RCB captaincy contenders: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction ended on Monday in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In which 10 teams have spent Rs 639.15 crore and bought 182 players. Many big things have happened in this auction. While many players have surprised in this mega auction, some have created history which will hardly ever be broken. After the IPL auction, a big threat is looming on RCB.
But the team that attracted the most attention of cricket fans on both days during this auction was Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Virat Kohli’s team has not been able to win the title yet. But it was believed that this time the franchise will buy many strong players in the mega auction. The opposite happened in the auction. The way RCB has made the team is confusing the fans. The biggest and most important confusion is regarding captaincy. Today we are going to talk about this. Actually, Bengaluru team has released its captain Faf du Plessis before the IPL auction.
In such a situation, it was believed that the team could bet on star players like Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer or KL Rahul for captaincy in the mega auction. But this did not happen. Meanwhile, now reports are coming that only Virat Kohli can take over the captaincy again.
Virat Kohli can take over the captaincy again
The proof of this can be seen in the team after the auction, in which no star player was bought who could be given the captaincy. The second evidence is the statement of RCB director Mo Bobat which he gave after the end of the first day of the auction.
Bobat said that the management has completely left the decision of captaincy of RCB to Virat Kohli. He will decide whether he will captain the team or someone else. It has become clear from this statement that no matter who is the captain in the team, if the team runs, it is Kohli’s.
He said, ‘Virat is an important member of our team. He is a senior player of the team. But now we have left the decision of captaincy to him. He sent us some wonderful messages yesterday. This statement of Bobat confirmed to the fans that only Kohli can take over the captaincy again.
These 3 players are also big contenders for captaincy
If Kohli does not take over the captaincy then the team seems to be in a lot of confusion. In this, for captaincy, Kohli will have to take a different decision and hand over the command to someone. Kohli will also decide who will be handed over the captaincy. RCB director Mo Bobat himself has said this.
Now except Kohli, only 3 players in the team seem to be contenders for captaincy. These three players are star batsman Rajat Patidar, spin all-rounder Krunal Pandya and fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. However, if we look at these three, the claim of Patidar seems strong. Although you may find this shocking. But this can also be true. The reason for this could be Patidar’s old relationship with RCB and Kohli’s trust. Now let’s see what happens.
