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Royal Challengers: Vijay Mallya wanted to associate one of his top-selling liquor brands, Royal Challenge with the team.

Colours: Red & Gold, the same as the Karnataka state flag

Logo: The logo consists of the RC emblem with “Royal Challengers Bangalore” written in a circle.

City: Bangaluru

Home ground: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

Team Owner: Vijay Mallya UB Group (United Spirits)

Management: Owner Vijay Mallya

CEO Brijesh Patel

Money spent on Auction (2009) $ 4,835,000

Franchisee Fee: $ 111.6 million

Team Sponsors: UB Breweries, Reebok, McDowell’s No.1, Whyte & Mackay, Kingfisher, Indigo Nation

Ambassador: Katrina Kaif, Deepika Padukone, Ramya, Upendra, Puneet Rajkumar

Team Anthem: Jeetenge Hum Shaan Se, Game for More.

Merchandise: Reebok, Louis Phillippe

Cheer leaders: Mischief Girls

Coach: Ray Jennings

Captain: Anil Kumble

Icon Player: Rahul Dravid

Physiotherapist : Bharathesh SP

The Man Every Man (apart from Richard Branson) Envies!

RCB Team

Rahul Dravid

Anil Kumble

Eoin Morgan

Ashok Menaria

Manish Pandey

Balachandra Akhil

Praveen Kumar

Vinay Kumar

Virat Kohli

Jacques Kallis

Ross Taylor

Dale Willem Steyn

Roelof van der Merwe

Mark Boucher

Robin Uthappa

Rajesh Bishnoi

Pankaj Singh

Shreevats Goswami

K P Appanna

Jesse Ryder

Kevin Pietersen

Wasim Jaffer

Dillon Du Preez

Ishank Jaggi

Jagadeesh Arunkumar

Sunil Joshi

Udit Patel

Bhuvanesh Kumar

Abhimanyu Mithun

Bharat Chipli

Cameron Leon White

Saurabh Sushant Bandekar

Sridharan Sriram

Karan Vinod Sharma

Jitendra Patil

C Muralidharen Gautam

Devraj Thyagaraj Patil

Rangaraj Suthesh

Steven Smith

Nayan Doshi

RCB is the second best payer in the world based on a pro rata basis for the first term & so Kevin Pietersen is one of the costliest players in world sports. Kevin Pietersen was valued at $1.55m over a base price of $1.35m. it is also the largest team in IPL.

RCB has not been blessed with good times inspite of being an expensive franchisee & with good players. The form of the players has been a major cause of concern. The string of failures mid-way through the first 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. 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. 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.