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The 2025 season would be the 18th edition of the Indian Premier League organized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. In July 2024, the IPL Governing Council held a meeting with the owners of the franchises and announced that a mega auction would be conducted ahead of the 2025 season. [ 1 ]
The BCCI announced the player auction list on 5 November 2024, [31] with the detailed player list being announced on 15 November 2024. [32] The Mega Auction was held on 24 and 25 November respectively in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. [33] [34] A record-breaking 1,574 players registered for the Mega Auction, marking the highest number ever recorded. [35]
Royal Challengers Bangalore have formed a fan-following group named as Bold Army. During the 2014 IPL, the Royal Challengers became the first team to provide free Wi-Fi connectivity to fans at their home ground. 50 access points were set up using fibre-optic cables to provide the connectivity to fans on match days at the Chinnaswamy. [167]
The rivalry between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore is one of the oldest in the IPL. The inaugural match of IPL was played between both the teams in which KKR won by 140 runs due to a 158* off just 73 balls by Brendon McCullum. [147] In the IPL 2009, RCB won in both encounters against Knight Riders. During the second time ...
The Indian Premier League, also known as IPL and Tata IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's Twenty20 cricket league held annually in India. Founded by the BCCI in 2007, the league features ten state or city-based franchise teams.
The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (often abbreviated as RCB) are a franchise cricket team based in Bengaluru, Karnataka, that plays in the Indian Premier League (IPL). One of the original eight teams in the IPL, the team has made three final appearances in the IPL, losing all (in 2009 to the Deccan Chargers, in 2011 to the Chennai Super Kings and in 2016 to the Sunrisers Hyderabad).
The 2025 season will be the 18th appearance for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. They are one of the ten teams competing this year and will enter as the defending champions after defeating the Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the previous edition's final, ending a 10-year trophy drought. [1] [2]
The team that wins the final match is crowned the Indian Premier League champion. [18] Altogether, thirteen teams have played in the past ten seasons of the IPL tournament. [19] [20] [21] Of these, three teams are no longer a part of the tournament. [22] In 2011, BCCI terminated the franchise of Kochi Tuskers Kerala for contractual breach. [23]