RCB captain 2025 announcement highlights: Rajat Patidar named new Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper for IPL 2025

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Rajat Patidar's captaincy record in T20s. He has led in 16 matches and won 12 of them.

1. Calmness and simplicity
2.  He cares about the people around him
3. Stubbornness

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Former RCB skipper Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis congratulate Rajat Patidar on his elevation as the new Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper. What a moment for the 31-year-old.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Rajat Patidar has been named as the new RCB captain for the forthcoming season and beyond.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) COO Rajesh Menon is addressing the media gathered at the venue. He says it was a critical decision for the franchise and pointed out the legendary names, who have led the franchise previously.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: If we look at RCB's history, the franchise have qualified for the play-offs nine times in 17 seasons.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: It's about time as we get ready for the big announcement. One thing is sure that it'll be an Indian so given the squad the stakes of Rajat Patidar and Virat Kohli are high.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: RCB drops a teaser saying that the next captain will certainly be an Indian player.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: If we look at other senior players in RCB, the franchise have recruited Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Phil Salt, who have led a team previously but in bits and pieces. The Indian captained SRH a handful of times, while Salt led England in T20Is in Jos Buttler's absence against Australia last year.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Rajat Patidar has been a great addition after a quiet outing in IPL 2021, when he first joined the franchise. Then Patidar managed just 71 runs from four matches. He rejoined the franchise in 2022 as a replacement for the injured Luvnith Sisodia for INR 20 lakh, which was more like a breakthrough season for the batter.In 2022, Patidar scored 333 runs, with his highest score being 112 not out. This knock came in the Eliminator against Lucknow Super Giants at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata.

Patidar was not part of the 2023 season due to an injury and in the previous edition, he managed to score 395 runs at an average of 30.38 and a strike rate of 177.13.

So far, Patidar has made 27 appearances for the franchise in which he has amassed 799 runs at a strike rate of 158.85.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: RCB has so far been led by seven players since the inception of IPL in 2008.

Rahul Dravid, Kevin Pietersen, Anil Kumble, Daniel Vettori, Virat Kohli, Shane Watson, and Faf du Plessis.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Virat Kohli has led RCB in 143 matches, out of which the team has emerged victorious 68 times and lost 70. Fouyr matches didn't produce any result.

Meanwhile, Kohli's stint as RCB captain is also the second-highest after legendary Mahendra Singh Dhoni for Chennai Super Kings.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: Virat Kohli has led RCB previously from 2013 to 2021 before stepping down. He was replaced by Faf du Plessis, who's no longer a part of the franchise. Virat Kohli's biggest highlight as RCB captain came in 2016 when he led the franchise to the final, but endured a defeat against SRH in the summit clash.

RCB captain 2025 Announcement Live: The Royal Challengers Bangalore made a total of 19 purchases in the auction. Out of the 19, hardly anyone has captaincy experience. Here are the 19 players RCB bought: Liam Livingstone, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Rasikh Dar, Suyash Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Swapnil Singh, Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Nuwan Thushara, Manoj Bhandage, Jacob Bethell, Devdutt Padikkal, Swastik Chhikara, Lungi Ngidi, Abhinandan Singh, Mohit Rathee

RCB captain 2025 announcement live: RCB had made three retentions ahead of the IPL auction. Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar and Yash Dayal were the players retained by the franchise. Among the three, Kohli and Patidar's name have emerged as the frontrunner in captaincy race for the forthcoming season and beyond.

RCB captain 2025 announcement live: RCB will hold a press conference at around 11:30 am today to make the big announcement. RCB's Director of Cricket Mo Bobat and head coach Andy Flower are likely to make the announcement.

RCB captain 2025 announcement live: Hello and welcome to the live coverage of the big announcement many RCB fans are waiting for. The franchise is all set to announce their new skipper today. Who do you think it will be?