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In 2007, the ] (BCCI) created the cricket tournament ] based on the ] form of the game.<ref name="back">{{cite web|title=Everything you wanted to know about the Indian Premier League|work=Cricinfo|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/baggygreen/content/story/337868.html|accessdate=20 February 2008}}</ref> Eight teams would participate in the inaugural tournament held in April – June of the same year. The teams representing the eight different cities of India were put up on auction in ] on 20 February. The team representing ] was eventually bought by Bollywood superstar ]'s company ] in partnership with actress ] and her husband ] for a price of $75.09 million, equal to approximately ₹2.98 billion at that time.<ref name="price">{{cite news|title=Shah Rukh Khan's Kolkata IPL team to be called Night Riders or Knight Riders|work=Cricinfo|url=http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2008-02-09/news/27694633_1_indian-premier-league-cricket-ground-ipl|date=9 February 2008}}</ref> ],the former captain of the Indian national team, a native of ] (nicknamed as ''Bengal Tiger'', ''Dada'' or ''Prince of ]'') was named the ] for the team.
The name of the team is a reference to the popular 1980s American television series ].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roy |first1=S.K. |last2=Chakraborti |first2=R |editor-last=Mutum |editor-first=Dilip |title=Marketing Cases from Emerging Markets |publisher=Springer Science and Business Media |date=September 23, 2013 |page=70 |chapter=Chapter 6: Getting There |chapterurl=http://en.wikipedia.org/ |isbn=9783642368615 |lastauthoramp=y}}</ref> In June 2015, they bought a stake in the ] cricket team Trinidad and Tobago Red Steel<ref>http://www.espncricinfo.com/caribbean-premier-league-2015/content/story/885765.html</ref> and later in 2016, renamed it ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/sports/cricket/superstar-shah-rukh-khans-cpl-franchise-is-now-trinbago-knight-riders_1854413.html|title=Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's CPL franchise is now Trinbago Knight Riders|publisher='']''|date=10 February 2016}}</ref>
In July 2017 they bought Another franchise based ] cricket team ] (CTKR).<ref>http://cricket.co.za/news/19106/Cape-Town-welcomes-Kolkata-Knight-Riders-franchise-to-Newlands</ref>
Initially, when Kolkata Knight Riders were first introduced in 2008, the logo of the team consisted of a blazing golden Viking helmet against a black background with the name of the team written in gold next to it. However, the black background was changed to purple in the third season. It was in 2012 that the current logo, which has a blazig purple Corinthian helmet trimmed with gold, with Kolkata Knight Riders written within a shield was introduced.
The tagline of the team was "All the King's Men" during the first four seasons. However, in the fifth it was replaced by "New Dawn, New Knights". The team's official colours were black and gold during the first two seasons. At the time, Khan said that "golden symbolizes spirit of life and black presents the Goddess Kali." It was later changed to purple and gold during the third season and was kept so. The jersey was created by Bollywood fashion designer Manish Malhotra.
The main theme of the team Korbo, Lorbo, Jeetbo Re (we will act, fight and win!) was scored by Vishal-Shekhar duo. A Knight Riders album featuring several singers and music composers including Usha Uthup and Bappi Lahiri was also created.The new theme along with the old one was introduced in 2015.The new theme is Go for more.
Home ground
The home venue of the Knight Riders is the iconic Eden Gardens (with the two ends of the crease called the High Court End and the Club House End). Owned by the Cricket Association of Bengal, it is the largest cricket stadium in India and had a seating capacity of over 90,000. In 2011, the stadium was renovated to meet the standards set by the ICC for the 2011 Cricket World Cup; reducing its capacity to around 68,000. The renovated stadium includes a new clubhouse and players' facilities, upgrading the exterior wall, cladding the existing roof structure with a new metal skin, and general infrastructure improvements. In 2013, two of the team's home matches were hosted by the JSCA International Cricket Stadium in Ranchi.
Panoramic view of the Eden Gardens stadium during IPL 2008
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