Kolkata Knight riders nick named as KKR, is one of the
member teams of Indian Premier League. As the name suggests it is a cricket
franchise which represents Kolkata and was founded in the year 2008 and has a
Home ground the Iconic Eden Gardens. The team is owned by Red Chillies
Entertainment, Shahrukh Khan being the manager of the Entertainment company
eventually becomes the owner of the team but not solely rather in partnership
with the Actress Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta from the Mehta Group.
Presently the team is captained and coached by Gautam
Gambhir (also will be the captain of IPL
6) and Trevor Bayliss. Saurav Ganguly
also tagged as “Prince of Calcutta” was crowned as Icon Player of the
team , who also captained the team in the first and third seasons of the
tournament, whereas the mid years were captained by Brendon McCullum. Moreover,
Wasim Akram one of high peaked bowler serves as bowling Consultant and mentor
of the team. The team was the Champion of IPL 2012.
The owners of KKR have promised a lot of surprises on behalf
of the team for the IPL 6 thus expectations are quite high from the team for IPL
2013. In the fifth season KKR made a brilliant comeback that is the reason why
people are waiting to see what magic does KKR brings in IPL 2013.
Kolkata Knight Riders as the winning team of IPL:
In year 2012, Kolkata Knight riders made their first and
outstanding victory in the Indian Premier League by defeating the defending
Champions Chennai Super Kings at their Home Ground M.A. Chiddambaram Stadium by 5 wickets with the
help of brilliant batting of team members Bisla (89 runs from 48 balls) and
Jacques Kallis (69 runs out of 49 balls). Consequently, Manvinder Bisla was declared as Man of the Match .
Players Of the Team:
Gautam Ghambhir, Jaques Kallis, ,Yusuf Pathan, Brendon
Mccullum,Brett Lee, Sunil Narine, Manoj Pandey, Manvinder Bisla, Lakshmipathi
Balaaji, Iqbal Abdullah, Rajat Bhatia, Bradley Haddin, Eoin Morgan, Shami
Ahmed, Laxmi Shukla, Jaydev Unadkat, Debabrata Dal, James Pattinson, Merchant de
lange, Pradeep Sangwan, Iresh Saxena, Sarabjit Ladda, Shakib Al Hasan, Sanju
Samson, Chirag Jani.
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