It was not until the 2010 IPL Season that Kolkata won against Mumbai. In the first two seasons of the IPL, Mumbai swept Kolkata in all four games. The Mumbai Indians is the most successful IPL franchise with five championships, but until Mumbai's third championship, both the teams were tied with two championships. This success has led to them having many rivalries among other teams.īoth the teams play in major markets, as the Mumbai Indians play in Mumbai and the Kolkata Knight Riders play in Kolkata. The Knight Riders have historically been a successful franchise in the IPL. Team logo of the Kolkata Knight Riders, 2008–2011 seasons. A Knight Riders album featuring several singers and music composers including Usha Uthup and Bappi Lahiri was also created. The main theme of the team Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re ( we will act, fight, and win!) was scored by Vishal–Shekhar duo. The jersey was created by Bollywood fashion designer Manish Malhotra. At the time, Khan said that "golden symbolizes spirit of life and black presents the Goddess Kali." It was later changed to purple and gold during the third season and was kept so. The team's official colours were black and gold during the first two seasons. However, in the fifth it was replaced by "New Dawn, New Knights". The tagline of the team was "All the King's Men" during the first four seasons. It was in 2012 that the current logo, which has a blazing purple Corinthian helmet trimmed with gold, with Kolkata Knight Riders written within a shield was introduced. However, the black background was changed to purple in the third season. Initially, when the Kolkata Knight Riders were first introduced in 2008, the logo of the team consisted of a blazing golden Viking helmet against a black background with the name of the team written in gold next to it. ValuationĪccording to Forbes in 2022, the valuation of Kolkata Knight Riders stand at $1.1 billion. In 2021, the Knight Riders Group CEO, Venky Mysore, announced their entry into the South African T20 league with Cape Town Knight Riders and signalled intentions to invest in ECB's new competition format, The Hundred. In December 2020, the team also made an investment in the upcoming American T20 league Major League Cricket. In June 2015, the team's ownership group bought a stake in the Caribbean Premier League's Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel, and renamed it the Trinbago Knight Riders in 2016. The name of the team is a reference to the popular 1980s American television series Knight Rider. Sourav Ganguly, former captain of the Indian national team, a native of West Bengal and the current President of BCCI, was named the Icon player for the team. The team representing Kolkata was eventually bought by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan's company Red Chillies Entertainment in partnership with actress Juhi Chawla and her husband Jay Mehta for a price of $75.09 million, equal to approximately ₹2.98 billion at that time. The teams representing the eight different cities of India were put up on auction in Mumbai on 20 February 2008. Eight teams participated in the inaugural tournament held in April – June 2008. In 2007, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) created the cricket tournament Indian Premier League, based on the Twenty20 format of the game. Sourav Ganguly with the symbol of the Kolkata Knight Riders, flanked by Shah Rukh Khan on the left and Gauri Khan on the right.
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