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Pune Warriors
This franchise of cricket team playing under IPL is
representing the Indian city Pune. The franchise is one of the two newly added
franchises of the IPL that was founded in 2010 and played 2011 matches under
IPL as their first season. Subrata Roy of Sahara Group won the bid from
Videocon Group and purchased the franchise for 170.2 million Indian rupees.
Angelo Mathews is the team captain and Allan Donald is the
head coach of the team. Allan Donald is former South African Pacer and
currently bowling coach of South Africa. As the name of the team Warriors so
it’s the logo has spear wielding warrior riding a stallion. Initially the name
of the franchise was Sahara Pune Warriors later it changed to Pune Warriors
India. They signed with Adidas as their official sponsor for the coming
seasons. While TVS Motors were their proper brand sponsor. The other sponsors
included Pepsi, Playup, Royal Challenge, Amity University, Valvoline and
Finolex. The color assigned to the team is Turquoise blue and silver.
For their first season in 2011 Pune Warriors signed top
players including Yuvraj Singh, Robbin Uthappa, Jesse Ryder, Angelo Mathews,
Murali Kartik, Graeme Smith, Ashish Nehra and also have signed number of top
uncapped players of Indian different clubs and franchises that is Abhishek
Jhunjhunwala, Mohnish Mishra, Kamran Khan and Mithun Minhas. The team played a
successful season of IPL 2011 under the captaincy of Yuvraj Singh.
At the start of the fifth season of IPL in 2012 Sahara
decided to withdraw their Pune Warriors from season 2012 just hour before when
the auction was about to start. But later Subrata Roy said that Saurav Ganguly
will be asked for reconcialliation, later he announced that Yuvraj Singh would
be replaced. The deadlocks were still between BCCI and Sahara group. But later
on February 2012, the discussion ended up with a positive result and they
announced that Pune Warriors will play the season 2012 of IPL.
It was decided by disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala that
each team will play with remaining eight teams twice, once at home ground and
once at away so the each team will play 16 total matches. The first match was
considered as a battle between two friends Saurav Ganguly and Sachin Tendulkar
from the team Mumbai Indians. Pune warriors won the match by 29 runs. PW played
total 16 matches but won only 4 and lost 12 and retained their position at 9
out of 9 teams.
The players currently playing with PW are Robin Uthappa,
Yuvraj Singh, Angelo Mathews, Kane Richarson, Ajantha Mendis, Abhishek Nayar,
Ashok Dinda, Micheal Clarke, Marlon Samuels, Luke Wright, Wayne Parnell, Rahul
Sharma and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Kolkata Knight Riders
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