Cricket Attax

To play Cricket Attax, you'll need to pick your team of players. As you'd expect, just like in a real game of Twenty20, you'll need to select eleven players for action.

The 11 players must include at least one each of Batsmen, Bowler, Wicket Keeper and All-Rounder cards. You can't have any more than one of any player in your team - no playing with five Sachins ;) You must also have one Powerplay card.

If you're playing seriously, you should also include the following rules - no more than two players from any of the franchises, only one captain card plus either a Star Player or Auction Star plus one Special Player card, eg Man of the Match, Hat Trick Hero, etc (but remember that you can't have the same player twice - even if there is a regular card and a special player card of the same player).

1) Toss a coin - the winner decides if they want to bat or bowl first
2) The bowler chooses one of their cards, the batsman chooses one of theirs.
3) Compare the bowler's bowling score with the batsman's batting score. If the bowler wins, it's a wicket (no runs). If the batsman wins, the batting side score the number of runs indicated on the card. Record the result on the scorecard. (If it's a tie, the card with the highest 'runs' total wins, then proceed as before)
4) The winner of that round selects their card first in the next round, and play progresses until all eleven cards are used by the batting side.
5) Add up the total score, then switch over to see how the other player gets on.
6) Just like real cricket, the team that scores the most runs wins.

We mentioned a couple of other card types earlier. Here's how they work:

Hat Trick Heroes - if a hat-trick hero bowler takes a wicket, they take another two too, just like an action-packed real-life hat-trick. The bowling player selects one of the remaining face-down batsmen (without looking at the front of the cards) and adds it to the wickets pile. The batting player then adds one further batsman to the wickets pile. Record all three wickets on the scorecard.

Powerplay - once per innings, you can play a powerplay card to increase the batting or bowling stat of your player by 5. The team on the powerplay card must match the team of the player being boosted.

In this section, you will find a complete list of Cricket Attax Cards for the 2012 series. A quick note though. I'm a huge cricket fan, but I'm not from India - so I don't know some of the domestic Indian players. If I've made any mistakes with any of their names - firstly sorry - and secondly, please let me know in the comments section above and I'll fix them as soon as I can.

Superkings
Murali Vijay
Subramanian Badrinath
Michael Hussey
Suresh Raina
Anirudha Srikkanth
Albie Morkel
Dwayne Bravo
Scott Styris
Suraj Randiv
Shadab Jakati
Joginder Sharma
Doug Bollinger
Nuwan Kulasekara
Tim Southee
Wriddhiman Saha
MS Dhoni - Captain

Chargers
Michael Lumb
Dwaraha Ravi Teja
Sunny Sohal
Bharat Chipli
Ishank Jaggi
JP Dumminy
Dan Christian
Cameron White
Harmeet Singh
Amit Mishra
Manpreet Gomy
Ishant Sharma
Dale Steyn
Pragyam Ojha
Anand Rajam
Kumar Sangakkara - Captain

Daredevils
David Warner
Aaron Finch
Unmuht Chand
Virender Sehwag - Captain
Colin Ingram
Roelof Van Der Merwe
Irfam Pathan
James Hopes
Yogesh Nagar
Shahbaz Nadeem
Varun Aaron
Ajit Agarkar
Ashoke Dinda
Umesh Yadav
Morne Morkel
Namam Ojha

Kings XI
David Hussey
Mandeep Singh
Paul Valthaty
Sunny Singh
Bipul Sharma
Piyush Chawla
Ryan Harris
Dimitri Mascarenhas
Stuart Broad
Vikramjeet Malik
Praveen Kumar
Shalabh Srivastava
Love Ablish
Barghav Bhatt
Adam Gilchrist - Captain
Dinesh Karthik

Knight Riders
Manoj Tiwary
Guatam Gambhir - Captain
Eoin Morgan
Manvinder Bisla
Yusuf Patham
Ryan Ten Doeschate
Shakib Al Hasam
Rajat Bhatia
Iqbal Abdulla
Laxmi Ratam Shuhla
Lakshmipathy Balaji
Brett Lee
Sarabjit Ladda
Pradeep Sangwan
Shreevats Goswami
Brad Haddin

Indians
Sachin Tendulkar - Captain
Tirumalasetti Sumam
Aiden Blizzard
Suryakumar Yadav
Kieron Pollard
Andrew Symonds
Rohit Sharma
Rajagopal Satish
James Franklin
Dhawal Kulkarni
Ali Murtaza
Munaf Patel
Harbhajan Singh
Abu Nechim Ahmed
Ambati Rayudu
David Jacobs

Warriors
Graeme Smith
Callum Ferguson
Mohnish Mishra
Manish Pandey
Sourav Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh - Captain
Mitchell Marsh
Jesse Ryder
Shrikant Wagh
Mithun Manhas
Jerome Taylor
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Murali Kartik
Wayne Parnell
Alfonso Thomas
Rahul Sharma

Royals
Ajimkya Rahane
Ross Taylor
Faiz Fazal
Abhishek Raut
Stuart Binny
Ankeet Chavam
Rahul Dravid - Captain
Johan Botha
Ashok Menaria
Siddharth Trivedi
Mayan Doshi
Shaun Tait
Amit Singh
Pankaj Singh
Dishant Harendra Yagnik
Amit Paunihar

Royal Challengers
Virat Kohli
Cheteshwar Pujara
Mohammad Kaif
Dirk Nannes
Saurabh Tiwary
Mayank Agarwal
Tillikaratne Dilshan
Daniel Vettori - Captain
Johan Van Der Wath
Charl Langevelt
Zaheer Khan
Jamaludoin Syed Mohammad
Asad Pathan
Sreenath Aravind
Abhimanyu Mithun
AB De Villiers

Star Players
Ravichandran Ashwin
Shikhar Dhawan
Venugopal Rao
Shaun Marsh
Jacques Kallis
Lasith Malinga
Robin Uthappa
Shane Watson
Chris Gayle

IPL 4 Hat-trick Hero
Amit Mishra

IPL 4 Awards
Paul Valthaty
Iqbal Abdulla
Kieron Pollard

IPL 4 Centurions
Virendher Sehwag
Paul Valthaty
Sachin Tendulkar
Chris Gayle

IPL 4 Purple Cap Winner
Lasith Malinga

IPL 4 Orange Cap Winner
Chris Gayle

IPL 4 Golden Player
Chris Gayle

Man of the Match
Subramaniam Badrinath
Doug Bollinger
Shikhar Dhawan
Kumar Sangakkara
Virender Sehwag
Morne Morkel
Praveen Khumar
Adam Gilchrist
Gautam Gambhir
Yusuf Pathan
Rohit Sharma
Munaf Patel
Yuvray Singh
Rahul Sharma
Shaun Tait
Shane Watson
Virat Kohli
AB De Villiers

Power Play
Chennai Superkings
Deccan Chargers
Delhi Daredevils
Kings XI Punjab
Kolkata Knight Riders
Mumbai Indians
Pune Warriors India
Rajasthan Royals
Royal Challengers Bangalore

Other Special Cards
IPL Trophy
IPL Logo
Cricket Attax Logo

Look out for Transfer & Auction Cards later in the year