Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) Squad Analysis 2023

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE (RCB) SQUAD ANALYSIS

1) IPL PERFORMANCE OVER THE YEARS

(i) Results

2008 - 7th
2009 - Runner-Up
2010 - 3rd
2011 - Runner-Up
2012 - 5th
2013 - 5th
2014 - 7th
2015 - 3rd
2016 - Runner-Up
2017 - 8th
2018 - 6th
2019 - 8th
2020 - 4th
2021 - 4th
2022 - 3rd

(ii) Overall Win Percentage
227 - 109w/114l/4nr (48.65%)

(iii) Head To Head Win Percentage

CSK - 30 - 10w/19l/1nr (33.33%)
DC - 27 - 16w/10l/1nr (59.26%)
GT - 2 - 1w/1l (50%)
KKR - 30 - 14w/16l (46.67%)
LSG - 2 - 2w/0l (100%)
MI - 30 - 13w/17l (43.33%)
PBKS - 30 - 13w/17l (43.33%)
RR - 27 - 13w/12l/2nr (48.15%)
SRH - 22 - 9w/13l (40.91%)

(iv) Number of games to be played on the various venues this season, and their overall record in those venues

-> Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad - 0
-> Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali - 1 (7 - 4w/3l)
-> Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow - 1 (Not Played Yet)
-> Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad - 1 (10 - 2w/8l)
-> M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore - 7 (82 - 42w/40l)
-> M.A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai - 0
-> Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi - 1 (9 - 6w/3l)
-> Barsapara Cricket Stadium, Guwahati - 0
-> Eden Gardens, Kolkata - 1 (11 - 5w/6l)
-> Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai - 1 (16 - 8w/8l)
-> Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur - 1 (7 - 3w/4l)
-> Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium, Dharamsala - 0

(v) Home Ground for IPL 2023

M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

2) PLAYERS IN-CHARGE FOR 2023

(i) Captain - Faf Du Plessis
(ii) Vice Captain - Glenn Maxwell
(iii) Head Coach - Sanjay Bangar
(iv) Batting Coach - Sridharan Sriram
(v) Bowling Coach - Adam Griffith
(vi) Director - Mike Hesson

3) OVERSEAS PLAYERS

(i) Faf Du Plessis
(ii) Glenn Maxwell
(iii) David Willey
(iv) Finn Allen
(v) Josh Hazlewood
(vi) Wanindu Hasaranga
(vii) Reece Topley
(viii) Michael Bracewell

4) SQUAD INFO WITH RECENT PERFORMANCES

Injury - Josh Hazlewood, Wanindu Hasaranga
OUT - Will Jacks
IN - Michael Bracewell

Probable XI

1) Faf Du Plessis ✈️ - RHB
Last 10 - 0, 0, 92, 113*, 37, 51, 27, 8, 2

2) Virat Kohli - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 22, 13, 44, 20, 12, 36, 11, 8, 166*, 4, 113, 24, 1

3) Rajat Patidar - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 0, 52, 20, 55, 4, 57, 121, 38  54, 14, 88, 62, 52, 50, 13

4) Glenn Maxwell ✈️ - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 5, 0, 54*, 13r 2w, 23r 1w, 28, 23r 1w, 8r 0w, 8r 0w, 1, 0r 0w

5) Michael Bracewell ✈️ - LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 25r 1w, 10r 0w, 6r 2w, 8r 0w, 7r 0w, 25r 3w, 8r 1w, 14r 1w, 1r 2w, 26r 1w, 22r 0w, 140r 0w, 7r 1w

6) Mahipal Lomror - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 1, 0r 0w, 47r 0w, 130r 2w, 0, 99r 0w, 5, 16r 1w, 0w, 32r 4w, 23r 0w, 0r 1w, 63r 0w, 4r 1w, 57r 0w, 81

7) Dinesh Karthik - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 9, 7, 6, 1, 20, 10, 19*, 46, 17*

8) Shahbaz Ahmed - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 69, 27r 0w, 14r 2w, 29r 1w, 81r 2w, 0w, 8r 0w, 40r 3w, 1r 0w, 1w, 75r 3w, 49r 5w, 19r 0w, 21r 2w, 2r 1w, 0r 0w, 59r 4w

9) David Willey ✈️ - LHB, LFM
Last 10 - 1r 0w, 0w, 1w, 8r 0w, 12r 0w, 6r 2w, 34r 2w, 2w, 0w, 1w

10) Harshal Patel - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 5r 0w, 4w, 2w 14r 0w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 17r 0w, 0w

11) Mohammad Siraj - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 0w, 0w, 1w, 1w, 4w, 4w, 3w, 2w, 0w, 2w, 3w, 1w

IMPACT PLAYERS (Each team can announce upto 4 Indians in this list. They can announce an overseas player in the Impact Players' list ONLY IF they don't play their quota of 4 overseas players in the XI)

12) Akash Deep - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 3w, 1w, 5w, 1w, 4w, 2w, 1w, 5w, 22r 5w, 4w, 9r 1w, 13, 18r 3w, 0w, 0w, 2w, 34r 1w, 0w, 41r 3w

13) R Sonu Yadav - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 29r 0w, 2w, 0w, 13r 2w, 1w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 2w

14) Suyash Prabhudessai - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 22, 9, 29r 1w, 12, 15r 0w, 3, 14, 87, 61r 0w, 2r 0w, 5r 1w, 212, 30, 8r 0w, 62r 0w

15) Karn Sharma - LHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 3w, 31r 2w, 30r 1w, 3w, 2w, 17, 2r 8w, 1w, 31r 1w, 3w, 40r 5w, 2w, 1w

BENCH

16) Siddarth Kaul - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 2r 2w, 10r 1w, 1w, 4w, 7r 2w, 4w, 19r 1w, 5r 1w, 5w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 10r 1w, 3w, 3w

17) Josh Hazlewood ✈️ - LHB, RFM
Last 10 - 4w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 1w, 2w, 2w, 0w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 0w

18) Finn Allen ✈️ - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 3, 3, 11, 35, 0, 0, 40, 25, 1, 29

19) Wanindu Hasaranga ✈️ - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 6r 6w, 95r 1w, 6r 2w, 40r 0w, 55r 1w, 31r 3w, 14r 1w, 6r 3w, 9r 1w, 0w, 1w, 2w

20) Reece Topley ✈️ - RHB, LFM
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w, 3w

21) Himanshu Sharma - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 -

22) Rajan Kumar - LHB, LFM
Last 10 - 1w, 0w, 1w, 13r 1w, 3w, 0w, 2w, 2w, 0w, 3w

23) Avinash Singh - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 0w, 1w

24) Manoj Bhandage - LHB, RMF 
Last 10 - 22r 0w, 25r 1w, 18r 1w, 1r 0w, 6r 0w, 35r 0w, 0r 1w, 13r 2w, 23r 0w, 0r 0w

25) Anuj Rawat - LHB, WK
Last 10 - 11, 14, 14, 3, 14, 2, 109, 24, 5, 3, 4, 11, 1

5) STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

A) STRENGTHS

(i) A quality batting unit - RCB has always been one team who has had a tremendous batting unit. Even in this season, when you see a Faf-Virat-Patidar-Maxwell combination at the top, you know that yet again this is a really good top order, and even if one of them plays till the end, their score would be above par. They might promote Willey/Bracewell or Shahbaz up the order as well to get a Left-Right combination. To improve their firepower, they could always play their latest addition in Bracewell or Allen in place of Willey and that would just add more value to their batting order.

(ii) An attacking bowling unit - Siraj has grown to be an excellent wicket taking new ball bowler and will look to continue his wicket taking abilities jn the powerplay this season as well. Harshal is known to be a death bowling specialist. Hasaranga needs no introduction and can always trouble any opposition in the middle overs. With Willey, Maxwell and Shahbaz in the mix of things, they have all phases of the game well sorted to put pressure on the opposition batsmen. On the other hand, these bowlers can take wickets, but also could end up giving plenty of runs because of their attacking nature, i.e., the nature to look for wickets more than preventing the leaking of runs. So, the team would want wickets from them before they leak too many runs.

B) WEAKNESSES

(iii) A weak middle order - Lomror, Karthik, Shahbaz, Hasaranga and Willey might have experience, but they lack in consistency with the bat. Their reliability goes onto the top order because there could be a huge collapse with this middle order, or they could be really explosive, and could go either way, which could be risky for the team to rely on them on most occasions. Maxwell had a great 2022 season, but is also coming on the back of an injury, and has been off action for quite some time. Bracewell is their most recent addition in the side and although he's proved his worth in the NZ domestic and International sides in the middle order, these are completely different conditions and no clue how the team uses him as well. So, an inconsistent middle order could always make it tricky for them, on occasions when the top order fails.

(iv) Josh Hazlewood and Wanindu Hasaranga's unavailability - They were huge assets for the RCB in the 2022 season, with Josh having picked up 20 wickets in the 12 games he played, at a strike rate of just 14, and Hasaranga having picked up 26 wickets in the 16 games he played, at a strike rate of 13, and also was the 2nd highest wicket taker of the season (highest until the finals). Not only their wicket taking ability, but their experience come in handy too. These two injuries would be a huge loss to the side undoubtedly. Though they have Topley and Willey as backups, Hazlewood has always been a consistent performer with the new ball, and unfortunately no like to like replacement for Hasaranga. They'll just hope that both these players are fit to play again soon.

6) NEW ADDITIONS TO THE SQUAD FROM IPL 2022

(i) Reece Topley - An attacking left arm seamer from England. He goes for wickets and is a consistent wicket taker. He's been playing T20s since 2015 and is an experienced campaigner having played 127 games in this format across the world, and has picked up 169 wickets at that. In 2022, he played 16 T20Is for England and picked up 17 wickets, at a strike rate of 21, which shows that he'd give you one wicket in almost every game. It's the first time he's been a part of an IPL franchise, and he could walk straight into the XI as well, in the absence of Josh Hazlewood.

(ii) Himanshu Sharma - He hails from Rajasthan and hasn't played any competitive cricket, but only club cricket. He has been backed by the scouts of RCB and they've had him in their RCB camp for a good long time training under their coach Sridharan Sriram. He has been taken into the squad with future prospect in mind and if he features this season, he's an exciting leg spinner trying to make a mark on debut, whenever that happens.

(iii) Michael Bracewell - This batting all rounder from New Zealand has had consistent performances for Wellington in the Super Smash League as well as the One Day and First Class formats over the past few years. He has performed with both bat and ball. He finally got a call-up to the Kiwi side and has made a huge mark already with match winning performances and is known for single-handedly changing the entire course of the game with either bat or ball, or at times both as well. He has a lot of experience, but when it comes to Indian conditions and the IPL, it's gonna be a good challenge for him. With the absence of Hasaranga, he is sure to take the middle order overseas spot as well.

(iv) Rajan Kumar - A left arm seamer from Uttarakhand. He played the domestic format for the first time in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2022, having picked up 10 wickets in 7 innings, at an economy rate of less than 6. He takes a short run-up, but bowls at a decent pace and uses his wrist and shoulder to hit the pitch hard and bowls more of good and short length deliveries trying to make use of the bounce offered by the wicket to deceive the batsmen.

(v) Avinash Singh - He hails from Jammu and Kashmir. He hasn't played a single domestic game for them yet. He has only played two games for East Central Railways. Ue had an action similar to that of Umran Malik. He bowls at a speed of more than 145 kmph. The management expects him to bowl more than 150 kmph by the time the season starts. He's an exciting young talent to watch out for, if given a game.

(vi) Manoj Bhandage - A batting all rounder from Karnataka. He has had a couple of decent seasons in the domestic circuit, and being from Karnataka itself, the RCB scouts surely look at him as a young prospect for the long run. He has played only 15 games in the T20 format, having scored 116 runs at a strike rate of 155, and having picked up 8 wickets to his name. He has played 7 games in the Karnataka T20 Premier League, wherein he's scored 100 runs at a strike rate of 196, and picked up 7 wickets.

(vii) R Sonu Yadav - A seam bowling all rounder from Tamil Nadu. He's an exciting talent to watch out for. A wicket taking bowler as well as an explosive hitter down the order. In the previous edition of the TNPL, he picked up 8 wickets in 8 games, and had scores of 26(7)* and 34(23) with the bat as well, proving his worth as an all rounder. In the 5 T20 games he's played for Tamil Nadu, he's picked up 9 wickets at an economy of less than 8. He is a good future prospect for the side.

7) STATS FROM OVER THE YEARS (as part of any team before this)

(i) Top Run Scorers

-> Virat Kohli - Runs (6624), Avg (36.20) - 223M/215I
-> Dinesh Karthik - Runs (4376), Avg (26.85) - 229M/208I
-> Faf Du Plessis - Runs (3403), Avg (34.37) - 116M/109U
-> Glenn Maxwell - Runs (2319), Avg (25.48) - 110M/106I

(ii) Top Wicket Takers

-> Harshal Patel - Wickets (97), Avg (22.87), SR (16.34) - 78M/76I
-> Mohammed Siraj - Wickets (59), Avg (33.07), SR (22.61) - 65M/65I
-> Karn Sharma - Wickets (59), Avg (33.07), SR (22.61) - 65M/65I
-> Siddarth Kaul - Wickets (58), Avg (29.98), SR (20.84) - 55M/55I

8) UNKNOWN PLAYERS TO WATCH OUT FOR IF THEY PLAY

(i) Suyash Prabhudessai - The One-Day format captain for Goa, he made a debut in the IPL 2022 with the RCB, and scored a quickfire 34(18), though couldn't capitalize on that debut in the season, having scored just another 33 runs in the next 4 innings. His strike rate that season also came down to 113.5. For Goa, however, he has played 31 Innings in the T20 format, and has scored 663 runs, at an average of 28, and a strike rate of 132. He would look back on his debut game for RCB, and would look to work on that this season, if he gets a chance to play.

9) PREDICTIONS FOR THIS SEASON

(i) Top Run Scorer
Virat Kohli

(ii) Top Wicket Taker
Mohammad Siraj/Harshal Patel

(iii) Most Valuable Player
Glenn Maxwell

(iv) Points Table Position
3rd

10) C/VC Choices

Safe - Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell
GL - Faf Du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga/Michael Bracewell
Differential Pick - Shahbaz Ahmed, Rajat Patidar

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