Posted by Royal Challenger Bangalore is one cricket franchise that plays in one of the famous cricket tournaments called the Indian Premier League. It is one of the first eight teams that took part in the tournament’s inaugural season back in 2008. The franchise is based in the Indian city Bangalore and the iconic stadium M. Chinnaswamy serves as their home ground for them.
Royal Challenger Bangalore has been popular among cricket fans because of having a star-studded team every year full of talent, especially the Indian skipper Virat Kohli who is also called King of the cricket. Thus if you are a fan of the IPL and Royal Challenger team and want to know more about Royal Challengers Bangalore team IPL 2022, keep reading below.
More About The History Of Royal Challenger Bangalore
As told above, it has a history of being one of the founding eight teams that played in the first season of IPL. It is named after a liquor brand in India called Royal Challenge. You must be wondering who is the owner of the Royal Challenger Banglore. Then the answer is United Spirits. The fans of Royal Challenger Bangalore always have been popular in supporting their team by traveling in good numbers for away matches to different cities in India.
But despite having some of the greatest cricketers like Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle, Ab De Villers, etc., over the years and fans’ support, RCB has failed to win a single IPL trophy. Yes, you heard it right, as they have not been able to perform as fans expect them to be in every IPL season and haven’t fulfilled their hopes of winning the IPL title. They came close to winning the title by making it to the finals in three seasons of IPL history.
But this does not mean that they did not deliver some great performances in IPL. They have a record of the highest total score of 263 in the IPL history; no team has been able to score more than 263 in an IPL match.
Thus now, following IPL 2022 and the mega auction, they have tried to sign in players so that they can try to go for clinching the title for the first time. The fans are also excited about the new team for IPL 2022 and want to see them perform well in all of the matches of the following season.
Royal Challenger Bangalore In The Mega Auction
The owners of Royal Challenger Bangalore tried their best to make a balanced team by buying new signings and retaining some players for the IPL 2022.
When you talk about Royal Challengers Bangalore retained players 2022 , RCB retained Indian Batsmen and former captain Virat Kohli, Indian bowler Mohammed Siraj, and Australian power-hitter Glenn Maxwell. Before going to the IPL 2022 mega auction, they had approximately 57 crores in their bags to buy talented players.
Unfortunately, the retirement of their match-winner batsmen Ab De Villers made it difficult for the team to buy his replacement as he was one of the best batsmen in the IPL.
However, they managed to buy batsmen such as Dinesh Kartik, Faf du Plessis, etc., and have very high hopes for them delivering the performance in the upcoming IPL season. When you talk about the bowling section, they managed to buy Shahbaz Ahmed, Josh Hazlewood, Karan Sharma, etc., to help them win their first-ever IPL title.
RCB IPL 2022 Squad List
Now for the die-hard fans who want to know about all the players that are in the RCB squad, here is the list of Royal Challengers Banglore players 2022.
Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohd. Siraj, Suyash Prabhudessai, Chama Millind, Aneeshwar Gautam, Karn Sharma, Siddharth Kaul, Luvnith Sisodia, David Willey, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Josh Hazlewood, Shahbaz Ahmed, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Mahipal Lomror, Fin Allen, Sherfane Rutherford, Jason Behrendorff.
For this year, you can see that it is looking like a good and balanced team that can do well in the IPL. RCB does not have a single trophy in the IPL history to brag about, and fans are hoping to change it in the following IPL season.
The team and all the fans are excited to watch the matches and their favorite player to see on the screen. Before the auction, Virat Kohli announced that he would no more be the captain of RCB because of his bad performances over a couple of years. Thus, the team management decided to make the Faf du Plesis as Royal Challengers Bangalore captain 2022. Sanjay Bangar will continue his duty as the coach of Royal Challenger Bangalore.