It was an odd couple of days for Royal Challengers Bengaluru on the public sale desk in Jeddah. With their head coach Andy Flower getting a transparent have a look at the workforce final season, they needed to start out contemporary because it was evident once they retained solely three gamers in Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar and Yash Dayal. And after two days of intense bidding, that is how their squad seems to be:
Batsmen
Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, Manoj Bhandage, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chikara.
Wicketkeepers
Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma.
All-rounders
Liam Livingstone (spin), Krunal Pandya (spin), Swapnil Singh (spin), Romario Shepherd (tempo), Jacob Bethell (spin), Mohit Rathee (spin).
Spinners
Suyash Sharma, Abhinandan Singh.
Quick bowlers
Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Yash Dayal (retained), Rasikh Salam, Nuwan Thushara, Lungi Ngidi.
First impression
At occasions it was laborious to grasp what RCB had been as much as, particularly once they let go off KL Rahul, Rishabh Pant, Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan. Getting considered one of them would have undoubtedly added extra power to their native expertise. And surprisingly, they didn’t even use the RTM possibility on Glenn Maxwell, Mohammed Siraj and Will Jacks and as a substitute went for a very totally different outlook. It acquired them Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Tim David – three aggressive, power-hitters who will guarantee they’re simply depending on a few batsmen. Equally, their bowling assault has the variability and the mandatory assets to maintain the unforgiving house situations at M Chinnaswamy stadium. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal and Lungi Ngidi make up a powerful tempo assault and for X-factor, have Nuwan Thushara, whose slinging motion could possibly be laborious to choose. For a change, there was readability in what they needed and general return with a powerful, balanced squad on paper.
Space of concern
There are usually not sufficient left-handed batsmen within the combine, which implies they could possibly be pressured so as to add one, which may have an effect on their steadiness.
Seemingly XII (Affect Participant included)
1 Virat Kohli, 2 Phil Salt, 3 Liam Livingstone, 4 Rajat Patidar, 5 Tim David/Jacob Bethell, 6 Jitesh Sharma, 7 Krunal Pandya, 8 Rasikh Salam, 9 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 10 Josh Hazlewood, 11 Yash Dayal, 12 Suyash Sharma/Manoj Bhandage.
