Royal Challengers Bengaluru

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) is a cricket team that hails from the vibrant city of Bengaluru in India. The team has been a part of the Indian Premier League (IPL) since its inception in 2008. Despite having a star-studded line-up over the years, RCB has often been referred to as the "underdog" in the league, both a blessing and a bane.

As for their achievements, RCB's journey has been one full of ups and downs. They've reached the IPL finals three times, in 2009, 2011, and 2016, but unfortunately never clinched the title. Yet, some say the thrill isn't just in the trophies, but in how close they came, each time leaving their fans with bated breath and a promise of "being the next time."

The team has been home to some of cricket's most spectacular players. Virat Kohli, the former Indian captain, has been synonymous with RCB. His aggression and unmatched hunger for runs have been pivotal in RCB's narrative. AB de Villiers, with his innovative shots and knack for high-pressure performances, brought an extra layer of excitement to the team until his retirement in 2021. Chris Gayle, the 'Universe Boss', also donned the RCB colours and broke records by smashing the fastest century in IPL history in 2013.

Rivalries—aren't they the heartbeats of cricket? RCB's rivalry with Kolkata Knight Riders dates back to when Brendon McCullum hit a blazing 158 in the first-ever IPL match. Then there are the fierce battles against Chennai Super Kings, its proximity to Bengaluru only heightening the sense of competition and anticipation.

RCB is known for its aggressive playing style, often seeming to favour explosive batting. It's a double-edged sword that has yielded some earth-shattering performances and, at times, frustrating collapses. Their chasing skills, particularly under Kohli's leadership, have given them an edge in nail-biting encounters.

Playing their home games at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has its perks. The stadium, right in the heart of Bengaluru, is renowned for its batting-friendly pitch and vociferous supporters. Over the years, the “RCB! RCB!” chants have become synonymous with the city's cricket culture. The “Ee Sala Cup Namde” slogan, a Kannada phrase meaning "This time the cup is ours," epitomises the spirit of hope and belief that the fans carry, season after season.

For all its roller-coaster narratives, RCB remains an integral part of the IPL tapestry, loved by many and, intriguingly, always the dark horse in every season.

Play Offs, Qualifier 1, Indian Premier League - May 29, 2025

Punjab Kings

101/10 (14.1)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

106/2 (10)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 8 wickets (with 60 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Suyash Sharma

Regular Season, 70th Match, Indian Premier League - May 27, 2025

Lucknow Super Giants

227/3 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

230/4 (18.4)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 6 wickets (with 8 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Jitesh Sharma

Regular Season, 65th Match, Indian Premier League - May 23, 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

189/10 (19.5)

Sunrisers Hyderabad

231/6 (20)

Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 42 runs

Player of the Match

Ishan Kishan

Regular Season, 58th Match, Indian Premier League - May 17, 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Kolkata Knight Riders

Match abandoned without a ball bowled

Regular Season, 52nd Match, Indian Premier League - May 3, 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

213/5 (20)

Chennai Super Kings

211/5 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 2 runs

Player of the Match

Romario Shepherd

Regular Season, 46th Match, Indian Premier League - April 27, 2025

Delhi Capitals

162/8 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

165/4 (18.3)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 6 wickets (with 9 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Krunal Pandya

Regular Season, 42nd Match, Indian Premier League - April 24, 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

205/5 (20)

Rajasthan Royals

194/9 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 11 runs

Player of the Match

Josh Hazlewood

Regular Season, 37th Match, Indian Premier League - April 20, 2025

Punjab Kings

157/6 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

159/3 (18.5)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 7 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Virat Kohli

Regular Season, 34th Match, Indian Premier League - April 18, 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

95/9 (14)

Punjab Kings

98/5 (12.1)

Punjab Kings won by 5 wickets (with 11 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Tim David

Regular Season, 28th Match, Indian Premier League - April 13, 2025

Rajasthan Royals

173/4 (20)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru

175/1 (17.3)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru won by 9 wickets (with 15 balls remaining)

Player of the Match

Philip Salt

Virat Kohli
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 36

Stuart Binny
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 40

Samuel Badree
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 44

Sreenath Aravind
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 41

Kedar Jadhav
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 40

Adam Milne
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 33

Yuzvendra Chahal
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 34

Pawan Negi
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 32

Travis Head
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 31

Sachin Baby
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 36

Shane Watson
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 43

AB de Villiers
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 41

Mandeep Singh
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 33

Aniket Choudhary
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Chris Gayle
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 45

Harshal Patel
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 34

Avesh Khan
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Vishnu Vinod
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 31

Brendon McCullum
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 43

Quinton de Kock
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 32

Sarfaraz Khan
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 27

Chris Woakes
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 36

Washington Sundar
Position: Bowling Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 25

Kulwant Khejroliya
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 33

Umesh Yadav
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 37

Corey Anderson
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 34

Mohammed Siraj
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 31

Manan Vohra
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 31

Colin de Grandhomme
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 38

Tim Southee
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 36

Murugan Ashwin
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 34

Parthiv Patel
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 40

Moeen Ali
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 37

Shimron Hetmyer
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 28

Shivam Dube
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 31

Navdeep Saini
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 32

Prayas Ray Barman
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 22

Marcus Stoinis
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Akshdeep Nath
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 32

Heinrich Klaasen
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 33

Milind Kumar
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 34

Dale Steyn
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 41

Gurkeerat Singh Mann
Position: Middle Order Batter
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 34

Aaron Finch
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 38

Josh Philippe
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 27

Devdutt Padikkal
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 24

Isuru Udana
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 37

Adam Zampa
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 33

Chris Morris
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 38

Shahbaz Ahmed
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 30

Nic Maddinson
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 33

Yuvraj Singh
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 43

Albie Morkel
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 43

Sachin Rana
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 40

Ashok Dinda
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 41

Mitchell Starc
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast
Age: 35

Varun Aaron
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 35

Yogesh Takawale
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 40

Muttiah Muralitharan
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 53

Ravi Rampaul
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 40

Rilee Rossouw
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 35

Vijay Zol
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 30

Abu Nechim
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 36

Shadab Jakati
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 44

Tillakaratne Dilshan
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 48

Mayank Agarwal
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 34

Daniel Christian
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 42

Arun Karthik
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 39

Karun Nair
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 33

Vinay Kumar
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 41

Murali Kartik
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 48

Jaydev Unadkat
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 33

Moises Henriques
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 38

RP Singh
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 39

Lokesh Rahul
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 33

Jamaluddin Syed Mohammad
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 41

Andrew McDonald
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 43

Saurabh Tiwary
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 35

Abhinav Mukund
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 35

Cheteshwar Pujara
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 37

Abhimanyu Mithun
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Zaheer Khan
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 46

Rajat Patidar
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 31

Glenn Maxwell
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 36

Kyle Jamieson
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 30

Kane Richardson
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 34

Daniel Sams
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 32

Srikar Bharat
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 31

Wanindu Hasaranga
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 27

Tim David
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 29

George Garton
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast
Age: 28

Faf du Plessis
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 40

Anuj Rawat
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 25

Dinesh Karthik
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 39

Sherfane Rutherford
Position: Middle Order Batter
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 26

David Willey
Position: Bowling Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Akash Deep
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Josh Hazlewood
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 34

Suyash Prabhudessai
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 27

Mahipal Lomror
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 25

Siddarth Kaul
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Michael Bracewell
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Age: 34

Karn Sharma
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak Googly
Age: 37

Reece Topley
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 31

Sonu Yadav
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 25

Finn Allen
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 26

Wayne Parnell
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Vijaykumar Vyshak
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Himanshu Sharma
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 29

Cameron Green
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 25

Alzarri Joseph
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Mayank Dagar
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 28

Yash Dayal
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 27

Swapnil Singh
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 34

Saurav Chauhan
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 25

Will Jacks
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 26

Rajan Kumar
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Lockie Ferguson
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 33

Philip Salt
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 28

Liam Livingstone
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 31

Jitesh Sharma
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 31

Krunal Pandya
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 34

Rasikh Salam Dar
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 25

Suyash Sharma
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Legbreak
Age: 22

Abhinandan Singh
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 28

Manoj Bhandage
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 26

Romario Shepherd
Position: Bowling Allrounder
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 30

Bhuvneshwar Kumar
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 35

Jacob Bethell
Position: Allrounder
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Slow Left Arm Orthodox
Age: 21

Swastik Chikara
Position: Batsman
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Offbreak
Age: 20

Lungi Ngidi
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast
Age: 29

Nuwan Thushara
Position: Bowler
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Fast Medium
Age: 30

Tim Seifert
Position: Wicketkeeper
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Age: 30

M.Chinnaswamy Stadium
City: Bengaluru
Country: India
Capacity: 40000

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Country: India
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Country: India
Capacity: 38000

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City: Mumbai
Country: India
Capacity: 32000

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Country: India
Capacity: 60000

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Country: India
Capacity: 20000

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Country: India
Capacity: 132000