Royal Challengers Bangalore: A Team Overview

Royal Challengers Bangalore: A Team Overview

Royal Challengers Bangalore: A Team Overview, Royal Challengers Bangalore is a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore. United Spirits, founded RCB in 2008, and the team currently has M. Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bangalore as their home ground. The team is led by the Indian Cricket Team captain Virat Kohli. They have won zero IPL titles so far and they are on their journey to redemption.

The player in question, Rahul Dravid, became a local hero in 2008 when he played for the Indian Premier League. He joined the Royal Challengers Bangalore for the first season but RCB finished last overall that year. In 2009, Kevin Pietersen took over the team and managed to come close to winning the competition before losing out again.

In 2010, Anil Kumble became a captain for Bengaluru Royal Challengers in the third season. However, the team again had an amazing tournament but finished third. In 2011, personnel changes to the auction and rounds of players/coaches occurred.

Retain only one player, Virat Kohli, releasing all players into the auction pool. Daniel Vettori was named captain. They finished runner-up.

In 2012, with a leadership change halfway through the tournament. Daniel Vettori stepped down happily and gave over the captaincy to young Virat Kohli. RCB finished fifth for the fifth season. In 2013, RCB had one less eventful year where they finished in fifth place, second consecutive time.

The team bought Albie Morkel, Mitchell Starc, Ravi Rampaul, Parthiv Patel, Ashok Dinda, Muttiah Muralitharan, Nic Maddinson, Harshal Patel, Varun Aaron and Yuvraj Singh in 2014.

In the 7th season of the IPL, RCB came in 7th place; in season 15, they finished third.

The 2016 competition was undoubtedly the most heartbreaking at RCB. RCB’s captain, Virat Kohli managed four centuries in the season, but it had to face despair again as they ended up runner-up.

In 2017, RCB finished first place in the 8th position, but in 2018 the poor performance resulted to the team finishing at 6th. In 2019, RCB failed to qualify for the IPL Eliminator, as they finished 4th in the league stage. In 2020, RCB performed well and qualified for the Playoffs on points by finishing 4th in their respective group, with a lead of 16 points. However, Sunrisers Hyderabad knocked them out of the competition in 19-20 Eliminator. The 2021 campaign will see some major changes from RCB as they have added some legendary players like Glenn Maxwell to round up an already high class squad that includes Kyle Jamieson

RCB has re-signed their title sponsor for IPL 2021, ‘Muthoot Blue.’ Muthoot Pappachan Group is a company that carries businesses in financial services, vehicle dealerships, real estate and healthcare among other sectors. While this company’s business started by entrepreneur Muthoot Ninan Mathai almost 100 years ago, both companies are offshoots of the original business.