{"id":18010,"date":"2020-09-06T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T01:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=27596"},"modified":"2020-08-29T01:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-08-28T20:24:01","slug":"ipl-2011-recapping-the-cricket-festival-and-the-respective-captains-of-the-franchises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/ipl-2011-recapping-the-cricket-festival-and-the-respective-captains-of-the-franchises\/","title":{"rendered":"IPL 2011: Recapping the cricket festival and the respective captains of the franchises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">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 2011 IPL seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth season of the cricket festival was hosted by India. During this fourth season, two more teams in the form of Kochi Tuskers and Pune Warriors were formed taking the number of teams from eight to ten<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was won by MS Dhoni\u2019s Chennai Super Kings, defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. With this, not only did CSK lift the title for the second consecutive season but also became the only team to have lifted the IPL title more than once.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Gayle ended the IPL 2011 as the Highest Run Getter with 608 runs while Lasith Malinga was awarded with the Purple Cap with 28 wickets to his name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Kolkata Knight Riders <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Gautam Gambhir<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Mumbai Indians <\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Sachin Tendulkar<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Royal Challengers Bangalore<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Daniel Vettori<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Chennai Super Kings<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: MS Dhoni<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Delhi Daredevils<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Virendra Sehwag<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Rajasthan Royals:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Shane Warne<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Kings XI Punjab<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Adam Gilchrist<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong class=\"\">Deccan Chargers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Captain: Kumar Sangakkara<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kochi Tuskers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Mahela Jayawardene<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pune Warriors<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Captain: Yuvraj Singh<\/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":38749,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18010","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=18010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}