Pakistan’s Misabah-ul-Haq goes to Bangalore Royal Challengers for $125,000 Fourteen players were auctioned in the second and final round of bidding for the DLF IPL Twenty20 tournament beginning on April 18, with Australian James Hopes bagging the highest bid of $300,000 from Mohali franchaise owned by Bollywood’s Preity Zinta and friend Ness Wadia. Dimitri Masceranhas [...]
Indian Test cricket captain and Bangalore IPL star Anil Kumble feels the country can become the World Number 1 by the end of this year if the team can maintain the winning momentum. India went down to Australia 2-1 in the fourth Test after a controversy marred Sydney Test, but went on to win the [...]
Former Indian captain and Bangalore IPL team Royal Challengers’ icon player Rahul Dravid thinks the Indian Premier League’s success will depend on the way it rolls out its inaugural edition. The Bangalore IPL team, Christened Royal Challengers, is promoted by liquor baron Vijay Mallya of the UB Group. Rahul Dravid told a news agency that [...]
This is not the final composition of the Bangalore Royal Challengers IPL squad; the final eleven will be known only later. Post-auction, the Bangalore team stands as below: Squads after auction (Final eleven will be known only later): Rahul Dravid Mark Boucher (wk) Nathan Bracken Shivnarine Chanderpaul Wasim Jaffer Jacques Kallis Zaheer Khan Anil Kumble [...]