The Cricketer's quickfire look at the new franchise ahead of the 2022 season
Captain: Hardik Pandya. The marquee addition ahead of the Titans' maiden campaign arrives after four titles won with Mumbai Indians.
Coach: Ashish Nehra. The former India seamer played with six IPL franchises as a player and joins after a spell as the bowling coach at Royal Challengers Bangalore.
How did they do last year: N/A
Overseas headliner?
Rashid Khan. A superstar of world cricket, with the third most wickets of any bowler in T20s behind Dwayne Bravo and Imran Tahir.
Allrounder Rashid Khan is the new franchise's marquee arrival
Indian superstar?
Shubman Gill. Fully fit after injury threatened to derail a burgeoning career, this is an ideal stage to reassert himself.
Biggest strength?
There is pace, skill and variation in abundance in an all-star bowling attack headlined by Rashid and the breezy Lockie Ferguson.
Where's the weakness?
Pandya and Wade only produce as finishers if given a platform by a top order over which there are several question marks.
Squad: Hardik Pandya, Shubman Gill, Rashid Khan, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mohammad Shami, Lockie Ferguson, Abhinav Sadarangani, Rahul Tewatia, Noor Ahmad, R Sai Kishore, Dominic Drakes, Jayant Yadav, Viijay Shankar, Darshan Nalkande, Yash Dayal, Alzarri Joseph, Prandeep Sangwan, David Miller, Wriddhiman Saha, Matthew Wade, Gurkeerat Singh, Varun Aaron
Likely starting XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Shubman Gill, Abhinav Sadarangani, Vijay Shankar, Hardik Pandya, Matthew Wade, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Mohammed Shami, Sai Kishore, Lockie Ferguson
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