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Royal Challengers Bangalore
Indian Premiere League put up many cricket franchises on
auction during its inauguration in Mumbai held in February 20, 2008. The name
of the franchises consists of many different Indian cities. Royal Challengers
Bangalore is one of them. The IPL cricket tournament organized by Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and is supported by International Cricket
Council (ICC). IPL presented eight different teams for auction , among them,
RCB was the second highest bid franchise after the Ambani’s Mumbai Indians.
Vijay Mallya won its bid for US$ 111.6 million. Katrina Kaif, Deepika Pedukon
and Sandalwood are the brand ambassadors of RCB.
Currently the captain of RCB team is Virat Kohli and the
coach is Ray Jennings from South Africa. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is its home
ground, Sidhart Mallya is the director of the team where as Avinash Vadiya is
its Manager.
The team showed its consistent performance since its start
and played semifinal three times except 2008 and 2012 tournament. RCB’s also
qualified for three seasons of the Champions League T20.
During its first season in 2008 the team won only 4 matches
out of 14 and was at second from bottom at the end of the season. RCB appeared
with a good start during 2009, second season of IPL by winning a match against
Rajasthan Royals but later went on losing matches under the captaincy of Kevin
Pietersen. RCB’s fortune started doing in its favor by replacing captain for
Anil Kumble and they reached in final with Deccan Chargers but could not win.
During this season Manish Pandey becomes the first Indian by scoring 114* (73)
against Deccan Chargers. 2010 proved a mixture of lose and win for RCB by
losing and winning 8, 8 matches by playing 16 total and stood at 3rd place
among the teams. 2011 season of IPL proved a good year for RCB’s as they played
total 17 matches out of which RCB’s won 10 and lost 6 matches with one match
tied. RCB was the runner up of 2011 but lost final against Chennai Supper Kings
by 58 runs. But qualified for the champions trophy. RCB’s proved themselves and
played the next season in 2012 very well. The team won 8 out of 16 matches
while one match ended up without any result due to rain.
Currently the team playing with Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli,
Saurabh Tiwary, AB de Villiers, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Cheteshwar Pujara,
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Jaydev Unadkat, R P Singh, Abhimanyu
Mithin, Muttiah Muralitharan and Andrew McDonald.
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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