{"id":1075,"date":"2020-08-09T16:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-08-09T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=27466"},"modified":"2020-08-09T00:36:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T19:06:24","slug":"ipl-2009-franchises-and-their-respective-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl-2009-franchises-and-their-respective-captains\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2009 Franchises and their respective captains"},"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, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The 2009 had a slightly different twist as compared to the inaugural season of 2008. Due to the General Elections which were to be held in India, the 2009 IPL was shifted overseas with South-Africa being the host.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kolkata Knight Riders <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Brendon McCullum<\/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: Adam Gilchrist (Winning Captain)<\/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. In doing so, we look at the various franchises and their respective captains from the inception season of the inaugural IPL, 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1075","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\/1075","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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}