IPL 2025 is starting on 21st March with the match between KKR and SRH. Before IPL 2025, all the teams are busy finalizing their preparations, meanwhile Royal Challengers Bengaluru has also announced the name of its new captain for IPL 2025. The franchise has ignored Virat Kohli and made Rajat Patidar the new captain of the team.

Before the IPL 2025 Mega Auction, there was a discussion that the franchise is looking at Rishabh Pant, KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer as captains, but the franchise did not bid for any of these three players in the IPL 2025 Mega Auction. Now the team's Director of Cricket Mo Bobat told why the franchise did this.

Today RCB has announced the name of its new captain Rajat Patidar, after which the team's Director of Cricket Mo Bobat revealed the reason behind not bidding for Shreyas Iyer and KL Rahul, saying that "We wanted to have our own options for captaincy and we are happy with the players we targeted. There was never any pressure regarding captaincy, we were happy with whatever options we had. RCB had retained three players before the mega auction. Under this, Virat Kohli, Patidar and Yash Dayal were retained. Patidar was retained by paying Rs 11 crore. Now this player is the new captain of RCB. "

It is clear from the statement of Team Director of Cricket Mo Bobat that the franchise had retained 3 players before the IPL 2025 mega auction. Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, the franchise retained Virat Kohli for 21 crores, while Yash Dayal was retained for Rs 5 crore.

Apart from this, the franchise retained a young player like Rajat Patidar for Rs 11 crore, who has now been made the captain of the team. In such a situation, the franchise had spent Rs 37 crore to retain these 3 players.

Head coach Andy Flower said this about Rajat Patidar

RCB has ignored veteran player Virat Kohli and made young player Rajat Patidar, who has scored only 799 runs in IPL so far, the captain. After this, RCB head coach Andy Flower said that "Rajat is simple, he cares about the people around him, we have seen closely how he has led Madhya Pradesh, we liked it very much."

This time Rajat Patidar will have the responsibility of winning the first IPL title for the franchise. In IPL 2016, RCB made it to the finals against Sunrisers Hyderabad, since then the franchise has not been able to reach the finals till now.