King Khan today launched his cricket team under the banner Knightriders in Kolkatta. The name of the site is www.kolkataknightriders.com/home.html. The team activities and actions are towards sports strength and courage of children and youth of the country. The joint owners of the team are the great SRK and actress Juhi Chawla and her business mind husband Jay Mehta.
Sourav Ganguli has been named as the Captain along with tough players like Shoiab Akthar and Ricky Ponting. John Bucanen will be the coach of the team.
The theme song for the team has been composed by multitalented Vishal-Shekhar and the song has been sung by Vishal. The jingle for the song is something like Korbo,lodbo,jeethore in Bangla. More songs will be composed by Pritam and to be sung by Usha Uthup the Kolkata much-loved.
The official clothes has been sponsored by Belmonte, designed flamboyant Manish Malhotra. The colour of the T-shirt is gold and black, SRK feels gold is lucky for him. SRK himself has chosen Jersey No.12 and says he will be the waterman for the team in an athletic spirit.
A golden helmet as musket of the team, enclosed in glass was offered to Saurav and certain other members of the organisation.
SRK also unveiled the team’s logo Hoog-lee shown as a cartoon character, the surprise members’ name will be announced later.
SRK disclosed that he does not anything much about cricket on a funny message. He stated that a sum of INR 80,000/- crores will be the expected annual turnover, out of which 80% money will be dispersed to the players.
Sony Max will be official broadcaster of the matches which will begin from March 18 onwards.
Well whatever King Khan does, he steals the thunder as ever. Good luck King Khan!
No
Name
Age
Nationality
Playing role
Batting Style
Bowling/Fielding
Bidding Price
1
Sourav Ganguly (Captain)
35
Batsman
LHB
Right-arm medium
Icon Player
2
Ishant Sharma
19
Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 950,000
3
Chris Gayle
28
All-rounder
LHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 950,000
4
Brendon McCullum
26
Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 700,000
5
David Hussey
30
Batsman
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 675,000
6
Shoaib Akhtar
32
Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast
US$ 450,000
7
Murali Kartik
31
Bowler
LHB
Left-arm orthodox spin
US$ 425,000
8
Ricky Ponting
33
Batsman
RHB
Right-arm medium
US$ 400,000
9
Ajit Agarkar
30
All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 350,000
10
Umar Gul
24
Bowler
RHB
Right-arm fast-medium
US$ 150,000
11
Tatenda Taibu
24
Batsman/WK
RHB
Wicket-keeper
US$ 125,000
12
Salman Butt
23
Batsman
LHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 100,000
13
Mohammad Hafeez
27
All-rounder
RHB
Right-arm off spin
US$ 100,000
Front Office:
- Owners – Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, & Jai Mehta
- CEO – TBA
- President – TBA
Coaches:
- Head Coach – John Buchanan
- Assistant Head Coach –
- Physiotherapist – Andrew Leipus[5]
- Physical Trainer – Adrian Le Roux[6]
best of luck for KOLKATAKNIGHT RIDERS.
amra jitbo khan dada.
We r Knight Riders~catch us if u can…
wel come in kolkata KHAN DADA.
We proud of you. we will always with you
i m 1 of ur gr8 fan.
i have a community in orkut named ” fans who can die for the king khan”.
ur an inspiration of us. i like ur smile & ur hair style. but the previous hair style was cool & sexy.
ill b on stadiums to see u.
the team in which ganguly is there that team will always win.
so,my best wishes are with kolkata knight riders
and what a perfect jodi of shahrukh and ganguly
so,karenge,larhenge or jeetenge
Kindly check the spellings and the language. Since this is the first day, corrections should be made before more people visit this site. The title song should be checked. A news channel which broadcast the program live, led us to believe that the song mentioned in the site is not correct.
I Love ShahRukh Khan & iam shahrukh fan. My best crickerter is Sourav Ganguli . The team is superb & this is the Winning Team.
Korbo Lorbo Jitbo…
I believe you, as you believe in your team.
Like “DON KO PAKARNA MUSHKIL HI NAHI NAMUMKIN HAI…”
“USI TARHA DON KE TEAM(KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS) KO HARANA BHI NAMUMKIN HAI….”
BEST OF LUCK KING KHAN………!!
“KHAN DADA” congrts.your new name ,your site is lovely we r proud of you as an indian now as a begali i hope your knight rider will destroy other on the field i am always with you &your naghty HOOG LEE is your great creation ……….best of luck & take care
I am the great fan of SRK & Sourav from childhood. I watch every movie of Shahrukh first day first show and every match of Sourav.I think this team will be victorious in inagural IPL.Best luck to Sourav and his mens..
download song of korbo lodbo jitbo re please.
all the best…..we want you to be the winners
v r 2 hot v r 2 cool aami kolkatans v rule
korbo lodbo jitbo re……korbo lodbo re……jitbo re jitbo re……..
karenge ladenge jeetenge…..jeet jaeinge jeeteinge….
ALL DA BEST Knight Riders………….
i wanna to wish best of luck 2 all the players……..n jst wan to say”KARBO LORBO JEETBO”…………