Rajasthan Royals-Halla Bol!!

Name: Rajasthan Royals

Owned By: Emerging Media Group

Franchise fee: $67 million

Most expensive player: Mohammad Kaif – $675,000

Captain: Shane Warne

Home Ground: Jaipur, India; Sahara Park Newlands in Cape Town, South Africa.

Coach: Shane Warne

Brand Ambassador: Shilpa Shetty

Official Website: http://www.rajasthanroyals.com

Squad:

Shane Warne (Aus), Abhishek Raut (Ind), Ahad Malek (Ind), Amit Singh (Ind), Anup Revandkar (Ind), Ashraf Makda (Ind), Atul Sharma (Ind), Dimitri Mascarenhas (Eng), Dinesh Salunke (Ind), Gajendra Singh (Ind), Graeme Smith (SA), Kamran Akmal (Pak), Lee Carseldine (Aus), Mahesh Rawat (Ind), Mohammad Arif (Ind), Mohammad Kaif (Ind), Morne Morkel (SA), Munaf Patel (Ind), Naman Ojha (Ind), Niraj Patel (Ind), Paras Dogra (Ind), Paul Valthaty (Ind), Pratmesh Salunke (Ind), Pushkarraj Chavan (Ind), Raiphi Gomez (Ind), Ravindra Jadeja (Ind), Robert Quiney (Aus), Shane Harwood (Aus), Shane Watson (Aus), Shaun Tait (Aus), Siddharth Chitnis (Ind), Siddharth Trivedi (Ind), Sohail Tanvir (Pak), Srideep Mangela (Ind), Swapnil Asnodkar (Ind), Tyron Henderson (SA), Yusuf Pathan (Ind)

Player on Spotlight: None in particular.

At 650,000 $ Rajastan Royals is the cheapest team in IPL .Led by Shane Warne who is also the coach of the team Rajasthan Royals is the only team in IPL with a foreign captain.They started as the underdogs and went on to win the first and inaugural edition of the IPL quite convincingly.The first edition’s win was a result of team effort and Shane Warne’s great captaincy and coaching. Last years performer for the Rajastan Royals include the events Purple cap winning Pakistani fast bowler Sohail Tanveer, Australian all rounder Shane Watson, some young Indian players like Yusuf Pathan, Asnodkar, Ravindra Jadeja and off course the captain himself.

Positives:

• Tyron Henderson’s inclusion in the team after the recent auction . Tyron Henderson is probably one the most successful t20 players of the world ,he can be devastating.
• Grame Smith’s experience on the South African pitches will be a great assert to Rajasthan Royals.
• The New comer Kamran Khan whom Warne nicknamed  ‘Wild Thing’ / ‘Tornado’ can be suprise the oppsition with his left hand side arm action pace which is comfortably over 140 kmph.
• Shane warne’s captaincy and coaching .His presence is sure to be felt.

Negatives:

• No Experienced batsmen to bat on South African Pitches in the middle order which include manny inexperienced Indians.
• Shane Watson Will only be playing last 6 matches( remember he was the player of the tournament of last edition of IPL.
• Sohail Tanveer is out of IPL(highest wicket taker in last years IPL).

To add glamor quotient ,this time we have Shilpa Shetty who brought a stake in RR along with her beau Raj Kundra.Shilpa Shetty has already done a video to promote Rajasthan Royals.

Though Rajsthan Royals are the defending champions. They have to start from the scratch again to regain the title again in the second edition .