IPL 2025: Rajat Patidar becomes the captain of RCB, know why Virat Kohli did not get the command?
Who will be the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2025? The curtain has now been lifted from this question. Will Virat Kohli be captain or someone else, the answer has now been found. Royal Challengers Bangalore has announced its new captain for the next season of IPL. Rajat Patidar will be the new captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2025.
Rajat Patidar became the 8th captain of RCB.
Rajat Patidar will be the 8th player to take charge of RCB. Before him, big names like Kevin Pietersen, Anil Kumble, Daniel Vettori, Virat Kohli, Shane Watson, and Faf du Plessis have taken charge of this team. He will be the fourth Indian after Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, and Virat Kohli to take charge of RCB. Virat Kohli has also congratulated Rajat Patidar after being made the captain of RCB.
Patidar became the captain, why not Virat?
However, there were speculations about IPL 2025 that the captaincy of RCB will once again come into the hands of Virat Kohli. However, the team management showed more interest in making a new face the captain instead of the old one. One of the reasons for choosing Rajat Patidar as the captain is his performance as captain in domestic cricket.
Rajat has a good record as captain in domestic cricket.
Rajat Patidar has captained his domestic team Madhya Pradesh in 16 matches in T20, out of which he has won 12 matches. That is, his winning percentage has been 75. Under the captaincy of Rajat, the Madhya Pradesh team reached the final of the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25. Patidar's captaincy as well as batting played a big role in this success of Madhya Pradesh.
RCB's performance in IPL
Talking about RCB's performance in IPL, it is among those teams of the league which have not won the title even once. Royal Challengers Bangalore reached the playoffs 9 times in 17 seasons of IPL, out of which it reached the finals 3 times. But, could never win the title. RCB played the IPL finals in the years 2009, 2011 and 2016. RCB is the fourth team that has won the most matches in IPL. It has won a total of 123 matches so far.
It is clear that RCB will want its new captain Rajat Patidar to live up to the expectations of realising the team's dream of winning the title, which has not been fulfilled till now.