Royal Challengers Bangalore – RCB – IPL, History & Achievements

About Royal Challengers bangalore

Royal challengers bangalore is the team that represents the state or the franchise of the Karnataka, Bangalore. The team compete in the T20 and IPL league competition. The team was founded in 2008 almost 16 years ago. 

The team captain is Faf du plessis and the coach of the team is Andy flower. Nickname of the team is RCB, the capacity of the team is 33800. If we talk about the official website of the team, that is royalchallenges.com. If we talk about their winning titles, the team has never won the IPL title in the 16 year history. The RCB is owned by United Spirits. The colour of the team is red and blue.

History of the Royal Challengers bangalore

In the month of September 2007, the board of control for cricketers announced T20 and IPL league competitions for the different teams based upon the states, one of the teams based upon the Bangalore was RCB. Initially, Vijay Mallya was the owner of the franchise RCB for $111.06 million, which made the team the second highest paid team. First was the Mumbai Indians owned by Reliance industry for $111.7 million. The brand value of RCB was approximately equal to ₹595 crores during the year 2019 along with the survey.

Achievements of Royal Challengers bangalore in IPL

Royal challenges bangalore has gained a lot of a championships or achievement and holds many record which are the following:-

• The team holds the record of least scoring team in IPL( the team code 49 runs against Kolkata knight riders).
• The team holds the record for a highest scoring team in IPL ( the team scored 297 runs against sunrisers Hyderabad).

History of the franchise RCB 

In the starting era of IPL in 2008, Rahul Dravid was the idol player for the franchise RCB, so this was the reason that he was being paid 50% extra as compared to the other players of the team.

The team had many international & national players like Virat Kohli, Ross Taylor, Mark Boucher and other players. At that time, Virat Kohli was under 19 World Cup winning captain. In the starting seasons of IPL the team won only 4 matches out of 14 matches. Only Dravid was a pair who scored more than 300 in the tournament.

The constant losing of matches by team lead to change in the CEO of the ownership from Charu Sharma to Brijesh Patel. Then Vijay Mallya got into the controversy of money stolen.

RCB took the new member to the team as a captain thinking that they can change the situation which was not good during the time. In 2010, Under Kumble’s captaincy, the team didn’t perform well.

Fan following of RCB 

The team has a great and wide fan following specially from bangalore as it represents that state and the fans of RCB were known for their loyalty, as the team is not winning the matches even after that, the bangalore’s fans are supporting them.

They are famous from the chants of fans for RCB saying R-C-B R-C-B and A-B-D A-B-D for batsman AB de Villiers. In every match of RCB, the stadium is always filled with the red t-shirt representing the RCB fans and makes the stadium the Red sea.

During the 2014 IPL, the RCB was the only team that provided free Wi-Fi connectivity to the fans at ground level. 50 access points were set for the fibre cable connectivity.

Collaboration of the team 

Mallya wanted to promote one of his top-selling products and brands, both are alcohol that are Royal Challenge or McDowell’s No.1.

Identity of the team 

In 2008, The jersey’s colours for the team were red and golden yellow. It was very similar to the unofficial kannada’s flag. The name of the player for this jersey was white and number was in black, after sometime the color yellow was replaced by the gold color in the future seasons of the IPL tournaments.

The matches which come in a season, RCB follows a tradition to change the color of red into green on the sports kits for “Game for Green”.

Sponsors of the RCB

Here is a list of brands which manufactured the kits in different years.

Ambassadors of the RCB team 

When the IPL season started, it’s about the year 2008, katrina kaif was the brand ambassador for the team RCB. Later the season, many celebrity faces were hired for the brand ambassador like; Deepika Padukone, Puneeth Rajkumar, Ramya, Ganesh, Upendra, and Shiva Rajkumar.

Conclusion 

From this article you have got to know about RCB’s struggle’s history, following the estimated worth of ambassadors, sponsors, identity, collaboration and achievements of the team and how it became the most popular team among the fans.