Kolkata Knight Riders

The Logo

The logo of the team consists of blazing golden viking helmet against a black background with the name of the team Kolkata Knight Riders written in gold. The main theme of the team Korbo, Lorbo, Jitbo Re (We will do it, Fight for it, Win it) has been created by Vishal-Shekhar duo. A Knight Rider album with several singers and music composers including Usha Uthup and Bappi Lahiri will also be created. The tag line of the team is All the King's Men. The team's official color is black and gold. Black stands for the courage of Maa Kali and gold stands for the spirit of winning. The jersey was created by Bollywood fashion designer Manish Malhotra. The team also has a mascot named Hoog Lee, who is a lazy Royal Bengal Tiger and loves to eat burgers. The name was chosen after lot of research. The name Knight Riders has been chosen keeping in view of the kids and the youth, and is a obvious reference to the famous television show.

Sponsors

The Kolkata Knight Riders is the only team other than Rajasthan Royals that does not have associated brands. This along with the association of Shah Rukh Khan made Kolkata team the most sort after team in terms of Sponsorship. Kolkata team was the first team to announce it sponsors. HDIL is the title sponsor along with Belmonte , The Telegraph (Kolkata) and Tag Heuer as associates sponsors. A later addition was Nokia as the second title sponsor. It is interesting to note that 3 of the 5 brands have Shah Rukh Khan as their brand ambassador. Reebok is the merchandise sponsor for the team.

Players

Players

Sourav Ganguly, the former captain of the Indian cricket team is the icon player and will lead the Kolkata franchise. Also in the team is allrounder Chris Gayle and wicket keeper batsman Brendon McCullum. The most successful captain in world cricket Ricky Ponting follows suit with a bowling attack including Shoaib Akhtar, Ishant Sharma, Umar Gul. Others include Ajit Agarkar, Murali Karthik and David Hussey.