| Kochi Tuskers Kerala | |||
| Coach: | Geoff Lawson | ||
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| Captain: | Mahela Jayawardene Parthiv Patel[1] |
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| Founded: | 2010 | ||
| Home ground: | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi |
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| Owner: | Kochi Cricket Pvt Ltd | ||
| Official website: | Kochi Tuskers Kerala | ||
Kochi Tuskers Kerala (Malayalam: കൊച്ചി ടസ്കേഴ്സ് കേരള) was a franchise cricket team that played in the Indian Premier League (IPL) representing the city of Kochi, Kerala. The team was one of two new franchisees added to the Indian Premier League (IPL) for the 2011 season, alongside the Pune Warriors India. The team franchise was owned by Kochi Cricket Pvt Ltd., which was a consortium of multiple companies. Their first IPL match was against Bangalore Royal Challengers on 9 April 2011 and their first win was against Mumbai Indians on 15 April 2011. Their last match, before being terminated, was on 18 May 2011 against the Chennai Super Kings.
On September 19, 2011, the BCCI announced that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala IPL franchise was terminated for breaching its terms of agreement. [2] This meant that the 2011 IPL season was the only season in which the Kochi team participated.
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The auction for expanding the initial eight franchises for the Indian Premier League was held on March 22, 2010. The cities involved in the auction were Pune, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamsala, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Cuttack, Vadodara, Indore and Gwalior. Two new teams were selected out of 12 teams, which bid for 2011 IPL matches. Sahara Group made the highest bid in the auction and chose to base its team in Pune, at the cost of 1,702 crore. Rendezvous Sports World made the second highest bid of 1533.32 crores, and elected to base its team in Kochi.[3] The two new franchises were sold for a combined sum of money, which was greater than the combined purchase price of all the original eight IPL franchises.[4]
With the Kochi team and Pune team joining the list of IPL franchises, all four southern states in India have an IPL franchise, while Maharashtra has two IPL franchises.
On the 19th of September 2011, the Kochi Tuskers Kerala was terminated by the BCCI due to a breach in their contract terms.
The franchise has been at the centre of many controversies since its inception. BCCI had given the franchise ultimatum to dissolve factionalism and infighting or face scrapping. After a series of lengthy meetings the company sent a letter to the BCCI requesting more time stating that the negotiations were in an advanced stage and they needed some more time to be sorted.[5]
The BCCI announced that on 27 October it would decide the fate of the Kochi team and the BCCI insisted that the two cases of the Kochi Tuskers Kerala and Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals which were expelled are different.[6] The IPL Governing council decided to give them a 30-day termination notice which meant that the franchise would have to reply to the notice within 30 days and if the IPL accepted their agreement then the franchise would no longer face the prospect of being terminated[7] The Kochi promoters submitted a letter to the BCCI officials with regard to the revised structure of agreement hammered out between them. The BCCI governing council meeting was held on 28 Nov 2010 at Nagpur to decide the fate of Kochi franchisee. BCCI president Shashank Manohar said the board needed more time to discuss the issue and to take legal opinion and that the final decision on Kochi Tuskers Kerala will be taken on the BCCI governing council meeting at Mumbai on 5 December 2010.[8] After much speculation it was finally announced by the BCCI that it was satisfied with the agreements signed by the franchise owners and the team would participate in the 2011 IPL Season.
Kochi team management had announced "Indi Commandos Kerala" as the original team name in February 2011. The name and logo received much negative response from the fans worldwide.[9] Things got worse by team management's further decision to drop "Kerala" from the team name and the reported move to Ahmedabad as the home ground;[10] comparatively high entertainment tax in Kerala (36%) was cited as the reason for the latter.[11] This invoked a mass response in the social networking sites, particularly in Facebook,[12] forcing the management to ultimately change the team name and logo. As a result, a voting poll was setup in the official site and the fans were provided the option the vote between either Kochi or Kerala as the first part of the name and the second part of the name from any of Titans, Tuskers, Tigers, Commandos and United.[13] Tuskers which won this polling was selected as the team name and the full name was released as Kochi Tuskers Kerala.[14] The decision to change the home ground also was dropped by the team management when Corporation of Cochin decided to waive off a 50% in the entertainment tax which now is 18% per game.[15]
The old shareholding pattern of KTK was:
Of the 26% held by Rendezvous Sports World in whose name the title rights were vested, the Gaekwads would only get (10%) free plus (1%) paid, Sunanda Pushkar (5%) and another (10%) was reserved for the brand ambassador for the team.
The new shareholding pattern is:
The team is out of the Indian Premier League as the consortium failed to pay the yearly Union dues to BCCI.
On September 19, 2011, the newly elected BCCI president N Srinivasan, after the annual general meeting in Mumbai, announced that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala IPL franchise was terminated by the BCCI for breaching its terms of agreement.[16] "Because of the irremediable breach committed by the Kochi franchise, the BCCI has decided to encash the bank guarantee (for 2010) in its possession and also terminate the franchise," Srinivasan said. When asked if Kochi had any chance of returning, Srinivasan responded: "No, we have terminated the franchise because the breach is not capable of being remedied."
Under the terms of the agreement, each franchise has to submit a bank guarantee every year that covers the fee payable to the BCCI. The 2010-founded team was bought for Rs 1,550 crore and the consortium has to pay a bank guarantee of 156 crore every year till 2020.[17] The consortium that owns Kochi is reported to have defaulted on an annual payment of 156 crores as a bank guarantee. In April 2010, the BCCI's working committee had rejected demands from Kochi and Pune Warriors for a reduction in their franchisee fees. The two new franchises, which made their debuts in 2011, had sought a 25% waiver on the grounds that the BCCI had stated in the bidding document that each team would play 18 league matches in a season. The schedule was later reduced to 14 matches per team.
The chairman of Kochi, Mukesh Patel, however, denied that the franchise owed the board any money. The franchise's dispute centres on the BCCI's decision to reduce the number of IPL games from 94 to 74. Soon after the termination of the contract, the owners of KTK threatened legal action against the BCCI. Mukesh Patel claimed that Kochi Tuskers had never defaulted payments and that the BCCI would be paying them 12-15 crore in October 2011 as a part of their central revenue.[18]
On 21 September 2011, owners of Kochi Tuskers moved the Bombay High Court to challenge the BCCI's decision to terminate the team's contract. However, the franchise's plea seeking to restrain the BCCI from encashing its bank guarantee of 156 crore was rejected by a single bench of Justice SF Vajifdar .[19]
On 14 October 2011, the IPL Governing Council announced that there would be only nine teams participating in 2012 after the Kochi franchise was expelled from the league.[20] The players from the Kochi Tuskers will be auctioned to other franchises in 2012 IPL player auction. If any of the Kochi players fail to attract the bid, their salaries will be covered by the IPL through the franchise's bank guarantee worth 156 crores that has been encashed by the BCCI.[21]
Federal Bank, a major Indian commercial bank in the private sector, with headquarters in Aluva, Kerala, will be the principal sponsor of Kochi Tuskers Kerala.[22] The tickets for KTK's home matches will be sold through Federal bank branches and their website.The Ticket sales of Kochi Tuskers Kerala was officially started in a ceremony hosted at the Le Meridian Hotel Kochi, on March 28. Soon after, the tickets become available at the teams official ticketing partner website kyazoonga.com.[23]
Lotto, an Italian sports goods manufacturer is the apparel sponsor for the team.[24]
V-Guard, an electronics company and AVT, a tea brand are associate sponsors. Elite Foods,Parinee Developers and Anchor Earth are the other main sponsors.
The current home ground of the Kochi Tuskers Kerala is the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Kochi.There were reports that the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium was not to having proper international facilities to host IPL matches but, however it hosted only 5 of the 7 home game.Two of their 2011 IPL home matches were hosted at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore.
The Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium at Kochi is a multi-purpose stadium owned by GCDA. Hence, the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) has entered into an agreement with GCDA to take the stadium on long term lease and has completely over-hauled the ground for hosting IPL matches. Kochi Tuskers Kerala will host 5 home matches at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium. The remaining 2 home matches will be played at the Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore.[25]
The KCA have started planning a new world class international stadium at Edakochi, an area which lies in west Kochi. The capacity of stadium is said to be 50,000 and is expected to be completed in 2012.
KTK bought 17 players in the IPL 2011 auction, signing five specialist batsmen, those being Mahela Jayawardene, VVS Laxman, Brad Hodge, Owais Shah and Michael Klinger. The team signed six bowlers, the most notable being Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan. The others include Sreesanth, RP Singh, Ramesh Powar, Vinay Kumar and Steve O'Keefe. Four all-rounders were signed those being Ravindra Jadeja, Steve Smith, Thisara Perera and John Hastings. Two renowned Wicket-Keeper batsmen were signed, Brendon McCullum who is the leading run scorer in Twenty20 Internationals and Parthiv Patel. But KTK lost both the Australians all-rounders Steve Smith and John Hastings for the 2011 season due to injuries, without either of them playing a game for KTK.[26]
The Sri Lankan players playing in IPL were asked to return by May 5th for a camp for upcoming England tour by the Sri Lankan Cricket Board.[27] KTK's captain Mahela Jayawardene and Thisara Perera were supposed to leave the team early, but BCCI and the Sri Lankan board came to an agreement and the players will now have to return only by May 18th.[28] Mahela's possible departure fueled off many speculations that Sourav Ganguly may join the team as then KTK can request the IPL Governing Council for a replacement of him as per the rule of same base price.[29]Ganguly ultimately joined the other debut team of IPL 4, Pune Warriors India in place of the injured fast bowler, Ashish Nehra.
On May 18 2011, Parthiv Patel lead the tuskers against Chennai Super Kings in their last group match of IPL 2011 season as skipper Mahela Jayawardene had to leave for national duty.[30]
The jersey of Kochi Tuskers Kerala is purple hazes in orange T-shirt and orange trousers. The team management explained the selection of colours - Orange for the highest run scorer and purple for the highest wicket-taker- the colours of the caps .[31]
| Year | Home/Away | Matches | Wins | Loss | No Result | Win % |
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| 2011 | Home | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.86% |
| Away | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 42.86% | |
| Total | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 42.86% |
| Opposition | Span | Mat | Won | Lost | Tied | NR | Win % |
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| Deccan Chargers | 2011- | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 2011- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 2011- | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 2011- | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Mumbai Indians | 2011- | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 2011- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore | 2011- | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pune Warriors India | 2011- | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 2011- | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 |
| No. | Date | Opponent | Venue | Result | Man of the Match | Scorecard |
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| 1 | 9 April | Royal Challengers Bangalore | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 6 wickets | AB de Villiers (RCB) - 54* (40 balls) |
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| 2 | 13 April | Pune Warriors India | DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai | Pune Warriors won by 4 wickets | Mohnish Mishra (PWI) - 37* (21 balls) |
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| 3 | 15 April | Mumbai Indians | Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 8 wickets | Brendon McCullum (KTK) - 81 (60 balls) |
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| 4 | 18 April | Chennai Super Kings | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 7 wickets (D/L method) |
Brendon McCullum (KTK) - 47 (33 balls) |
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| 5 | 20 April | Kolkata Knight Riders | Eden Gardens, Kolkata | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 6 runs | Mahela Jayawardene (KTK) - 25 (27 balls) |
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| 6 | 24 April | Rajasthan Royals | Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur | Rajasthan Royals won by 8 wickets | Shane Warne (RR) - 3/16 (4 overs) |
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| 7 | 27 April | Deccan Chargers | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Deccan Chargers won by 55 runs | Ishant Sharma (DC) - 5/12 (3 overs) |
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| 8 | 30 April | Delhi Daredevils | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Delhi Daredevils won by 38 runs | Virender Sehwag (DD) - 80 (47 balls) |
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| 9 | 2 May | Delhi Daredevils | Feroz Shah Kotla, New Delhi | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 7 wickets | Prasanth Parameswaran (KTK) - 2/29 (4 overs) |
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| 10 | 5 May | Kolkata Knight Riders | Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Kochi | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 17 runs | Brad Hodge (KTK) - 35* (19 balls) |
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| 11 | 8 May | Royal Challengers Bangalore | M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 9 wickets | Chris Gayle (RCB) - 44 (16 balls) |
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| 12 | 13 May | Kings XI Punjab | Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore | Kings XI Punjab won by 6 wickets | Dinesh Karthik (KXIP) - 69 (33 balls) |
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| 13 | 15 May | Rajasthan Royals | Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore | Kochi Tuskers Kerala won by 8 wickets | Brad Hodge (KTK) - 33* (17 balls) & 4/13 (4 overs) |
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| 14 | 18 May | Chennai Super Kings | M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai | Chennai Super Kings won by 11 runs | Wriddhiman Saha (CSK) - 46* (33 balls) |
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| Signature song of Kochi Tuskers Kerala | |
The signature song of Kochi Tuskers Kerala is composed by veteran film score composer Ouseppachan. The music video for the song was filmed by Priyadarshan and his cinematographer Thiru. The song was shot at various locales including Paravur, Cherraai, Varapuzha backwaters and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium. It features almost all the leading players in the team as well as Malayalam movie actress Rima Kallingal.[32][33][34]
Kochi Tuskers Kerala may move to Ahmedabad
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