Rajasthan Royals

Rajasthan Royals is the franchise that will represent the city of Jaipur in the Indian Premier League. The team will be led and coached by Shane Warne. There is no Icon Player for the team. This is the only IPL team to have a foreign captain and playing coach.

The Rajasthan Royals franchise is owned by Emerging Media group. The group acquired the franchise for $67 million.
Players

Rajasthan Royals was the least active franchise during the player auction. The team does not have a designated icon player, which saved a lot of cap space for the franchise. However the franchise was surprisingly low key during the auction, and in the end got penalized by the IPL organizing committee for failing to meet the minimum bidding criteria of $3.3 million. The highest bid by Rajasthan Royals was for the Indian middle order batsman Mohammad Kaif, who came off the board at $675,000. Shane Warne has been named the coach and captain of the side. The Royals are unique as they are the only side to have an English cricketer in their squad, Hampshire's all rounder Dimitri Mascarenhas.

Batsmen

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Graeme Smith - South Africa - Left-handed Batsman
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Mohammad Kaif - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Justin Langer - Australia - Left-handed Batsman
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Younis Khan - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman
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Anoop Revandkar - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Taruwar Kohli - India - Right-handed Batsman
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Niraj Patel - India - Left-handed Batsman

Wicketkeepers

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Kamran Akmal - Pakistan - Right-handed Wicket keeper

All Rounders

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Yusuf Pathan - Pakistan - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm leg-break
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Dimitri Mascarenhas - England - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Shane Watson - Australia - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm fast-medium
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Sohail Tanvir - Pakistan - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm medium-fast
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Ravindra Jadeja - India - Left-handed Batsman/Left-arm orthodox spin
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Siddharth Trivedi - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm medium
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Swapnil Asnodkar - India - Right-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break
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Sumit Khatri - India - Left-handed Batsman/Right-arm off-break

Bowlers

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Shane Warne (Captain) - Australia - Right-arm off-break
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Munaf Patel - 24- India - Right-arm fast-medium
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Morne Morkel - 30- South Africa - Right-arm fast
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Pankaj Singh - 21- India - Right-arm off-break

Administration and Coaching Staff

Front Office:

* Owner - Emerging Media (Manoj Badale, Lachlan Murdoch, Suresh Chellaram)
* CEO - Fraser Castellino

Coaches:

* Head Coach - Shane Warne
* Physiotherapist - John Gloster