Royal Bengal Tigers (formely Kolkata Tigers until the 2008 Edelweiss 20s Challenge) is one of the eight teams that competes in the Indian Cricket League (ICL). This team is based in Kolkata, India and its captain is former New Zealand all rounder Craig McMillan.
Royal Bengal Tigers Team
Craig McMillan (New Zealand), Parviz Aziz(Assam), Darren Maddy (England), Abhishek Jhunjhunwala (Kolkata), Lance Klusener (South Africa), Rohan Gavaskar (Bengal), Upul Chandana (Sri Lanka), Deep Dasgupta (Bengal), Abu Nechim (Assam), Shiv Sagar Singh (Bengal), Boyd Rankin (Ireland), Mihir Diwakar (Jharkhand), Rajiv Kumar (Kolkata), Sayed Akhlakh Ahmed (Kolkata), Subhomoy Das (Kolkata), Sujay Tarafdar (Assam), Pritam Das (Assam), Anshu Jain, Ali H. Zaidi
Previous performance
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship: 4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s: 4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge: 4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament: 3rd place
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
