Royal Challengers Bangalore

The Royal Challengers Bangalore are a franchise owned by the United Breweries Group, after the group's Chairman, Vijay Mallya, paid $111.6m for them. They are captained by the New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori, who recently lead his country to the World Cup semi-finals.

Performances

The team faired poorly in the 2008 IPL, finishing seventh after they won just four games. In 2009, after a poor start under Kevin Pietersen, the team recovered well when Rahul Dravid assumed the captaincy. They ended up winning eight of their 14 matches and finished third in the table, qualifying for the knock-out stages. In the semi-final they met the Deccan Chargers and lost by just six runs in a great match.

Last year they reached the semi-finals for the second consecutive season, but this time they lost to Mumbai Indians by 35 runs.

Squad

The Royal Challengers have only retained one player - the young Indian batsman Virat Kohl - following the 2011 IPL Player Auction. They opted to replace the likes of Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Kevin Pietersen with AB de Villiers and Tillakaratne Dilshan.

They have a catelogue of talented batsman in their ranks, including Virat Kohli, Saurabh Tiwary and AB de Villiers. 

Bowlers
Charl Langeveldt
Zaheer Khan
Dirk Nannes
A Mithun
S. Aravind
Nuwan Pradeep

Batsmen
M Kaif
Cheteshwar Pujara
Saurabh Tiwary
KB Arun Karthik
Tillakaratne Dilshan
Virat Kohli
CM Gautam
Abrar Kazi
Mayank Agarwal
Luke Pomersbach
Rilee Rossouw
Jonathan Vandiar
Bhareth Narayann

All rounders
Daniel Vettori
Raju Bhatkal
Ryan Ninan
Asad Khan Pathan
Johan van der Wath
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Wicket keeper
AB de Villiers