Royal Challengers Bangalore is owned by Vijay Mallya through his UB group which is one of the largest liquor manufacturers of the world. Vijay Mallya paid $111.6 millions for buying the rights of Bangalore franchise in the IPL auctions held in early 2008. This was the second highest bid for an IPL team, next only to RIL's $111.9 millions for Mumbai Indians.
Royal Challengers Bangalore has Bollywood celebrities, Deepika Padukone and Katrina Kaif, and Sandalwood film stars, Ramya and Upendra as its brand ambassadors. Also, the team has Brijesh Patel as its CEO.
The name Royal Challenger is drawn from Mallya's top selling brand Royal Challenge. The logo consists of the RC emblem with “Royal Challengers Bangalore” in standard format while the jersey colors of RCB are red and golden yellow.
Royal Challengers In 2010 IPL Season
RCB showed mixed performance in the IPL 2010 season. They lost their first opening match against Kolkata Knight Riders but they came strongly with next four consecutive wins. While Kallis and Uthappa were in tremendous form with the bat, Kumble showed good hands in bowling along with Vinay Kumar. The team lost its next two matches and after a roller coaster performance managed to reach to semi-finals. In semi-finals they lost to Mumbai Indians. With Daniel Vettori as the captain of the team, RCB is looking a strong team for the fresh season of IPL 2011. RCB will play their first match against Kochi Tuskers Kerala on 9th April.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Current Squad
- Daniel Vettori (c)
- Mayank Agarwal
- Sreenath Aravind
- Arun Karthik
- BN Bharath
- Raju Bhatkal
- AB de Villiers (wk)
- Tillakaratne Dilshan
- Nuwan Pradeep
- Muralidharen Gautam
- Mohammad Kaif
- Abrar Kazi
- Zaheer Khan
- Virat Kohli
- Charl Langeveldt
- Abhimanyu Mithun
- Dirk Nannes
- Ryan Ninan
- Asad Pathan
- Luke Pomersbach
- Cheteshwar Pujara
- Rilee Rossouw
- Saurabh Tiwary
- Johan van der Wath
- Jonathan Vandiar
Coach: Ray Jennings
Assistant Head Coach: Sanath Kumar
Physiotherapist: Evan Speechly
