IPL 2025: 3 Reasons why RCB can win the title

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) have taken a daring step by naming Rajat Patidar as their captain for the 2025 Indian Premier League (IPL). The 31-year-old batsman, who has been a key member of RCB's batting lineup in recent years, will take up leadership after the team opted to break ties with former captain Faf du Plessis.

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The Bengaluru-based club has been one of the league's most popular, but it has yet to win its first IPL crown. However, with a strong squad and Patidar's leadership, 2025 may be the year RCB finally breaks the curse.

Let's look at the three very compelling reasons why RCB can win their maiden IPL title in IPL 2025.

Here are 3 reasons why RCB can win the IPL 2025 title:

1. Fresh leadership with Rajat Patidar as the new captain

Some of cricket's top personalities have played for RCB, including Daniel Vettori, Faf du Plessis, and Virat Kohli captained them in the IPL. But even with their squads led by superstars, they have never been able to win the elusive IPL championship.

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The selection of Rajat Patidar as RCB captain marks a new era in IPL 2025, one based on homegrown talent, a new strategy, and hunger. Although he lacks substantial IPL leadership experience, he has demonstrated his leadership abilities in domestic cricket. He has demonstrated his abilities to lead and motivate a team by leading Madhya Pradesh to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy final.

Rajat Patidar’s fresh ideas and new perspective bring in much-needed mental adjustment, and his leadership may mark RCB's turning point. He will be keen to establish himself in his first full season as a captain at this level because of his aggressive, tactical, and modern style of play.

Despite their lack of titles, RCB has always been an emotionally charged team, with ardent supporters. Having played for the team for several seasons, Patidar is well aware of this passion and may use it to foster a positive, upbeat atmosphere in the locker room.

2. RCB turns weakness into strength with a powerful pace unit.

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One of the biggest drawbacks for RCB over the years has been a very weak pace attack, especially that didn’t work in their home ground in M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The likes of Zaheer Khan, Mitchell Starc, Mohammed Siraj, and others have shone in various capacities.

However, the pace attack has lacked the cohesion required to work as a unit. But in the IPL 2025 mega auction, the RCB invested huge in pace attack with Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Salam, and Lungi Ngidi with Yash Dayal being retained. RCB’s IPL 2025 pace attack can win matches for the franchise also in home conditions.   

3. Excellent middle overs batting lineup

Rajat Patidar is not only crucial for RCB as a captain for the IPL 2025 season, but he is also their trump card in the middle order. Of the batters with at least 300 runs in the last four IPL seasons, Patidar has scored at a greater strike rate in the middle overs. During this time, the 31-year-old has struck at a strike rate of 166.3.

Along with Patidar, RCB this season has a very strong middle-order batting lineup. Tim David, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Krunal Pandya, and Jitesh Sharma are all capable of handling both spin and pace in middle overs and can also tonk the ball in death overs.

RCB needed some firepower in the middle overs as they depended hugely on Virat Kohli’s brilliance and top-order runs in previous editions. Instead, the middle-order prowess can take the responsibility and be the savior this season.

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