Royal Challengers Bangalore is the most anticipated franchise in IPL. It has a huge fan base despite not winning any IPL trophy. Still, people believe in RCB and RCB has the most loyal fan base in any sports league. RCB started their journey way back in 2008 with Rahul Dravid as their captain.
In the next season, Anil Kumble took the lead and led the team to the finale. After that Daniel Vettori took over the captaincy from Kumble. After 2013 Virat Kohli is their permanent captain till 2020. Virat has witnessed many ups and downs with RCB. Under the Virat captaincy, RCB qualifies for the finals in the 2016 IPL where they lose to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Everybody questions the leadership quality of Virat Kohli and considers him the reason for RCB failures in IPL. But the loyal fan base of RCB didn’t let their captain down and support him, whether Virat is informed or not. It is obvious that the captain can’t run the team alone if he didn’t get the support from the other ten players.
The reason behind RCB failures is that there bowling and no reliable batsmen other than Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers. Last year’s edition of Glenn Maxwell gives a boost to RCB batting. This year after Ab de Viller’s is retirement, RCB again on a search to look after proper batsmen.
Top three contenders for RCB captaincy in 2022 IPL
Virat Kohli stepped down as captain of RCB last season where he played his last match as captain against Kolkata Knight Riders in the eliminator. After that, he took his retirement from captaincy in all the formats of the game and also in IPL but continues to play as a normal player.
It is very depressing news for RCB fans because they love their captain so much. Now in 2022, we going to witness a new face of RCB as captain and again reshaping of the whole franchisee. After the departure of AB de Villiers and Yuzvendra Chahal being released, it is obvious that RCB looks after reshaping the whole franchisee. First of all, they gonna go for Captain on which date a rely and under whom they won their first-ever IPL trophy. The top three contenders for RCB captaincy are:
Glenn Maxwell
Australian all-rounder and considered to be the million-dollar baby in IPL, Glenn Maxwell is the topmost contender for RCB captaincy. Earlier he led the Kings XI Punjab in the 2016 season. Last year Maxwell was brought up by RCB for whopping 14 crores.
Everybody was shocked because in Twenty20 IPL Glenn Maxwell fails to hit even a single six after he goes for 9.5 crores for our Punjab. While playing for RCB, Maxwell shows his class and play various crucial knocks for the team, and won the match for them.
Maxwell is considered being the next RCB captain because earlier and in the current scenario he’s been leading the Melbourne Stars in BBL. So RCB might go for Glenn Maxwell if they didn’t find suitable options.
David Warner
David Warner is a name That rules the IPL and single-handedly runs the sun rises Hyderabad franchise also. For five consecutive seasons, Sunrisers Hyderabad goes for play-offs and it is obviously because of their opening batsman David Warner.
Left-handed David Warner has a huge impact on IPL. Because under his captaincy Sunrisers Hyderabad won their only IPL title in 2016. Last year wasn’t a season that David Warner dreamed of. He dropped from the team between the season and also forbidden him to travel with the team.
This really depressed Warner‘s fan base because Warner led the franchisee and reach the sky that won’t expect from SRH. If RCB goes for David Warner they’ll get a blasting opener batsmen and also a suitable captain.
Shreyas Iyer
In 2018 IPL, Gautam Gambhir left down as Delhi captain, and Shreyas Iyer was crowned as Delhi Daredevils captain. Everybody is shocked after young uncapped Indian players took over the captaincy from experience to Gautam Gambhir.
In the next season when Delhi daredevil changes their name to Delhi capital. Doors of success are open for Delhi as they reach their play-offs after nine years. In the next season, in 2020 they reached the final but lost to Mumbai Indians. In 2021 also, Delhi are the table toppers.
You can easily assume that Shreyas Iyer is the face that brought Delhi back in competition in IPL. In 2022, Rishabh Pant is the captain for the Delhi capital, and due to which he has a year left the franchisee to pursue a career at another franchisee where he can pursue as captain.
After Ahmedabad Lucknow didn’t pick him in the draft. It is obvious that RCB, Punjab, or KKR target him because they all need a captain. RCB can go for serious years because he is an Indian-origin batsman and can also lead the team.