In IPL season 18, the captaincy of Royal Challengers Bangalore is in the hands of Rajat Patidar. Virat Kohli is the strongest link of the team but here we are telling you about the 3 biggest weaknesses of this team.

RCB weaknesses in ipl 2025: The first match of IPL season 18 will be between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders, which will be held on 22 March at Eden Gardens Stadium. The captaincy of the RCB team is in the hands of Rajat Patidar, while Ajinkya Rahane is leading KKR. Of course, RCB is one of the most famous teams because of Virat Kohli but the team still faces criticism for not winning any IPL title. This time the team is in the field with the intention of winning their first IPL title but there are still many weak links in the team which may be responsible for keeping them away from the title.

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

RCB's fast bowling

RCB team does not have any impactful foreign player except Josh Hazlewood. There is another foreign bowler in this team in the form of Lungi Ngidi but his impact has not been special in IPL. Ngidi played his last IPL match in 2021. Hazlewood has also returned from injury and Ngidi also seemed difficult to play till a few days ago. In such a situation, it remains to be seen how their bowling performance is. The team also has Nuwan Tushara, Romario Shepherd but their impact is also not very special.

RCB has less experience of spin bowling

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

Lack of all-rounders

Of course this time there are 7 all-rounder players in the team but the team looks weak in this area as well. The team will give Liam Livingstone a chance in almost every match from the first match but his recent form has been very bad. After Phil Salt as a batsman and Josh Hazlewood as a bowler, the team can choose only 2 foreign players, in such a situation it may be a bit difficult for Tim David and Romario Shepherd to play together.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Players IPL 2025

Rajat Patidar (Captain), Virat Kohli, Swastik Chikara, Devdutt Padikkal, Jitesh Sharma, Philip Salt, Manoj Bhandaage, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Liam Livingstone, Romario Shepherd, Jacob Bethell, Swapnil Singh, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Nuwan Tushara, Lungi Ngidi, Yash Dayal, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Mohit Rathi, Abhinandan Singh.