Rendezvous Sports World

Rendezvous Sports World Private Limited (RSW) was a cricket franchise in the Indian Premier League which had 100% of equity on Kochi IPL Team.

[2] The auction for expanding the initial eight franchises for the Indian Premier League was held on 22 March 2010.

The cities involved were Pune, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Nagpur, Kanpur, Dharamsala, Visakhapatnam, Rajkot, Cuttack, Vadodara, Indore and Gwalior.

Sahara Group made the highest bid in the auction and chose to base its team in Pune, at the cost of US$370m (₹1702 crore).

[3] Rendezvous Sports World made the second highest bid of US$333.2m (₹1533 crores), and elected to base its team in Kochi.