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Royal Challengers Bangalore's Muttiah Muralitharan is disappointed after the BCCI decided to keep Sri Lankan players away from the IPL matches in Chennai over anti-Lankan unrest in Tamil Nadu. "It's a sad for cricket as we are not allowed to play in a certain part of India. It is a government decision, if they cannot provide security for us we have to be cautious on that. Especially, for me, I have spoken to Royal Challengers, they do not have any problems, I can play the non-Chennai games. If they allow us to play, we will definitely play in Chennai. Chennai is like a second home for me as my wife Madhimalar is from there. It is a sentimental situation for me," Muralitharan told NDTV in an exclusive television interview on Tuesday night. The 40-year old, also known as the smiling assassin, is however upbeat about playing the IPL ties in the other parts of the country. "The authorities are guaranteeing our safety in other states of India. We have ...

Virat Kohli has been appointed the new RCB captain. Kohli succeeds the highly respected and successful former RCB captain Daniel Vettori. Kohli’s appointment follows a productive IPL 6 auction in which RCB strengthened their bowling line-up significantly and added capable all-rounders to increase the amount of flexibility in the selection of the playing squad. Dr Vijay Mallya said, “We are delighted to announce Virat as our captain. His hunger to learn, lead, motivate and set an example is unquestionable.” Virat is the 11th highest run scorer in overall IPL history. 1639 runs, Av: 28.25, highest score 73* and a strike rate of 119.28. He has scored 8 fifties, hit 154 fours and 49 sixes. He is also the 3rd highest run scorer in Champions League T20 history. Virat holds the 2nd highest, IPL 2nd wicket partnership record (204*) with Chris Gayle against KXIP in 2012. The same two players also hold the 2nd highest 2nd wicket partnership (141) in the Champions League T20. ...

Indian spinner Murali Kartik will be playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the sixth edition of the Indian Premier League after Pune Warriors released him from their squad on Friday. Left-arm spinner Kartik has earlier played for Kolkata Knight Riders before being picked by Pune Warriors during the fourth edition of the cash-rich league. His economy rate is close to seven and has taken 93 wickets in 127 Twenty20 matches. He has played eight Tests and 37 ODIs for India. According to IPL sources, Kartik was sold to RCB at his previous base price of USD 400,000. STATISTICS Batting and Fielding   Mat NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St 2012 11 4 26 14* 26.00 21 123.80 0 0 1 1 4 0 2011 6 2 12 11 12.00 15 80.00 0 0 1 0 1 0 2010 10 0 22 21 11.00 22 100.00 0 0 2 0 5 0 2009 10 2 21 11* 21.00 20 105.00 0 0 0 0 1 0 2008 6 0 30 17 10.00 27 111.11 0 0 3 0 4 0 Bowling   Mat Balls Runs Wkts BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 2012 11 216 266 4 2-14 66.50 ...

Royal Challengers Bangalore Squad for IPL 6 - 2013 Captain: Virat Kohli Coach: Ray Jennings Bowling coach: Venkatesh Prasad City: Bengaluru, Karnataka Owner: Dr.Vijay Mallya Founded: 2008 Home ground: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium (Capacity: 40,000) Manager: Avinash Vaidya IPL wins: 0 (Runners-up 2009, 2011) CL T20 wins: 0 (Runners-up 2011) Official website: royalchallengers.com List of Indian Players in RCB team for ipl 2013 AB De Villiers Abhimanyu Mithun Abhinav Mukund Andrew McDonald Arun Karthik Cheteshwar Pujara Chris Gayle Christopher Barnwell Daniel Christian Daniel Vettori Harshal Patel Jaidev Unadkat K P Appanna Karun Nair Mayank Agarwal Moises Henriques Murali Kartik Muttiah Muralitharan Pankaj Singh Prasanth Parameswaran Ranganath Vinay Kumar Ravi Rampaul Rudra Pratap Singh S Aravind Sandeep Warrier Saurabh Tiwary Sheldon Jackson Sunny Sohal Syed Mohammad Tillakaratne Dilshan Vijay Zol Virat Kohli Zaheer Khan ...

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