Lyrics of Royal Challengers Bangalore anthem

(thanks Pradip!)

Below is the lyrics to the RC anthem, via Fan Pradip Atluri on Facebook

Game for more
We are the challengers, game for more
Game for more
We are the challengers, game for more

Ek baar de pukar,
Challengers ko hai intezaar
Khamosh lab hai kyon
Bachain dil yeah kyon

Jo ho hum se pyar
Kar denge jaan nisaar
Khud pe tu kar aitebaar
Six aur four jab bole tu yaar

(Chorus)
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
Royal Challengers game for moreee
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
Royal Challengers game for moreee

Inka hai kamal
Har pal ek gehri chaal
Lohe se loha bhide
Dum se dildaar lade

Khud pe jo ho yakeen
Mutti mein tere zameen
Then prove this thing one’s more
Play for glory and play for more

(Chorus)
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
Royal Challengers game for moreee
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
We are game; we are game, game for more
Royal Challengers game for moreee oooooo

Source: Royal Challengers Bangalore

A Promise Thats Being Kept.!

Well, yeah, as expected, its Manish Krishnanand Pandey, the one who's keeping up what he was promising an year ago.

A Name, that strikes if you question yourself who was the first Indian to hit a century in Indian Premier League.

Seeing his performance going on right now, its looking as if he's gonna make into Indian Squad to ICC World T20. Yesterday, he gave an outstanding start along with Jacques Kallis to Royal Challengers Bangalore, when they were chasing a huge total of 184. He has a particular role to play. He supports Jacques Kallis when the innings starts and after six or eight overs, takes up the duty of anchoring. And the most notable thing here is he remained unbeaten with Jacques Kallis while chasing a small total of 93, adding up 42 of just 30 balls and he hit 40 off 27 against Mumbai Indians. We all know how strong is Mumbai Indians Bowling line up and he being an opener, scored 40 off just 27 against some big names like Zaheer Khan, Lasith Malinga, Harbhajan Singh etc. He even took a catch in that match, dismissing Aditya Tare. Not only yesterday, the Royal Challengers Management tried almost 11 opening pairs last year but this time, they first tried opening with Shreevats Goswami with Kallis. But when they replaced Goswami with Pandey for that opening spot, along with Kallis, Pandey produced great opening partnerships along with Jacques Kallis.

Apart from IPL, if we move on to the Ranji 2009-10 Season, Manish Pandey emerged out as highest run getter of the tournament. He took a mind blowing catch in the final match. Apart from that, on a slow pitch, he scored 144 runs notably in second innings while chasing, inching Karnataka to a victory. But Karnataka fell 6 short to Mumbai and handed the victory to Mumbai.

Manish Pandey and all his fans expected an Indian Call up when Rahul Dravid was injured for the test series against South Africa. But, Subramanyam Badrinath was given the chance. Luckily, he even got one more chance of getting selected into squad when Laxman was declared unfit. But, Selectors gave a chance to Rohit Sharma, who even missed the test match due to injury and finally, a reserved Wicketkeeper took that place to fulfill the duty of the duty of that particular spot. And even Manish Pandey had a chance of getting selected to Indian ODI squad for the third One Dayer against South Africa, but Selectors gave him a red signal.

He was an integral part of Indian under 19 victorious squad in u-19 Tri Nation Series 2007-08 at South Africa and ICC u-19 World Cup 2008, Malaysia. If he'd have born an year late, he even might have made into Indian u-19 World Cup Squad 2010 New Zealand.

And Again, again a red signal. Manish Pandey has not been picked for ICC World T20 2010 squad to represent India. Even though, he has a bright future, lets wish him good luck for the on going IPL and lets hope that he'll be in Indian colors when India tours Zimbabwe.

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