Meet the youngest IPL team owner: Keshav Bansal of Gujarat Lions

Keshav Bansal is the youngest owner of an IPL team - Gujarat Lions franchise.

It took 24-year-old Keshav Bansal, director of mobile handset maker Intex Technologies India Ltd, all of 20 minutes to convince his father Narendra Bansal, chairman and managing director of the company, that he had it in him to run an Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise.

Owner of Indian Premier League's Rajkot team and director of Intex Technologies, Keshav Bansal (R) along with cricketer Suresh Raina unveils the logo of the team at a press conference in New Delhi on February 2, 2016. (AFP)

Today, Bansal is the youngest owner of an IPL team with his Gujarat Lions franchise from Rajkot playing its first match on Monday as part of the ninth season of the popular T20 cricket league. Gujarat Lions played against Kings XI Punjab in Mohali, winning by five wickets.

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