Gujarat lions owner

NEW DELHI: The new Rajkot franchise in the Indian Premier League has been named “Gujarat as a state has a rich cricketing history with a passion and commitment to the game that is unmatched. We have named our team Gujarat Lions to try and capture the spirit of Gujarat which has a rich cricketing history. The name brings instant connect with fans not just across the state but across the world,” said Keshav Bansal, the owner of Gujarat Lions and director, Intex Technologies. The company said it decided on the name of the team through a crowd-sourcing exercise in which it received over 5,000 responses from people on Facebook. Bansal said the company plans to integrate all its different brands, from LCD TVs to mobile phones in the marketing exercise that it will do around the Industrialist Sanjiv Goenka’s New Rising and handset maker Intex have won the bid for the two new IPL teams that will play in 2016 and 2017 editions of the league in the absence of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. After the decision to suspend CSK and RR for two years, the BCCI had decided to invite bids for the two new teams for 2016 and 2017. Bidders had the option to bid for teams from Chennai, Ahmedabad, Dharamshala, Ranchi, Kanpur, Nagpur, Indore, Cuttack and Visakhapatnam. The bidding for the two teams this time was done through a reverse auction where the company that bids the lowest (lowest share of IPL’s central pool revenue) would be the winner. In the reverse bidding process, New Risin...

Table of Contents • • • • • • • About the owner of Gujarat Lions Gujarat Lions or GL was incorporated in the year 2016 by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI). It was launched as part of the replacement of Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals. Firstly, GL was bought by Intel Technologies owned by Keshav Bansal. Intel Technologies, IT products manufacturing company. Established in 1996, by Narendra Bansal. Keshav Bansal is the son of Narendra Bansal. The owner of Gujarat Lions is Keshav Bansal, also he is the director Intex technologies. • About The Gujarat Lions Wiki Company Name Gujarat Lions Official Website Founder / Owner Keshav Bansal Founded 2016 Coach • Brad Hodge • Mohammad Kaif • Heath Streak Status Inactive (2017) Head Office Rajkot, India Address Rajkot, Gujrat, India Customer Care • • Company Logo Owner of Gujarat Lions Team India- GL -Wiki – -Logo • Details of the owner of Gujarat Lions(Wiki) Gujarat Lions or GL is owned by Keshav Bansal. Keshav Bansal, Director of Intex Technologies. They are India’s second most selling mobile phone makers. He holds to be the youngest owner of an Moreover, the former state-level tennis layer. Also, a great Entrepreneur. He bought main celebrities for the marketing of his company, Namely- Mahesh Babu, Farhan Akhtar, Suriya, and Sudeep as ambassadors for the company. • Details of the Gujarat Lions Team Owner of Gujarat Lions Team – Wiki – Profile Brad Hodge, the coach for Deccan Chargers. In fact, Suresh Raina a...

One of them is the Gujarat Lions, which is a team based from Rajkot in Gujarat. Let us have a look at this new side, what players it lapped up during the auctions and everything else related to this team. The Gujarat Lions Squad The Gujarat Lions is a recently formed Rajkot-based franchise. It will play in the Indian Premier League for two seasons only, starting from 2016. The team will serve as a replacement for one of the two suspended IPL sides, Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals. Gujarat Lions is owned by Keshav Bansal, who is the owner and director of Intex Technologies. He has commented that the company intends to use IPL and cricket as a platform to promote its brand. During the 2016 players draft, this team picked up Suresh Raina and Ravindra Jadeja, along with foreign players of the caliber of Brendon McCullum, Dwayne Bravo and James Faulkner. It later appointed Suresh Raina as its captain and Brad Hodge as the coach of the side. In the IPL auctions held on 6th Feb, this team succeeded in getting a good mix of Indian and foreign players on its side and is already seen as a serious contender for the title, even before the tournament has begun. Also Read: Indian contingent Some of the prominent Indian players picked in the auctions include Dinesh Karthik, Praveen Kumar, Dhawal Kulkarni and Amit Mishra. T Eklavya Dwivedi (Wicket Keeper), Ishan Kishan (Wicket Keeper), Jaydev Shah (All-Rounder) Shadab Jakati (All-Rounder), Pravin Tambe (Bowler), Pradeep Sangw...

Absolutely, it was kind of a dream run. Coming in for the first year we were the only team to win nine league matches and that was huge for us. We were quite happy with our performance given that it was our first season. Coming to this year’s IPL, you have an interesting predicament. This will be the second and the final year for Gujarat Lions, along with Rising Pune Supergiants as per the deal with the BCCI. So keeping that in mind, how have you planned for the 2017 auction and for the season as well? When we brought the team we were quite aware of the fact that we are taking it for only two years. But it was kind of a win-win situation for us. We got to understand the process, got the taste and complete feel of the IPL and probably at one-tenth of the cost of other franchisees, because they are paying this for the last ten years. So this was a conscious decision for us and we are happy and just looking forward to the season. How to continue or not continue, those discussions will only happen after the IPL gets over. Regarding the auction I keep telling everyone that T20 is a fearless game and you need to have a really good batting side, but you need to balance it out with strong bowlers. I am a firm believer in promoting lot of Indian talent, so our strategy will be the same as last year. We have retained our core group. However, there are certain areas we have to work on like the bowling department. Bravo is injured so we need to have a strong allrounder as a replacemen...

Suresh Raina and Keshav Bansal, owner of Intex’s IPL team Gujarat Lions, at the launch in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Source: PTI) As far as names and logos go, this was a straightforward choice. A franchise based out of Gujarat christened Gujarat Lions, with a roaring lion embossed on the insignia. Given the region the team represents, it made sense when you factor in their drive to establish a local connect and reach out to the vast, and mostly prosperous and cricket-crazy, Gujarati community around the world. The choice of appointing Suresh Raina as skipper was also a sensible one. Earlier, in the draft, they weren’t disheartened after missing out on MS Dhoni (they knew beforehand as A bunch of high-profile buys you could say, and a more balanced ensemble, which according to owner Keshav Bansal was their wishlist, than Pune’s. And then chose, among a spate of high-profile coaches, Brad Hodge, who though a canny player doesn’t have much to brag about on the coaching front. A more clear-cut decision was making Raina the captain, considering his stature in the IPL, its most prolific run-getter and having not missed a single match. Tapping in on this seemingly massive fan-base, and thus creating a brand both for the franchisee and Youngest team, owner At 23, Bansal is the youngest owner of an IPL franchisee by a fair margin. But that doesn’t make his life any less taxing. Just think of the intricacies involved — the franchisee has a two-year life-span stuck on it, are ineligible...

Gujarat Lions, one the new franchises this season, have got off to a roaring start in this IPL with a hat trick of wins in an equal number of games. They came into existence as two heavyweight franchises, Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals are suspended for two years due to their alleged involvement in betting.The owner of the Gujarat Lions is the young and dynamic Keshav Bansal and he holds the position of the Director of Intex Technologies. Keshav Bansal is only 24 years old and with him acquiring the Gujarat franchise, he has created a history of sorts by becoming the youngest ever IPL team owner.Keshav Bansal grew up in a joint family in Delhi and he studied in the Heritage school located in Vasant Kunj. He has studied management at IILM Institute of Higher Education in Delhi. He is also an alma mater of the Manchester school of Business in U.K. He started off by working in the logistics department at Intex and subsequently started heading the marketing department there. He worked on a lot of ad films for Intex in the past 3 years right from developing the idea to marketing and execution. He claims to have worked on more than 20 ad films. The history of Intex itself is a rather interesting one. Keshav's father Narendra Bansal started out as an audio/video cassette trader in 1980s. Slowly and steadily Narendra Bansal moved on to capture the fast growing market of IT accessories, audio speakers, music systems, home theatres etc. Gradually Intex moved on to the manu...

Mumbai: Keshav Bansal, the owner of Indian Premier League’s (IPL) Gujarat Lions team, is only 24 years old. As Director of Intex Technologies (India) Ltd he is known for his shrewd business brain and his passion for cricket. The players feel comfortable having a young owner around them who understands their pulses and challenges. During an interview with Gulf News Keshav speaks about his team, the challenges and varied other issues. Excerpts How was it at 24 years old to run an IPL franchise? What prompted you to take up such a challenge? I believe age is just a number and hard work is the key to any business and professional success. The journey has been exciting yet full of challenges. Leading this team has been humbling and an experience I will cherish for my lifetime. I enjoyed every aspect of it, as I truly replicated what I learnt at Intex. When we bought the team we just had three months before our first game. So, organising everything in such short time at a place where no IPL match has happened before was a big challenge. But we moved day by day. It was difficult to sell sponsorship also as Gujarat Lions had no past record. However, I think the passion and commitment towards the sport is what kept me going. Intex is major mobile phones and consumer durable company. We always look forward to connect with the youth. Cricket is the best fit for any brand to reach out to today’s youth. We have been sponsoring many cricket tournaments in the past. However, we thought b...