{"id":3406,"date":"2022-02-09T13:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=190718"},"modified":"2022-02-09T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T07:53:26","slug":"ahmedabad-ipl-team-unveils-their-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ahmedabad-ipl-team-unveils-their-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahmedabad IPL Team unveils their name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVC\u2019s capital-owned Ahmedabad team have announced their team name in the pre-match session of the 2nd ODI game between the West Indies and India. Skipper Hardik and Coach Nehra were also live during the name announcement of the Ahmedabad team.<\/p>\n<p>The official name of the Ahmedabad team in the IPL is Gujrat Titans as announced by the franchise itself on Wednesday as the CVC-owned team will now officially call its team with the given name. The fans will be excited with the name of \u2018Gujrat Titans\u2019 as it will be captained by their local hero Hardik Pandya who has been a part of 4-time IPL winners Mumbai Indians and will surely bring experience with a passion to the team.<\/p>\n<p>Ashish Nehra will be coaching the Gujarat Titans while ex-cricketer Vikram Solani has been appointed the director of the team. World Cup-winning coach Gary Kirsten will be the batting coach and the mentor of the team.<\/p>\n<p>The top three Titans picked by the team are \u2013 skipper Hardik Pandya for \u20b915 crores, one of the talented leg-spinner Rashid Khan for the similar price of \u20b915 crores, and young batsman Shubman Gill for \u20b98 crores. CVC Capital-owned team Gujrat Titans were bought for \u20b95625 crores.<\/p>\n<p>While the Lucknow team called its team name \u2013 Lucknow Super Giants which will be captained by KL Rahul who was bought for \u20b9 17 crores, Marcus Stoinis at \u20b99.2 crores, and Ravi Bishnoi for \u20b9 4 crores. Goenka\u2019s RPSG group bought the Lucknow franchise for \u20b9 7090 crores.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"hi\" dir=\"ltr\">Shubh Aarambh! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GujaratTitans?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GujaratTitans<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gujarat_titans\/status\/1491309896289370120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmedabad franchise has officially announced their name for the upcoming Indian Premier League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":26480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2933,495,3065,143],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-ahmedabad-franchise","tag-ashish-nehra","tag-gujrat-titans","tag-hardik-pandya"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","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\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}