ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGLORE

Will they be the perfect challengers?????

After being criticized as the test team in IPL 2008, the challengers have made many changes. Bringing in the new players like Kevin Pietersen, Jesse Ryder and sacking Rahul Dravid’s captaincy are the major changes for 2009. Pietersen has been named as captain for the second season.

SQUAD FOR ROYAL CHALLENGERS 2009

INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS

MARK BOUCHER

JACQUES KALLIS

DALE STEYN

DILLON DU PREEZ

ROELOF VAN DER MERWE from SOUTH AFRICA

ROSS TAYLOR

JESSE RYDER from NEW ZEALAND

KEVIN PIETERSEN from ENGLAND

CAMEROON WHITE

NATHAN BRACKEN from AUSTRALIA

INDIAN PLAYERS

RAHUL DRAVID,ANIL KUMBLE,WASIM JAFFER,VIRAT KOHLI,ROBIN UTTAPPA,PRAVEEN KUMAR,SRIVATS GOSWAMI,SUNIL JOSHI,MANISH PANDEY, R SUTEESH,PANKAJ SINGH,VINAY KUMAR,BHUVANESH KUMAR,SAURAV BANDEKAR,TINU YOUHANAN,KARAN SHARMA,B AKHIL,BHARAT CHIPLI, J ARUN KUMAR,DEVRAJ PATIL,GAUVAR DIMAN,KP APPANA,UDIT PATEL,JITENDRA PATEL,S KEDAR JADHAV,MITHUN A ARVIND,RAJU BHATKAL, CM GAUTHAM,ROHIT SABBARWAL,ISHANT JAGGI,RAJESH BISHNOI.

COACH:

RAY JENNINGS

FRANCHISE OWNER:

VIJAY MALLYA

BRAND AMBASSADORS:

KATRINA KAIF, DEEPIKA PADUKONE

CHEERLEADERS:

WASHINGTON REDSKINS

TRADE:

Robin Uttappa replacing Zaheer Khan from MUMBAI INDIANS

Gaurav Dhiman from MUMBAI INDIANS

Pankaj Singh from RAJASTHAN ROYALS

KEY PLAYERS:

Kevin Pietersen will be the most important player who was almost bought for $1.55 million. Also Rahul Dravid, Dale steyn, Jaques Kallis and Ross Taylor are players to be watched.

Royal Challengers have a real good chance to win the second season. It is a team which has the power to conquer. It is probably going to be favourite team among South Africans as most of their stars are in it.

RCB the perfect “ROYAL CHALLENGERS”