Royal Bengal Tigers was one of the nine teams played in the defunct Indian Cricket League

Indian Cricket League

The Indian Cricket League was a private cricket league funded by Zee Entertainment Enterprises that operated between 2007 and 2009 in India...

 (ICL). This team is based in Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 and its captain is former New Zealand all rounder Craig McMillan.

Players

The squad announced for the inaugural tournament comprises five international cricketers, including big-hitting stars such as Darren Maddy

Darren Maddy

Darren Lee Maddy is an English cricketer who plays first class cricket for Warwickshire. He played three Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England, making one international fifty in his ten innings between 1998 and 2000 before he was finally dropped following the tour of Zimbabwe in 2000,...

, Craig McMillan

Craig McMillan

Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...

, and Lance Klusener

Lance Klusener

Lance Klusener is a South African cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. He is known for his aggressive batting and his fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed "Zulu" because of his fluency in that language. Following his exploits at the 1999 World Cup, he topped the ICC ODI Batting...

.

Former Squad

Coach - Darryl Cullinan

• Craig McMillan
  Craig McMillan
  Craig Douglas McMillan is a former New Zealand international cricketer at Test, One Day International and Twenty20 level. He was a right-handed batsman and useful right-arm medium pace bowler and played for Canterbury in New Zealand first-class cricket...
  
   (New Zealand)
• Parviz Aziz(Assam)
• Darren Maddy
  Darren Maddy
  Darren Lee Maddy is an English cricketer who plays first class cricket for Warwickshire. He played three Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England, making one international fifty in his ten innings between 1998 and 2000 before he was finally dropped following the tour of Zimbabwe in 2000,...
  
   (England)
• Abhishek Jhunjhunwala (Kolkata)
• Lance Klusener
  Lance Klusener
  Lance Klusener is a South African cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. He is known for his aggressive batting and his fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed "Zulu" because of his fluency in that language. Following his exploits at the 1999 World Cup, he topped the ICC ODI Batting...
  
   (South Africa)
• Rohan Gavaskar
  Rohan Gavaskar
  Rohan Sunil Gavaskar is an Indian cricketer who has played in 11 One Day Internationals. He is a specialist middle-order left-handed batsman and an occasional slow left arm orthodox bowler. He studied at St...
  
   (Bengal)
• Upul Chandana
  Upul Chandana
  Umagiliya Durage Upul Chandana is a former Sri Lankan cricketer. He was more specifically a leg spin bowler and was also an outstanding fielder....
  
   (Sri Lanka)
• Deep Dasgupta
  Deep Dasgupta
  Deep Dasgupta is an Indian cricketer who played in 8 Tests and 5 ODIs from 2001 to 2002 as the national wicketkeeper...
  
   (Bengal)
• Abu Nechim
  Abu Nechim
  Abu Nechim Ahmed is an Indian first-class cricketer who currently plays for Assam. He has represented India at the U-19 level and plays in the IPL for the Mumbai Indians. He has also represented ICL India XI, Kolkata Tigers & Royal Bengal Tigers in the now defunct ICL...
  
   (Assam)
• Shiv Sagar Singh (Bengal)
• Boyd Rankin
  Boyd Rankin
  William Boyd Rankin is an Irish cricketer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler.William is a tall bowler who stands at 6 ft 8 inches and has a distinctive bouncing action in his bowling...
  
   (Ireland)
• Mihir Diwakar (Jharkhand)
• Rajiv Kumar (Kolkata)
• Sayed Akhlakh Ahmed (Kolkata)
• Subhomoy Das (Kolkata)
• Sujay Tarafdar (Assam)
• Pritam Das
  Pritam Das
  Pritam Das was an Indian cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and right arm fast-medium bowler who played for Assam. He was born in Tarapur....
  
   (Assam)
• Anshu Jain
• Ali H. Zaidi

Coach

The coach for the Kolkata Royal Bengal Tigers is former South African batsman Daryll Cullinan.

Previous performance

Tournament	Placement
2007 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship	4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 50s	4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League Edelweiss 20s Challenge	4th place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Domestic Tournament	3rd place
2008 Indian Cricket League 20-20 Indian Championship, 2008/09	4th place