The squads of all the teams have been announced for the new season. However, now the captains of many teams will be seen changing. In which the team of Royal Challengers Bangalore is also included. Before the mega auction, RCB had released its captain Faf du Plessis, after which Faf has become a part of Delhi Capitals. At the same time, RCB did not buy any player with captaincy experience even in the mega auction. Now the team’s former cricketer AB de Villiers has given a big hint about the new captain of RCB. Due to which the faces of the fans will glow.
So Kohli can become captain!
Even before the mega auction, there were speculations that Virat Kohli could be seen captaining RCB once again. Kohli left the captaincy of RCB in the year 2021. Now AB de Villiers said on his YouTube channel about the new captain of RCB that after looking at the team, I think Virat Kohli will captain. However, this has not been confirmed yet.
RCB looks a very balanced team
De Villiers further said, “We missed some opportunities in the auction.” We could have bought Rabada but that didn’t happen but we got Lungi Ngidi. Apart from this we bought Bhuvneshwar Kumar, I am happy with Josh Hazlewood. But we also missed R Ashwin, due to which Ashwin again moved to Chennai Super Kings. Overall, RCB looks a very balanced team, I am very happy with it. However, we are still missing a match-winning spinner.
RCB bought 13 players
This time in the mega auction of IPL 2025, Royal Challengers Bangalore bought 13 players. The most expensive player is Josh Hazlewood, who was bought by RCB for Rs 12.50 crore. This time RCB has bought 4 batsmen and 9 bowlers.