King Khan’s Cricket TeamFiled Under: Cricket
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]
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- 11 Mar 2008 4:23 PM
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