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After parting ways with Faf du Plessis, RCB will play under the leadership of a new captain in IPL 2025. The franchise is yet to make any official announcement about the new captain.
Will Virat Kohli captain RCB in IPL 2025? (Picture Credit: Sportzpics)
After parting ways with Faf du Plessis, who led Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the last three editions of the Indian Premier League, RCB will play under the leadership of a new captain in IPL 2025. Many fans and experts believe Virat Kohli, who stepped down from RCB’s captaincy in 2021, will take charge of the team once again in the 2025 season. The Bengaluru-based team, which is still waiting for its first-ever IPL title, is yet to make any official announcement in this regard.
During a recent interview with Sports Tak, RCB’s COO Rajesh Menon was asked if Kohli will captain the franchise in the 2025 edition of the IPL, to which he replied by saying, “Currently we have not decided anything. We have multiple leaders in the team. 4-5 leaders are there. We have not deliberated what we need to do. We will deliberate, and we will come to a conclusion.”
Kohli has captained RCB in 143 IPL matches from 2011 to 2023 and won 66 of them. On 70 occasions RCB suffered defeat under his leadership, and he led the franchise to the IPL final in the 2016 season, where he also scored 973 runs with the bat.
In the IPL 2025 mega auction, RCB made some interesting signings like Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jitesh Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal, Josh Hazlewood, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, and Suyash Sharma, among others.
When asked about RCB’s assembled squad for IPL 2025, Menon said, “We were very clear in terms of what kind of gaps we have and what all we need to fulfill and what is the Indian core that we require to build, and if you want to play in M Chinnaswamy (Stadium), what kind of bowling attack we require. And that is what we did.”
“If you see Day 1, it was low-key for us. People thought we were not participating in the auction, but at the end of Day 2, everybody, right from fans to experts, felt saying what we have done is the best because we have covered all the gaps, and I think we have got one of the best teams.”
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