Although Padikkal was bagged by RCB in IPL 2019, it was only in the last IPL season where he emerged as a revelation in their batting lineup. By opening at the top, Padikkal in his 15 games became a run machine for RCB as he notched a total of 473 runs at an average of 31.53. Padikkal, in general, looked an ideal candidate at the top whose reliable gameplay did fervently allowed other batters to easily go out and express themselves. To capitalize the power play restrictions, his overall batting has fitting gameplay which seamlessly allows him to play some attacking strokes.
By being the leading run-scorer in the history of the IPL, each year the onus of making RCB win an IPL title is as mammoth as skipper Kohli’s batting in itself. While often being perceived as a 500-run bank, the last IPL season was one of the elusive years where Virat Kohli not only was seen bleak with his total of 466 runs but also could only amass 3 menial fifties. His dipping form was one of the chief reasons why the team’s middle-order had suddenly got overwhelmed which inevitably even burdened the likes of AB de Villiers.
Over the years, AB de Villiers has been the biggest match-winner for the RCB franchise, and for his fervent fans, he is not less than an emotion. In terms of his long relationship with the RCB, De Villiers was first seen in the RCB camp in the 2011 edition and since then has played a total of 141 matches for the red army. Overall, while batting in the middle-order ABD is the heartbeat of the entire RCB’s batting lineup who very much controls scoring functions.
Although Glenn Maxwell does sounds like an arid commodity the moment he associates himself with the IPL, getting bagged by his favourite franchise this time, the RCB fans would genuinely expect some utter fireworks from his batting. In the last season, the team vigorously lacked some sturdy lower-middle order batters whose consequences refrained the likes of AB De Villiers from playing his free-flowing game. Also with the presence of some menial names in the lower order batting, the management hence did require a fitting aggressive batsman and to fill that void, someone like Glenn Maxwell was bagged for a whopping INR 14.25 crores.
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Being skipper Virat Kohli’s go-to man for fetching crucial breakthroughs, there’s a no-brainer that Yuzvendra Chahal is now one of the premier leg-spinners of the IPL. Since 2014, he has been associated with the RCB team and has gone on to be the elusive bowler who was retained by using the RTM card. In his eventful IPL career for RCB, Chahal has scalped a total of 121 wickets from his 98 matches.
Regardless of his recent form wherein he has been constantly in and out of the Indian team because of his inferior run with the ball, Chahal will yet again be the prominent name to generate match winnings spells and scalp some game-changing wickets. Often in the past, he has been the best striking bowler for RCB by bowling with a strike rate of 17.60.
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