Royal Challengers Bangalore Team squad – IPL 5
This is an article giving details of the ownership, team coach and team captain (Skipper) of the Royal Challengers Bangalore team of the Indian Premier League 2012 (Season5). The team (squad) members names and brief details about them are given in alphabetical order.
Royal Challengers Bangalore Team
The team owner is Vijay Mallya through his flagship company UB Group.
Team coach is Ray Jennings
Team Captain is Daniel Vettori.Team members in alphabetical order are
The team members names are given in alphabetical order. The names include batsmen bowlers, wicket keepers, fielders, stand by members and extras. AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers (Abraham Benjamin de Villiers) is born on February 17, 1984 is a wicketkeeper, good fielder and batsman in short an ideal all rounder. Besides being a cricket player he is a sportsman in rugby, tennis and golf and above all is a good singer with his own album too. His debut in cricket was in 2004 in South Africa. He has made his mark and helped his teams where he played like the Tests, ODIs and T20s whether at home or aboard. AB de Villiers was made the captain of the South African O D I team 2011.
For 3 seasons of IPL he was the squad member of the Delhi Daredevils and created a commendable spot for himself against the Chennai Super Kings in 2009 in South Africa. In IPL 2011 he was in Royal challengers Bangalore where he brought out brilliant performance to lead the team to victory against the imminent defeat at the hands of Kochin Tuskers Kochi by taking 54 runs out of 40 balls. Abhimanyu Mithun
Abhimanyu Mithun is born on 25th October 1989 and is a good pace – fast bowler. He had his hand at discus throw too. His debut was for Uttar Pradesh and took 11 wickets in the game. Throughout his career he was a steady player and the Royal Challengers Bangalore recruited him in season 2009 by the coach Roy Jennings on the basis of trials conducted.
Abhimanyu Mithun had his debut in one day innings in 2010 against South Africa and had his test debut on Sri Lank Tour immediately after the ODI of S A. In IPL 4 he made an impressive performance. In the IPL 2011 he did a splendid job of fielding and bowling against Delhi Dare Devils helping the RCB to win. In the match at Chennai against Mumbai Indians he did not shine in the bowling though he did a good job in fielding. Abrar Kazi
Abrar Kazi is born - September 29, 1989 in Bangalore. Basically he is a left arm spinner bowler. He is a left hander batsman. In 2011 he was in the Karnataka team in the game against Tamil Nadu where he took 3 crucial wickets. In subsequent games also his performances were equally good. His ability to take wickets earned him the niche of Red-n-Gold colour in the Royal Challengers Bangalore team in the IPL 2011. He, at 22 is a promising player. Arun Karthik
Date of Birth – 15.02.1986 Born in Tamil Nadu
Batting right hand and bowling Right arm medium Asad Pathan
Asad Pathan is from Ankleshwar, Gujarat State. He has played for Anand Premier League and was the man of the series. He has scored 2 centuries in the 50 over T20 matches by scoring 157 & 150. He was offered a contract by the South African team, Nashua Titans franchise. He came back to play for his country.
In the 2011 IPL his playing helped Royal Challengers Bangalore to win 6 wicket victory against the Kerala Tuskers. He is a hard hitting batsman. Bhareth Narayanan
B N Bharath (also spelt as Bhareth) is born on November 1, 1985 in Mysore. He is a batsman. He has completed his engineering degree. According to him his inspirations are from Javagal Srinath and other senior players from Mysore and Bangalore. He had learnt cricket from Srinath and he has learnt bowling is now a fast bowler also. He is a following bowling of Zaheer Khan. He plays for Karnataka State Cricket Association. He is taken in the Royal Challengers Bangalore team. Charl Langeveldt
Charl Langeveldt is born on December 17, 1974 in South Africa. He was a warden in a prison near Cape Town. His debut in cricket was in 2001 but due to competition he was not getting much chance. He is Bowler. When he got chance he proved to be one of the best bowlers especially in the T20 cricket games. He keeps the batmen on tight leashes. His speed and swing of balls frustrates the batsmen. He was in Kolkata Knight Riders for the IPL. He was taken in by the Royal Challengers Bangalore and in the 2011 season he got chance only to play in three games but he proved to be excellent in them and his worth as a bowler. Cheteshwar Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara (Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara) is born on January 25, 1988 at Rajkot in Gujarat State. He is taken in by the Royal Challengers Bangalore as a batsman. His first test match was against the Australia in 2010 at Bangalore from 9th to 13th October. He came to the 3rd position in the match from the Indian side. He is the 5th person to score above 50 runs in the game. In June, 2011 he played at Cape Town against the South African team. He has played in Mumbai and Gujarat many times. Chris Gayle
Chris Gayle is born on 21 September 1979 at Kingston, Jamaica in West Indies. He is an all rounder. His batting Style is L H B and bowling style L A B. His O D I debut is on 11.9.99 against India and test debut is on 16 to 20 of March, 2000 against Zimbabwe. In the Twenty 20 category his debut was against New Zealand on 16.2.2006.
Normally he is a very cool and calm person but when playing cricket he just turns into aggressive player. He was taken in by the Royal Challengers Bangalore as a substitute against the injured member of the team Dirk Nannes in IPL 4 – 2011. Immediately he justified his selection by scoring a century against KKR. He had his second century in the IPL 4 against the Kings xi Punjab and also felled 3 wickets.Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori is born on January 27, 1979 New Zealander. He was brought up partly in Italy. He is an all rounder in cricket. He is a left hand bowler and good captain. He is taken in by the Royal Challengers Bangalore is the captain of the team. He had a long experience and has learnt to be a batsman, coach, selector and captain. He is the 2nd highest wicket taker in the world in the test matches.
Daniel Vettori was a team member of the Delhi Dare Devils in the 2008, 09 and 2010 editions of IPL where he had not much opportunity to show his ability. After coming to the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, 2011 – season 4 he led the team up to the finals to an 8 wicket win in semi finals against the Chennai Super Kings in Bangalore. Against the Mumbai Indians in IPL 2011 at Chennai he made a brilliant performance. Dirk Nannes
Dirk Nannes is born on May 16, 1976 in Melbourne to Dutch parents. He has passion for skiing. He has competed in many world cup skiing events and came to almost to top and got a chance to enter Olympics squad of the Australian team. In cricket he is a left arm pacer. He is a good player in the limited over series. He made his debut for Victoria team in 2005 – 06. But in 2007-08 he got opportunity to help his team in Victoria and Middlesex in T 20 cups. With these he became to be recognized as a cricketer. In the 2nd season of IPL 2009 he was with the Delhi Dare Devils and in combination with Ashish Nehra and Pradeep Sangwan he helped Delhi to come to top in South Africa. He has also played for Netherlands in T 20 world cup. In 2010 Australia included him in their team where he was the highest wicket taker in the T 20 world Cup. He now restricts to limited over cricket as he has to manage his business of ski-travel Company by the name 'Global Snow Tours'. He was taken in the Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011. He had a strain in the match with Mumbai Indians and had to be rested. Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad
Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad is born on June 3, 1983 in Tamil Nadu. He started playing cricket at the age of 13. Syed is a low left had bowler. His debut in Cricket match was for Tamilnad against the Railways. He had only 3 games in 5 years consequently his experience chart is very low. During 2007 – 2008 he played in the Indian Cricket League started by ex Captain Kapil Dev which was stifled and killed by the BCCI using all pressure tactics. He had been in the teams of Tamil Nadu under 19s, Indian Cricket League India XI and Chennai Superstars. He is in the Royal
Challengers Bangalore of the. In the match with Chennai Superstars he took 4 wickets and was not out at 48 runs. He has bowled 42 overs in twenty 20 matches with felling 11 wickets including Sachin Tendulkar in IPL 2011. He had his contribution in the win against the KKR. He scored 13 runs to defeat the DDR.Johanvan der Wath
Johan van der Wath is born on January 10, 1978 in South Africa. He is a fast bowler and an all rounder. His debut was in 1996 and has played for about 10 teams around South Africa, India, England and New Zealand. He had a consistent performance. In 2006 he made his debut in O D I against Australia for his country. He caused the victory of his team by his 35 runs from 18 balls with 3 sixes in it. He joined Mumbai Champs of ICL. He was banned from playing for his joining the ICL. He joined his country's squad for World Cup in 2011.
He is in the squad of Royal Challengers Bangalore and played 3 games in IPL 2011. He arrested the march of the Chennai Super Kings by taking 2 wicketsJonathan Vandiar
Jonathan Vandiar (Jonathan David Vandiar) is born on April 25, 1990, Paarl. South Africa. He is mainly a left hander batsman but also an effective fielder and an all rounder. He is taken in the Royal Challengers Bangalore team for the IPL matches. Luke Pomersbach
Luke Pomersbach nick named as Pomers is born on September 28, 1984 in Australia. He is mainly batsman but is good at innings and is a good fielder. His debut was in Australia as a substitute for the player Brad Hodge in T20 game in 2007 against New Zealand as Hodge was injured. He had some disciplinary run-ins in August 2009 and was banned till 2-1-2010. He was in the Kings XI Punjab for the IPL seasons 1 and 2 and made 152 runs in 5 innings in season 1. He was taken by Royal Challengers Bangalore for season 4 in 2011 and continues. He had 51 runs in 4 innings and 5 catches.
Mayank Agarwal
His date of birth is February 16, 1991 from Bangalore.
Mayank Agarwal is basically a right handed batsman, a leading scorer with a track record of consistent performance for Karnataka Premier League. He has played in IPL game and World Cup game of 2010. Mohammad Kaif
Mohammad Kaif's date of birth is December 1, 1980 and basically is batsman from U P. He plays steady even under pressure situations as shown by him in his performances in various matches of Indian ODI and test teams. In 2010 World Cup he was in the headlines for his performances. He is a good fielder too. His contribution in the 2005 – 06 Ranji Trophy for bringing UP with the only victory in the history of 77 years is creditable.
He was in the squad of Rajasthan Royals for the first IPL in 2008. In 2010 he went to Kings XI Punjab and was brought to Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2011. Nuwan Pradeep
Nuwan Pradeep (Aththachchi Nuwan Pradeep Roshan Fernando) with the nick name Sirasa is born on October 19, 1986 in Sri Lanka. Within 3 years of his debut he was in the National team at the age of 20. After 3 years of that he was playing against India in the tests. In 2010 Nuwan Pradeep was selected for Sri Lanka of Australia. He made a mark as one of the fastest bowlers in the match. Again he was in the National squad of Sri Lanka he played against England Lions in 2011 in the England tour and took 4/29 in 2nd innings.
Royal Challengers Bangalore took in Nuwan Pradeep for 2011 IPL season and had no role in the matches but utilized to learn from the more from the world's best bowlers by observing them. He is playing in his national squad under Captain Tillakaratne Dilshan who is his teammate in Royal Challengers Bangalore. Raju Bhatkal
Raajoo Bhatkal is born on September 1, 1985 in Karnataka, India. Raju has played for Karnataka in Ranji Trophy against Saurashtra in 2007. In this game he took 3 wickets for 52 and scored 42 runs. He was also in the T20 tournament where he took 3 wickets for 21 against Haryana in 2010 at Vadodara and Karnataka under the Under 16. His batting style is right hand batsman and medium pace bowler. In 2007 he took 3 for 8 in nine balls against Andhra. His hobbies are singing and cooking. He is taken in by Royal Challengers Bangalore and is to make his debut in the IPL.Rilee Rossouw
Rilee Rossouw is born on October 9, 1989. He is a left hander batsman and Right-arm offbreak bowler. He is one of the top rated young batsmen of South Africa. He has triple century in First Class Cricket. He was in major teams like Eagles, Free State, South Africa A, South Africa Under-19s and now is in Royal Challengers Bangalore.Ryan Ninnan
Ryan Ninan is born on November 19, 1985 at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is a bowler and has played in all the 4 namely the Karnataka Under-16s, Karnataka Under-19s, Karnataka Under-22s, and Karnataka Under-25s of the Karnataka State. He is taken in by Royal Challengers Bangalore. His debut first class match was for Goa against Kerala team. In this he had 2/123. He proved his ability in batting against Bengal in the 4th match. Ryan Ninan was the highest scorer with 88 runs and took 1 wicket in the match for Goa. In his List A match against Andhra he had 2 important wickets for Karnataka paving the way for victory.
In 2011 IPL he has played for Kings XI Punjab. Royal Challengers Bangalore bought him in the auction in 2011 for their squad. He played 2 matches one against the Deccan Chargers Hyderabad where he took the opening batsman wicket and in the match against Chennai Super Kings Ninan took 2 wickets . His contribution in this match was well appreciated by his teammates. Saurabh Tiwary
Saurabh Tiwary is born on December 30, 1989 in Jharkhand. He is a left hand middle order batsman, a good fielder and also a good finisher. His debut was in the senior team of Jharkhand in 2008 and was made captain in the next year. He was in the Mumbai Indians in IPL 2008. In the 2010 ODI games against Australia his performance was creditable. He has played for RCB against the CSK in 2011 at Chennai for the final.Sreenath Aravind
Sreenath Aravind is born on April 8, 1984 in Bangalore. He is a left arm pace bowler and has come into the group of stalwarts of India. When he bowls it will create an anxiety in the minds of the batsmen. Aravind is a part of the Karnataka team throughout the Ranji Trophy, a successful team for few years. He had a near fatal accident which could have prevented his playing before his debut in 2008. But in 2010 – 11 Ranji Trophy he was the 2nd highest wicket taker for Karnataka. So also was his position in the South Zone Duleep Trophy. He was bought by the Royal Challengers Bangalore for 2011 season of IPL. He got a chance to play as substitute for Dirk Nannes who was injured. In 2011 IPL he played 13 games and took 21 wickets helping RCB to progress to the final stage and helped his captain Vettori to balance team. Tilakaratne Dilshan
Tilakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan also known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan is born October 14, 1976 in Sri Lanka. He was the former captain of Sri Lankan Cricket team after the World Cup match in 2011 till recently. He is a member of the team since November 1999. He has lot of creditable performances in various test matches and his captaincy saw Sri Lank first win in South Africa.
He is taken in as the team member of the Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL season 4, 2011.Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli is born 5 November 1988 at Delhi and by now has become an international cricketer. He can be an opening batsman but is more effective in the middle over. He is a medium pace right arm bowler.
At the Malaysia World Cup Kohli as the captain of the Indian team in the 2008 Under 19s category and he led it to victory in 2009. The final with the South Africa saw Kohli scoring a century to lead India to victory by 17 runs. He scored 398 runs in the aggregate in the tournament in the 7 matches it played with 2 centuries 2 fifties. In the Indian Premier League of 2008 Virat Kohli played for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. He had a mixed fortune in his career. He was bought in the 1st season by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008 and was the only player in the team retained in the season 4 by RCB. He had 1467 runs in the IPL with 70 appearances in all. His debut for ODI was in 2008. He is the fastest India batsman at resent who could score 1000 runs in ODIs. He has given powerful performances against Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Sri Lanka. He is a medium pace bowler and a very fast fielder. As captain also he was very effective. Zaheer Khan
Zaheer Khan (nick named as Zak) is born on October 7, 1978. He is a bowler. In the Royal Challengers Bangalore whose team owns him, he is the header in the bowling. His ODI debut was in 2000 and he could impress all. In the 2003 World Cup he with Javagal Srinath was effective in India reaching the top. He had health problems in between but by 2007 Zak had become a leading bowler of World category. He was also a highest wicket taker of the World Cricket tournament of 2011 where India won.
In the 1st IPL season Zaheer Khan played for Royal Challengers Bangalore he took the first wicket in the IPL. He went to Mumbai Indians and helped them to reach the final in 2010. Again in 2011 IPL he returned to RCB and helped the Royal Challengers to come to the final. In 2008 after the shock of dismal show against the KKR he helped his team against Mumbai Indians to win. In 2011 he took 4 wickets of KKR but the play was cut short by the rain.
