Kannada known as BCL Sandalwood rolled two seasons in years 2015 and 2016. Players were from the Kannada Television Industry.^[19][20]

Box Cricket League - Telugu (BCL Kollywood)

• The BCL Telugu known as BCL Kollywood rolled out in the year 2017 with 8 teams with players from the Telugu Television Industry.^[21]

References

External links

• Official Website
• Box Cricket League at IMDb