RCB Weaknesses in IPL 2025: The first match of IPL season 18 will be against Kolkata Knight Riders of Royal Challengers Bangalore, which will be held on 22 March at the Eden Gardens Stadium. RCB team captaincy is in the hands of Rajat Patidar, while KKR is commanded by Ajinkya Rahane. Of course, due to Virat Kohli, RCBs are among the most famous teams but still the team is a victim of criticism due to not winning an IPL title. This time the teams are in the fray with the intention of winning their first IPL title, but there are still many weak links of the team which may be responsible for keeping them away from the title.

Royal Challengers Bangalore will play their third match in the IPL at their home ground (M Chinnaswamy Stadium). A team can place a maximum of 25 players in the squad while the RCB team consists of 22 players. RCB has the highest number of bowlers, their team has 9 bowlers. This team has 6 batsmen and 7 all-rounders. There are 3 weak links in this squad.

RCB’s fast bowling

There is no impactful foreign player except Josh Hazlewood in the RCB team. In the form of Lungi Ngidi, there is another foreign bowler in this team but his impact has not been special in the IPL. Engidi played his last IPL match in 2021. Hazlewood has also returned from injury and also felt difficult to play till a few days ago. In such a situation, it has to be seen how their bowling performance is. The team also has Nuwan Tushara, Romario Shepherd but his impact is not very special.

Spin bowling experience less in RCB

The role of spinners is very important in India but there is a shortage of good spinners in the RCB team. Of course, this game is considered to be of batsmen but good spinners play an important role in the middle order, its lack is going to play RCB.

Lack of all -rounders

Of course, this time there are 7 all -rounder players in the team, but the team seems weak in this field too. Liam will give the team opportunities in every match almost the first match to Liam Livginstone, but their recent form has been very bad. After the bowler as Phil Salat and the bowler as Josh Hazlewood, the team can choose only 2 foreign players, so Tim David, Romario Shepherd can be a bit difficult to play together.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Players IPL 2025

Rajat Patidar (Captain), Virat Kohli, Swastik Chikara, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma, Philip Soult, Manoj Bhandage, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Liam Livingstone, Romario Shepherd, Jacobed, Jacob Betail, Swapnil Singh, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar, Josh Hajalwood, Nuwan Tukara, Lungi Nagidi, Rasikh Dar Salaam, Suyash Sharma, Mohit Rathi, Abhinandan Singh.