The 2018 season was the 11th season for Royal Challengers Bangalore. The side was captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Daniel Vettori.
Pre-season In January 2018, the franchise appointed Gary Kirsten as batting coach and Ashish Nehra as the bowling mentor.
On 26 March 2018, the franchise onboarded HP Inc India as the principal sponsor of the team. Earlier that month, the franchise had partnered up with Nuvoco Vistas for the solus position on the back of the team jersey.
On 29 March 2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore's home match against Delhi Daredevils on 12 May was moved to Delhi due to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election on the same day. The away game against the same team on 21 April was moved to Bangalore.
Squad Players with international caps are listed in bold.
No. Name Nationality Birth date Batting style Bowling style Year signed Salary Notes Batsmen9 Mandeep Singh Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 17 AB de Villiers Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Overseas/Vice Captain18 Virat Kohli Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Captain36 Manan Vohra Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 42 Brendon McCullum Right-handed Right-arm medium 2018 Overseas97 Sarfaraz Khan Right-handed Right-arm off break 2018 All-rounders6 Pawan Negi Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox 2018 8 Moeen Ali Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 Overseas10 Chris Woakes Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018 Overseas77 Colin de Grandhomme Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2018 Overseas78 Corey Anderson Left-handed Left-arm fast-medium 2018 Overseas555 Washington Sundar Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 Pavan Deshpande Left-handed Right-arm off break 2018 Aniruddha Joshi Right-handed Right-arm off break 2018 Wicket-keepers69 Quinton de Kock Left-handed 2018 Overseas72 Parthiv Patel Left-handed 2018 Bowlers3 Yuzvendra Chahal Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2018 4 Kulwant Khejroliya Left-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2018 19 Umesh Yadav Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018 21 Mohammed Siraj Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018 38 Tim Southee Right-handed Right-arm fast-medium 2018 Overseas89 Murugan Ashwin Right-handed Right-arm leg break googly 2018 Nathan Coulter-Nile Right-handed Right-arm fast 2018 Overseas Navdeep Saini Right-handed Right-arm medium-fast 2018 Aniket Choudhary Right-handed Left-arm medium-fast 2018
Personnel Owner – United Spirits Head coach – Daniel Vettori Bowling mentor – Ashish Nehra Batting coach - Gary Kirsten Fielding Coach - Trent Woodhill Bowling Talent Development and Analytics - Andrew McDonald
Season
League table
Results
Statistics
Most runs NameMatRunsHSAveSR Virat Kohli1453092*48.18139.10 AB de Villiers1248090*53.33174.54 Mandeep Singh1425247*25.20135.48 Quinton de Kock82015325.12124.07 Parthiv Patel61535330.60140.36 Source: ESPNcricinfo
Most wickets NameMatWktsBBIAveEco Umesh Yadav14203/2320.907.86 Yuzvendra Chahal14122/2230.257.26 Mohammed Siraj11113/2533.368.95 Chris Woakes583/3623.7510.36 Tim Southee853/3052.209.00 Source: ESPNcricinfo
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