Representing the 'Desert State of India', Rajasthan Royals makes up one of the eight franchises of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Winner of the first season of IPL i.e. IPL 2008, the team was captained as well as coached by Shane Warne. With this, it has become the only team in the Indian Premier League to have a foreign captain and coach. There was also no 'Icon Player' in the team. Rajasthan Royals was auctioned off for US $67 million, to Emerging Media, with Lachlan Murdoch, Sir Aditya S Chellaram and Suresh Chellaram being other investors.The Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned and chaired by Manoj Badale. Other investors include Ryan Tkalcevic, Lachlan Murdoch, Aditya S Chellaram, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty and Suresh Chellaram and her business partner Raj Kundra later bought 11.7% stake in Rajasthan Royals, by paying around US $15.4 million. The team made up the least expensive franchise in the Indian Premier and initially, was not at all favored as a winner. However, it proved the speculators wrong and ended the preliminary round with an impressive 11 wins and only 3 losses. Rajasthan Royals won the semi-final, after defeating Delhi Daredevils, and clinched the finals as well, beating Chennai Super Kings in inauguration tournament.
Logo
The logo of Rajasthan Royals comprises of a two lions blowing the war horn and flanking the RR insignia, along with the team's name.
Year wise Team Performance
Year - Position
2008 - Winner
2009 - Sixth
2010 - Seventh
2011 - Sixth
2012 - Seventh
2013 - Third
2014 - Fifth
2015 - Fourth
2016 - Suspend
2017 - Suspend
2018 - Fourth
2019 - Seventh
Rajasthan Royals Players 2020 full squad
Batsmen:
- Steve Smith (Captain) - Australia
- Manan Vohra - India
- Shashank Singh - India
- David Miller - South Africa
All-rounders
- Riyan Parag - India
- Mahipal Lomror - India
- Shreyas Gopal - India
- Ben Stokes - England
- Rahul Tewatia - India
- Yashasvi Jaiswal - India
- Aniruddha Joshi - India
Wicket-keepers
- Sanju Samson - India
- Jos Buttler - England
- Robin Uthappa - India
- Anuj Rawat - India
Bowlers
- Jofra Archer - England
- Jaydev Unadkat - India
- Varun Aaron - India
- Andrew Tye - Australia
- Tom Curran - England
- Oshane Thomas - West Indies
- Ankit Rajpoot - India
- Akash Singh - India
- Kartik Tyagi - India
- Mayank Markande - India
Administration and Support Staffs/Coaches:
- Owners - Amisha Hathiramani, Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch and Shane Warne
- Brand ambassador - Shane Warne
- Director of cricket - Zubin Bharucha
- Head coach - Andrew McDonald
- Batting coach - Amol Muzumdar
- Spin bowling coach - Sairaj Bahutule
- Spin consultant and operations executive - Ish Sodhi
- Youth cricket advisor - Lisa Sthalekar
