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Royal Challengers “Fanatic Fans” CHALLENGE

ROyal challenger is running a online contest to recruit CHIEF BLOGGER, CHIEF PHOTOGRAPHER OR CHIEF RCB FAN for the upcoming champions league twenty 20

Winners of the contest will will be given the privilege of travelling with RCB Team (as official RCB staff) and granted preferred access

More details are here, good luck guys!

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Key dates:
Job Applications strat date: Sept 7
Job Applications close date: 27 september
Voting and campaigning till: 27 september
on 28 september 27 shortlisted candidates will be announced
Onground auditions will be held on October 3 and results are announced on the same date

Glenn McGrath has taken tournament-best figures of 4 for 29 to help Delhi beat Bangalore by 10 runs in Delhi

Gautam Gambir thrashed 86 off 54 balls to help Delhi post 5 for 191 off its 20 overs.Royal Challengers won the toss and put the Daredevils into bat first, despite lossing Sehwag early in the innings, Gambhir and Shikhar Dhawan (50) put on 98 for the second wicket and set a target of 191

Jacques Kallis (54, 44 balls, 6 x 4, 1×6), Rahul Dravid (38) and Mark Boucher 31offered some resistance to reduce the margin. but Bangalore never looked like chasing 191. The start was terrible for the Royal Challengers as they lost too many wickets at the top.

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Video Highlights of Gautam Gambhir Innings against Bangalore Royal Challengers

IPL Score card Bangalore Royal Challengers vs Delhi Dare Devils

Royal Chargers disaapointed home crowd yet again, juss out from a party given by mallya after a win over Mumbai, Royal chargers faced music yet again. Royal Challengers lost their top four wickets to pulls and hooks, and never recovered from it and set a target of 136. Jaipur chased their modest target of 136 with seven wickets and overs to spare in the most boring and one sided match of IPL till now

Royal Challengers Wickets vs Rajasthan Royals. Shane Watson picked up 2 for 20 first and then topped it up with 61 off 41 balls to seal a comfortable win for Rajasthan.

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Score Card

Bangalore Royal Challengers trashed Mumbai Indians infront of a nosiy Mumbai crowd in there first match. In a match dominated by porteas, Boucher and kallis denied win to Mumbai.

Sachin missed this match and Luke Ronchi, opened the innings with Sanath. Virat Kohli took a awesome catch to dismiss dangerous Ronchi( He had a strike rate of 177 in T20’s). After 17 overs, Mumbai only had 129, but Pollock went on against Bangalore bowlers. Robin Uthappa(48 in 38 ),Sanath Jayasuriya(29), and pollocks 12-ball 28 lifted Mumbai Indians to a challenging 165 for 6 in their first encounter at IPL. Harbhajhan did a fine job as a captain. Zahher Khan looked at his best utilized bounce and controlled the ball very well

Bangalore low of confidence started there reply shakily, while Chandrapual looked confident Dravid was clueless initially but later one displayed some good strokes.

Dravid should come in middle of the innings than open the innings. Virat Kohli Sparked in his short innings, no doubt he will make into India ODI squad very soon. Boucher(39 runs) straight away played beautifully and along with Kallis( 55 run partnership) steered Bangalore Royal Challengers to there first victory

Video Highlights of Mumbai Indians Innings

Video Highlights of Bangalore Royal Challengers Innings

Mumbai vs Bangalore Scorecard

Watch out the video highlights of IPL opening match. Kolkata Knight Raiders trashing Royal Challengers in  match much remembered for Brendon McCullum innings of 158 runs in just 73 balls with 10 fours and 13 sixes

One sided..and one man show Kolkata Knight Riders 222 for 3 (McCullum 158*) beat Bangalore Royal Challengers 82 (Agarkar 3-25) by 140 runs at the inaugural match of the DLF Indian Premier League at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday.. Brendon McCullum destroyed Royal challengers bowlers smashing it to all corners of the ground.

Batting first Knight Riders scored 222/3 in 20 overs thanks to magnificent 158 not out by Brendon McCullum. McCullum’s 158 in 73 balls include 10 four’s and 13 huge sixes, it is the highest score in a twenty 20 match.Sourav Ganguly (10 from 12 balls) and Ricky Ponting (20 from 20) disappointed Knight Raiders.

Juss when you hope a minimum fight from home boy’s, the Bangalore never looked to live up to the challenge.

They never challenged the young kolkata bowling line up and fell like a pack of cards and collapsed to a mere 82 to lose by an embarrassing margin of 140 runs, infront of jam-packed home ground. The collapse started in very first over when Ishanth Sharma rooted out Rahul Dravid’s leg wicket and the rest followed very soon

Royal Challengers top eight batsman failed to reach double figures. Praveen Kumar is the only Bangalore batsman to reach double digits in their innings.

RC B’lore will see more embarrassment in coming days as Rahul Dravid and there think tank choosen test players for t20 players, bad days for king of good times

After months of hype and drama IPL will kick off from Bangalore Today. Bangalore Royal Challengers will face Kolkatta Knight Rideras at Chinnaswamy Stadium which begins at 2000 local time (14:30 GMT)

Charu Sharma and his team are showcasing cricket matches in a different level a couple of players from the fielding side will be “miked up” to chat directly with the TV commentators during the match, the toss will be done takeing off lights and a spotlight will follow both capatains, blend of fireworks, semi naked cheerleaders flown from USA to support local team, live show by Shankar-Ehsan-Loy, a red-painted tunnel leading from the dressing rooms to the ground(lol some one closely following EPL)

Now coming back to the match

Bangalore Royal Challengers team: Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Mark Boucher, Nathan bracken, Chanderpaul, Kallis, Wasim Jaffer, Zaheer Khan, Dale Steyn, Cameroon White, Virat Kohli, Misbah-Ul-Haq, Abdur Razzak, Ross Taylor, Srivatsa Goswami.

Anil Kumble ruled out through injury. Misbah-ul-Haq will miss the opening clash because of the ongoing series in Pakistan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul is reportedly carrying an injury,but the good news for Bangalore fans is Kallis and Mark Boucher who re supposed to leave to SA will stay back

Kolkata Knight Riders  Team : Sourav Ganguly, Chris Gayle, Ricky Ponting, David Hussey, Brendon McCullum, Umar Gul, Ishant Sharma, Ajit Agarkar, Murali Karthik, Salman Butt, Akash Chopra, Taibu, Sarwan, Cheteswar Pujara, Siddarth kaul, Yashpal Singh, Ranadeb Bose, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Rohan Banarjee, Debabrata Das, Sourashish Lahiri, Mohammad Hafeez, Iqbal Abdullah.

KolkataKnoght Riders will miss the services of Butt and Umar Gul. Karthik is doing a great job in T20’s, Ishanth is in a terrefic fom

Each team can field only 4 foreign players per match. . Chris Gayle, Ricky Ponting,Hussey and Brendon McCullum will represent Kolkata. Kallis, Cameron White, Mark Boucher and Ashley Noffke will represent Bangalore

Prediction – Kolkata Knight Riders will trash Bangalore, even the imported cheerleaders may not help Royal Challengers

Indian Premier League 20:20 Cricket – Bangalore Royal Challengers promotional video.

Aisi Taisi is Geo Super’s Offical IPL (Indian Premier League) Promotional Song.

Bangalore Royal Challengers

Owner: Vijay Mallya
Official Website: http://www.royalchallengers.com/
Captain: Rahul Dravid

Coach: Venkatesh Prasad

Franchise cost: $111.6 Million

Batsmen:
Rahul Dravid
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Wasim Jaffer
Misbah-ul-Haq
Ross Taylor
Arun Kumar
Appanna KP
Bharat Chipli

Wicket Keepers / All Rounders:
Mark Boucher
Shreevats Goswami
Devraj Patil
Jacques Kallis
Cameron White
Sunil Joshi
Akhil B.
Virat Kohli

Bowlers:
Anil Kumble
Zaheer Khan
Nathan Bracken
Dale Steyn
Praveen Kumar
Abdur Razzak
Vinay Kumar

Bangalore Royal challengers represent Garden city, Bangalore and owned by liquor baron Vijaya Mallya, needlessly to say the Bangalore team was named after UB brand Royal challenge. As said by Mallya “The platform is completely in line with the Royal Challenge profile and brand dynamics. The objective is to further strengthen the Royal Challenge consumer equity.”

South Africa’s Jacques Kallis at $900,000 became the costliest player to be selected to play for the Royal Challengers and Rahul Dravid is there icon player. It will be interesting to see how rahul adopts to T20’s. Notable misses from the team include Robin Uthappa.

The team is more suited for test mataches – Jaffer, Dravid, kumble. I thought Sunil Joshi left international cricket years back, he is a surprise entrant in the Bangalore squad

Strength – Vijay Mallya, a no nonsense sports loving guy, if he finds potential in IPL, he will pour money and can make it a winner team and brand

Weakness – Lack of T20 batsmen, inexperienced squad

Star Players – Misbah-ul-Haq. Need no introduction almost single handedly bought Pakistan to victory in t20 finals. Bracken, Kallis, Boucher may come handy. no bowling sensation Praveen Kumar will be tested

Prediction – My bet they will end up somewhere between 5-7. If at all IPL have test version Bangalore team is my favorite choice

Schedule – April 20: Mumbai v Royal Challengers at Mumbai

April 26: Royal Challengers v Jaipur at Bangalore

April 28: Royal Challengers v Chennai at Bangalore

April 30: Delhi v Royal Challengers at Delhi

May 3: Hyderabad v Royal Challengers at Hyderabad

May 5: Royal Challengers v Mohali at Bangalore

May 8: Mohali v Royal Challengers at Mohali

May 10: Jaipur v Royal Challengers at Jaipur May

12: Royal Challengers v Delhi at Delhi

May 15: Chennai v Royal Challengers at Chennai

May 12: Royal Challengers v Hyderabad at Bangalore