Royal Challengers Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore
Coach:	Ray Jennings
Bowling coach:	Venkatesh Prasad
Captain:	Daniel Vettori
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Founded:	2008
Home ground:	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Capacity: 40,000)
Owner:	Dr.Vijay Mallya
Chief executive:	Brijesh Patel
Manager:	Avinash Vaidya
Adviser:	Anil Kumble
First-class debut:	Kolkata Knight Riders
	in 2008
	at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Official website:	Royal Challengers Bangalore

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Kannada: ರಾಯಲ್ ಚಾಲೆಂಜರ್ಸ್ ಬ್ಯಾಂಗಲೋರ್; often abbreviated as RCB) is a cricket team based in Bangalore that plays in the Indian Premier League. The team is currently lead by New Zealand all-rounder Daniel Vettori and coached by South African Ray Jennings. The team is owned by Dr. Vijay Mallya, through his flagship firm UB Group.. RCB plays all its home matches at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Franchise history

Indian Premier League is a cricket tournament being organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and backed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). For the inaugural tournament held in Apr–Jun 2008, the BCCI had finalised a list of 8 teams who will be participating in the tournament. The teams representing 8 different cities of India, including Bangalore, were put up on auction in Mumbai on 20 February 2008 and the Bangalore team was won by Vijay Mallya, who paid US$111.6 million for it. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, next only to Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries' bid of $111.9 million for the Mumbai team. Bollywood actresses Katrina Kaif and Deepika Padukone, and Sandalwood film stars Ramya and Puneeth Rajkumar are the brand ambassadors of the team.

2008 IPL Season

Main article: 2008 Indian Premier League

The team won 4 matches in this season, losing 10 matches and coming in 2nd last. Only one of their batsman, Rahul Dravid managed to score more than 300 runs in the tournament and they had to even bench their costliest foreign player, Jacques Kallis, for a few of the matches due to his poor form. The string of failures mid-way through the season led to the sacking of the CEO, Charu Sharma who was replaced with Brijesh Patel. Even coach Venkatesh Prasad was about to be sacked, but he saved his job by publicly apologising for the team's failure. Vijay Mallya went on to publicly criticise Dravid and Sharma for the failures by saying that they had not selected the right team. He regretted that he had made a mistake by not getting involved in the selection of the team. They were the only team in the IPL to try out 11 opening combinations in 14 games. Eventually the chief cricketing officer, Martin Crowe resigned. It was decided that from 2009 IPL session onwards the team would be coached by former South Africa Coach Ray Jennings.

2009 IPL Season

Main article: 2009 Indian Premier League

The team started with a win against defending champions Rajasthan Royals but quickly went on to lose a few games afterwards under the captaincy of Kevin Pietersen. However, he had to leave for national duty and captaincy was taken over by former Indian Test captain Anil Kumble. The team fortunes reversed and they beat Deccan Chargers to secure a 3rd place after the round robin stage in IPL2. In the semi final they beat the Chennai Super Kings convincingly who were led by M.S.Dhoni and crushed their hopes of winning the title. However they lost the final by 6 runs, in a close match to Deccan Chargers. Also Manish Pandey became the first Indian to score a century in IPL when he made 114*(73) against Deccan Chargers in their last match in the league phase.

2010 IPL Season

Main article: 2010 Indian Premier League

Challengers had a mixed round of success in the third edition of the IPL. The team slumped to a defeat in their first match against the Knight Riders but came back strongly to win the next four games which started off with the highest successful run chase in IPL 2010 and the second highest successful run chase in IPL history against Kings XI Punjab at Bangalore. This win was followed by comprehensive wins against the Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians and the Chennai Super Kings. Kallis and Uthappa were in tremendous form with the bat while Kumble was miserly with the ball, Steyn fast and accurate and Vinay Kumar wily picking wickets at the right time. However the team lost the next two games and after a roller coaster ride managed to sneak into the semis for the second consecutive season by virtue of their healthy net run rate beating Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders both of whom had equal number of wins and losses as the Bangalore outfit. In the semifinal the Challengers put on a shoddy display after beginning well to concede 77 runs during the last 5 overs of the Mumbai innings and did not bat well to lose the match by 35 runs. The team had the final laugh after they beat the defending champions Deccan Chargers against whom they lost the previous year's final, by beating them all end's up by 9 wickets to finish third for the season and thereby book a slot in the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.

2011 IPL Season

Challengers were defeated by Chennai Super Kings in the final of IPL season four. Right from start, RCB had a formidable team led by Daniel Vettori. The team got a boost by inclusion of Chris Gayle who was instrumental in many of the RCB wins since his arrival. RCB defeated Mumbai Indians in the playoffs to reach the final. It lost to CSK by 58 runs in the final.

Livery

Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, either No. 1 McDowell's or Royal Challenge with the team. The latter was chosen, hence the name. The jersey colours of the team are red and golden yellow, the same as the Karnataka state flag, and the logo consists of the RC emblem with "Royal Challengers Bangalore" in standard format.

The theme song of the team for the 2008 season was Jeetenge Hum Shaan Se. The team anthem, Game for More was created for the 2009 season. The music was composed by Amit Trivedi and written by Anshu Sharma for RediffusionY&R, Bangalore. This continues to be the anthem for the team through the matches till date.

Players

1st IPL Auction

The players in the team (except for Rahul Dravid, who was the Icon Player), were selected in an auction conducted by BCCI on 20 February 2008. South Africa's Jacques Kallis at $900,000 became the costliest player to be selected to play for the Royal Challengers. This meant that Rahul Dravid, being the Icon Player would be paid $1,035,000 (15% more than the highest bid player in the team). Other players selected included the then Indian Test cricket captain Anil Kumble along with his team-mates Praveen Kumar and Zaheer Khan, West Indian Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Aussies Nathan Bracken and Cameron White, South Africa's Mark Boucher (Wicket Keeper) and Dale Steyn. The team also included Pakistan cricket team's vice captain Misbah-ul-Haq although he wasn't in the playing 11 for most part of the tournament.

2nd IPL Auction

Kevin Pietersen made his way into RCB as one of the costliest players in IPL . Kevin Pietersen was valued at $1.55m over a base price of $1.35m. Also Jesse Ryder from New Zealand was acquired in the auction at $160,000. On the last day of the 2008–2009 transfer window, Zaheer Khan was swapped with Robin Uthappa of Mumbai Indians, with no money exchanged. The team also acquired Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey from Mumbai Indians and Rajasthan fast bowler Pankaj Singh from Rajasthan Royals. The team also signed Eagles fast bowler Dillon du Preez as a replacement for Zaheer Khan.

3rd IPL Auction

Challengers were among the least active during the 2010 auction by signing English-Irish batsman Eoin Morgan for $220,000 as the only acquisition.

4th IPL Auction

On January 8, 2011, IPL Governing Council held the auction for the season 4 of the league. The franchises had the option of retaining a maximum of four players for a sum of $4.5mn. Royal Challengers however retained only one of their player in Virat Kohli leaving the rest of the players back in the auction pool. When other IPL franchises let go the non-performers from each of their teams, RCB lost the top performers from the previous season by releasing them back to auction pool. On day one of the auction for the season four Bangalore bought Sri Lankan Tillakaratne Dilshan for $650,000, their former player and Mumbai Indians spearhead Zaheer Khan for $900,000, South Africa's ace middle order batsman AB de Villiers for $1.1mn, current New Zealand skipper and former Delhi Daredevils player Daniel Vettori for $550,000, India's young talent who played with Mumbai Indians until last season Saurabh Tiwary for a whopping $1.6mn; Australia's Dirk Nannes for $650,000 who played for DD and India's young talent Cheteshwar Pujara for $700,000. West Indian batsman Chris Gayle was brought in as a replacement to cause havoc among oppositions. Former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori will lead the side for the fourth season of the Indian premier league.

Pre-Season Transfer Window for IPL 2012

In the pre-season transfer window Royal Challengers Bangalore transferred Australian allrounder Andrew McDonald to Royal Challengers Bangalore from Delhi Daredevils. RCB paid US$100,000 as transferred fees. Royal Challengers Bangalore also retained Chris Gayle for the next two IPL seasons.

Captaincy

Vijay Mallya, the owner of Bangalore Royal Challengers, has kept the captaincy options open. Minutes after picking up Kevin Pietersen at USD 1.55 million, Mallya said he was happy with the price he got him at. "The captaincy options are open. The team management will take a decision on it." The Royal Challengers, who finished second to last the previous year, were led by Rahul Dravid. On 21 March 2009 Vijay Mallya announced that Kevin Pietersen was replacing Rahul Dravid as the team captain for the 2009 season. The reason given was Dravid's absence in the league due to family related reasons. However many suspect that the change in captaincy is the result of the poor performance of the team in the first season of the Indian Premier League. On the 30th April 2009, Anil Kumble was named the captain of the team for the remaining games of the IPL Season 2, due to Kevin Pietersen's absence to play for England against the West Indies. Since then performance of Bangalore Royal Challengers has been instrumental and the turnaround has been superb. The challengers found great success under Kumble's leadership.

Current Squad

Royal Challengers Bangalore Roster
Batsmen 02 Mohammad Kaif 03 Cheteshwar Pujara 12 Luke Pomersbach 14 Mayank Agarwal 15 Saurabh Tiwary 18 Virat Kohli -- Rilee Rossouw -- Vijay Zol All Rounders 11 Daniel Vettori (Captain) 07 Asad Pathan 23 Tillakaratne Dilshan 333 Chris Gayle -- Andrew McDonald -- Raju Bhatkal -- Karun Nair -- S Thiagarajan		Wicket Keepers 09 Arun Karthik 17 AB de Villiers -- Muralidharen Gautam Bowlers 08 Syed Mohammad 25 Abhimanyu Mithun 34 Zaheer Khan 37 Sreenath Aravind 63 Dirk Nannes 67 Charl Langeveldt -- Muttiah Muralitharan -- Vinay Kumar -- Harshal Patel -- KP Appanna -- Abrar Kazi -- Ryan Ninan -- Praveen Kumar		Support Staff Head Coach: Ray Jennings Assistant Head Coach: Sanath Kumar Captain: Daniel Vettori Vice-Captain: Virat Kohli Mentor : Anil Kumble Bowling Coach: Venkatesh Prasad Physiotherapist: Evan Speechly CEO: Brijesh Patel Manager: Avinash Vaidya Masseur: Ramesh Mane Team Analyst: Prassana Agoram Head Strength And Conditioning Coach : Basu S → More rosters

Player Salaries

Nat	Player	Year Contract Signed / Renewed	Salary
India !	Virat Kohli	2011	$ 1,800,000
India !	Saurabh Tiwary	2011	$ 1,600,000
South Africa !	AB de Villiers	2011	$ 1,100,000
India !	Zaheer Khan	2011	$ 900,000
India !	Cheteshwar Pujara	2011	$ 700,000
Australia !	Dirk Nannes	2011	$ 650,000
West Indies !	Chris Gayle	2012	$ 650,000
Sri Lanka !	Tillakaratne Dilshan	2011	$ 650,000
New Zealand !	Daniel Vettori	2011	$ 550,000
India !	Abhimanyu Mithun	2011	$ 260,000
Sri Lanka !	Muttiah Muralitharan	2012	$ 220,000
South Africa !	Charl Langeveldt	2011	$ 140,000
India !	Mohammad Kaif	2011	$ 130,000
Australia !	Andrew McDonald	2012	$ 100,000
Australia !	Luke Pomersbach	2011	$ 50,000
South Africa !	Rilee Rossouw	2011	$ 20,000

Old Squad

• Anil Kumble
• Wasim Jaffer
• Cameron White
• Kevin Pietersen
• Jacques Kallis
• Misbah-ul-Haq
• Praveen Kumar
• Abdur Razzak
• Dale Steyn
• Mark Boucher
• Ross Taylor

Champions League Twenty20

Main article: Twenty20 Champions League

The Twenty20 Champions League is an international Twenty20 cricket competition between clubs from India, Australia, England, South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and West Indies. The competition was launched in 2008 as a response to the success of national Twenty20 domestic cricket leagues, most notably the Indian Premier League. The Royal Challengers are the only IPL team to have played in both the editions of the Champions League tournament.

2009 season

Main article: 2009 Twenty20 Champions League

On account of emerging as the runners-up of the 2009 season of the Indian Premier League, the team participated in the inaugural edition of the T20 Champions League, along with two other Indian teams; the winners of IPL 2009, Deccan Chargers and Delhi Daredevils, who were the table toppers at the end of the league stage.

They had a limited amount of success during the tournament being placed in Group C for their first round. They lost to Cape Cobras in their first match but came back strongly to comprehensively beat Otago, to enter the second round. The results from the pairings during the first round were carried forward to the league stage hence the Royal Challengers eventually crashed out from the second round after finishing with 2 points from 3 matches which included a loss to the Victorian Bushrangers, a victory over the Delhi DareDevils and the loss against the Cape Cobras carried forward from the first round.

2010 Season

Main article: 2010 Champions League Twenty20

The Royal Challengers having beaten Deccan Chargers at the third-place play-off qualified for the 2010 Twenty20 Champions League along with Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. The Challengers along with Victoria Bushrangers and Wayamba Elevens were the only sides to make it to the tournament twice.

After successful victories at the warm-up games the Royal Challengers started off their campaign on a winning note after defeating Guyana. However they were humbled in their next game against the South Australian Redbacks. They also lost their next game against IPL rivals Mumbai Indians despite a mighty effort from Rahul Dravid. However the Challengers made it to the semi-finals after beating the Highveld Lions, thanks to a superior NRR compared to the Highveld Lions and Mumbai Indians.

The Royal Challengers played their rain-hit semi-final against the Indian Premier League champions Chennai Super Kings who had topped Group A. The injury hit Challengers eventually lost the match by 52 runs (D/L method). With good spells from their bowlers and a magnificent innings from Suresh Raina the Super Kings successfully managed to defend their total to put the Bangalore team out of the tournament.

Fixtures and results

Overall results in the IPL

Summary of results

	Played	Wins	Losses	No Result	% Win	Summary
2008	14	4	10	0	28.57%	7th of 8th
2009	16	9	7	0	56.25%	Runner-up
2010	16	8	8	0	50.00%	3rd place
2011*	16	10	5	1	64.28%	Runner-up
Total	62	31	30	1	50.00%

2008 season

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Fixtures

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorecard Link
1	18 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore	Lost by 140 runs	(Scorecard)
2	20 April	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Mark Boucher 39* (19)	(Scorecard)
3	26 April	Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore	Lost by 7 wickets	(Scorecard)
4	28 April	Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore	Lost by 13 runs	(Scorecard)
5	30 April	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	Lost by 10 runs	(Scorecard)
6	3 May	Deccan Chargers	Bangalore	Won by 3 runs, MoM – Praveen Kumar 3/23 (4 overs)	(Scorecard)
7	5 May	Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore	Lost by 6 wickets	(Scorecard)
8	8 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	Lost by 5 runs	(Scorecard)
9	12 May	Kings XI Punjab	Mohali	Lost by 9 Wickets	(Scorecard)
10	17 May	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	Lost by 65 runs	(Scorecard)
11	19 May	Delhi Daredevils	Bangalore	Lost by 5 wickets, MoM – Shreevats Goswami 52 (42)	(Scorecard)
12	21 May	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	Won by 14 runs, MoM – Anil Kumble 3/14 (4 overs)	(Scorecard)
13	25 May	Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad	Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Vinay Kumar 3/27 (4 overs)	(Scorecard)
14	28 May	Mumbai Indians	Bangalore	Lost by 9 wickets	(Scorecard)

2009 season

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Fixtures

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorecard Link
1	18 April	Rajasthan Royals	Cape Town	Won by 75 runs, MoM – Rahul Dravid 66 (48)	Scorecard
2	20 April	Chennai Super Kings	Port Elizabeth	Lost by 92 runs	Scorecard
3	22 April	Deccan Chargers	Cape Town	Lost by 24 runs	Scorecard
4	24 April	Kings XI Punjab	Durban	Lost by 7 wickets	Scorecard
5	26 April	Delhi Daredevils	Port Elizabeth	Lost by 6 wickets	Scorecard
6	29 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Durban	Won by 5 Wickets, MoM – Mark Boucher 25* (13)	Scorecard
7	1 May	Kings XI Punjab	Durban	Won by 8 runs	Scorecard
8	3 May	Mumbai Indians	Johannesburg	Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 69* (59) and 0/23 (4 overs)	Scorecard
9	7 May	Rajasthan Royals	Centurion	Lost by 7 wickets	Scorecard
10	10 May	Mumbai Indians	Port Elizabeth	Lost by 16 runs	Scorecard
11	12 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Centurion	Won by 6 Wickets, MoM – Ross Taylor 81* (33)	Scorecard
12	14 May	Chennai Super Kings	Durban	Won by 7 Wickets, MoM – Ross Taylor 46 (50)	Scorecard
13	19 May	Delhi Daredevils	Johannesburg	Won by 7 Wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 58 (56) and 1/17 (4 overs)	Scorecard
14	21 May	Deccan Chargers	Centurion	Won by 12 runs, MoM – Manish Pandey 114* (73)	Scorecard
Semifinal	23 May	Chennai Super Kings	Johannesburg	Won by 6 wickets, MoM – Manish Pandey 48 (35)	Scorecard
Final	24 May	Deccan Chargers	Johannesburg	Lost by 6 runs, MoM – Anil Kumble 4/16 (4 overs)	Scorecard

2010 season

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorecard Link
1	14 March	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	Lost by 7 wickets	Scorecard
2	16 March	Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore	Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 89* (55) and 1/39 (4 overs)	Scorecard
3	18 March	Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore	Won by 10 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 44* (34) and 2/20 (4 overs)	Scorecard
4	20 March	Mumbai Indians	Mumbai	Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 66* (55) and 1/35 (4 overs)	Scorecard
5	23 March	Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore	Won by 36 runs, MoM – Robin Uthappa 68* (38)	Scorecard
6	25 March	Delhi Daredevils	Bangalore	Lost by 17 runs	Scorecard
7	31 March	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	Lost by 5 wickets	Scorecard
8	2 April	Kings XI Punjab	Mohali	Won by 6 wickets, MoM – Kevin Pietersen 66* (44) and 0/8 (1 over)	Scorecard
9	4 April	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	Lost by 37 runs	Scorecard
10	8 April	Deccan Chargers	Bangalore	Lost by 7 wickets	Scorecard
11	10 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore	Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Vinay Kumar 3/23 (3 overs)	Scorecard
12	12 April	Deccan Chargers	Nagpur	Lost by 13 runs	Scorecard
13	14 April	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Kevin Pietersen 62 (29)	Scorecard
14	17 April	Mumbai Indians	Bangalore	Lost by 57 runs	Scorecard
Semifinal	21 April	Mumbai Indians	Navi Mumbai	Lost by 35 runs	Scorecard
3/4 Playoff	24 April	Deccan Chargers	Navi Mumbai	Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Anil Kumble 4/16 (4 overs)	Scorecard

2011 Season

Royal Challengers Bangalore IPL Fixtures

No.	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Scorecard Link
1	9 April	Kochi Tuskers Kerala	Kochi	Won by 6 wickets, MoM – AB de Villiers 54* (40)	Scorecard
2	12 April	Mumbai Indians	Bangalore	Lost by 9 wickets	Scorecard
3	14 April	Deccan Chargers	Hyderabad	Lost by 33 runs	Scorecard
4	16 April	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	Lost by 21 runs	Scorecard
5	19 April	Rajasthan Royals	Bangalore	No Result
6	22 April	Kolkata Knight Riders	Kolkata	Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 102* (55) and 0/9 (2 overs)	Scorecard
7	26 April	Delhi Daredevils	Delhi	Won by 3 wickets, MoM – Virat Kohli 56 (38)	Scorecard
8	29 April	Pune Warriors India	Bangalore	Won by 26 runs, MoM – Virat Kohli 67 (42)	Scorecard
9	6 May	Kings XI Punjab	Bangalore	Won by 85 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 107 (49) and 3/21 (4 overs)	Scorecard
10	8 May	Kochi Tuskers Kerala	Bangalore	Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 44 (16) and 1/26 (4 overs)	Scorecard
11	11 May	Rajasthan Royals	Jaipur	Won by 9 wickets, MoM – Sreenath Aravind 3/34 (4 overs)	Scorecard
12	14 May	Kolkata Knight Riders	Bangalore	Won by 4 wickets (D/L), MoM – Chris Gayle 38 (12) and 0/11 (1 over)	Scorecard
13	17 May	Kings XI Punjab	Dharmasala	Lost by 111 runs	Scorecard
14	22 May	Chennai Super Kings	Bangalore	Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 75* (50) and 0/27 (3 overs)	Scorecard
1st Qualifying Final	24 May	Chennai Super Kings	Mumbai	Lost by 6 wickets	Scorecard
2nd Qualifying Final	27 May	Mumbai Indians	Chennai	Won by 43 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 89* (47) and 0/11 (3 overs)	Scorecard
Final	28 May	Chennai Super Kings	Chennai	Lost by 58 runs	Scorecard

References

External links

• Official website
• Royal Challengers Bangalore Team Squad 2012