Kolkata Knight Riders

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Kolkata Knight Riders

Coach: Dav Whatmore

Captain: Gautam Gambhir

Colours: Purple and Gold

         

Founded: 2008

Home ground: Eden Gardens

Capacity: 90,000

Owner: Shahrukh Khan

Juhi Chawla
Jai Mehta
Red Chillies Entertainment

Official website: Kolkata Knight Riders

Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Kolkata Knight Riders (Bengali: কলকাতা নাইট রাইডার্স; often abbreviated as KKR) is the
franchise representing Kolkata in the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 cricket tournament.
Till IPL3, the team was led by Sourav Ganguly,who unfortunately remained unsold for the fourth
season, and coached by Dav Whatmore. Sourav Ganguly was the team's Icon Player for the first
three seasons. The official theme of the team is Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re (Bengali for We will do
it, Fight for it, Win it) and the official colors are purple and gold. As per the recent study done by
a UK based brand valuation company, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are ranked as the second
most valuable franchise brand at US$46 million.[1] Celebrity co-owner Shahrukh Khan’s hard-
selling of the KKR brand has counteracted the team’s poor on-field performance.[2] They are the
only team to have never made the semi-finals.

Contents
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 1 Franchise History
o 1.1 2008 IPL Season
 1.1.1 Performance
 1.1.2 Controversy
 1.1.3 Financial
o 1.2 2009 IPL Season
 1.2.1 Players
 1.2.2 Controversy
 1.2.3 Cheer Leaders
o 1.3 2010 Season
 1.3.1 Players
 1.3.2 Performance
o 1.4 2011 Season
o 1.5 IPL 2011 KKR Fixtures=
 2 Livery
 3 Players
  4 Current squad
 5 Administration
 6 Fixtures and results
o 6.1 Overall results
o 6.2 2008 season
o 6.3 2009 season
o 6.4 2010 season
 7 References
 8 External links

[edit] Franchise History

Owner Shahrukh Khan (left) with Sourav Ganguly, and Gauri Khan, wife of Shahrukh Khan.

A Chennai vs Kolkata match in progress at the M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium.

Chris Gayle Former player.

Kolkata Knight Riders is one the 10 franchise teams taking part in the Indian Premier League. It
was bought by Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan's Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with
Juhi Chawla Mehta and her husband Jay Mehta.

[edit] 2008 IPL Season

[edit] Performance

The Kolkata Knight Riders had a good beginning to the season by winning their first two
matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers.Kolkata Knight Riders'
opening batsman Brendon McCullum scored 158 runs in the first match, which is a record for the
highest runs ever scored by a batsman in a Twenty-20 match.[3] However, the team started
experiencing failures and lost consecutive four matches. The team managed to stage a comeback
of sorts by winning next three matches based on strong performances by Sourav Ganguly and
Shoaib Akhtar. But their performance dipped again and lost next three matches, which included
their match against Mumbai Indians, in which they were bowled out for 67 runs, the lowest score
by a team in IPL 2008 season.[4] When their match against Delhi Daredevils was washed out due
to rain, they lost any chance of making it to the semifinals.[5] The Knight Riders ended their
season on a winning note by defeating Kings XI Punjab on their home ground.

[edit] Controversy

There were reports of a rift between Shahrukh Khan and Sourav Ganguly over various issues
such as team composition, Ganguly's choice of batting first in the game against Chennai Super
Kings, entertainment tax being imposed for matches played at Eden Gardens (Shahrukh
reportedly wanted Ganguly to speak to the West Bengal Chief Minister, Buddhadeb
Bhattacharya about it, which was refused by Ganguly).[6] It was also reported that Shahrukh
Khan bestowed more powers to John Buchanan including giving him full powers to select the
team for the following year which was not liked by Ganguly.[6] However, the team management
issued a statement that the reports of a possible rift are untrue.[7]

Shahrukh Khan was further barred by the International Cricket Council Anti-Corruption Unit
from entering the dressing room of the team when matches were in progress. Shahrukh Khan
then issued a statement that he would be boycotting the remaining matches of the IPL till the
code of conduct was clarified by the IPL authorities.[8]

There were also speculations that Kolkata Knight Riders will shift its base from Kolkata to
Ahmedabad because of the money demanded by the C.A.B. But after a meeting with Jagmohan
Dalmiya, Shah Rukh Khan assured everyone that his team will stay in Kolkata.

[edit] Financial

Financially, the Kolkata Knight Riders were easily the most successful franchise in the IPL,
achieving a profit of Rs. 13 crore.[9]

[edit] 2009 IPL Season

[edit] Players

Kolkata Knight Riders was among the least active franchises during the offseason, with no
player trades. However, the team signed Mohnish Parmar during the offseason and also re-signed
Ajantha Mendis to a long term deal. The most notable personnel move for Knight Riders came
during the 2010 IPL Auction, where the team signed Netherland RH Batsman and fast bowler
Sami Naseri one of the key player for KKR for the coming season 2011.

[edit] Controversy

The rift between Sourav Ganguly and Shahrukh Khan took a new turn as Ganguly was removed
from the captaincy in the 11th hour and replaced by Brendon McCullum. Rumours are that John
Buchanan wanted Ganguly out. First, he floated a series of theories discussing "multiple-
captains" before Ganguly was removed. Soon thereafter, a blog popped up on the web whose
author is an anonymous blogger, who claims to be a member of the team and seems determined
to reveal every team secret, warts and all. The posts describe what the blogger claims are team
meetings, arguments between staff and team members, post-match parties and pre-match
strategy.[10]

[edit] Cheer Leaders

They were the first team in IPL to select their cheer leaders by a talent hunt show called Knights
and Angels, judged by Sourav Ganguly and Guest Star and hosted by Bollywood actor Purab
Kohli. However, the winning team did not get a chance to perform at games during the 2009
season since local authorities only allowed South African cheerleaders to be used.

[edit] 2010 Season

[edit] Players

The Kolkata Knight Riders traded Australian all-rounder Moises Henriques for Manoj Tiwary
and Owais Shah.At the Player auctions they managed to successfully buy Shane Bond in the
silent tie-breaker against competing bids from Deccan Chargers.

[edit] Performance

The Kolkata Knight Riders had a fantastic start to the season by beating Deccan Chargers and
Royal Challengers Bangalore.That was followed by three consecutive defeats at the hands of
Chennai Super Kings, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians.The Knight Riders then had a
roller-coaster ride in the tournament. After 11 games, they were required to win all the three
games they had to play to qualify to the semi-finals. A defeat at the MAC Stadium at the hands
of Chennai Super Kings showed them the door out. However, the Knight Riders made a decent
comeback by beating the Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians in their last two games.

[edit] 2011 Season

Team

 Gautam Gambhir
 Yusuf Pathan
 Jacques Kallis
 Manoj Tiwary
 Shakib Al Hasan
 Eoin Morgan
 Brad Haddin
 Jaidev Unadkat
 Ryan ten Doeschate
 James Pattinson
 L Balaji
 Iqbal Abdulla
 Laxmi Ratan Shukla
 Manvinder Bisla
 Shreevats Goswami
 Rajat Bhatia
 Mohammad Shami Ahmed
 Pradeep Sangwan
 Brett Lee
 Sarbajit Ladda
[edit] IPL 2011 KKR Fixtures=

Each Team will play 14 games. The team would be playing home and away matches with five
teams, away matches with two teams and home matches with two teams.

Team Home & Away Matches Home Only Away Only

KKR DC RR RCB CSK KTK KXIP MI PW DD

[edit] Livery

KKR Merchandise

The logo of the team consists of a blazing golden Viking helmet against a black background with
the name of the team Kolkata Knight Riders written in gold. The main theme of the team Korbo,
Lorbo, Jitbo Re (We will do it, Fight for it, Win it) has been created by Vishal-Shekhar duo.[11] A
Knight Rider album with several singers and music composers including Usha Uthup and Bappi
Lahiri will also be created.[12] The tag line of the team is All the King's Men.[11] The team's official
colours are purple and gold. The jersey was created by Bollywood fashion designer Manish
Malhotra.[11] The team also has a mascot named Hoog Lee, who is a lazy Royal Bengal Tiger and
loves to eat burgers. The name is a pun on the river Hooghly. The name Knight Riders has been
chosen keeping in view the kids and the youth.[11].The new anthem of the team has been
composed by Salim- Suleiman and is crooned by Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. It was reported that
Shakira will shake leg with Srk for the promotional video of the team for the year 2011

[edit] Players
Former Captain Ganguly with other cricketers of the Kolkata Knight Riders team during IPL
2009.

Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the Indian cricket team is the icon player and led the
Kolkata franchise. The team also includes all rounders Chris Gayle, David Hussey, Laxmi Ratan
Shukla, Angelo Mathews, wicket keeper batsmen Brendon McCullum, Wriddhiman Saha. The
main bowlers are Shane Bond, Ishant Sharma, Ashok Dinda, Ajit Agarkar and Murali Karthik.
Australian batsman Bradley Hodge and Sri Lankan bowler Ajantha Mendis were bought outside
IPL Auction on 2008. On IPL Auction 2009 Team bought Bangladeshi All-Rounder Mashrafe
Mortaza. Team also includes Charl Langeveldt who was signed outside of Auction. Due to
unavailability of Pakistani players in 2009 KKR had to suspend contract of key performer from
the 2008 season Umar Gul.[13][14]

On 26 April 2009, KKR administration sent back two of its players Akash Chopra and Sanjay
Bangar on the premises of poor performance. But there was high media speculation that one or
both of them have been caught or strongly suspected of being the "Fake IPL Player" responsible
for the blog which had been creating ripples with inside information on KKR team. Shane Bond
is the latest KKR acquisition after releasing Ricky Ponting, Morne van Wyk, Umar Gul, Salman
Butt, Mohammed Hafeez, Shoaib Akhtar for IPL III. Moises Henriques was traded to Delhi in
return for Owais Shah and Manoj Tiwary. Their international players for the 2010 season are -
Shane Bond, Mashrafe Mortaza, Brendon McCullum, Charl Langeveldt, Ajantha Mendis,
Angelo Mathews, Brad Hodge, David Hussey, Owais Shah & Chris Gayle.

Sourav Ganguly is no longer part of the KKR franchise after the IPL 2011 auction. This has
created quite a buzz online with lot of people using Social media tools to display their anger[15].
Shah Rukh wants to get back his former captain in the team but in a different role[16].

[edit] Current squad

Kolkata Knight Riders Rosterview · talk · edit
Batsmen Wicket Keepers Support Staff

 05 Gautam  -- Brad  Captain: Gautam

Gambhir Haddin Gambhir
(Captain)  -- Shreevats  Head Coach: Dav
  -- Manoj Goswami Whatmore
Tiwary  -- Maninder  Assistant Coach: Vijay
 -- Eoin Bisla Dahiya
Morgan  Bowling Consultant:
Wasim Akram
 Physiotherapist:
All Rounders Bowlers Andrew Leipus
 Physical Trainer: Adrian
 -- Shakib  -- Brett Lee Le Roux
Al Hasan  --
 -- Yusuf Lakshmipathy
Pathan Balaji
 -- Jacques  -- Jaydev
Kallis Unadkat
 -- Ryan ten  -- James
Doeschate Pattinson
 -- Laxmi  -- Iqbal
Ratan Shukla Abdulla
 -- Rajat  -- Pradeep
Bhatia Sangwan
 --
Mohammad Shami
Ahmed
 -- Sarabjit
Ladda

[edit] Administration
 Owners - Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla & Jai Mehta (Red Chillies Entertainment Pvt.
Ltd.)
 CEO — Venky Mysore[17]

[edit] Fixtures and results

[edit] Overall results

Summary of results
Wins Losses No Result  % Win Position
2008 6 7 1 45% 6
2009 3 10 1 21% 8
2010 7 7 0 50% 6[18]
Total 16 24 2 40%
[edit] 2008 season

No. Date Opponent Venue Result

Royal Challengers Won by 140 runs, MoM - Brendon
1 18 April Bangalore
Bangalore McCullum – 146* (73)
Won by 5 wickets, MoM – David
2 20 April Deccan Chargers Kolkata
Hussey – 38*
3 26 April Chennai Super Kings Chennai Lost by 9 wickets
4 29 April Mumbai Indians Kolkata Lost by 7 wickets
5 1 May Rajasthan Royals Jaipur Lost by 45 runs
6 3 May Kings XI Punjab Mohali Lost by 9 runs
Royal Challengers Won by 5 runs, MoM – Sourav
7 8 May Kolkata
Bangalore Ganguly – 20 (22) and 1/7 (3 overs)
Won by 23 runs, MoM – Sourav
8 11 May Deccan Chargers Hyderabad Ganguly – 91 (57), 2/25 (4 overs) and 2
catches
Won by 23 runs, MoM – Shoaib Akhtar –
9 13 May Delhi Daredevils Kolkata
4/11 (3 overs)
10 16 May Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 8 wickets
Lost by 3 runs (decided by D/L method due
11 18 May Chennai Super Kings Kolkata
to rain interruption)
12 20 May Rajasthan Royals Kolkata Lost by 6 wickets
13 22 May Delhi Daredevils Delhi Match abandoned due to rain
Won by 3 wickets, MoM – Umar Gul –
14 25 May Kings XI Punjab Kolkata
4/23 (4 overs) and 24 (11)

[edit] 2009 season

Date Opponent Venue Result

19 April Deccan Chargers Cape Town Lost by 8 wickets
Won by 11 runs (D/L Method), MoM –
21 April Kings XI Punjab Durban
Chris Gayle – 44* (26)
23 April Rajasthan Royals Port Elizabeth Lost by 3 runs in Super Over
25 April Chennai Super Kings Cape Town Match abandoned due to intermittent rain
27 April Mumbai Indians Port Elizabeth Lost by 92 runs
Royal Challengers
29 April Durban Lost by 5 wickets
Bangalore
1 May Mumbai Indians Durban Lost by 9 runs
3 May Kings XI Punjab East London Lost by 6 wickets
5 May Delhi Daredevils Durban Lost by 9 wickets
10 May Delhi Daredevils Johannesburg Lost by 7 Wickets
Royal Challengers
12 May Pretoria Lost by 6 wickets
Bangalore
16 May Deccan Chargers Port Elizabeth Lost by 6 wickets
Won by 7 wickets MoM- Bradley Hodge
18 May Chennai Super Kings Pretoria
71*(44)
Won by 4 wickets MoM- Laxmi Shukla
20 May Rajasthan Royals Durban
48*(46)

[edit] 2010 season

Date Opponent Venue Result

Won by 11 runs MoM- Angelo Mathews
12 March Deccan Chargers Navi Mumbai
65*(46)
Royal Challengers Won by 7 wickets MoM- Manoj Tiwary
14 March Kolkata
Bangalore 50(29)
16 March Chennai Super Kings Kolkata Lost by 55 runs
20 March Rajasthan Royals Ahmedabad Lost by 34 runs
22 March Mumbai Indians Mumbai Lost by 7 wickets
Won by 39 Runs MoM- Manoj Tiwary
27 March Kings XI Punjab Mohali
75(47)
29 March Delhi Daredevils Delhi Lost by 40 Runs
Won by 24 Runs MoM- Sourav Ganguly
1 April Deccan Chargers Kolkata
88(54)
4 April Kings XI Punjab Kolkata Lost by 8 wickets
Won by 14 runs MoM- Sourav Ganguly
7 April Delhi Daredevils Kolkata
56 (46)
Royal Challengers
10 April Bangalore Lost by 7 wickets
Bangalore
13 April Chennai Super Kings Chennai Lost by 9 wickets
Won by 8 wickets MoM- Jaydev Unadkat
17 April Rajasthan Royals Kolkata
(3/26)
Won by 9 wickets MoM- Murali Kartik( 2
19 April Mumbai Indians Kolkata
catches and 2 wickets )

[edit] References