The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli on Sunday (September 19) announced that this season will be his final main the Bangalore franchise in the T20 league. After quitting the Indian T20 captaincy final week, Kohli has also taken a encourage-seat from
“This will be my final IPL as captain of RCB. I could proceed to be an RCB player till I play my final IPL game. I thank the full RCB fans for believing in me and supporting me,” Kohli stated in a video assertion issued by RCB.
“I in actuality devour spoken to the squad. It used to be something that used to be on my thoughts as I no longer too long ago announced stepping down as T20 captain to situation up my workload which has been huge. I are looking out for to be obvious about how I are looking out for to cross ahead. I in actuality devour made it obvious to the management that I will no longer deem being in any diversified team other than RCB,” he added.
So device 2022, who’re the first-contenders to interchange Kohli as chief on the RCB? Based mostly mostly on the present stars in the motorway-up, the head three contenders for RCB captaincy are…
AB de Villiers
The used South African captain is 37 years of age now and retired from the rigours of world cricket. De Villiers is the least bit times a apt shatter-gap blueprint concerned with his captaincy ride on the world level in all codecs of the game. He stays one in all the most interesting players in the T20 layout of the game and mild has a pair of seasons to cross before he hangs up his IPL boots.
The Protea batsman averages over 50 this season after 7 matches with 207 runs and has a sexy strike-price of 164.28.
Glenn Maxwell
The Australian all-rounder used to be added to the RCB squad this year to add more fire-energy to their center show to compliment De Villiers. He has led the Punjab Kings in the past and the Melbourne Stars in Mammoth Bash League as properly.
Maxwell is RCB’s main bustle-scorer this season with 223 runs at a ultimate strike-price of 144.8. The Aussie ‘Mammoth Uncover’ will lift the distinguished aggression wished to handbook a high-class IPL franchise.
Devdutt Padikkal
He’s one in all the younger finds for RCB this season. Though he’s most productive 21 years of age, Padikkal might per chance perchance furthermore be invested sooner or later very like South Africa did with a younger Graeme Smith.
The Karnataka opener has a musty head of his shoulders and shown his class in the IPL 2021. Padikkal has tallied 195 runs in 7 games this season, alongside with his maiden IPL century as properly before the league used to be suspended as a result of COVID-19 cases in India.
