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.

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. The inaugural season had 8 teams competing against each other. For the second season, two additional teams were added.

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.

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. The second season aired on Colors TV.

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

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.

Teams
The show consists of teams competing for grand prize.

Team Members: Season 1

 * Chandigarh Cubs


 * Shiv Panditt (Owner)
 * Anita Hassanandani (Owner)
 * Barkha Bisht (Captain)
 * Indraneil Sengupta
 * Additi Gupta
 * Rannvijay Singha
 * Amit Varma
 * Gurbani Judge
 * Hasan Zaidi
 * Chetna Pande
 * Gavie Chahal
 * Vishal Karwal
 * Varun Sharma
 * Vrushika Mehta
 * Raghu Ram
 * Rajiv Laxman
 * Shantanu Maheshwari
 * Sachin Kumar
 * Waseem Mushtaq
 * Ankit Patidar
 * Uday Tiwari
 * Imam A Siddique (Supporter)
 * Ruhanika Dhawan (Supporter)


 * Rowdy Bangalore


 * Sara Khan (captain & owner)
 * Ravi Kishan
 * Vindu Dara Singh
 * Paras Chhabra
 * Ajaz Khan
 * Abhinav Kapoor
 * Sailesh Gulabani
 * Ashita Dhawan
 * Puru Chibber
 * Manish Raisinghan
 * Chestha Bhagat
 * Abigail Jain
 * Srikant Maski
 * Nauman Sait
 * Aslam Khan
 * Prateik Babbar
 * Sukirti Kandpal
 * Nalini Negi
 * Parth Mehrotra
 * Mayank Sharma
 * Loveleen Kaur Sasan
 * Sonali Nikam
 * Dheeraj Dhoopar
 * Ashmit Patel
 * Rakhi Sawant
 * Ankit Narang
 * Param Singh


 * Kolkata Baabu Moshayes


 * Divyanka Tripathi
 * Hiten Tejwani
 * Meghna Naidu
 * Karan Kundra
 * Karan Mehra
 * Naman Shaw
 * Raj Singh Arora
 * Sayantani Ghosh
 * Abhinav Shukla
 * Anuj Sachdeva
 * Alok Narula
 * Amit Sarin
 * Avinash Sachdev
 * Dimple Jhangiani
 * Salil Acharya
 * Sharad Malhotra
 * Sudeepa Singh
 * Sumeet Sachdev
 * Abhishek Rawat
 * Nivedita Basu
 * Vindhya Tiwari


 * Pune Anmol Ratn


 * Prachi Mishra
 * Shaleen Malhotra
 * Sahil Anand
 * Behzaad Khan
 * Sumit Suri
 * Maqbool Khan
 * Rishika Mihani
 * Krishna Soni
 * Mayank Gandhi
 * Vrinda Dawda
 * Vineet Kumar Chaudhary
 * Rafi Malik
 * Rahul Roy
 * Shravan Reddy
 * Kunika
 * Khushwant Walia
 * Mansi Sharma
 * Shabir Ahluwalia


 * Delhi Dragons


 * Suyyash Rai (captain)
 * Rithvik Dhanjani
 * Nia Sharma
 * Deepika Singh
 * Anas Rashid
 * Asha Negi
 * Rubina Dilaik
 * Karan Grover
 * Surbhi Jyoti
 * Karan Wahi
 * Vishal Singh
 * Giaa Manek
 * Kishwer Merchant
 * Aadesh Chaudhary
 * Ashish Sharma
 * Bharat Chawda
 * Sehban Azim
 * Vishal Kotian
 * Priya Wal
 * Maninder Singh
 * Ranjan Chhabra
 * Abhijeet Sawant
 * Ekta Kaul


 * Mumbai Warriors


 * Karan Tacker (captain)
 * Krystle D'Souza
 * Drashti Dhami
 * Ashish Kapoor
 * Digangana Suryavanshi
 * Shalin Bhanot
 * Dalljiet Kaur
 * Rucha Hasabnis
 * Gaurav Khanna
 * Muskaan Nancy James
 * Sana Khan
 * Navina Bole
 * Puneet Sachdev
 * Aryan Panditt
 * Karan Jotwani
 * Neeraj Malviya
 * Micky Dudani
 * Rohit Pareek
 * Vipul Gupta
 * Kunal Pant
 * Adhvik Mahajan
 * Mohit Daga
 * Anupam Bhattacharya
 * Naveen Saini
 * Harshita Gaur
 * Sangeeta Kapure
 * Shritama Mukherjee
 * Mihir Mishra
 * Mrunal Thakur
 * Arjit Taneja


 * Jaipur Raj Joshiley


 * Kamya Punjabi (captain)
 * Karan Patel
 * Rajiv Thakur
 * Balraj Syal
 * Puneet Panjwani
 * Sangram Singh
 * Vikramjeet Virk
 * Jimmy Sharma
 * Ankit Modgil
 * Aly Goni
 * Sandit Tiwari
 * Srishty Rode
 * Ankita Sharma
 * Sohana Sinha
 * Mihika Verma
 * Shweta Dadhich
 * Manish Naggdev
 * Sneha Wagh
 * Sumeet Raghavan
 * Shivin Narang
 * Anurag Sharma
 * Gaurav Sharma
 * Pankaj Bhatia
 * Natasa Stankovic


 * Ahmedabad Express


 * Nandish Sandhu (captain)
 * Rashami Desai
 * Tina Datta
 * Pooja Gor
 * Madhura Naik
 * Ajay Chaudhary
 * Mrunal Jain (owner)
 * Manav Gohil
 * Mohit Malik
 * Adaa Khan
 * Mohammad Nazim
 * Arjun Bijlani
 * Elli Avram
 * Shashank Vyas
 * Jasveer Kaur
 * Aniruddh Dave
 * Disha Parmar
 * Firoza Khan
 * Chaitanya Choudhury
 * Aastha Chaudhary
 * Arti Singh
 * Saurabh Raj Jain
 * Shobhit Attray
 * Vikas Sethi
 * Himanshu Malhotra
 * Swarupraj Medara
 * Ishtyaq Syed
 * Sudeep Sahir
 * Rajeev Pillai
 * Kapil Nirmal

Team members: Season 2

 * Delhi Dragons


 * Karan Wahi (Captain)
 * Aadesh Chaudhary
 * Suyyash Rai
 * Kishwer Merchant
 * Surbhi Jyoti
 * Neha Marda
 * Karanveer Mehra
 * Firoza Khan
 * Shruti Ulfat
 * Ekta Kaul
 * Vrinda Dawda
 * Ashish Sharma
 * Sehban Azim
 * Bharat Chawda
 * Abhijeet Sawant
 * Salil Ankola
 * Maninder Singh
 * Vishal Kotian
 * Ranjan Chabra
 * Romanch Mehta
 * Aaryamann Seth
 * Mandana Karimi (supporter)
 * Keith Sequeira (supporter)
 * Rochelle Rao (supporter)
 * Nora Fatehi (supporter)
 * Gizele Thakral (supporter)
 * Rimi Sen (supporter)


 * Chandigarh Cubs


 * Anita Hassanandani (owner)
 * Shiv Panditt (owner)
 * Barkha Sengupta (captain)
 * Bharti Singh
 * Prince Narula
 * Karan Patel
 * Rannvijay Singh
 * Vrushika Mehta
 * Shantanu Maheshwari
 * Additi Gupta
 * Indraneil Sengupta
 * Bani J
 * Sangram Singh
 * Raghu Ram
 * Rajiv Laxman
 * Alok Narula
 * Amit Varma
 * Waseem Mushtaq
 * Hasan Zaidi
 * Gavie Chahal
 * Sachin Kumar
 * Uday Tiwari
 * Vikram Bhatt
 * Ruhanika Dhawan
 * Rizwan Bachav


 * Rowdy Bangalore


 * Sara Khan (captain)
 * Ajaz Khan
 * Ankit Gera
 * Ratan Rajput
 * Loveleen Kaur Sasan
 * Sailesh Gulabani
 * Rajeev Paul
 * Ashita Dhawan
 * Ankita Sharma
 * Vikas Verma
 * Puru Chibber
 * Srikant Maski
 * Mayank Sharma
 * Sana Khan
 * Mahek Chahal
 * Ali Quli Mirza


 * Kolkata Baabu Moshayes


 * Sharad Malhotra (Captain)
 * Shakti Arora
 * Asha Negi
 * Sayantani Ghosh
 * Karanvir Bohra
 * Hiten Tejwani
 * Anuj Sachdeva
 * Naman Shaw
 * Krip Suri
 * Aparna Dixit
 * Aly Goni
 * Gautam Gupta
 * Salil Acharya
 * Sumeet Sachdev
 * Vindhya Tiwari
 * Sudeepa Singh
 * Arjit Taneja
 * Yuvika Chaudhary
 * Meghna Naidu
 * Abhishek Rawat
 * Amit Sarin
 * Abhinav Shukla
 * Neha Saxena
 * Charu Mehra


 * Pune Anmol Ratn


 * Varun Badola (Captain)
 * Divyanka Tripathi
 * Rajeshwari Sachdev
 * Harshita Gaur
 * Param Singh
 * Ankur Nayyar
 * Roopal Tyagi
 * Neeraj Malviya
 * Gunjan Utreja
 * Puneet Sachdev
 * Tanya Abrol
 * Abhinav Kapoor
 * Pariva Pranati
 * Vineet Kumar
 * Kunickaa Sadanand
 * Krrishna Soni
 * Priya Shinde
 * Vipul Gupta
 * Raja Bherwani


 * Chennai Swaggers


 * Shabir Ahluwalia
 * Shaheer Sheikh
 * Himanshoo Malhotra
 * Rithvik Dhanjani
 * Vishal Singh
 * Rafi Malik
 * Shobit Attrey
 * Mayank Gandhi
 * Shravan Reddy
 * Paaras Madaan
 * Abhishek Verma
 * Sharad Tripathi
 * Kunal Pant
 * Glen Saldana
 * Parichay Sharma
 * Mrunal Thakur
 * Vahbbiz Dorabjee
 * Mansi Sharma
 * Erica Fernandes
 * Pooja Banerjee
 * Riya Deepsi
 * Shraddha Jaiswal
 * Soni Singh
 * Shiny Doshi


 * Mumbai Tigers


 * Arjun Bijlani
 * Sanaya Irani
 * Mohit Sehgal
 * Dalljiet Kaur
 * Drashti Dhami
 * Ravi Dubey
 * Karishma Tanna
 * Upen Patel
 * Ridhi Dogra
 * Rajshri Rani
 * Mouni Roy
 * Radhika Madan
 * Shraddha Arya
 * Kavita Kaushik
 * Tia Bajpai
 * Digangana Suryavanshi
 * Rishika Mihani
 * Shritama Mukherjee
 * Sahil Anand
 * Gaurav Khanna
 * Ashish Kapoor
 * Jay Soni
 * Lavina Tandon
 * Shaleen Malhotra
 * Anupam Bhattacharya
 * Behzaad Khan
 * Karan Jotwani
 * Muskaan Arora
 * Kunal Verma
 * Aditya Redij
 * Siddharthh Shivpuri
 * Mickey Dudaaney
 * Aakash Ahuja
 * Ali Merchant
 * Sangeeta Kapure
 * Smriti Khanna
 * Kaizeen Irani


 * Jaipur Raj Joshiley


 * Rajiv Thakur (Captain)
 * Kamya Punjabi
 * Devoleena Bhattacharjee
 * Shivin Narang
 * Diandra Soares
 * Tejasswi Prakash
 * Helly Shah
 * Avinash Sachdev
 * Ragini Khanna
 * Nalini Negi
 * Paras Babbar
 * Pratap Hadda
 * Vishal Vashishtha
 * Manav Gohil
 * Anurag Sharma
 * Mugdha Chaphekar
 * Ravish Desai
 * Gagan Mallik
 * Lalit Bisht
 * Renee Dhyani
 * Priya Malik
 * Claudia Ciesla
 * Ankit Modgill
 * Tarun Khanna
 * Balraj Syal
 * Sana Saeed
 * Punit Panjwani


 * Ahmedabad Express


 * Mrunal Jain
 * Nandish Sandhu
 * Hard Kaur
 * Tina Datta
 * Shivangi Joshi
 * Mohammad Nazim
 * Toral Rasputra
 * Aishwarya Sakhuja
 * Siddharth Arora
 * Hina Khan
 * Paridhi Sharma
 * Deepika Singh
 * Siddhaanth Vir Surryavanshi
 * Aasiya Kazi
 * Akanksha Singh
 * Arti Singh
 * Jasvir Kaur
 * Neel Motwani
 * Vinod Singh
 * Rohit Nag
 * Gulshan Nain
 * Amit Dolawat
 * Ravjit Singh
 * Prerna Wanvari
 * Mayuresh Wadkar
 * Swaroop Raj Medara
 * Sonali Raut
 * Sushant Divgikar
 * Preetika Rao


 * Lucknow Nawabs


 * Ajay Chaudhary
 * Rashami Desai
 * Tanya Sharma
 * Sargun Mehta
 * Manish Raisinghan
 * Avika Gor
 * Rohit Purohit
 * Himanshu Soni
 * Rati Pandey
 * Vineet Raina
 * Vishal Aditya Singh
 * Neha Sargam
 * Ankit Tiwari
 * Mayur Mehta
 * Meherzan Mazda
 * Sikandar Kharbanda
 * Anirudh Dave
 * Trishika Tiwari
 * Mohit Dagga
 * Garima Jain
 * Kanchi Singh
 * Priyamvada Kant
 * Rishina Kandhari
 * Sheena Bajaj
 * Kapil Nirmal
 * Alekh Sangal
 * Shraman Jain
 * Falaq Naaz
 * Vandna Singh
 * Annie Gill
 * Malkhan Singh
 * Mayank Kalra

Team members: Season 3

 * Lucknow Nawabs


 * Shruti Seth (captain)
 * Rohan Mehra
 * Kanchi Singh
 * Lopamudra Raut
 * Mohit Hiranandani
 * Mayank Verma
 * Dipika Kakar
 * Shoaib Ibrahim
 * Falaq Naaz
 * Kratika Sengar
 * Ajay Chaudhary
 * Karam Rajpal
 * Tanya Abrol
 * Akshata Soonawalle
 * Savant Singh Prem
 * Meherzan Mazda
 * Shray Rai
 * Uday Tiwary
 * Zain Imam
 * Jasmin Bhasin
 * Puneet Suchdeva


 * Delhi Dragons


 * Aadesh Chaudhary (captain)
 * Aryamann Seth
 * Sahil Anand
 * Firoza Khan
 * Karan Wahi
 * Bani J
 * Additi Gupta
 * Rafi Malik
 * Neeraj Malviya
 * Vishal Kotian
 * Puru Chibber
 * Abhishek Kapur
 * Maninder Singh
 * Renee Dhyani
 * Romanch Mehta
 * Anmol Chaudhary
 * Pari Sahni
 * Meenal Shah


 * Ahmadabad Express


 * Nandish Sandhu
 * Mrunal Jain
 * Aakanksha Singh
 * Aasiya Kazi
 * Toral Rasputra
 * Kunal Pant
 * Lavina Tandon
 * Annie Gill
 * Lekha Purohit
 * Mohammad Nazim
 * Ravish Desai
 * Karan Khandelwal
 * Srikant Maski
 * Gulshan Nain
 * Devoleena Bhattacharjee
 * Sidharth Shukla
 * Sonali Raut


 * Kolkata Babu Moshayes


 * Hiten Tejwani (captain)
 * Arshi Khan
 * Vindhya Tiwari
 * Akash Dadlani
 * Nivideta Basu
 * Utkarsh Gupta
 * Sneha Gupta
 * Charu Asopa
 * Sara Khan
 * Sharad Malhotra
 * Karan Singh Chabra
 * Ashwini Kaul
 * Charu Mehra
 * Shabaaz Abdullah Badi
 * Anshul Pandey
 * Krip Suri
 * Amit Sarin
 * Naman Shaw
 * Abhishek Malik
 * Latika Gill
 * Sumeet Sachdev
 * Kushagre Dua
 * Aparna Dixit


 * Chandigarh Cubs


 * Barkha Sengupta (captain)
 * Anita Hassanandani (owner)
 * Shiv Panditt (owner)
 * Karan Patel
 * Aly Goni
 * Aditi Bhatia
 * Krishna Mukherjee
 * Baseer Ali
 * Varun Sood
 * Kunwar Amar
 * Samyuktha Hegde
 * Gavie Chahal
 * Indraneil Sengupta
 * Waseem Mushtaq
 * Sachin Kumar


 * Jaipur Raj Joshiley


 * Rajeev Thakur
 * Paras Babbar
 * Gagan Mallik
 * Kamya Panjabi
 * Pratap Hada
 * Puneet Panjwani
 * Manveer Gurjar
 * Divya Agarwal
 * Muskaan Arora
 * Shweta Mehta
 * Lakshya Handa
 * Roshni Sahota
 * Abhay Singh
 * Bhuvan Chopra
 * Dakssh Ajit Singh


 * Chennai Swaggers


 * Himmanshoo Malhotra
 * Shabir Ahluwalia
 * Shaheer Sheikh
 * Shobhit Attray
 * Vivek Dahiya
 * Abhishek Verma
 * Paras Arora
 * Erica Fernandes
 * Pooja Banerjee
 * Mansi Sharma
 * Kaizan Irani
 * Ishani Sharma
 * Madhurima Tuli
 * Vishal Aditya Singh


 * Mumbai Tigers


 * Arjun Bijlani
 * Suyyash Rai
 * Balraj Syal
 * Shikha Singh
 * Arti Singh
 * Kishwer Merchant
 * Manu Panjabi
 * Purva Rana
 * Chiraag Sethi
 * Siddharth Bhardwaj
 * Dalljiet Kaur
 * Nibedita Paul
 * Shiny Doshi

BCL Season 1 Details
Host: Kavita Kaushik and VJ Andy Commentators: Aparshakti and Ruchi

League table

 * advanced to Semi-Finals

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) Commentators: Aparshakti, Shardul Pandit, RJ Urmin and RJ Sidhu

League table

 * advanced to Semi-Finals

BCL Season 3 Details
Host: VJ Benafsha Soonawalla and VJ Ayesha Commentators: Shardul Pandit, RJ Urmin and RJ Sidhu

League table

 * advanced to Semi-Finals

BCL Season 4 Details
Host: VJ Benafsha Soonawalla Dugout Buddies: Faizy Boo and Pratik Sehajpal Commentators: Kunal Pandit and RJ Sidhu 4th Umpire: Rakhi Sawant

League table

 * advanced to Semi-Finals

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.

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.

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.