Before IPL 2026, good news has come for Royal Challengers Bangalore team. The Karnataka government has given permission to host matches at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. After winning the trophy in the last edition, RCB celebrated the victory in this stadium. Many people lost their lives in the stampede outside the stadium, then there was a ban on organizing matches here.

According to the report of ESPNcricinfo, newly elected KSCA chief Venkatesh Prasad has received approval from the Karnataka government to host the match, a week after winning the elections. After this, the way has been cleared for M Chinnaswamy Stadium to come back on the BCCI radar. It is believed that BCCI has also been informed about the recent developments.

Will Virat Kohli play in Chinnaswamy before IPL 2026?

According to the report, it is clear that Royal Challengers Bangalore will play its home matches at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in 2026 also, but even before this league, Virat Kohli can be seen playing here. Delhi can play here in Vijay Hazare Trophy. Let us tell you that Virat Kohli will be seen playing in Vijay Hazare Trophy, he plays for Delhi team in domestic.

According to reports, Karnataka State Cricket Association is considering shifting Delhi’s Vijay Hazare Trophy matches to Aloor due to security and logistics issues. According to the current information, Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant have been included in the Delhi team. Both may be available for the first three matches.

Fans will get entry in Vijay Hazare Trophy

According to the report, KSCA is considering opening some stands for the general public in the match in which Virat Kohli and Rishabh Pant will play. The association is making arrangements to accommodate 2 to 3 thousand spectators. We had seen that when Virat Kohli played a Ranji match earlier this year, a large number of fans had gathered outside the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi.

Preparations are going on for the auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League, meanwhile a new news has come related to the sale of Royal Challengers Bangalore. There was news of this for the last few days, but now the report has revealed that the sale process of RCB has started. This process will be finished before the next season. According to the report, the current owner of the franchise, Diageo itself has announced this. RCB, which has been a part of the league since 2008, had won its first IPL title in the last edition (2025), this was also the first title of Virat Kohli who has been playing for this team since the first season.

RCB men’s team plays in IPL and women’s team plays in WPL. There was speculation about the sale of RCB for a long time, but now the franchise owner Diageo itself has confirmed it. According to the report of Cricbuzz, the information about the sale of the team has been given by Diageo itself.

In a message to the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) on Wednesday (November 5), the British company described it as a ‘strategic review’ of its investment in Royal Challengers Sports Pvt Ltd (RCSPL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Diageo’s Indian subsidiary United Spirits Ltd, according to the report.

The company said in its disclosure, “USL is initiating a strategic review of its investment in its wholly owned subsidiary RCSPL. RCSPL’s business includes the ownership of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise team, which participates in the Men’s Indian Premier League and Women’s Premier League cricket tournaments organized annually by the Board of Control for Cricket in India.”

Diageo is close to a sale deal

In their covering letter to the stock exchange, Diageo and USL revealed “it is expected that this process will be completed by March 31, 2026.” Cricbuzz report said that people familiar with such matters say that there is every possibility that USL/Diageo are close to a deal and that is why the date has been announced.

Vijay Mallya bought RCB team in 2008

The Indian Premier League was started in 2008, when BCCI had initially bid for 8 teams to play. The bid for RCB team was won by Vijay Mallya, he bought this franchise for about Rs 600 crores. Vijay Mallya was then the owner of United Spirits. In 2014, the entire ownership rights in USL came to Diageo with more than 54 percent stake.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore will play as a defending champion in the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2026). Under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar, the team won their first IPL title by defeating Punjab Kings Kings in the last edition. Now there will be a mini auction from IPL 2026, in which all teams would like to make some changes in their squad. The teams will release some players before the auction. Let us know which 4 players RCB can release.

Liam Livingstone (England)

England all -rounder Liam Livingstone was bought by Royal Challengers Bangalore for Rs 8.75 crore before IPL 2025. Earlier, he was part of the Punjab Kings team from 2022 to 2024 for Rs 11.50 crore (every year). Talking about the performance of IPL 2025, he disappointed, he could not perform as expected. He scored 112 runs in 8 innings, he could not do anything special even in bowling. He took just 2 wickets. RCB may release Livingstone before the auction for IPL 2026.

Talking about Liam Livingstone’s IPL career, he has scored 1051 runs in 49 matches, including 7 half -century innings. His strike rate is 158.76. He also has 13 wickets in his name.

Mayank Agarwal (India)

Last season, Royal Challengers Bangalore included Mayank Agarwal as a replacement of his injured player Devdutt Padikkal. He played 4 matches for RCB in 2025, scoring 95 runs at a strike rate of 148.43. If the dignity will be available for the next season, then the team can consider releasing Mayank to keep more funds in their purse in the auction.

Talking about Mayank Agarwal’s IPL record, he has played 131 matches for a total of 5 teams, scored 2756 runs in it. He has scored 1 century and 13 half -centuries in the IPL.

Lungi Nagidi (South Africa)

South African fast bowler Lungi Nagidi is a good bowler, but his influence in the IPL was not much. He was first associated with an amount of Rs 50 lakh in CSK and then Delhi Capitals, before the previous edition, he was bought by RCB for Rs 1 crore. This was his base price. But throughout the season, he was able to play only 2 matches, in which he took 4 wickets.

Talking about the record of IPL, Lungi Nagidi, who has been playing since 2018, has played only 16 matches, there is no season in which he has played all the matches. In this, he has 29 wickets in his name. They can also be released before the RCB auction.

Rasik Salaam (India)

Jammu and Kashmir fast bowler Rasik Salaam was bought by RCB for IPL season 18 for Rs 6 crore. This is his fourth team in the IPL, before that he has played for Mumbai Indians, Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals. However, RCB fed him only 2 matches. It was finding it difficult to make a place in the playing 11 with fast bowlers like Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

They have more price but their playing is not able to make a place in 11, in view of this, RCB can consider releasing them. Talking about his IPL record, he has taken 10 wickets in 13 matches.

When will the auction for IPL 2026?

It is reported that the mini auction for the 19th edition of the Indian Premier League may be between December.

Virat Kohli and Royal Challengers Bangalore’s wait for 18 years ended this year, when the team won the trophy by defeating Punjab Kings in the final under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. In its happiness, the next day i.e. on June 4, the program was organized at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, but due to a large crowd, there was a stampede and many people lost their lives. RCB then expressed grief on social media and then no post was posted from his social media. About 3 months later today, on August 28, RCB posted the first and made a announcement.

On June 4, RCB shared a post while paying homage to those killed in a stampede at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. After that, all the players including Virat Kohli also did this. But since then the social media of the franchise was not active. Now after 3 months, posting today, the franchise has announced the RCB Cares relief story.

Royal Challengers Bangalore returned with RCB cares

The post shared by RCB said, “Dear 12th Man Army, this letter is for you. It is going to be 3 months when we posted our last post here. This silence was not our absence but it was mourning.”

The letter further wrote, “This place was first filled with energy, memories and moments that you enjoyed the most. But June 4 changed everything. That day broke all of us. Since then the same silence has taken this place. We are mourning in that silence. We are mourning.

Further in the RCB note wrote, “In this way RCB Cares has come into existence, it is made up of the need to honor, apply ointment and stand with its fans. Our community and fans are a platform of meaningful action coined by fans. We are coming back to this place today, not to celebrate, but not to celebrate with you. To remain proud. “

Dear 12th Man Army, this is our heartfelt letter to you!

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The Silence wasn’t absence. It was grief.

This space was on filled with energy, memories and motes that you… pic.twitter.com/g0loxauybd

– Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@Rcbtweets) August 28, 2025

The accident occurred due to poor management

From the first season of IPL, Virat Kohli is playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore, but before that the franchise had never won the IPL Trophy. After 18 years, the dream of Virat Kohli and RCB fans was fulfilled, its happiness was celebrated across the country. But the very next day this happiness turned into mourning, when many people lost their lives in a stampede outside M Chinnaswamy Stadium. The major reason behind this was to organize the program in a hurry, in which the management was bad.

In the Indian Premier League (IPL), the International Cricket Council has imposed a fine on Tim David (Tim David), who played for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Let us know that Tim David has been fined in a match playing for Australia. Tim David has been fined 10 percent of the match fee for disagreeing during the fifth T20 match against West Indies at St. Kitts on 28 July.

According to the ICC, Tim David violated Article 2.8 of the Code of Conduct, which relates to ‘disagreeing on the umpire’s decision during the international match’. The incident took place in the fifth over of the Australian innings, when the ball thrown in the leg side of Aljari Joseph was not called wide. In response, Tim David expressed his displeasure by spreading his arms in protest. This act is considered unfair under the code of conduct.

Since this was the first crime of this Australian player in a period of 24 months, in addition to the fine, a demerit point has also been imposed on Tim David. The Australian batsman accepted the proposed punishment by the ICC International Panel match referee Ron King, which did not require a formal hearing.

The charge was officially leveled by the field umpire Zahid Basarath and Leslie Refer, Third Umpire Daitan Butler and Fourth Umpire Gregory Brathwaite. According to ICC rules, minimum punishment for level-1 violation is given one or two demerit marks with an official reprimand and maximum 50 percent match fee. If a player gets four or more demerit points in a period of 24 months, then he may be banned.

Let us know that two suspension points means that the player will be suspended from one Test match or two ODI/T20 matches. It depends on which format is the next match. The demerit points remain in the player’s record for two years, after which they are removed.

Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivkumar on Rumors of Buying Royal Challengers Bengaluru: Royal Challengers Bangalore, who won the IPL 2025 title, is about to buy Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivkumar. Such rumors were spreading on social media. Now Shivkumar himself has rejected these rumors. RCB’s fans can feel very bad with what he has said.

RCB defeated Punjab Kings to win the IPL 2025 title. After this, a special event was held to celebrate the victory at the Victory Parade and M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore the next day. But there was a stampede outside the stadium. Due to which 11 innocent people died and many people were injured. There has been a lot of ruckus since then. Meanwhile, rumors of RCB selling have spread.

I am not a crazy man, what do I need for RCB- Shivkumar

Shivkumar dismissed the rumors of buying RCB, saying, “I am not a crazy man. I am just a member of the Karnataka Cricket Association since the days of my youth, and nothing. I don’t have time, although I had many offers to be a part of management … I am not even needed RCB? I am not even drinking royal challenge.”

RCB has won IPL title for the first time in 18 years

RCB won the IPL title for the first time in 18 years. RCB faced Punjab Kings in the title match. Both teams were waiting for their first trophy for 17 years. It was decided that the 17 -year dream of any one team was about to be fulfilled. In such a situation, RCB won. RCB defeated Punjab by 6 runs in the final match and captured the trophy. RCB batted first and set a target of 191 runs. But Punjab was able to score only 184 runs.

Rahul dravid on bengaluru stampede: Former captain of the Indian cricket team and former head coach of Team India, Rahul Dravid has spoken on the Bangalore stampede for the first time. Dravid also played for RCB in IPL. Dravid has reacted to the death of 11 people in celebration of RCB’s first winning IPL title. He described the Bengaluru stampede as unfortunate and tragic.

On the death of 11 people in a stampede in Bengaluru, Rahul Dravid said, “It is very disappointing. Very sad. My condolences with them.” Dravid further said, “This city is fond of sports. I am from this city. People here like not only cricket but also the rest of the games. Here people here also follow and like the football team and kabaddi team.”

Dravid, a resident of Bangalore on the stampede in the title celebration, said, “Fans of Royal Challengers Bangalore are in large numbers. This is a very unfortunate incident. I have condolences to the families and injured of those killed in the incident.”

Let us know that a large number of people gathered near Chinnaswamy Stadium to celebrate the next day of RCB’s IPL 2025 winning title and to visit the team and trophy and 11 people died due to stampede. In order to fix accountability for this stampede, the state government also suspended many top police officers. Marketing and Revenue Head of RCB Nikhil Sosh has also been arrested.

On the deaths in the stampede, the Karnataka government had announced to give Rs 10 lakh to his family members. However, now the amount of compensation has been increased. Now the state government will give Rs 25 lakh in compensation to those who died. At the same time, the franchise RCB has also announced to give Rs 10 lakh to those who died.

RCB Stampede Case: 11 people were killed in the Bengaluru stampede case. An FIR was lodged against the Royal Challengers Bangalore team, but recently the RCB team knocked on the Karnataka High Court, in which Royal Challengers Sports Limited, a company owned by Bangalore franchise, filed a petition that the FIR should be canceled against him. Now the High Court has postponed the hearing on this petition till Wednesday.

Justice SR Krishna Kumar has also postponed the hearing on the plea of ​​Royal Challengers Sports Limited as well as DNA Entertainment Networks Private Limited. The court did this because the state government (Karnataka) could get time to register an objection to the petitions.

The High Court highlighted an agreement between the state government and the lawyers of both companies (RCB and DNA) that Karnataka Police could not arrest Royal Challengers Sports Limited and any officer of DNA Network Limited Company by the coming Wednesday. At the same time, till Wednesday, officials of both companies cannot leave the country and go out.

RCB officer arrested

In this case, RCB’s marketing head Nikhil Sosale and Sunil Matthew, Vice-President of DNA network, were arrested on 6 June. The Karnataka High Court has postponed the hearing on the bell petition of both of them till Tuesday. Please tell that Nikhil and Sunil were arrested after the FIR lodged at Kabban Park police station on 3 June.

The name of the DNA Network Company is related to this case, as the RCB team was to have a Victory Celebration at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. This event was organized by this company. At the same time, the police say that without permission from the Bengaluru police, the invitation was sent to the fans for the Victory Parade on social media.

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Stampede rcb: Royal Challengers Bangalore has won the Indian Premier League title after an 18 -year -long wait. A few days later, the RCB team seems to be getting stuck in trouble. The Bengaluru team became the champion on June 3, while the next day there was a stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. 11 people were killed in this stampede, after which a case was registered against 4 organizations including RCB franchisee. It is now being claimed that the Bengaluru team is going to be banned for one year.

First of all, we know how far the action has progressed in this matter. A case was registered against 4 parties including RCB. The Royal Challengers Bangalore team has recently petitioned the Karnataka High Court to cancel the FIR against it. Bangalore franchise marketing head Nikhil Sosale has been arrested in this case. At the same time, 2 big officials of the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA) have resigned from their posts after taking moral responsibility of the incident.

One year ban on RCB

A post is being shared indiscriminately on social media, claiming that if the RCB team is found guilty in any way, then it will have to bear a one -year ban from IPL. It was told that the investigators are very seriously investigating the case. At the same time, another screenshot is also going viral, in which it is being claimed that the official account of the IPL on Instagram has unfollowed RCB. RCB’s claim of unfollowing is a lie as the RCB team is still present in the following list of the Indian Premier League.

As far as the Royal Challengers Bangalore is concerned with a one -year ban, BCCI has not yet issued an official statement on this subject. The investigation on the Bengaluru stampede case is still going on, but till now the BCCI has not taken any action like banning.

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RCB Bengaluru Stampede News: The Bengaluru stampede case is being adopted as a serious form with the passage of one day. 11 people were killed in a stampede outside the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, after which an FIR was lodged against 4 parties/organizations including the RCB team. Now the Royal Challengers team has knocked on the door of the high court. The incident that took place outside the field outside the ground, who said Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, was sad, in which he had no hand. One of the 4 organizations against whom FIR was lodged is also one DNA Entertainment Network. Presenting his argument, he said that such a big accident occurred due to the negligence of the state police.

According to a report published in ‘Live Law’, the petition claimed that Royal Challengers Bangalore had announced the Victory Parade only after consulting the Karnataka State Cricket Association (KSCA), DNA networks and police officers. Another big claim in the petition was that in the social media post shared by RCB, it was clearly written to the same people who had registered on the official website of the Bengaluru team.

It was also told that on the morning of June 4, the RCB team was given oral information that the Bengaluru Police has canceled the program of Victory Parade. At the same time, he was also told that CM Siddaramaiah is planning to honor the Bengaluru team on Vidhan Sauudha.

Who is responsible for?

The petition filed by RCB said that Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah had invited people to the team’s honor ceremony. The RCB team has introduced CM Siddaramaiah’s tweet as evidence. Royal Challengers Sports Private Limited (RCSPL) received the news of the death of people outside the field when the ceremony had started at the Chinnaswamy Stadium.

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