Royal Challengers Bangalore Team IPL6-2013 IPL Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad

Royal Challengers Bangalore is a franchisee cricket team in Indian Premier League based in Bangalore. The team is owned by UB group of Vijay Mallya with his son Sidhartha Mallya being the director of the team. All the home matches of the team are played at M Chinnaswamy Stadium because of it being the home ground. Except 2008 and 2012 the team proved to be successful by reaching semis and play –off’s every season, therefore it is one of the consistent franchise in IPL.RCB has also qualified for Champions League Twenty20 for three seasons though didn't won any.

The team for IPL 2013 is being captained and coached by Virat Kohli and Ray Jennings respectively so that instead of backing at semis it stands stiffly victorious in IPL 6. Brand ambassadors of the team includes Bollywood Actresses Deepika Padukone, Katrina Kaif and Sandalwood Film Stars  Ramya and Puneeth Rajkumar.

Royal Challengers Bangalore as the winners in IPL

Up till now the team has not won any of the tournaments in Indian Premier League, but was a good performer throughout and maintained its place at the position of Runners Up in the year 2009 and 2011. The team was also the Runners-Up in 2011 in Champions league Twenty20. The team faced the Champions Chennai Super Kings in the finals at their respective Home ground but did not batted well so lost the match by 4 wickets.

Players in the team

The team brought in seven new players in the auction for IPL 6 held in feb 2013. Therefore the team members expected to play in IPL 2013 includes:

Cheteshwar Pujara, Mayank Agarwal, Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary, Sunny Sohal, Abhinav Mukund, Chris Gayle, Jamaica, Karun Nair, Vijay Zol, Andrew McDonald ,Daniel Vettori, Tillakaratne Dilshan, Moisés Henriques, Daniel Christian, Christopher Barnwell Guyana , Arun Karthik, AB de Villiers, Sheldon Jackson Harshal Patel, KP Appanna, Vinay Kumar, Syed Mohammed, Prasanth Parameswaran, Abhimanyu Mithun, Zaheer Khan, Sreenath, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sandeep Warrier, Jaydev Unadkat, Pankaj Singh, RP Singh, Ravi Rampaul.