Rajasthan Royals New Owner: Rajasthan Royals team has been sold for an amount of US $ 1.63 billion. The consortium led by American businessman Kal Somani has purchased the RR franchise for approximately Rs 15,286 crore. Kal Somani is also the owner of a company named IntraEdge, Academian and Truyo.AI. He is supported by American businessman Rob Walton, who comes from the prestigious Walmart family. According to reports, he has bought the entire 100 percent stake of Rajasthan Royals.

This is the biggest deal in the history of IPL, hence Rajasthan Royals is going to become the most expensive team of the Indian Premier League. After IPL 2026, the management of Rajasthan team will come into the hands of new owners. Let us tell you that Kal Somani has been a shareholder in Rajasthan Royals since the year 2021. Discussions regarding this deal were going on for the last six months.

Talking about Rajasthan Royals team, it will be captained by Riyan Parag in IPL 2026. Sanju Samson, who was the captain of the team last season, has now gone to Chennai Super Kings. Whereas all-rounder Sam Curran is already out due to injury. Along with Curran, Ravindra Jadeja also came to the Rajasthan team due to the Samson trade deal.

Before the deal was finalized, Manoj Badale had the largest stake in the Rajasthan Royals team. Recently Rajasthan Royals received an offer of $1.7 billion from Columbia Pacific Capital Partners, but they rejected the offer due to execution related problems.

Let us tell you that on the other hand, the discussion about the sale of Royal Challengers Bangalore is also in full swing. Since Rajasthan Royals has been sold for more than Rs 15 thousand crores. In such a situation, it is expected that the RCB franchise can easily cross the amount of 2 billion dollars.

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Rajasthan Royals Sale: Rajasthan Royals team may find a new buyer very soon and may become the most expensive team to be sold in IPL history. In fact, according to a media report, a bid of about 1.3 billion US dollars has been made to buy the RR franchise. The bidder is not an outsider but Kal Somani, who has a stake in the Rajasthan Royals team.

According to a Bloomberg report yesterday, Somani has formed a consortium. This association has offered 1.3 billion US dollars for Rajasthan Royals, which is equivalent to approximately Rs 11,956 crore in Indian currency. Let us tell you that this bid depends on the price of sale of media rights of IPL. The Board of Control for Cricket in India had sold the media rights of the Indian Premier League for 2023-2027 to Jio Hotstar for Rs 44,075 crore.

According to reports, Times Internet Chairman Satyan Gajwani, Blackstone and Carlyle Group have also shown interest in buying the Rajasthan Royals team. Let us tell you that apart from Rajasthan Royals, RCB is also available for sale and its new owner can be announced very soon. Diageo is expected to sell Royal Challengers Bangalore for $2 billion.

Currently, the largest stake in the Rajasthan Royals team is with Manoj Badale, who holds 65 percent shares of the RR franchise. Manoj Badale is the owner of Royals Sports Group. Lachlan Murdoch holds 13 percent and Red Bird Capital holds 15 percent.

Rajasthan Royals became the champion in the first season of IPL i.e. 2008. After that, RR team reached the finals only in the 2022 season, when it was defeated by Gujarat Titans by 7 wickets in the title clash.

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