Rajasthan Royals IPL Team Owner 2024: Name, Net Worth, Background, Other Stakeholders & Squad Updates

Rajasthan Royals IPL Team Owner 2024

 The Seventeenth season of the Indian Premier league is just around the corner. The IPL 2014 is going to start from 22 March 2024. As per the schedule released by the BCCI , the first half of the IPL will take place in India while the second half might take place in Dubai due to the ongoing general elections in the country. IPL was first started in 2008 and since then it has been one of the most famous and fan favourite T20 Cricket leagues around the world. This year 10 teams will be competing against each other with players from 13 cricket playing nations in them for the Cup of Tata IPL 2024. Since its inception there have been lots of fan favourite teams in the tournament and they surely boast of being fans of the team Since the beginning. Today we’ll discuss the owner of one such team.

Rajasthan Royals is one of the most famous IPL franchises of all time. They have been playing in the league since its first season and were the winner of Inaugural IPL 2024. The team has a huge fan base in north India and is one of the most powerful teams of the IPL. The home ground of Royals is the SMS Stadium Jaipur and this year fans would be able to see them playing at their home ground. Now let’s see who is the owner of Rajasthan Royals in 2024.

Rajasthan Royals (RR) Owner History 2024

Rajasthan Royals is the Jaipur based franchise and is one of the most famous and fan favourite teams in IPL. Moreover, RR was the winner of the first ever IPL season in 2008 , which gained them huge recognition. However after that they weren’t able to win a single cup.  As a matter of fact , Rajasthan Royals was the cheapest team of all the eight franchises that were bought in the IPL 2008. The Emerging media bought the franchise for $67 Million. Since then the fan base of RR is ever growing, however the team went through some major scandals that tainted their name.

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The initial majority owner of the RR were Emerging media, however it attracted controversy regarding its ownership way back in 2010. The controversy veas regarding a silent shareholder who held a significant portion of the team and it was also said that fake bids were also made during the auction. This was all against the rules and regulations of the BCCI.  In 2015 Businessman Raj Kundra and famous actress Shilpa Shetty bought stakes in RR , however after that their name was caught up in a betting and match fixing scandal which attracted the ban of 2 years for Rajasthan Royals along with other teams.

Currently  Rajasthan Royals is the 10 most valuable franchise of the Indian Premier league and has a value of $1 Billion. Moreover,  Manoj  Badale the owner of Emerging media is also the owner of Rajasthan Royals. He alone has a 65% stake in the team. Other than him Lachlan Murdoch and RedBird Capital are minority stakeholders in RR. Shane Warne also owned a 3% stake in RR.

What is the current owner of the Rajasthan Royals?

If we see it from the perspective of stake holding Manoj Badale of Emerging Media can be seen as the owner. However in reality Rajasthan Royals is owned by various Majority and minority shareholders such as Lachlan Murdoch, and RedBird Media who are also the owners of Rajasthan Royals in 2024. However , the majority decisions about the team are made by Manoj Badale. Manoj Badale is an Indian-born-British businessman and venture capitalist born on December 31, 1967, in Dhule, Maharashtra.

Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2024

Currently Sanju Samson is the captain of Rajasthan Royals. Under his leadership the team is performing well and might win the championship. Rajasthan Royals has been in the league since its inception. If we remove the win of 2008 , the team has only reached play-offs 4 times in 16 years.  However in 2022 we saw a dramatic change where the team reached finals and played against Gujarat Titans, this was a ray of hope for all the Rajasthan Royals fans around the world. Seeing their performance for the past few years, we are sure that they’ll perform great in this season of IPL 2024. The coach of Rajasthan Royals in 2024 is Kumar Sangakara. Ranjit Barthakur is the chairman of RR, while Jake Lush McCrum is the CEO. The home ground of the Rajasthan Royals is the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur, Rajasthan.

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Rajasthan Royals 2024 Squad

Below is the complete squad of the IPL 2024. You’ll find that most of the players have been retained and we’ll also be able to see new players too. So here’s the Rajasthan Royals Team for IPL 2024.

Sanju Samson (c), Jos Buttler, Shimron Hetmyer, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Donovan Ferreira, Kunal Rathore, Ravichandran Ashwin, Kuldeep Sen, Navdeep Saini, Prasidh Krishna, Sandeep Sharma, Trent Boult, Yuzvendra Chahal, Adam Zampa, Avesh Khan, Rovman Powell, Shubham Dubey, Tom Kohler-Cadmore, Abid Mushtaq, Nandre Burger.

Rajasthan Royals IPL Stats 2008-2024

Rajasthan Royals has been playing in the IPL since 2008. Below we have presented the stats for all seasons of IPL.

Year League Standing Final Standing
2008 1st out of 8 Champions
2009 6th out of 8 League stage
2010 7th out of 8 League stage
2011 6th out of 10 League stage
2012 7th out of 9 League stage
2013 3rd out of 9 Playoffs
2014 5th out of 8 League stage
2015 4th out of 8 Playoffs
2018 4th out of 8 Playoffs
2019 7th out of 8 League stage
2020 8th out of 8 League stage
2021 7th out of 8 League stage
2022 2nd out of 10 Runners-up
2023 5th out of 10 League stage

So this was all about the owner of Rajasthan Royals in 2024. The ownership will remain same for this season also hope you got all the information that you needed.

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