{"id":1074,"date":"2020-08-02T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T09:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=27451"},"modified":"2020-08-02T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T05:51:27","slug":"teams-captains-of-the-first-ever-ipl-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/teams-captains-of-the-first-ever-ipl-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Teams, Captains of the first ever IPL season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the mega cricket festival finally set to resume with the tournament in all likelihood to be held in the UAE, it\u2019s time to take a trip down memory lane. In doing so, we look at the various franchises and their respective captains from the inception season of the inaugural IPL, 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kolkata Knight Riders <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Sourav Ganguly<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mumbai Indians <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Sachin Tendulkar<\/p>\n<p><strong>Royal Challengers Bangalore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Rahul Dravid<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai Super Kings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: MS Dhoni<\/p>\n<p><strong>Delhi Daredevils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Virendra Sehwag<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rajasthan Royals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Shane Warne<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kings XI Punjab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Yuvraj Singh<\/p>\n<p><strong>Deccan Chargers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: VVS Laxman<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the mega cricket festival finally set to resume with the tournament in all likelihood to be held in the UAE, it\u2019s time to take a trip down memory lane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24206,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}