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Royal Challengers Commit Suicide

Apr 28th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

So its looking like its going well for the home team at Bangalore against the as-yet-unbeaten Chennai SuperKings. Two batsmen have gotten 50s, and the team needs to score at a comfortable 8 runs an over with 7 wickets in hand. Looks like its going to be an easy win from here for the Bangalore [...]

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Royal Challengers getting Royally Screwed

Apr 27th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Rahul Dravid led Royal Challengers suffered their second defeat at home, and that too at the hands of the “dark horses” Rajasthan Royals. If you saw the game, it was quite clear that the Bangalore team was not jelling together as one team. When Dravid was asked at the start of the game how [...]

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Two Tight Matches Bring Out The T20 Flavour!

Apr 20th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

Its exciting to see tight matches in the IPL, and both the matches today didn’t disappoint. Sachin was sitting out the Mumbai Indians vs Royal Challengers match, and Harbhajan was leading the side. Shaun Pollock played a lovely slog-overs innings to take the team to 165.
The total was very competitive, and when the Royal Challengers [...]

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McCullum Mauls Bangalore Royal Challengers

Apr 18th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Top Stories

So tillĀ  yesterday, the KnightRiders were all about SRK and his antics, but today, at the inaugural match at the Chinnaswami Stadium at Bangalore, one guy from Kolkata KnightRiders team really showed everyone who’s the boss. Brendon McCullum.
The 26 year-old New Zealander was not very well known in this part of the world, but yesterday’s [...]

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Red Skins to cheer for Bangalore!

Apr 14th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Red Skins, a professional cheerleading team that cheerlead for the NFL in the US are coming to Bangalore! Our evergreen Vijay Mallya has struck up a deal with the cheerleading team to fly them to Bangalore and cheer for the Bangalore Royal Challengers.
The IPL matches are going to be a show of their own! [...]

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Bangalore team gets ready - with a party!

Mar 18th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

Vijay Mallya kicked off proceedings for the Bangalore Royal Challengers in the way he knows best - By throwing them a party. Yesterday the party was in full force, with red confetti and the champagne flowing everywhere. DJ Clement was also there, grooving everyone to the party!
Vijay Mallya also announced that Sanjay Gupta, the famous [...]

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Crowe, Prasad join Bangalore Royal Challengers

Feb 24th, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: News

The Vijay Mallya owned Bangalore IPL franchise, The Royal Challengers, have roped in New Zealand’s legendary captain Martin Crowe to be the “Chief Cricket Officer”, whatever that means. The Indian team’s Venkatash Prasad has also signed up to the be coach.
What kind of stratergy is Mallya looking at for the Royal Challangers? We reported earlier [...]

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Mallya names Bangalore Team After Booze

Feb 21st, 2008 | By Aditya | Category: Teams, Top Stories

Vijay Mallya, the owner of the Bangalore Team, has named the team “Bangalore Royal Challengers”. What a nice name, no? Except that “Royal Challenge” is the name of one of United Breweries (Vijay Mallya’s flagship company) top brands. Co-incidence? I think not.
Advertising liquor is strictly banned in India, but that doesn’t stop the proxy-advertising. They’ve [...]

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