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Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders, a cricket franchise abbreviated as
KKR, is representing Kolkata in IPL. The team is owned by Red Chillies
Entertainment of Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan in a partnership with Mehta
Group that is owned by actress Juhi chawla and her husband Jay Mehta.
In 2008, BCCI launched auction of eight different cricket
franchises in Mumbai where eight teams representing different Indian Cities
were brought for auction in February 2008. A team from city Kolkata was brought
for auction and the bid was won by the Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan’s company
Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with Mehta Group for $75.09 million.
Currently the captain of the team is Gautam Gambhir and the
team is coached by Trevor Bayliss, who is a former Australian cricketer. Wasim
Akram is the bowling consultant and instructor of the team. Initially Saurav
Ganguly was the team’s captain and an Icon Player named Bengal Tiger, Dada of
the team for the first three seasons of IPL. The team KKR won first title of
champion of IPL in 2012 by defeating CSK by 5 wicketsat their home ground
Chennai.
The official theme and slogan of the team is Korbo, Lorbo,
Jeetbo Re (we will do it, fight for it). Purple and gold is its official
colors. While the current estimated brand value of KKR is $57.5 million in
2011. During the first three seasons the team performance was not satisfactory
and the team remained controversial and was not good at field. But later from fourth
season it emerged as a new one and played well and started its up sloping on
the performance graph. They won the IPL title for the first time in 2012. The
leading batsman is Gautam Gambhir while the best bowler of the team is
Laksjmipathy Balaji. Eden Gardens is the home of Kolkata Knight Riders that is
the largest Indian stadium also included among one of the largest stadiums of
the Asia.
KKR made a good start in 2008, the first season of IPL. They
won 6 out of 14 matches where one match abandoned due to rain. KKR won their
first match against RCB by 140 runs and second against Deccan charges by 5
wickets. But later they had to face failure in four big matches. They could not
qualify for semifinal. The next season in 2009 proved worst for the team as
they had to face defeat in 10 out of 13 matches and drooped at bottom in team
performance chart. They gave a good start in next season of IPL 2010 by winning
two successive matches. This season they made 7 wins and 7 lose by the
percentage of 50%. With a slight improvement they ended up the season by
dropping at 6 out of eight teams.
2011 was a bit better year for the KKR as it was a mixture
of victory and defeat. They won 8 matches and lost 7 and reached the Play offs,
they ended the season by placing at number 4. They also qualified Champions
League T20 2011. The team proved themselves during the IPL season in 2012 by
winning 12 out of 17 matches, one match abandoned due to rain. KKR were the
champions of year 2012 IPL and qualified for 2012 Champions League T20.
Finnish multinational communication corporation- Nokia is
the official brand ambassador of the team KKR and Reebok is their official
appeal sponsor. KKR have 18 highest sponsors among all teams some of the
sponsor include SB Nation. Kitkat, Dish TV. And associate sponsors include
Amity University, Coca Kola, Gitanjali Group and Doublemint.
Team main players include Sourav Ganguly. Chris Gayle, David
Hussey, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Angelo Mathews, Wicket keeper and batsman Bredon
McCullum, Wriddhiman Saha. The leading bowlers include Shane Bond, Ishant
Sherma, Ashok Dinda, Ajit Agerker and Muhali Karthik. in 2012 the team KKR
released four players from the team Iresh Saxena, Chirag Jani, Sanju Samson and
Jaydev Undkat. In 2013 the team brought Sachithra
Chennai Super Kings
The cricket franchise of Chennai is Chennai Super Kings that
is playing under IPL. The Team founded in 2008 and owned by India Cements who
paid $91 million to get its rights for 10 years. The President of BCCI N.
Srinivasan is the Vice Chairman and Managing Director of the team CSK. M. A.
Chidambaram Stadium is its home ground. The team is coached by Stephen Fleming
while Andy Bichel is its Bowling coach and Steve Rixon is Fielding coach of the
team. The captain is Mahendra Singh Dhoni.
CSK won the two successive IPL title of 2011 and 2012 also
reached the plays off every season. It is the only team that is playing the
sixth season with the same captain. The team also recognized as it’s the only
Indian team who have won the Champions League T20. Suresh Raina is the main run
scorer and Albie Morkel is a leading wicket taker of the team. The consistent
brilliant performance made the franchise market value very high. The current
estimated brand value of the franchise is US$ 75.13 million that is the most
valuable franchise of the IPL. Film Actor Vijay and Actress Nayantara were the
brand ambassadors but later on they were removed.
The team came with a solid start in 2008 IPL and won the
first match against Kings XI Punjab by 33 runs. They were the runners-up team
of 2008 also qualified for Champions League T20. CSK won 9 matches out of 16
and ended up the session by 2nd position from top. Next year proved a bit
difficult for them as they were the semifinal runners up team and could not
qualify for the Champions League T20. They played 15 total matches and won 8
and ended up the season by standing at 4th position on the performance chart.
But the team proved them with a great come back in next season and became the
champions of the 2010 IPL also were the champions of the Champions League T20.
They won 9 out of 16 matches of the tournament. They got the best team title of
IPL again in 2011 IPL season 4. CSK played 16 matches won 11 with a percentage
of 68.75% and became the champions. Their success graph showed a slight down
slide during 2012 its 5th season of IPL. But the won 10 out of 19 matches with
a percentage of 55.56% and were the runners-up team of 2012.
MS Dhoni is the costliest player of the team
with his salary $3.000,000. Other players of the team are Ravindra Jadeja,
Suresh Raina, Murali Vijay, Ravinchandran Ashwin, Chris Morris, Albie Morkel,
Micheal Hussey, Dwayne Bravo, Francois du Plessis, Wriddiman Saha, Nuwan
Kulasekara and Ben Hilfenhaus.
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