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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.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Indian Premiere League put up many cricket franchises on
auction during its inauguration in Mumbai held in February 20, 2008. The name
of the franchises consists of many different Indian cities. Royal Challengers
Bangalore is one of them. The IPL cricket tournament organized by Board of
Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and is supported by International Cricket
Council (ICC). IPL presented eight different teams for auction , among them,
RCB was the second highest bid franchise after the Ambani’s Mumbai Indians.
Vijay Mallya won its bid for US$ 111.6 million. Katrina Kaif, Deepika Pedukon
and Sandalwood are the brand ambassadors of RCB.
Currently the captain of RCB team is Virat Kohli and the
coach is Ray Jennings from South Africa. M. Chinnaswamy Stadium is its home
ground, Sidhart Mallya is the director of the team where as Avinash Vadiya is
its Manager.
The team showed its consistent performance since its start
and played semifinal three times except 2008 and 2012 tournament. RCB’s also
qualified for three seasons of the Champions League T20.
During its first season in 2008 the team won only 4 matches
out of 14 and was at second from bottom at the end of the season. RCB appeared
with a good start during 2009, second season of IPL by winning a match against
Rajasthan Royals but later went on losing matches under the captaincy of Kevin
Pietersen. RCB’s fortune started doing in its favor by replacing captain for
Anil Kumble and they reached in final with Deccan Chargers but could not win.
During this season Manish Pandey becomes the first Indian by scoring 114* (73)
against Deccan Chargers. 2010 proved a mixture of lose and win for RCB by
losing and winning 8, 8 matches by playing 16 total and stood at 3rd place
among the teams. 2011 season of IPL proved a good year for RCB’s as they played
total 17 matches out of which RCB’s won 10 and lost 6 matches with one match
tied. RCB was the runner up of 2011 but lost final against Chennai Supper Kings
by 58 runs. But qualified for the champions trophy. RCB’s proved themselves and
played the next season in 2012 very well. The team won 8 out of 16 matches
while one match ended up without any result due to rain.
Currently the team playing with Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli,
Saurabh Tiwary, AB de Villiers, Vinay Kumar, Zaheer Khan, Cheteshwar Pujara,
Tillakaratne Dilshan, Daniel Vettori, Jaydev Unadkat, R P Singh, Abhimanyu
Mithin, Muttiah Muralitharan and Andrew McDonald.
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