Bollywood stars are lining up at the IPL franchise window. Actor Sanjay Dutt has met IPL boss Lalit Modi in Mumbai to discuss the possibility of bidding for an IPL team. The meeting comes on the heels of another big name Bollywood star, Salman Khan meeting the IPL Commissioner. Two more teams will be up [...]
Reacting to Sunil Gavaskar’s harsh criticism of Kolkata Knight Riders’ head coach John Buchanan’s idea of having multiple captains during a match, team owner Shah Rukh Khan jumped to his rescue, asking the former Indian captain to stay away from his team’s affairs. “I respect Mr Gavaskar – his knowledge about cricket is a billion [...]
Indian Premier League franchise owners on Sunday said they had no problem with the BCCI’s decision to shift the Twenty20 League out of the country as holding the general elections was a bigger issue before the government. Kolkata Knight Riders owner and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan said he could understand the security constraints in [...]
Team Owner: Red Chillies Entertainment, Shah Rukh Khan 2008 Record: Sixth Coach: John Buchanan Squad: Sourav Ganguly (captain & ICON), Brad Hodge, Aakash Chopra, Debabrata Das, Cheteshwar Pujara, Brendon McCullum (wicket-keeper), Wriddhiman Saha, David Hussey, Moises Henriques, Chris Gayle, Mashrafe Mortaza, Angelo Mathews, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Ajit Agarkar, Iqbal Abdullah, Sachin Rana, Ashok Dinda, Murali [...]
Former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly, who is popularly known as the Prince of Kolkata, will pick new cheerleaders for his Indian Premier League team, the Kolkata Knight Riders. Ganguly is all set to make his small screen debut in Shahrukh Khan’s show, Knights and Angels. But unlike other cricketers he will not be seen participating, [...]
Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan is looking for cheerleaders for his Indian Premier League (IPL) team. The star will pick six cheerleaders for his Kolkata Knight Riders for the upcoming second season through his TV show “Knights & Angels”. The show is being produced by Shah Rukh’s Red Chillies Entertainment and will air on NDTV [...]
As the curtains come down on former India skipper Sourav Ganguly’s international career after the Australia series, he will still have a major role in leading Kolkata Knight Riders in the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), said team owner and Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan. “Most of the team policies are decided [...]
Talking to the media after the IPL ended successfully, commissioner Lalit Modi said that according to his calculations, it wasn’t possible for all the Franchises to make money. Yet some of them still made a little profit, while others would have just managed to break even. He said that it is his belief that Kolkata [...]
Ganguly has denied that there is a rift between him and team owner Shah Rukh Khan. Reports suggest that differences emerged after their loss to Chennai Super Kings, where the team was dealt a crushing blow in their bid to reach the finals. While King Khan was upset because of this, another reason could be [...]
After Kings XI Punjab and Preity Zinta, it was SRK’s turn to evict a few of their players from the team hotel. However, they chose to do it in a more polite and appropriate way. Five players, Ranadeb Bose, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sourasish Lahiri, Yashpal Singh and Rohan Banerjee were informed that the coach John Buchanan [...]
When Ganguly won the toss and elected to field first in a rain affected, overs reduced match, everyone seemed a little baffled. And when the Kolkata Knight Riders were struggling at 88/6 in the 12th, the Challengers were really on top. But first through Murli Kartik and Saha’s partnership, and then through some tight bowling [...]
That is what today’s other match between King’s XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Rider has got billed as by a huge section of media, a Preity Zinta vs SRK encounter. And amidst this war of the Bollywood, the actual battle would fought between the players on the field at the Mohali Cricket ground. Kolkata would [...]