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Gujarat Lions
Personnel
CaptainSuresh Raina[1]
CoachBrad Hodge[2]
OwnerKeshav Bansal (Intex Technologies)[3]
Team information
CityRajkot, Gujarat, India
ColoursGL
FoundedDecember 2015 (December 2015)
DissolvedMay 2017
Home groundSaurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot[1]
(Capacity: 28,000)
Secondary home ground(s)Green Park Stadium, Kanpur[4]
(Capacity:32,000)

T20I kit

Gujarat Lions in 2017

The Gujarat Lions (often abbreviated as GL) was a franchise cricket team based in the city of Rajkot, Gujarat, that represented Indian state Gujarat in the Indian Premier League. The team played in the Indian Premier League for 2 years, the 2016 and 2017 season. The team entered the IPL as one of the replacements for Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, who were both suspended for two seasons due to alleged illegal betting by their respective owners.[5] The franchise was owned by Intex Technologies.[5][6][7][8]

History

During the 2016 IPL players draft, the Rajkot franchise picked Indian cricketers Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, along with Brendon McCullum, James Faulkner and Dwayne Bravo.[9] In an event held in New Delhi, the Rajkot-based team was named as Gujarat Lions and Suresh Raina was announced as their captain.

The team played five of their home matches at Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot and two of their home matches at Green Park Stadium, Kanpur in the IPL 2016. In IPL 2017, the team won 9 matches.[10]

Administration and support staff

Sponsors and partners

A total of 13 sponsors signed up to partner Gujarat Lions.[11]

The official merchandise is provided by TYKA and the principal shirt sponsor is Oxigen Wallet,[12] TVS Tyres,[13] Astral Pipe,[14] Intex, Gujarat Tourism[15] are the sponsors for 2016 season.[16] Kansai Nerolac Paints[17] and Sanghi Industries were associate sponsor.[18] Jio joined for 2017 season.

Year Kit Manufacturers Sponsor (Front) Sponsor (Back) Sponsor (Chest)
2016 TYKA Oxigen Wallet TVS Tyres Lawman Pg3
2017 SG Shudh Plus Valvoline

Players

The team was captained by Suresh Raina, who is also the leading run-scorer in the history of the cash-rich league. It has a host of T20 stars in Ravindra Jadeja, Dwayne Bravo, James Faulkner and Brendon McCullum. In 2017, they bought Manpreet Gony, Basil Thampi, Nathu Singh, Tejas Baroka, Shelley Shaurya, Shubham Agarwal, Pratham Singh, Jason Roy, Munaf Patel, Chirag Suri and Akshdeep Nath.[19][20]

Suresh Raina, captain of Gujarat Lions since 2015
Indian players Overseas players

2016 season

Main article: Gujarat Lions in 2016
No. Date Opponent Venue Result Man of the Match Scorecard link
1 11 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Mohali Won by 5 wickets Australia Aaron Finch – 74 (47) Scorecard
2 14 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Rajkot Won by 7 wickets Australia Aaron Finch – 50 (36) Scorecard
3 16 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Mumbai Won by 3 wickets Australia Aaron Finch – 67* (54) Scorecard
4 21 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Rajkot Lost by 10 wickets Scorecard
5 24 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Rajkot Won by 6 wickets Scorecard
6 27 April 2016 Delhi Daredevils Delhi Won by 1 run Scorecard
7 29 April 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Pune Won by 3 wickets Barbados Dwayne Smith 63 (37) Scorecard
8 1 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Rajkot Lost by 23 runs Scorecard
9 3 May 2016 Delhi Daredevils Rajkot Lost by 8 wickets Scorecard
10 6 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Hyderabad Lost by 5 wickets
11 8 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Kolkata Won by 5 wickets India Praveen Kumar 2/19 (4 Overs) Scorecard
12 14 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Bangalore Lost by 144 Runs Scorecard
13 19 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Kanpur Won by 6 Wickets Barbados Dwayne Smith 4/8 (4 Overs) Scorecard
14 21 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL Kanpur Won by 6 Wickets India Suresh Raina 58(36) Scorecard
Play-offs
15 24 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL (Qualifier 1) Bangalore Lost by 4 wickets Scorecard
16 27 May 2016 Template:Cr-IPL (Qualifier 2) Delhi Lost by 4 wickets Scorecard
Overall record of 9 – 7

Failed to make Finals, ended 3/8

2017 Squad

Template:Gujarat Lions Roster

2017 season

Main article: Gujarat Lions in 2017
Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium at Rajkot, the home ground of Gujarat Lions

Template:2017 Indian Premier League Group stage[21]

Awards and achievements

References

  1. ^ a b "Team Rajkot". IPLT20.com. 18 December 2015.
  2. ^ a b Kundu, Sagnik (31 March 2017). "IPL 2017: All you need to know about Gujarat Lions' coaching staff". Sportskeeda.
  3. ^ Choudhary, Vidhi (13 April 2016). "Meet Keshav Bansal, youngest IPL team owner". Mint.
  4. ^ "Flawed teams look for consolation win". ESPNcricinfo. 9 May 2017.
  5. ^ a b C, Aprameya (8 December 2015). "Pune and Rajkot announced as 2 new franchises in IPL". One India. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  6. ^ Nayar, N. R. (26 March 2017). "The journey of Gujarat Lions has been exciting: Bansal". Gulf News.
  7. ^ Venkatesh, Shruti (22 June 2017). "Intex's Bansal keen to acquire IPL franchise". Forbes India.
  8. ^ Mehta, Ivan (12 April 2017). "Emotional Connect With The Gujarat Lions Has Helped Our Sales: Intex's Keshav Bansal". Huffington Post.
  9. ^ "Gujarat Lions Players draft". Retrieved 6 February 2016.
  10. ^ "IPL 2017: Gujarat Lions team profile". The Times of India. 11 April 2017.
  11. ^ Choudhary, Vidhi (9 April 2016). "IPL season 9: Gujarat Lions, Rising Pune Supergiants bag 13 backers each". Mint. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  12. ^ Mitra, Sounak (30 March 2016). "Intex signs Oxigen as title sponsor for Gujarat Lions". Livemint.
  13. ^ Sharma, Ravi Teja (5 April 2016). "TVS Tyres signs up as principal sponsor of IPL team Gujarat Lions". The Economic Times.
  14. ^ Vora, Rutam (9 April 2016). "IPL: Astral Poly Technik ties up with Gujarat Lions". The Hindu Business Line.
  15. ^ "Govt signs agreement with 'Gujarat Lions' to become leading arm sponsor of franchise". The Times of India. 5 April 2016.
  16. ^ Choudhary, Vidhi (9 April 2016). "IPL season 9: Gujarat Lions, Rising Pune Supergiants bag 13 backers each". Mint.
  17. ^ Sharma, Ravi Teja (12 April 2016). "Kansai Nerolac signs up with Gujarat Lions as associate sponsor for IPL 9". The Economic Times.
  18. ^ "Sanghi Industries is associate sponsor of Gujarat Lions team". The Hindu Business Line. 12 April 2016.
  19. ^ "Gujarat Lions 2017". India Today. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
  20. ^ "IPL 2017 list of players retained and released by Gujarat Lions". The Times of India. 17 February 2017.
  21. ^ "Gujarat Lions look for winning start against KKR". The Hindu. 6 April 2017.
  22. ^ Ananthasubramanian, Vignesh (22 May 2017). "IPL 2017: List of award winners and their prize money". Sportskeeda.
  23. ^ Chauhan, Naveen (22 May 2017). "IPL 2017: ये बेहतरीन यादें छोड़ गया आईपीएल 10" (in Hindi). Amar Ujala.

External links

Template:Gujarat Lions squad

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