Rajasthan Royals is the franchise that will represent the city of Jaipur and the state of Rajasthan[original research?] in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led and coached by Shane Warne. There is no Icon Player for the team. This is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach.
Franchise History
The Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned by Emerging Media group. The group acquired the franchise for $67 million.
Players
Rajasthan Royals was the least active franchise during the player auction. The team does not have a designated icon player, which saved a lot of cap space for the franchise. However the franchise was surprisingly low key during the auction, and in the end got penalized by the IPL organizing committee for failing to meet the minimum bidding criteria of $3.3 million.[2]. The highest bid by Rajasthan Royals was for the Indian middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif, who came off the board at $675,000.
Shane Warne has been named the coach and captain of the side. The Royals are unique as they are the only side to have an English cricketer in their squad, Hampshire's all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas.
News
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Second Round Players Auction
Mumbai, India - March 11, 2008
Dimitri Mascarenhas, Morne Morkel, Shane Watson and Sohail Tanvir snapped up by Rajasthan Royals.
Shane Warne named captain and coach of Jaipur - Rajasthan Royals in Indian Premier League
Mumbai, India - Feb 28, 2008
"Shane has been a winner throughout his career and has made it clear that he is coming to India to make the Rajasthan Royals win," a statement from Emerging Media, owners of the franchise, said on Wednesday.
Who became Millionaire? Check it out.
Mumbai, India - Feb 20, 2008
Check it out who hit the Jack pot and who are left out. Top - M.S.Dhoni - $1.50 million, Lowest Chamara Silva - $1,00,000 for six week job.
Indian Premier League Players Auction Result
Mumbai, India - Feb 20, 2008
The Chennai Super Kings (India Cement) paid the highest amount for Mahendra Singh Dhoni in the first round. Dhoni was bought for Rs 6 crore ($1.5 million). Andrew Symonds became the second highest was bought by Hyderabad for
$1.35 million.
Emerging Media, Mukesh Ambani, Shahrukh, Vijay Mallya win bids for teams in Indian Premier League
Mumbai, India - Jan 24, 2008
Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan and industrialist Mukesh Ambani won bids on Thursday to own teams in the star-studdded Twenty20 Indian Premier League,organisers said. Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, film actress Preity Zinta and four companies also earned the right
to own franchises for the DLF Indian Premier League to be played across India in April-May.
Warne to be highest paid in Indian Premier League
India - Dec 14, 2007
Australian spin legend Shane Warne will be the highest paid cricketer in the BCCI-sponsored Indian Premier League (IPL) with a staggering USD 400000.
Kitting Partners
Reebok India has some of the finest and most enigmatic athletes as its brand ambassadors. The RBK line up boasts of Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh, Harbhajan Singh, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Irfan Pathan, Mohammed Kaif, Robin Uttapa and Narain Karthikeyan among others. They have tied up with many international cricketers like Chris gayle from West Indies, Mahela Jayawardene from Sri Lanka & Abdur Razzaq from Pakistan to name a few. The brand has been credited with bridging the gap between looking sporty and yet stylish.
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