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    Royal Challengers Bangalore


    City Bengaluru, Karnataka
    Founded 2008
    Home ground(s) M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
    (Capacity: 40,000)
    Owner(s) Vijay Mallya (UB Group)
    Colors
    Captain Virat Kohli
    Head coach Ray Jennings
    IPL wins 0
    CLT20 wins 0
    Official website Royal Challengers
    Royal Challengers Bangalore (often abbreviated as RCB) is a cricket team based in Bangalore, Karnataka that plays in the Indian Premier League. The team is currently led by Virat Kohli[1] and coached by South African Ray Jennings. The team is owned by Vijay Mallya, through his flagship firm UB Group.[2] The director of the team is Sidhartha Mallya.[3][4] RCB plays its home matches at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. The franchise has been one of the most successful and consistent in the IPL having reached the semis/play-off's every season apart from 2008 and 2012. They hold the joint record for most consecutive victories in the IPL having won 7 matches on the trot in the 2011 edition. The team has also qualified and played in all the seasons of the Champions League Twenty20 tournament except 2012.
    Contents [hide]
    1 Franchise history
    1.1 2008 IPL season
    1.2 2009 IPL season
    1.3 2010 IPL season
    1.4 2011 IPL season
    1.5 2012 IPL season
    2 Livery
    3 Players
    3.1 1st IPL Auction
    3.2 2nd IPL Auction
    3.3 3rd IPL Auction
    3.4 4th IPL Auction
    3.5 Pre-Season Transfer Window for IPL 2012
    3.6 Captaincy
    4 Champions League Twenty20
    4.1 2009 season
    4.2 2010 season
    4.3 2011 season
    5 Honours
    6 Current squad
    7 Players salaries
    8 Former Players
    9 Fixtures and results
    9.1 Overall results in the IPL
    9.2 Result summary
    9.3 2008 IPL season
    9.4 2009 IPL season
    9.5 2010 IPL season
    9.6 2011 IPL season
    9.7 2012 IPL season
    9.8 2013 IPL season
    10 References
    11 External links
    Franchise history [edit]

    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).[5] For the inaugural tournament held in April–June 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.[6]
    2008 IPL season [edit]
    Main article: 2008 Indian Premier League
    The team won only 4 matches in the inaugural season, losing 10 matches and finishing second from the bottom in the table. Only one of their batsmen, 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.[7][8] The string of failures mid-way through the season led to the sacking of the CEO, Charu Sharma who was replaced with Brijesh Patel.[9] Even coach Venkatesh Prasad was reportedly 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.[9] 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.[10] It was decided that from 2009 IPL session onwards the team would be coached by former South Africa coach Ray Jennings.
    2009 IPL season [edit]
    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 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 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. Anil Kumble also had a very good economy rate in the tournament which was held in South Africa.
    2010 IPL season [edit]
    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, RCB put on a shoddy display after beginning well and conceded 77 runs during the last 5 overs of the Mumbai innings. The chase never took off and they went on to lose the match by 35 runs. The team had the final laugh after they comprehensively beat the defending champions Deccan Chargers, against whom they lost the previous year's final by 9 wickets. RCB finished the season in third position and thereby booked a slot in the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.
    2011 IPL season [edit]
    Main article: 2011 Indian Premier League
    RCB kicked off their campaign with a comfortable six-wicket win over the newly formed team, Kochi Tuskers Kerala. But then they suffered three big defeats at the hands of Mumbai Indians, Deccan Chargers and Chennai Super Kings. At this stage, speedster Dirk Nannes was ruled out of the tournament and RCB team management named West Indian opener Chris Gayle as his replacement. Gayle started off the tournament with a century (102* off 55 balls) against Kolkata Knight Riders, giving the Challengers an emphatic 9-wicket win. RCB also managed to beat Delhi Daredevils and Pune Warriors in their next two matches. They went on to beat Kings XI Punjab by a big margin of 85 runs, after Gayle smashed his second century of the tournament (107 off 49 balls). They won their next two matches against Kochi and Rajasthan Royals, both comprehensively by 9 wickets. They also defeated Kolkata in a rain-affected match at Bangalore. But then, Kings XI Punjab, riding on a blistering hundred by their skipper Adam Gilchrist, ended RCB's 7-match winning streak, with a huge 111-run margin win. In their last league match, the Challengers beat the defending champions Chennai Super Kings by 8 wickets to end at the top of the points table. Chris Gayle shining once again with the bat, scoring an unbeaten 75 off 50 balls.
    Royal Challengers faced Chennai Super Kings in the 1st qualifier at Mumbai. Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 70 off just 44 balls to help RCB put up 175/4 in their 20 overs. Despite losing early wickets, Chennai went on to win the match by 6 wickets. The win took Chennai to the final and RCB faced Mumbai Indians in the 2nd qualifier in Chennai. Batting first, Royal Challengers made a massive 185/4 in 20 overs on a slow Chepauk track. Chris Gayle was the star once again for them as he scored a blistering 89 runs off 47 balls. Mumbai never looked in the hunt for a win as they collapsed to a 43-run defeat. The Royal Challengers qualified for the finals with this win and went on to face Chennai at their home ground in the finals. Winning the toss, Chennai elected to bat first in the finals. The Super Kings posted a huge total of 205/5. The Challengers did not bat well and lost the match by 4 wickets. Chris Gayle was named Man of the Tournament and Bangalore set a new IPL record for the most successive wins by winning 7 matches on the trot.
    2012 IPL season [edit]
    Main article: 2012 Indian Premier League
    Royal Challengers Bangalore began the 2012 IPL without the services of talisman Chris Gayle who had arrived in India carrying a groin injury he had sustained in the preceding Bangladesh Premier League. Sreenath Aravind, RCB’s most successful bowler in 2011 too was laid low by injury and Harshal Patel emerged as the preferred third seamer in the side ahead of Abhimanyu Mithun.
    AB de Villiers and Muttiah Muralitharan gave the team a winning start against Delhi but 3 consecutive losses followed. One of them saw the team concede a 200+ total off the last ball in Chennai while Ajinkya Rahane’s ton at Bangalore included 6 fours in a single over from Aravind. The team rallied back, Chris Gayle finding his touch to hit 5 consecutive sixes off Rahul Sharma and Saurabh Tiwary hitting a six off the last ball to win the team a tight chase against Pune. Gayle shone again at Mohali in a comprehensive win while de Villiers, Tillakaratne Dilshan and KP Appanna engineered another win in Jaipur.
    A washed out match at Bangalore against Chennai denied the team a chance at gaining 2 points outright, the teams sharing points 1-1 each. Two subsequent losses put RCB in competition with Rajasthan Royals, Chennai Super Kings and Kings XI Punjab for the last play-offs slot.
    Virat Kohli’s inexplicable lean run in the tournament, underperformance from local uncapped players and the four overseas players limit were some of the hurdles faced by the team.
    Daniel Vettori benched himself so the team could play Muttiah Muralitharan as one of the four foreigners allowed in the playing XI, Virat Kohli taking up captaincy duties. The team signed Prasanth Parameswaran who played for Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the 2011 IPL as a replacement for the injured Sreenath Aravind.
    A spectacular chase against Deccan Chargers at Bangalore and two routs in Mumbai and Pune put the team back on track for a place in the play-offs. RCB went down to Mumbai in a hard fought match at Bangalore but bounced back in Delhi as Chris Gayle became the first man to hit 3 centuries in the IPL, hitting 128*at Delhi.
    Other results in the tournament now placed RCB in direct competition with Chennai for the final play-offs slot. The teams were tied on points with Chennai ahead on Net Run Rate but RCB had a game in hand while Chennai had played out their games. A batting failure at Hyderabad in RCB’s final game of the season led to the end of the team’s 2012 campaign, making it the first time since 2009 that they failed to qualify for both the play-offs and the Champions League.
    Chris Gayle was the highest run scorer of the tournament for the second year in the row, scoring 733 runs at 61.08 with 7 fifties, 1 hundred and a strike rate of 160.74. Vinay Kumar finished as the 5th highest wicket taker of the tournament with his 19 wickets from 17 matches.
    Livery [edit]

    Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, either No. 1 McDowell's or Royal Challenge with the team.[11] 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,[12] 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 until date.
    Players [edit]

    1st IPL Auction [edit]
    The players in the team (except for Rahul Dravid, who was the Icon Player), were selected in an auction conducted by ICC 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 [edit]
    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 [edit]
    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 [edit]
    On 8 January 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, 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, former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori for $550,000, India's new sensation, who played with Mumbai Indians until last season, Saurabh Tiwary for a whopping $1.6mn; Australia's Dirk Nannes for $650,000 and India's young talent Cheteshwar Pujara for $700,000. West Indian batsman Chris Gayle was brought in as a replacement for the injured Dirk Nannes in the middle of the tournament. Former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori led the side for the fourth season of the IPL. 5th IPL auction RCB had bought only vinay kumar for 1 million usd and muttiah muralitharan for 220,200 ud
    Pre-Season Transfer Window for IPL 2012 [edit]
    In the pre-season transfer window Royal Challengers Bangalore transferred Australian allrounder Andrew McDonald[13] 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 [edit]
    Vijay Mallya, the owner of Bangalore Royal Challengers, had 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.[14] 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 30 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 Royal Challengers Bangalore has been instrumental and the turnaround has been superb. The challengers found great success under Kumble's leadership. Kumble retired after leading RCB to the semis of both CLT20 and IPL-3.Daniel Vettori is the captain of RCB since IPL-4, and led RCB to the finals of both IPL-4 and CLT20. However, RCB faced consecutive defeats, so Kohli became the captain of RCB in 2012, replacing Vettori.
    Champions League Twenty20 [edit]

    Main article: Champions League Twenty20
    The Champions League Twenty20 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 all three editions of the Champions League.
    2009 season [edit]
    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 success in 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 Volts, 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 [edit]
    Main article: 2010 Champions League Twenty20
    The Royal Challengers having beaten Deccan Chargers at the third-place play-off qualified for the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 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 victories in the warm-up games, the Royal Challengers started off their campaign on a winning note by 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 IPL champions Chennai Super Kings who had topped Group A. The injury hit Challengers eventually lost the match by 52 runs (D/L method) and bowed out of the tournament as losing semi-finalists.
    2011 season [edit]
    Main article: 2011 Champions League Twenty20
    Royal Challengers Bangalore qualified for the main event of the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 as they finished runners-up in the 2011 Indian Premier League, this made the Challengers the first and only team ever to play in all the three seasons of the tournament. The Challengers, placed in Group B in the first round of the tournament, kicked of their quest for glory with a last-ball defeat to the Warriors. They suffered a big 9-wicket defeat at the hands of IPL counterparts Kolkata Knight Riders in their second group match, leaving them with two must-win matches in order to qualify for the semi-finals. They registered their first win in the competition, in emphatic manner, by beating Somerset by 51 runs, thanks to Chris Gayle's 46-ball 86. The win also consolidated their poor net run-rate. In their last group match, they faced the champions from Australia, the Southern Redbacks. Batting first, the Redbacks rode on a century by Daniel Harris (108* from 61 balls) to set RCB a target of 215. The Royal Challengers came out with a spirited batting performance with Tillakaratne Dilshan and Virat Kohli scoring half-centuries. However, the Redbacks hampered the run-chase by picking up wickets at regular stages towards the end of the innings. With six runs required off the last ball to win the match, RCB found an unlikely-hero in Arun Karthik, who struck Daniel Christian for a six over deep mid-wicket, to take RCB through to the semi-finals. The Challengers, despite being level on points with Kolkata Knight Riders and Warriors, qualified for the semis on basis of having a better net run-rate than the two teams.
    The Royal Challengers played the New South Wales Blues in the semi-finals of the tournament. Winning the toss, Daniel Vettori put the Blues in to bat and the decision seemed to backfire as the Blues amassed 203/2 in 20 overs, mainly due to the efforts of David Warner who struck an unbeaten 123 off just 68 balls. Despite losing Dilshan early in the chase, RCB got off to a rollicking start with Chris Gayle smashing 92 runs from only 41 deliveries. He was ably supported by Kohli, who struck an unbeaten 84 from 49 balls to give RCB a comfortable 6-wicket victory with 9 balls to spare.
    They took on an injury-hit Mumbai Indians in the final at Chennai. Mumbai winning the toss, chose to bat and put up a modest total of 139 in 20 overs. After getting off to a blistering start with the bat, the Challengers lost wickets at regular intervals before getting bundled out for 108 in 19.2 overs, falling short of the target by 31 runs. Mumbai skipper Harbhajan Singh was awarded the Man of the Match for picking 3/20 in his four overs.
    Honours [edit]

    Year Indian Premier League Champions League Twenty20
    2008 Group stage Cancelled (DNQ)
    2009 Runners-up League Stage
    2010 Semifinalists Semifinalists
    2011 Runners-up Runners-up
    2012 Group stage DNQ
    DNQ = Did Not Qualify
    Current squad [edit]

    Players with international caps are listed in bold.
    * denotes a player who is currently injured/unavailable.
    * denotes a player who is unavailable for the entire season.
    No. Name Nat Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
    Batsmen
    03 Cheteshwar Pujara 25 January 1988 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
    15 Karun Nair 6 December 1991 (age 21) Right-handed Right-arm off break
    18 Virat Kohli 5 November 1988 (age 24) Right-handed Right-arm medium Captain
    23 Tillakaratne Dilshan 14 October 1976 (age 36) Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas
    32 Saurabh Tiwary 30 December 1989 (age 23) Left-handed Right-arm off break
    64 Sunny Sohal 10 November 1987 (age 25) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
    90 Abhinav Mukund 6 January 1990 (age 23) Left-handed Right-arm leg break
    99 Mayank Agarwal 16 February 1991 (age 22) Right-handed –
    333 Chris Gayle 21 September 1979 (age 33) Left-handed Right-arm off break Overseas
    – Vijay Zol 23 November 1994 (age 18) Left-handed Right-arm off break
    All-rounders
    04 Andrew McDonald 15 June 1981 (age 31) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
    07 Moisés Henriques 1 February 1987 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
    11 Daniel Vettori 27 January 1979 (age 34) Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox Overseas
    45 Daniel Christian 4 May 1983 (age 30) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
    – Christopher Barnwell 6 January 1987 (age 26) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast Overseas
    Wicket-keepers
    02 Lokesh Rahul 18 April 1992 (age 21) Right-handed -
    17 AB de Villiers 17 February 1984 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm medium Overseas
    21 Arun Karthik 15 February 1986 (age 27) Right-handed Right-arm leg break
    – Sheldon Jackson 27 September 1986 (age 26) Right-handed -
    Bowlers
    01 Harshal Patel 23 November 1990 (age 22) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
    03 KP Appanna 20 December 1988 (age 24) Right-handed Slow left arm orthodox
    05 Vinay Kumar 12 February 1984 (age 29) Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast
    08 Syed Mohammed 3 June 1983 (age 29) Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
    09 R. P. Singh 6 December 1985 (age 27) Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium
    14 Ravi Rampaul 15 October 1984 (age 28) Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium Overseas
    20 Prasanth Parameswaran 30 May 1985 (age 27) Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast
    25 Abhimanyu Mithun 25 October 1989 (age 23) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
    34 Zaheer Khan 7 October 1978 (age 34) Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium
    77 Jaydev Unadkat 18 October 1991 (age 21) Right-handed Left-arm fast-medium
    79 Sreenath Aravind 8 April 1984 (age 29) Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast
    222 Murali Kartik 11 September 1976 (age 36) Left-handed Slow left arm orthodox
    800 Muttiah Muralitharan 17 April 1972 (age 41) Right-handed Right-arm off break Overseas
    – Sandeep Warrier 4 April 1991 (age 22) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
    – Pankaj Singh 6 May 1985 (age 28) Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium
    Players salaries [edit]

    Nat Player Year Contract
    Signed / Renewed Salary
    Chris Gayle 2012 [15]$2,000,000
    Virat Kohli 2011 $1,800,000
    Saurabh Tiwary 2011 $1,600,000
    AB de Villiers 2011 $1,100,000
    Vinay Kumar 2012 $1,000,000
    Zaheer Khan 2011 $900,000
    Cheteshwar Pujara 2011 $700,000
    Tillakaratne Dilshan 2011 $650,000
    Daniel Vettori 2011 $550,000
    Jaydev Unadkat 2013 $525,000
    R P Singh 2013 $400,000
    Abhimanyu Mithun 2011 $260,000
    Muttiah Muralitharan 2012 $220,000
    Andrew McDonald 2012 $100,000
    Former Players [edit]

    Rahul Dravid
    Anil Kumble
    Wasim Jaffer
    Robin Uthappa
    Praveen Kumar
    Manish Pandey
    Shreevats Goswami
    Sunil Joshi
    S. Sriram
    Cameron White
    Kevin Pietersen
    Jacques Kallis
    Misbah-ul-Haq
    Abdur Razzak
    Dale Steyn
    Mark Boucher
    Ross Taylor
    Jesse Ryder
    Eoin Morgan
    Shivnarine Chanderpaul
    Ashley Noffke
    Fixtures and results [edit]

    Overall results in the IPL [edit]
    Year Matches Wins Losses No Result Success Rate Home Wins Home Losses Away Wins Away Losses Position Summary
    2008 14 4 10 0 28.57% 1 6 3 4 7th 7/8, Group Stage
    2009 16 9 7 0 56.25% - - 9 7 2nd Runners-up
    2010 16 8 8 0 50.00% 4 3 4 5 3rd Semi-finalists
    2011 17 10 6 1 58.82% 5 1 5 5 2nd Runners-up
    2012 16 8 7 1 53.33% 3 4 5 3 5th 5/9, Tied on points with the 4th placed team
    2013 12 7 5 0 58.33% 6 0 1 5 4/9* N/A
    Total 91 46 43 2 50.55% 19 14 27 29
    Result summary [edit]
    By Opposition
    Opposition Span Mat Won Lost Tied NR Success Rate
    Chennai Super Kings 2008–2013 14 5 8 0 1 35.71%
    Deccan Chargers 2008–2012 11 5 6 0 0 44.44%
    Delhi Daredevils 2008–2013 10 5 5 0 0 50.00%
    Kings XI Punjab 2008–2013 11 5 6 0 0 45.45%
    Kochi Tuskers Kerala 2011–2011 2 2 0 0 0 100.00%
    Kolkata Knight Riders 2008–2013 11 6 5 0 0 54.54%
    Mumbai Indians 2008–2013 13 6 7 0 0 46.15%
    Pune Warriors India 2011–2013 5 5 0 0 0 100.00%
    Rajasthan Royals 2008–2011 12 6 5 0 1 50.00%
    Sunrisers Hyderabad 2013 2 1 1 0 0 50.00%
    Total 2008–2013 91 46 43 0 2 50.55%
    Teams now defunct
    Non IPL Teams
    By Venue
    Ground Name Matches Wins Losses No Result
    M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru 35 19 14 2
    M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai 7 2 5 0
    Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali 4 2 2 0
    Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur 5 3 2 0
    Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi 4 2 2 0
    Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai 4 2 2 0
    Eden Gardens, Kolkata 4 1 3 0
    Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad 4 1 3 0
    DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai 2 1 1 0
    Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai 1 1 0 0
    Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Nagpur 1 0 1 0
    HPCA Cricket Stadium, Dharamsala 1 0 1 0
    Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi 1 1 0 0
    Subrata Roy Sahara Stadium, Pune 2 2 0 0
    Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town 2 1 1 0
    St George's Park, Port Elizabeth 3 0 3 0
    Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban 4 3 1 0
    Supersport Park, Centurion 3 2 1 0
    New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg 4 3 1 0
    Total 90 46 42 2
    2008 IPL season [edit]
    No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard Link
    1 18 April Kolkata Knight Riders Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Lost by 7 wickets (Scorecard)
    4 28 April Chennai Super Kings Bengaluru Lost by 13 runs (Scorecard)
    5 30 April Delhi Daredevils Delhi Lost by 10 runs (Scorecard)
    6 3 May Deccan Chargers Bengaluru Won by 3 runs, MoM – Praveen Kumar 3/23 (4 overs) (Scorecard)
    7 5 May Kings XI Punjab Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Lost by 9 wickets (Scorecard)
    Overall record of 4 – 10
    Failed to make Semifinals, ended 7/8
    2009 IPL season [edit]
    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
    Overall record of 9 – 7
    Runners-up of 2009 Indian Premier League
    Qualified for 2009 Champions Trophy Twenty20
    2010 IPL season [edit]
    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 Bengaluru Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Jacques Kallis 89* (55) and 1/39 (4 overs) Scorecard
    3 18 March Rajasthan Royals Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Won by 36 runs, MoM – Robin Uthappa 68* (38) Scorecard
    6 25 March Delhi Daredevils Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Lost by 7 wickets Scorecard
    11 10 April Kolkata Knight Riders Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru 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
    Overall record of 8 – 8
    Failed to make Finals, ended 3/8
    Qualified for 2010 Champions Trophy Twenty20
    2011 IPL season [edit]
    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 Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Won by 26 runs, MoM – Virat Kohli 67 (42) Scorecard
    9 6 May Kings XI Punjab Bengaluru Won by 85 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 107 (49) and 3/21 (4 overs) Scorecard
    10 8 May Kochi Tuskers Kerala Bengaluru 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 Bengaluru Won by 4 wickets (D/L), MoM – Chris Gayle 38 (12) and 0/11 (1 over) Scorecard
    13 17 May Kings XI Punjab Dharamsala Lost by 111 runs Scorecard
    14 22 May Chennai Super Kings Bengaluru 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
    Overall record of 10 – 5 (One match no result)
    Runners-up of 2011 Indian Premier League
    Qualified for 2011 Champions Trophy Twenty20
    2012 IPL season [edit]
    No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard Link
    1 7 April Delhi Daredevils Bengaluru Won by 20 runs, MoM – AB de Villiers 64* (42) Scorecard
    2 10 April Kolkata Knight Riders Bengaluru Lost by 42 runs Scorecard
    3 12 April Chennai Super Kings Chennai Lost by 5 wickets Scorecard
    4 15 April Rajasthan Royals Bengaluru Lost by 59 runs Scorecard
    5 17 April Pune Warriors India Bengaluru Won by 6 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 81 (48) Scorecard
    6 20 April Kings XI Punjab Mohali Won by 5 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 87 (56) Scorecard
    7 23 April Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Won by 46 runs, MoM – AB de Villiers 59* (23) Scorecard
    8 25 April Chennai Super Kings Bengaluru Match Abandoned without a ball bowled due to rain Scorecard
    9 28 April Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata Lost by 47 runs Scorecard
    10 2 May Kings XI Punjab Bengaluru Lost by 4 wickets Scorecard
    11 6 May Deccan Chargers Bengaluru Won by 5 Wickets, MoM – AB de Villiers 47* (17) Scorecard
    12 9 May Mumbai Indians Mumbai Won by 9 Wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 82* (59) Scorecard
    13 11 May Pune Warriors India Pune Won by 35 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 57 (31) Scorecard
    14 14 May Mumbai Indians Bengaluru Lost by 5 Wickets Scorecard
    15 17 May Delhi Daredevils New Delhi Won by 21 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 128* (62) Scorecard
    16 20 May Deccan Chargers Hyderabad Lost by 9 runs Scorecard
    Overall Record of 8 - 7
    Failed to make it to Playoffs, ended 5 out of 9
    2013 IPL season [edit]
    No. Date Opponent Venue Result Scorecard Link
    1 April 4, 2013 Mumbai Indians Bengaluru Won by 2 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 92* (58) Scorecard
    2 April 7, 2013 Sunrisers Hyderabad Hyderabad Match tied. Lost the super over by 5 runs Scorecard
    3 April 9, 2013 Sunrisers Hyderabad Bengaluru Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Virat Kohli 93* (47) Scorecard
    4 April 11, 2013 Kolkata Knight Riders Bengaluru Won by 8 wickets, MoM – Chris Gayle 85* (50) Scorecard
    5 April 13, 2013 Chennai Super Kings Chennai Lost by 4 wickets Scorecard
    6 April 16, 2013 Delhi Daredevils Bengaluru Match tied. Won the super over by 4 runs, MoM – Virat Kohli 65 (50) Scorecard
    7 April 20, 2013 Rajasthan Royals Bengaluru Won by 7 wickets, MoM – Vinay Kumar 3/18 (4 overs) Scorecard
    8 April 23, 2013 Pune Warriors India Bengaluru Won by 130 runs, MoM – Chris Gayle 175* (66) and 2/5 (1 over) Scorecard
    9 April 27, 2013 Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 58 Runs Scorecard
    10 April 29, 2013 Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 4 wickets Scorecard
    11 May 2, 2013 Pune Warriors India Pune Won by 17 runs, MoM – AB de Villiers 50* (23) Scorecard
    12 May 6, 2013 Kings XI Punjab Mohali Lost by 6 wickets Scorecard
    13 May 10, 2013 Delhi Daredevils New Delhi
    14 May 12, 2013 Kolkata Knight Riders Ranchi
    15 May 14, 2013 Kings XI Punjab Bengaluru
    16 May 18, 2013 Chennai Super Kings Bengaluru
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    Match Summary: Jaydev Unadkat takes a five wicket haul as RCB go on to defeat the Delhi Daredevils by 4 runs.

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    The serpent (aka Mallaya Uncle) in the garden
    The IPL is representative of the worst sides of Indian capitalism and Indian society
    Ramachandra Guha
    June 1, 2013

    Royal Challengers Bangalore owner Vijay Mallya: no M Chinnaswamy © AFP

    I detest wearing a tie, and do so only when forced. One such occasion was a formal dinner at All Souls College, Oxford, where opposite me was an Israeli scholar who had just got a job at the University, and was extremely anxious to show how well he knew its ways and mores. He dropped some names, and spoke of his familiarity with the manuscripts collection at "Bodley" (the Bodleian Library). In between his boasts he kept scrutinising my tie. Then, when he could contain his curiosity no more, he walked across the table, took my tie in his hand, looked at it ever more closely, and asked: "Is this Magdalene?"

    I did not answer. How could I? For the tie signalled not membership of a great old Oxford College, but of a rather more obscure institution, the Friends Union Cricket Club in Bangalore. I joined the club in 1963, aged five, because my uncle, a legendary one-handed cricketer named N Duraiswamy, played for it. I would go along with him for practice, stand by the side of the net, and at the end of the day be allowed to bowl a few balls from 12 yards or thereabouts. By the time I was ten I was helping lay the mat and nail it to the ground. When I reached my teens I was bowling from where everyone else did.

    As a boy and young man, I was an episodic member of the Friends Union Cricket Club. In those years I was based in North India, and came south for my summer and winter holidays. In 1994 I moved to Bangalore for good. In the past two decades, I have watched FUCC win the First Division Championship three times, and seen a series of young players graduate from club cricket to representing the state in the Ranji Trophy. My club has produced two India internationals and at least fifteen Karnataka players, all of whom I have known personally and/or watched play.

    Largely because of Duraiswami - who has been captain or manager for forty years now - FUCC enjoys a reputation that is high both in cricketing and ethical terms. No cricketer of the club has ever tried to use influence to gain state selection. Where other clubs sometimes adjust games to make sure they do not get relegated, FUCC does not resort to this. FUCC cricketers do not come late for practice, and never abuse the umpire. And they play some terrific cricket too.

    FUCC was one of a dozen clubs that provided the spine of Karnataka cricket. The others included Jawahars, Crescents, BUCC, Swastic, Bangalore Cricketers, and City Cricketers. The men who ran those clubs were likewise personally honest as well as fantastically knowledgeable about the game. The cricketers they produced won Karnataka six Ranji Trophy titles, and won India many Tests and one-day internationals too.

    This year I mark the 50th anniversary of my membership of the Friends Union Cricket Club. In this time, FUCC has commanded my primary cricketing loyalty; followed by my state, Karnataka, and only then by India. Six years ago, however, a new club and a new format entered my city and my life. I was faced with a complicated decision - should I now add a fresh allegiance, to the Royal Challengers Bangalore?

    I decided I would not, mostly because I disliked the promoter. In cricketing terms, Vijay Mallya was the Other of Duraiswami. He had never played cricket, nor watched much cricket either. He had no knowledge of its techniques or its history. He had come into the sport on a massive ego trip, to partake of the glamour and celebrity he saw associated with it. He would buy his way into Indian cricket. And so he did.

    It was principally because Mallya was so lacking in the dedicated selflessness of the cricketing coaches and managers I knew, that I decided the RCB would not be my team. So, although I am a member of the Karnataka State Cricket Association and have free entry into its grounds, I continued to reserve that privilege for Ranji Trophy and Test matches alone.

    The KSCA Stadium is named for its former president, M Chinnaswamy, who was one of Duraiswami's heroes. When I was growing up, Durai would tell me of how Chinnaswamy supervised the building of the stadium, brick by brick. This great lover of cricket abandoned his lucrative law practice for months on end, monitoring the design, the procurement of materials, and the construction, with no cost over-runs and absolutely no commissions either.



    The behaviour of Messrs Lalit Modi and N Srinivasan cannot shock or surprise me, but I have been distressed at the way in which some respected cricket commmentators have become apologists for the IPL and its management

    In other ways too Chinnaswamy was exemplary. Never, in all the years he served the KSCA, did he try to manipulate a single selection. Later, when he became president of the BCCI, he met the challenge of Kerry Packer by increasing the fees per Test match tenfold. It was while he ran Indian cricket that our players were for the first time treated with dignity and paid a decent wage.

    I wonder what Chinnaswamy would have made of his grasping, greedy, successors as presidents of BCCI. I wonder, too, what he would have made of a man who can't pay his own employees having a free run of the stadium that Chinnaswamy so lovingly built. This past April, the Bengaluru edition of the Hindu carried a front-page story on an summons that the Special Court for Economic Offences had issued to Mallya, who owed the Income Tax Department some Rs75 crores, or about $13.3 million, which he had not paid despite repeated reminders. The police, often waiving the rules for the powerful, told the court that they were too busy to execute the summons.

    But let me not single out Mallya here. The truth is that almost all the owners of IPL teams (seven out of nine, by one estimate) are being investigated by one government agency or another, in one country or another, for economic offences of one kind or another. Since this is a shady operation run by shady characters, Indian companies known for their professionalism, entrepreneurial innovation, and technical excellence have stayed away from the IPL altogether. Here is a question for those who still think the tournament is worth defending - why is it that companies like the Tatas, the Mahindras, or Infosys have not promoted an IPL team?

    To this writer, that the IPL was corrupt from top to bottom (and side to side) was clear from the start - which is why I have never exercised my right of free entry for its matches in Bengaluru. But as I watched the tournament unfold, I saw also that it was deeply divisive in a sociological sense. It was a tamasha for the rich and upwardly mobile living in the cities of southern and western India. Rural and small town India were largely left out, as were the most populous states. That Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, both of whom have excellent Ranji Trophy records, had no IPL team between them, while Maharashtra had two, was symptomatic of the tournament's identification with the powerful and the moneyed. The entire structure of the IPL was a denial of the rights of equal citizenship that a truly "national" game should promote.

    The IPL is representative of the worst sides of Indian capitalism and Indian society. Corrupt and cronyist, it has also promoted chamchagiri and compliance. The behaviour of Messrs Lalit Modi and N Srinivasan cannot shock or surprise me, but I have been distressed at the way in which some respected cricket commmentators have become apologists for the IPL and its management. Theirs is a betrayal that has wounded the image of cricket in India, and beyond. George Orwell once said: "A writer should never be a loyal member of a political party." Likewise, for his credibility and even his sanity, a cricket writer/commentator should keep a safe distance from those who run the game in his country.

    What is to be done now? The vested interests are asking for such token measures as the legalisation of betting and the resignation of the odd official. In truth, far more radical steps are called for. The IPL should be disbanded. The Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, played between state sides, should be upgraded, making it the flagship Twenty20 tournament in the country. Then the clubs and state associations that have run our domestic game reasonably well for the past 80 years would be given back their authority, and the crooks and the moneybags turfed out altogether.

    Even now, in every city and town in India, there are selfless cricket coaches and administrators active, nurturing young talent, supervising matches and leagues. The way to save Indian cricket is to allow these modern-day equivalents of Duraiswami and M Chinnaswamy to take charge once more.
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