Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals is the cricket team representing the pink city of Jaipur in the Indian Premier League tournaments. The team is led by ace spinner Shane Warne of Australia. Interestingly, the Rajasthan Royals who won the title in IPL's inaugural 2008 season, did not have a brand ambassador and were the only team with a foreign captain and coach. Leicestershire spinner Jeremy Snape is the team's performance coach and psychologist.

The Rajasthan Royals franchise of IPL is owned by Emerging Media group with investors - Lachlan Murdoch, Sir. Aditya Chellaram and Suresh Chellaram; Manoj Badale, Bollywood actress and Big Brother winner celebrity Shilpa Shetty and her husband and business partner Raj Kundra paid about US $15.4 million for an 11.7% stake in the team's ownership.

The team has an interesting mascot lion - Moochu Singh while 'Halla Bol', sung by Ila Arun, is the team's anthem. Rajasthan Royals also has a promotional video that they aired on national networks before and during the first edition of the IPL which is directed by Indrajit Nattoji of Blink Pictures.

Rajasthan Royals' team logo has a lion to reflect the King, might, raw energy and the power of the royals. It also includes the war horn which denotes the war cry. The RR is a symbol of the crown and the ultimate sign of royalty while the Royal Medallion is the symbol of the clan's pride.

Rajasthan Royals In 2010 IPL Season
Their performance in the 2010 edition of Indian Premier League was rather disappointing with the team only managing to win only 6 league matches out of 14 and thus, failed to make it into the semi finals. With a mix of a new bunch of players bargained into the team for the 2011 season and a few old ones, the team will look to reciprocate the performance that won them the first edition of Indian Premier League back in 2008.

Rajasthan Royals' Current Squad

1. Shane Warne (Captain)
2. Amit Singh
3. Swapnil Asnodkar
4. Stuart Binny
5. Johan Botha
6. Deepak Chahar
7. Ankeet Chavan
8. Aakash Chopra
9. Aditya Dole
10. Nayan Doshi
11. Rahul Dravid
12. Samad Fallah
13. Faiz Fazal
14. Ashok Menaria
15. Sumit Narwal
16. Jacob Oram
17. Pankaj Singh
18. Amit Paunikar
19. Ajinkya Rahane
20. Abhishek Raut
21. Dinesh Salunkhe
22. Pinal Shah
23. Shaun Tait
24. Ross Taylor
25. Siddharth Trivedi
26. Shane Watson
27. Dishant Harendra Yagnik

Support Staff:
Director of Coaching: Darren Berry
Assistant Coach: Monty Desai
Performance Coach: Jeremy Snape
Physiotherapist: John Gloster
Team Manager: Sushil Tulaskar
Head of Massage: Derek Sedgmen
Kit Logistics Manager: Zaheer Ahmed