IPL 2023: 16 seasons and zero trophies, why RCB's disappointment so far?; 'This' is the main reason

By Lokmat English Desk | Updated: May 22, 2023 13:31 IST2023-05-22T13:31:52+5:302023-05-22T13:31:52+5:30

Gujarat Titans beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 6 wickets in Sunday's match. This ended RCB's challenge in this year's IPL. Gujarat's win earned Mumbai Indians an entry into the play-offs.

RCB needed a win at any cost to reach the play-offs. RCB almost won half the battle on the strength of star batsman Virat Kohli's brilliant unbeaten century. But, after this, Shubman Gill scored an unbeaten century with the same innings and Gujarat won

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has been playing in the IPL since 2008. Initially, the team consisted of players like Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Mark Boucher and Dale Steyn. Then Virat Kohli started scoring runs.

T20 batsmen like Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers were part of the formidable team. Currently there are Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell. From Zaheer Khan to Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammad Siraj are part of the bowling team. Every year before the start of the tournament, the RCB team claims victory

The biggest reason for Royal Challengers Bangalore's defeat is that they don't have a domestic Indian batsman. The team had roped in Virat Kohli in 2008. T

But apart from Virat Kohli, RCB has not had any Indian batsman in history who has stayed with the team consistently for multiple seasons and kept scoring runs. Till date, Virat Kohli is the only Indian batsman to have scored more than a thousand runs for RCB in IPL.

Kohli is the highest run-scorer in IPL. He has more than 7 thousand runs to his name. But who else but Virat, no one has the answer. Batsmen like Devdutt Padikkal and KL Rahul did well for the team for a while but later in other teams

Indian batsmen with highest runs in IPL for RCB were Virat Kohli - 7263, Rahul Dravid - 898, Devdutt Padikkal - 884, Parthiv Patel - 731, Mandeep Singh - 597.

Mumbai Indians have won the IPL title 5 times. 7 of their Indian players have scored more than 1000 runs for the team. KKR are two time champions and 9 Indian batsmen have scored 1000 runs for them. 4 time champions Chennai Super Kings.

Apart from Rohit Sharma, Mumbai currently has names such as Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav and Tilak Verma. Chennai have Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ambati Rayudu, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, Jadeja and Shivam Dubey. Apart from Virat, Dinesh Karthik is also a big name in RCB. This is the main reason.

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