Royal Challengers Bangalore is a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League. They are one of the eight teams which are taking part in the 2017 Indian Premier League. They are captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Daniel Vettori. This was one of the most difficult seasons for RCB, as when it started their key players were injured and missed initial matches. Shane Watson took the responsibility of captaining RCB.
Season standings
Auction The player auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League was held on 20 February in Bangalore. Five players were signed by the franchise. Pawan Negi Tymal Mills Aniket Choudhary Praveen Dubey Billy Stanlake
Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold. No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Year signed Salary Notes Batsmen11 KL Rahul Right-handed Right-arm off break 2016 Occasional wicket-keeper18 Virat Kohli Right-handed Right-arm medium 2014 (since 2008) Captain23 Mandeep Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium 2015 34 Travis Head Left-handed Right-arm off break 2016 Overseas36 Sachin Baby Left-handed Right-arm off break 2016 81 Kedar Jadhav Right-handed Right-arm off break 2016 Occasional wicket-keeper97 Sarfaraz Khan Right-handed Right-arm off break 2015 333 Chris Gayle Left-handed Right-arm off break 2014 (since 2011) Overseas Harpreet Singh Bhatia Left-handed Right-arm medium 2017 Replacement signing All-rounders15 Pawan Negi Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2017 33 Shane Watson Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2016 Overseas84 Stuart Binny Right-handed Right-arm medium 2016 Wicket-keepers4 Vishnu Vinod Right-handed 2017 Replacement signing 17 AB de Villiers Right-handed Right-arm medium 2014 (since 2011) Overseas/Vice-captainBowlers3 Yuzvendra Chahal Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2014 6 Sreenath Aravind Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2014 (since 2011) 9 Aniket Choudhary Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2017 13 Harshal Patel Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2014 (since 2013) 19 Avesh Khan Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2016 20 Adam Milne Right-handed Right-arm fast 2015 Overseas21 Iqbal Abdulla Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2016 37 Billy Stanlake Left-handed Right-arm fast 2017 Overseas56 Tymal Mills Right-handed Left-arm fast 2017 Overseas 77 Samuel Badree Right-handed Right-arm leg break 2016 Overseas90 Tabraiz Shamsi Right-handed Slow left-arm wrist-spin 2016 Overseas Praveen Dubey Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2017
Personnel The team is owned by Diageo through United Spirits Limited. Amrit Thomas, acts as the director of team. Retired Indian cricketer Brijesh Patel, serves as the CEO for the team. Russell Adams is the vice president for commercial operations. Avinash Vaidya is the team manager. Daniel Vettori heads the coaching team which consists of Allan Donald (bowling coach), Trent Woodhill (batting and fielding coach), Even Speechly (physio) and Shankar Basu (strength and condition coach).
Trivia 23 April was the highest total runs (263/5) in IPL by RCB (2013). Also at the same date they scored the lowest runs (49/10) in IPL.
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