ROYAL CHALLENGERS BENGALURU (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
2023 - 6th
2024 - 4th
(ii) Overall Win Percentage
258 - 124w/129l/5nr (48.06%)
(iii) Head To Head Win Percentage
CSK - 34 - 11w/22l/1nr (33.3%)
DC - 32 - 20w/11l/1nr (64.5%)
GT - 5 - 3w/2l (60%)
KKR - 35 - 14w/21l (40%)
LSG - 5 - 3w/2l (60%)
MI - 35 - 14w/21l (40%)
PBKS - 33 - 16w/17l (48.5%)
RR - 32 - 15w/14l/3nr (51.7%)
SRH - 25 - 11w/13l/1nr (45.8%)
(iv) Home Ground Stats
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore - 102 - 49w/47l/6nr (51%)
2) PLAYERS IN-CHARGE FOR 2025
(i) Captain - Rajat Patidar
(ii) Vice Captain - Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Not Officially Announced)
(iii) Head Coach - Andy Flower
(iv) Batting Coach - Dinesh Karthik
(v) Bowling Coach - Omkar Salvi & Manolan Rangarajan
3) OVERSEAS PLAYERS
(i) Phil Salt
(ii) Liam Livingstone
(iii) Tim David
(iv) Jacob Bethell
(v) Romario Shepherd
(vi) Nuwan Thushara
(vii) Lungi Ngidi
(viii) Josh Hazlewood
4) SQUAD INFO WITH RECENT PERFORMANCES
Probable XII (including Impact Player)
1) Phil Salt ✈️ (WK) - RHB
Last 10 - 8, 12, 10, 23, 26, 43, 55, 23, 5, 4
2) Virat Kohli - RHB, RM
Last 10 - 1, 84, 11, 100*, 22, 52, 5, 6, 17, 6, 36, 5
3) Rajat Patidar (C) - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 10, 0, 92, 132*, 14, 2, 21*, 2, 55, 81*, 66*
4) Devdutt Padikkal - LHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 43, 42, 27, 8, 86, 102, 4*, 0, 25, 26, 1, 36, 88
5) Jacob Bethell ✈️ - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 51r 1w, 10, 6, 7, 87r 2w, 1r 1w, 2r 0w, 49r 0w, 21r 1w, 2
6) Liam Livingstone ✈️ - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 9r 0w, 10r 2w, 14r 1w, 9r 0w, 41r 1w, 5r 0w, 9r 0w, 9, 43r 0w, 13r 1w
7) Tim David ✈️ - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 7, 10, 9, 25, 27r 0w, 11r 0w, 24r 0w, 68*
8) Krunal Pandya - LHB, LAO
Last 10 - 18r 1w, 11r 3w, 12r 1w, 6r 0w, 30r 1w, 35r 2w, 87r 3w, 8r 1w, 3r 0w, 80r 2w, 13r 2w, 30r 0w
9) Swapnil Singh - RHB, LAO
Last 10 - 8r 0w, 11r 2w, 15r 0w, 2w, 13r 0w, 8r 0w, 18r 0w, 44r 1w, 1w, 15r 1w
10) Bhuvneshwar Kumar - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 20r 0w, 2w, 8r 32, 0w, 1w, 3w, 0w, 1w, 10r 1w, 0w
11) Rasikh Salam Dar - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 21r 0w, 1w, 9r 0w, 1w, 1w, 3w, 2w, 1w, 8r 1w, 2w
12) Yash Dayal - RHB, LFM
Last 10 - 17r 0w, 2w, 2w, 41r 2w, 4w, 16r 0w, 2w, 6r 0w, 10r 1w, 16r 3w, 0w, 0w, 0w
BENCH
13) Romario Shepherd ✈️ - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 7, 2r 0w, 23*, 0w, 8r 0w, 12r 0w, 38r 2w, 1w, 16*, 4
14) Lungi Ngidi ✈️ - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 3w, 1w, 2w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 1w
15) Nuwan Thushara ✈️ - RHB, RF
Last 10 - 1w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 3w, 0w, 1w
16) Josh Hazlewood ✈️ - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 1w, 7r 4w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 1w, 0w, 2w, 2w, 1w
17) Jitesh Sharma - RHB, WK
Last 10 - 34, 51, 19*, 23, 13, 43, 11
18) Swastik Chhikara - RHB, Offbreak
Last 10 - 3, 7, 0, 5, 21, 41, 12, 62, 6, 0r 0w, 114*
19) Suyash Sharma - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 0w, 2w, 6r 1w, 1w, 1w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 0w, 2w
20) Manoj Bhandage - LHB, RFM
Last 10 - 0r 2w, 1r 0w, 3w, 0w, 24r 0w, 8r 1w, 3r 1w, 44r 0w, 26r 0w, 10r 2w
21) Mohit Rathee - RHB, Legbreak
Last 10 - 34r 1w, 20r 0w, 5r 0w, 0r 2w, 12r 1w, 8r 0w, 2w, 0w, 19r 1w, 1w
22) Abhinandan Singh - RHB, RFM
Last 10 - 0w, 1w, 3w, 1w, 2w, 0w, 0w, 3w, 1w
Safe C/VC Choices
Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar
5) STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES
(i) The injured overseas talent - With Hazlewood, Shepherd, Bethell and Thushara coming from injuries into this tournament, and Ngidi having been injured since November made a comeback in the Champions Trophy but shall be prone to an injury in such a long tournament. With 5 of their 8 overseas players battling with very recent injuries, it could be a major factor for them this season.
(ii) An attacking middle order - Considering their ideal XII above, their middle order looks really strong and aggressive with a good depth as well. The Bethell-Livingstone-David trio is surely one of the most attacking and experienced overseas middle order. With Padikkal and Krunal around them, they get enough LHB-RHB combination throughout the middle. Each of them are also floaters and can bat anywhere according to their role and the situation of the game.
(iii) Inexperienced Indian seam unit - Apart from the two UP bowlers in Bhuvi and Yash, they lack experience or quality Indian seamers. They have relied on overseas seamers but with all of them battling with recent injuries, their seam unit looks a bit dicey to be consistent throughout this 2-month long tournament. The management can just hope that they have a decent pace attack in every game when they go on to the field.
(iv) A new captain - Patidar has been named the new skipper for the 2025 season after a successful campaign with Madhya Pradesh having led the team to the title in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25 season. But we all know how different can a domestic league be from the biggest tournament across the world. It will be interesting to see how Patidar, alongside the experience of Virat and Bhuvi, take this team through this season. Having only played 27 IPL matches till date, he has the least IPL experience amongst all captains this season.
(v) The Number 18 - It is the 18th season of the IPL, as well as of Virat in the RCB, as he has never been a part of any other team since the very beginning of this tournament. The team, on paper does not look like a title winning squad, but it will be interesting for all RCB fans to see whether this will be Virat's season as one of the best performers of the season only, or will he lift the trophy finally too.
6) STATS FROM OVER THE YEARS (as part of any team before this)
(i) Top Run Scorers
-> Virat Kohli - Runs (8004), Avg (38.67) - 252M/244I
-> Krunal Pandya - Runs (1647), Avg (22.56) - 127M/111I
-> Devdutt Padikkal - Runs (1559), Avg (25.15) - 64M/64I
-> Liam Livingstone - Runs (939), Avg (28.45) - 39M/39I
-> Rajat Patidar - Runs (799), Avg (34.74) - 27M/24I
-> Jitesh Sharma - Runs (730), Avg (22.81) - 40M/36I
-> Tim David - Runs (659), Avg (28.65) - 38M/35I
-> Phil Salt - Runs (653), Avg (34.37) - 21M/21I
(ii) Top Wicket Takers
-> Bhuvneshwar Kumar - Wickets (181), SR (21.60) - 176M/176I
-> Krunal Pandya - Wickets (76), SR (27.92) - 127M/117I
-> Josh Hazlewood - Wickets (35), SR (17.23) - 27M/27I
-> Yash Dayal - Wickets (28), SR (20.61) - 28M/28I
-> Lungi Ngidi - Wickets (25), SR (12.96) - 14M/14I
7) PREDICTIONS FOR THIS SEASON
(i) Top Run Scorer
Virat Kohli
(ii) Top Wicket Taker
Yash Dayal/Bhuvneshwar Kumar
(iii) Most Valuable Player
Virat Kohli
(iv) Points Table Position
7-10
8) C/VC Choices
Safe - Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar
GL - Phil Salt, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Krunal Pandya
Differential Pick - Jacob Bethell/Lungi Ngidi
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