Dravid is in trouble. Deep trouble. It looks almost inevitable that Mallya is going to do everything he can to dump Dravid at the end of the season, his “icon player” status notwithstanding. Mallya has become increasingly outspoken against Dravid’s captaincy with every loss that the Royal Challengers have had to suffer, and in his [...]

The misery just does not stop for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Vijay Mallya owned, Bangalore side slumped to their sixth straight defeat in the IPL in a rain-curtailed affair against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens.
Winning the toss Saurav Ganguly, captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders made, what appears to be in [...]

I was wondering how long the hyper-businessman Vijay Mallya was going to take the dismal performance of the Bangalore Royal Challangers. I’m sure Dravid must have gotten a talking down, but it seems that the CEO of the team, Charu Sharma, bore the brunt of Mallya’s anger. He stepped down as the CEO of the [...]

Lot has been said of the Bangalore IPL team about the selections they made in the Ist round of IPL auction. But the master strategist Vijay Mallya makes his mark wherever he puts his eye in! That was evident when the 2nd round IPL auction results were out. They had some prize catches like, India [...]

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 [...]