Bangalore Royal Challengers

Royal Challengers, a franchise that represents the IT city, Bangalore Royal Challengers is owned by the liquor magnate Vijay Mallya, the chairman of UB Group (Kingfisher). This team is owned by UB Group and the whole team is valued at US$111.6 million, and was bought on January 2008. Only Mukesh Ambani spends more money than Vijay Mallya.

Charu Sharma is the CEO of the team and Rahul Dravid, the captain of the team and also Icon Player for Bangalore. Coach of the team is Venkatesh Prasad, the former Indian fast bowler and the present bowling coach of India Martin Crowe, the former New Zealand captain also part of the management. Royal Challengers have some good test players in the team like Jacques Kallis, Dale Steyn and Ross Taylor.

Following are the players taken into the Bangalore Royal Challengers team, with their bidding price.

• Rahul Dravid (icon)
• Anil Kumble (US$ 500,000)
• Jacques Kallis (US$ 900,000)
• Zaheer Khan (US$ 450,000)
• Mark Boucher (US$ 450,000)
• Cameron White (US$ 500,000)
• Wasim Jaffer (US$ 150,000)
• Dale Steyn (US$ 325,000)
• Nathan Bracken (US$ 325,000)
• Shivnarine Chanderpaul (US$ 200,000)

Apart from these International players, there are a few National level players taken into the team, like Sunil Joshi, Devraj Patil, Shreevats Goswami, Bharat Chipli and Under 19 world cup winning captain Virat Kohli. Home Ground of team is M. Chinnaswamy Stadium with capacity of 55,000.
Administration and coaching staff:

Owner – Vijay Mallya
CEO – Charu Sharma
Adviser – Martin Crowe
Ambassadors – Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif, Ramya, Upendra.

Coaches:
Head Coach – Venkatesh Prasad