Business tycoon Dr. Vijay Mallya owns the Bangalore Royal
Challengers, named after one of Mallya's top brands. The team
from the Garden City will be led by one of its favourite sons
Rahul Dravid who is also its Icon Player. A formidable line-up,
the squad has great talent with the likes of Indian Test cricket
captain Anil Kumble along with Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan,
West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, South Africa's Jacques
Kallis, Mark Boucher and Dale Steyn, Aussies Nathan Bracken and
Cameron White. Youth will be represented by the U-19 Cricket
World Cup winning captain Virat Kohli, Shreevats Goswami and
Arun Kumar among others.
Charu Sharma is designated as the CEO of the team while former
Kiwi captain Martin Crowe has also been roped in to be part of
the team management. Former India fast bowler Venkatesh Prasad
has been sought to coach the team. Red and golden yellow are the
team colours. The Royal Challengers will be expected to shine in
the IPL with their talent, determination and buoyancy.
Bangalore Royal Challengers
Royal
Challenge
- Captain
Kevin Pieterson |
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Kevin
Pietersen
Abhmanyu
Mithun
Anil
Kumble
Balachandra
Akhil
Bharat
Chipli
Bhuvneshwar
Kumar
Cameron
White
Dale
Steyn
Devraj
Patil
Dillon
du Preez
Gaurav
Dhiman
Ishank
Jaggi
Jacques
Kallis
Jagadeesh
Arun Kumar
Jesse
Ryder
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Jitendra
Patil
Karan
Sharma
Kedar
Jadhav
Kotarangada
Appanna
Manish
Pandey
Mark
Boucher
Muralidharen
Gautam
Nathan
Bracken
Pankaj
Singh
Praveen
Kumar
R.
Suteesh
Rahul
Dravid
Rajesh
Bishnoi
Raju
Bhatkal
Robin
Uthappa |
Roelof
van der Merwe
Rohit
Sabharwal
Ross
Taylor
Saurabh
Bandekar
Sreesanth
Aravind
Srivastava
Goswami
Sunil
Joshi
Tinu
Yohannan
Udit
Patel
Vinay
Kumar
Virat
Kohli
Wasim
Jaffer
Venkatesh
Prasad (IND) (Coach) |
For more info to visit www.royalchallengers.com |
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