Royal Challengers Bangalore

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Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore (13 Apr)

Head Coach

Simon Katich

League Position

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Established
2008 (17 years old)

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Cricket

Venue

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
(80,000 Capacity)

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Location
Bangalore, India

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Competitions
Indian Premier League

Last Edit
zag: 17/Oct/23

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13 Apr	Rajasthan Ro	-	Royal Challe	10:00am
18 Apr	Royal Challe	-	Punjab Kings	2:00pm
20 Apr	Punjab Kings	-	Royal Challe	10:00am
24 Apr	Royal Challe	-	Rajasthan Ro	2:00pm
27 Apr	Delhi Capita	-	Royal Challe	2:00pm
Results
10 Apr	Royal Challe	163 - 169	Delhi Capita
07 Apr	Mumbai India	209 - 221	Royal Challe
02 Apr	Royal Challe	169 - 170	Gujarat Tita
28 Mar	Chennai Supe	146 - 196	Royal Challe
22 Mar	Kolkata Knig	174 - 177	Royal Challe

Description

The Royal Challengers Bangalore (often abbreviated as RCB) are a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, Karnataka, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). One of the original eight teams in the IPL, the team has made three final appearances in the IPL, losing all of them (in 2009 to the Deccan Chargers, in 2011 to the Chennai Super Kings and in 2016 to the Sunrisers Hyderabad). The team also finished runners-up in the 2011 CLT20.

The home ground of the Royal Challengers is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The team is currently captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Daniel Vettori.

New Cricketer Indian Premier League is a cricket tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) and backed by the International Cricket Council (ICC). For the inaugural tournament held in April–June 2008, the BCCI had finalised a list of 8 teams who will be participating in the tournament. The teams representing 8 different cities of India, including Bangalore, were put up on auction in Mumbai on 20 February 2008 and the Bangalore team was owned by Vijay Mallya, who paid US$111.6 million for it. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, next only to Reliance Industries Ltd.'s bid of $111.9 million for the Mumbai Indians team. Though the franchise failed to justify the price tag at first, they soon rose to popular attention by roping in huge names like Virat Kohli,Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers and others.

The Royal Challengers have a passionate fan base especially in the city of Bangalore. The fans, known to be "loyal" and vocal in their support, often turn up in large numbers for RCB's home matches turning the stadium into what is called a "sea of red". They are well known for their chants of "R-C-B, R-C-B" and the co-ordinated Mexican wave at the Chinnaswamy. People often nickname Bangalore as "Ban-gayle-ore". The stadium organisers sometimes provide the home team fans with cheer kits, RCB flags and noisemakers among other items. Royal Challengers Bangalore have formed a fan-following group named as Bold Army.

During the 2014 IPL, the Royal Challengers became the first team to provide free Wi-Fi connectivity to fans at their home ground. 50 access points were set up using fibre optic cables to provide the connectivity to fans on match days at the Chinnaswamy.