IPL 2025: Lista de capitanes de Royal Challengers Bengaluru en la historia de IPL

Desde Rahul Dravid hasta Faf du Plessis, echemos un vistazo a los capitanes del Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) en la historia de la IPL.

Since the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have had several captains. Over their 17-year journey, a total of seven players have led the team. Faf du Plessis is the current RCB captain; however, according to reports, he could be replaced by KL Rahul before the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 mega auction. Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) might release the wicketkeeper-batter. Either KL Rahul will be traded to RCB, or RCB will have to fight in the IPL auction to acquire him.

RCB captains overs the years

Indian icon Rahul Dravid captained the RCB team as they started their IPL campaign. In 14 games, he only managed to record 4 victories. The following year, Kevin Pietersen, a former English captain, assumed leadership. Only two of the six games he captained the team for were victories.

Next, Anil Kumble became leadership of the Bengaluru team. As the team’s captain for 35 games, he led the squad to 19 victories with a win percentage of 54.28, the greatest of any RCB captain. Daniel Vettori led the team for 28 games as well, scoring 15 runs during that time.

Virat Kholi also took the resposibility of captaining the team, he has won 66 matches with a win percentage of 46.15. The current skipper Faf du Plessis has a win percentage of 50 with 21 win and 21 losses.

Serial Number	Player	Span	Matches	Won	Lost	Winning %
1.	Rahul Dravid	2008-08	14	4	10	28.5
2.	Kevin Pietersen	2009-09	6	2	4	33.3
3.	Anil Kumble	2009-10	35	19	16	54.3
4.	Daniel Vettori	2011-12	28	15	13	53.6
5.	Virat Kohli	2011-21	140	64	69	48.2
6.	Shane Watson	2017-17	3	1	2	33.3
7.	Faf du Plessis	2022-2024	16	9	7	56.25

Who will be RCB captain in IPL 2025?

Virat Kohli is most likely to return as captain for RCB in the IPL 2025. The 36-year-old led RCB in 143 IPL matches from 2013 to 2021 before passing the reins to Faf du Plessis. However, RCB’s Director of Cricket, Mo Bobat, chose not to comment on the team’s captaincy plans for IPL 2025.

“Virat is a central figure and a senior member of the team, but we haven’t made any decisions about the captaincy yet. We will decide that later. He did send us some insightful text messages yesterday, offering his feedback,” Bobat said.