Royal Challengers Bangalore was owned by Vijay Mallaya, who paid the amount of US$111.6 million to get this club. It was the second highest bid for a club next to Mumbai Indians Owned by Mukesh Ambani. The captain of the team is Kevin pietersen, who is one of the highest paid player along with Andrew Flintoff for the price of $1.55m. The coach for the team is Ray Jennings. The last year captain is Rahul Dravid who was replaced by Kevin pietersen, under his captaincy the club finished second last.

Kevin Pietersen(ENG), Jitendra Patil, Roelof van der Merwe(RSA), Abhmanyu Mithun, Karan Sharma, Rohit Sabharwal, Anil Kumble, Kedar Jadhav, Ross Taylor(NZ), Balachandra Akhil, Kotarangada Appanna, Saurabh Bandekar, Bharat Chipli, Manish Pandey, Sreesanth Aravind, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mark Boucher(RSA), Srivastava Goswami, Cameron White(AUS), Nathan Bracken(AUS), Sunil Joshi, Dale Steyn(RSA), Pankaj Singh, Tinu Yohannan, Devraj Patil, Praveen Kumar, Udit Patel, Dillon du Preez(RSA), R. Suteesh, Vinay Kumar, Gaurav Dhiman, Rahul Dravid, Virat Kohli, Ishank Jaggi, Rajesh Bishnoi, Jacques Kallis(RSA), Raju Bhatkal, Jagadeesh Arun Kumar, Robin Uthappa, Jesse Ryder(NZ), Wasim Jaffer
The strength of the team is Pietersen, Dravid, Kumble ,Jesse Ryder, Zaheer, Bracken, Praveen,Taylor, Utthapa. This time they are ready to make big impression in the game.

Chennai super Kings is one of the Chennai based franchise, which was led by Mahendra singh Dhoni, Who is currently the captain of Indian cricket Team. Currently the coach for the team is Stephen Fleming. This club was owned by India Cements, Who paid US$91 million. They will own this club for 10 years. In last year season the team reaches upto the finals lost their contest for the trophy to Rajasthan Royals. This team having the following players in the club

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Suresh Raina, Anirudha Srikkanth, Subramaniam Badrinath, Arun Karthik, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Abhinav Mukund, Murali Vijay Parthiv Patel, Shadab Jakati, Viraj Kadbe, Suresh Kumar, Napolean Einstein Joginder Sharma, Ravichandran Aswhin, Manpreet Gony, Laxmipathy Balaji, Palani Amarnath, Sudeep Tyagi, Matthew Hayden (AUS), Michael Hussey (AUS), George Bailey (AUS), Andrew Flintoff (ENG), Albie Morkel (RSA), , Jacob Oram (NZ), Makhaya Ntini (RSA), Thilan Thushara (SRI), , Muralitharan (SRI).

The strength for the team is Captaincy of Mahendra Singh Dhoni and the presence of Andrew Flintoff, star players like Hayden, Muralitharan, Oram, Ntini. Hopefully this time the Chennai super Kings will aim to claim the trophy.