Rajasthan Royals is the franchise that represents the city of Jaipur in the Indian Premier League. The team is led and coached by Shane Warne. There is no Icon Player for the team. It is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach. The team's mascot is a lion named Moochu Singh . The team anthem, 'Halla Bol', has been sung by Ila Arun. Leicestershire spinner Jeremy Snape has signed with the Rajasthan Royals as high-performace coach.
Franchise HistoryThe Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned by Emerging Media group. The group acquired the franchise for $67 million.
Rajasthan Royals PlayersRajasthan Royals was the least active franchise during the player auction. The team does not have a designated icon player, which saved a lot of cap space for the franchise. However the franchise was surprisingly low key during the auction, and in the end got penalized by the IPL organizing committee for failing to meet the minimum bidding criteria of $3.3 million. The highest bid by Rajasthan Royals was for the Indian middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif, who came off the board at $675,000. Shane Warne has been named the coach and captain of the side. The Royals are unique as they are the only side to have an English cricketer in their squad, Hampshire's all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas.
Current SquadBatsmenNo. Name Age Nationality Batting Style Bowling/Fielding Bidding/Sign-in Price
Graeme Smith 27 South Africa Left-handed Right-arm off-break US$ 475,000
11 Mohammad Kaif 27 India Right-handed Right-arm off-break US$ 675,000
Justin Langer 38 Australia Left-handed Right-arm medium US$ 200,000
Younis Khan 31 Pakistan Right-handed Right-arm leg-break US$ 225,000
Anoop Revandkar 21 India Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Under 22 Player
Taruwar Kohli 19 India Right-handed Right-arm medium India Under-19 Team
Niraj Patel 26 India Left-handed Left-arm orthodox spin Gujarat - Ranji Trophy Player
Wicket Keepers / All RoundersNo. Name Age Nationality Batting Style Bowling/Fielding Bidding/Sign-in Price
24 Kamran Akmal 26 Pakistan Right-handed Wicket keeper US$ 150,000
28 Yusuf Pathan 25 India Right-handed Right-arm leg-break US$ 475,000
Dimitri Mascarenhas 30 England Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium US$ 100,000
33 Shane Watson 27 Australia Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium US$ 125,000
Sohail Tanvir 24 Pakistan Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast US$ 100,000
Ravindra Jadeja 19 India Left-handed Left-arm orthodox spin India Under-19 Team
7 Siddharth Trivedi 26 India Right-handed Right-arm medium Gujarat - Ranji Trophy Player
Swapnil Asnodkar 24 India Right-handed Right-arm off-break Goa - Ranji Trophy Player
Sumit Khatri 18 India Left-handed Right-arm off-break Rajasthan - Ranji Trophy Player
BowlersNo. Name Age Nationality Batting Style Bowling/Fielding Bidding/Sign-in Price
23 Shane Warne (Captain) 38 Australia Right-handed Right-arm leg-break US$ 450,000
3 Munaf Patel 24 India Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium US$ 275,000
Morne Morkel 23 South Africa Left-handed Right-arm fast-medium US$ $60,000
1 Pankaj Singh 22 India Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium Rajasthan - Ranji Trophy Player
Rajasthan Royals - Administration and Coaching staffRajasthan Royals - Front Office:Owner - Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram)
CEO - Fraser Castellino
President - TBA
Rajasthan Royals - Coaches:Head Coach - Shane Warne
Performance Coach - Jeremy Snape
Physiotherapist - John Gloster
Rajasthan Royals - Fixtures and ResultsRajasthan Royals 2008 SeasonNo Date Opponent Venue Result
1 19 April Delhi DareDevils Delhi Lost by nine wickets
2 21 April Kings XI Punjab Jaipur Won by six wickets, MoM - Shane Watson - 76*(49)
3 24 April Deccan Chargers Hyderabad
4 26 April Bangalore Royal Challengers Bangalore
5 1 May Kolkata Knight Riders Jaipur
6 4 May Chennai Super Kings Jaipur
7 7 May Mumbai Indians Mumbai
8 9 May Deccan Chargers Jaipur
9 11 May Delhi DareDevils Jaipur
10 14 May Kings XI Punjab Mohali
11 17 May Bangalore Royal Challengers Jaipur
12 21 May Kolkata Knight Riders Kolkata
13 24 May Chennai Super Kings Chennai
14 26 May Mumbai Indians Jaipur
