Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are set to announce their new captain for the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025, on Thursday, February 13. The announcement will happen in Bengaluru and will probably be broadcast dwell on Star Sports activities Community at 11:30 AM IST.
RCB’s management function grew to become vacant after the franchise determined to not retain Faf du Plessis, who had captained the workforce from 2022 to 2024. Underneath his captaincy, RCB performed 42 matches, successful 21 and dropping the identical quantity. Nonetheless, the facet is but to raise their maiden title. Du Plessis was not retained forward of the IPL 2025 public sale, and RCB selected to not bid for him, resulting in his acquisition by Delhi Capitals at his base value.
The frontrunner for the captaincy is none apart from Virat Kohli, who led RCB for 9 seasons from 2013 to 2021 earlier than stepping down. Kohli briefly captained the facet once more for 3 matches in IPL 2023. The star batter led the facet in 143 matches, with 68 wins and 70 losses. Whereas RCB by no means gained an IPL title underneath him, Kohli’s type as a batter, together with his historic 973-run season in 2016, makes him an asset. In IPL 2024, Kohli was once more the main run-scorer, scoring 741 runs at a strike price of 154.69.
Rajat Patidar is one other candidate for the function
Nonetheless, there’s uncertainty over whether or not Kohli could be prepared to take the management function. If not the 36-year-old, one other attainable candidate is Rajat Patidar, who has been a part of RCB since 2021 and was considered one of their three retained gamers forward of the IPL 2025 mega public sale. Patidar has home captaincy expertise, having led Madhya Pradesh within the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy throughout the 2024-25 season. He additionally completed because the third-highest run-scorer with 428 runs at a strike price of 186.08.
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Regardless of being one of the adopted franchises within the IPL, RCB stays and not using a championship title. Final season, they made a spectacular comeback with a seven-match successful streak to qualify for the playoffs, solely to be eradicated by Rajasthan Royals. Other than RCB, franchises like Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals are additionally but to announce their captains for the upcoming season.
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