Bangalore Royal Challengers | Indian Premier League (IPL)
Bangalore Royal Challengers owned by Dr Vijay Mallya and not surprisingly the team is named after one of his top brands.
Bangalore is known as the Garden City
No. of players bought: 16 (6 Indian, 10 foreign)
Money spent: $8.64m
Big-ticket signing: Saurabh Tiwary ($1.6m)
Bargain buy: Daniel Vettori ($550,000)
Eyebrow-raiser: Saurabh Tiwary - Another beneficiary of the frenzy for Indian batting talent. Shone in IPL 2010
The tale of these auctions was how the teams were all going for young Indian batting talent Bangalore were up there with the best of them and their decision to retain Kohli and to aggressively pursue Saurabh Tiwary and Cheteshwar Pujara. In each of the first three seasons, Delhi's formidable squad made them pre-tournament favourites. Bangalore have now poached most of Delhi's erstwhile overseas talent - explosive and experienced top-order batting pair of Tillakaratne Dilshan and AB de Villiers, fast bowler Dirk Nannes and allrounder Daniel Vettori. It is a strong squad but the worries are the shortage of multi-skilled players and spinners. The owners would have also liked more local flavour in the outfit: the only Karnataka player they have currently is Abhimanyu Mithun.
Squad
Batsmen: Virat Kohli (retained), Saurabh Tiwary ($1.6m), Cheteshwar Pujara ($700,000), Tillakaratne Dilshan ($650,000), Mohammad Kaif ($130,000), Luke Pomersbach ($50,000), Rilee Rossouw ($20,000), Jonathan Vandiar ($20,000)
Bowlers: Zaheer Khan ($900,000), Dirk Nannes ($650,000), Abhimanyu Mithun ($260,000), Charl Langeveldt ($140,000), Nuwan Pradeep ($20,000)
Allrounders: Daniel Vettori ($550,000), Johan van der Wath ($50,000)
Wicketkeepers: AB de Villiers ($1.1m)
Team Management is made up of Charu Sharma as CEO former Kiwi captain Martin Crowe also makes up part of the management team with Venkatesh Prasad as team coach.
Bangalore by their own standards didn't do too well last season and heads rolled now with a new administration and top players brought in everyone is expecting great things from this team. For me the jury is still out.
Bangalore has produced some of the greatest Indian cricketers like GR Viswanath, BS Chandrashekar, EAS Prasanna, Anil Kumble, Javagal Srinath and Rahul Dravid.
2010: Played 8 wins 8 8 losses, Finished 3rd beating Deccan Chargers.
2011 Played14 Won 9 Lost 4 No Result 1 - Lost in Final to Chennai Super Kings
DATE |
HOME TEAM |
AWAY TEAM |
RESULT |
Apr 09 2011 |
Kochi Tuskers |
Bangalore RC |
RCB Won |
Apr 12 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Mumbai Indians |
MI Won |
Apr 14 2011 |
Deccan Chargers |
Bangalore RC |
DC Won |
Apr 16 2011 |
Chennai Super Kings |
Bangalore RC |
CSK Won |
Apr 19 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Rajasthan Royals |
Abandoned |
Apr 22 2011 |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
Bangalore RC |
BRC Won |
Apr 26 2011 |
Delhi Daredevils |
Bangalore RC |
BRC Won |
Apr 29 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Pune Warriors India |
BRC Won |
May 06 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Kings XI Punjab |
BRC Won |
May 08 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Kochi Tuskers |
BRC Won |
May 11 2011 |
Rajasthan Royals |
Bangalore RC |
BRC Won |
May 14 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Kolkata Knight Riders |
BRC Won |
May 17 2011 |
Kings XI Punjab |
Bangalore RC |
KXI Won |
May 22 2011 |
Bangalore RC |
Chennai Super Kings |
BRC Won |
IPL Cricket News
The IPL Governing Council have taken a number of decisions with regard to the upcoming 2012 season.
LEAGUE FORMAT
The 2012 season will revert to the home and away format, with each of the nine franchises playing 16 matches. There will be four Play-off matches - a total of 76 matches.
The season will commence in Chennai on Wednesday, 4 April 2012.
The Play-off matches will be held in Bangalore and Chennai, with the final to be played in Chennai on Sunday, 27 May 2012.
PLAYERS The 2012 Player Auction will be held in India in late January / early February.
Each franchise will have an Auction Purse of $2m to spend on players in the 2012 auction.
For the 2012 & 2013 seasons, the maximum squad size will be increased to 33, and the cap on the number of overseas players in the squad increased to 11.
The regulation that only 4 overseas players may be in the playing XI is unchanged.
The trading window will open on 15 December 2011 and run through to 20 January 2012.
There will be a short second trading window after the Player Auction.
The trading regulations will be as per previous seasons. There will be no financial cap on trading. Franchises can only add to their squad, by way of trading, a maximum of 4 players who were bought in the 2011 Auction, and they must stay within the squad composition regulations at all times.
Latest News: Kohchi Tuskers have pulled out of the league and Pune have lost their major sponsor, Watch this space.
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