IPL 2025: 3 Strengths of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) will see a new captain leading them in the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025). Rajat Patidar replaced Faf du Plessis as the captain of the RCB team.

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The IPL 2025 auction proved to be a fruitful one for the RCB team. They released non-performers from their squad and filled it with genuine match-winners like Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Tim David, and Jitesh Sharma, among others. Many chinks were filled by RCB management in the auction, and now the formulation of their playing XI will dictate their future.

With that in mind, here are the key strengths that make RCB a dangerous proposition in the upcoming IPL 2025.

Here are the 3 strengths of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) for IPL 2025:

1. Terrific batting lineup

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The biggest strength of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in IPL 2025 will be the excellent batting unit they have made. Virat Kohli, Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Jacob Bethell, Romario Shepherd, Devdutt Padikkal, and more will form a dangerous batting prowess for RCB.

RCB has covered all its bases with the likes of Kohli, Salt, Patidar, and Padikkal for the top order and Livingstone, Jitesh, David, Bethell, and Krunal for the middle order and finishers. RCB will just want all of them to click together to give them a huge advantage.

2. Strongest bowling attack

One thing that bothered RCB and its fans was their poor bowling lineup in the last few years. However, this time, RCB finally banked on the experience and bought Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood in the auction to strengthen their lineup. They also have Yash Dayal, Lungi Ngidi, and Nuwan Thushara for pace options.

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Krunal Pandya, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Liam Livingstone, and Jacob Bethell will take care of the spin department. RCB will need to be smart in their playing XI combination for maximum impact as they have a pace-heavy attack with spin all-rounders at their disposal.

3. Capable all-rounders to maintain balance

The last few seasons saw Royal Challengers Bengaluru depending on only a couple of good all-rounders, mainly Glenn Maxwell, for more impact. But this time, RCB has bought a host of good players who are excellent with both the ball and the bat.

The likes of Krunal Pandya, Jacob Bethell, Liam Livingstone, Romario Shepherd, Tim David, and Manoj Bhandage will be tasked with bowling the middle overs and will come in handy when RCB plays on spin-friendly surfaces in Chennai, Lucknow, and Ahmedabad, among others.

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