DTVHINDIIPL 2025, RCB Playing XI: Kohli-salt opener, Australian finisher and powerful bowling unit
Royal Challengers Bangalore have bought players like Tim David, Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the mega auction. RCB (Photo Source: Getty Images) IPL 2025: RCB Predicted Playing XI: The IPL 2025 mega auction took place on November 24 and 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Royal Challengers Bangalore had entered the auction with a purse of Rs 83 crore. The team has prepared a strong squad by purchasing players like Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Tim David and Jitesh Sharma. Royal Challengers Bangalore is one of the popular franchises of IPL, but the team has not been able to win a single title so far. Last season, the team reached the playoffs by defeating Chennai Super Kings in the last match of the league stage. But then the team was eliminated after losing against Rajasthan Royals in the eliminator. In IPL 2025, the new team of Royal Challengers Bangalore will be seen giving their best to win the first title. What could be the possible playing 11 of RCB in the upcoming season, let us tell you- IPL 2025, RCB Playing XI: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s playing 11 could be like this opener- Virat Kohli and Phil Salt can be seen opening for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2025. English wicketkeeper Phil Salt has been bought by the franchise in the mega auction for Rs 11.50 crore. Last season, Salt played brilliantly for Kolkata Knight Riders. Phil Salt scored 435 runs in 12 matches at an average of 39.55 and strike rate of 182.01, his highest score was 89* runs. Along with opening, Salt can also play the role of wicketkeeper. Talking about Virat’s performance, he won the Orange Cap by scoring 741 runs in 15 matches at an average of 61.75 and strike rate of 154.70. Middle order- For RCB, Devdutt Padikkal can be seen batting at number-3, Rajat Patidar at number-4 and Liam Livingstone at number-5. Patidar was retained by the franchise. At the same time, Devdutt was bought for base price Rs 2 crore and Livingstone was bought for Rs 8.75 crore. Rajat Patidar scored 395 runs in 15 matches last season at an average of 30.38 and strike rate of 177.13. Devdutt scored 38 runs in 7 matches at a poor average of 5.43. And Liam Livingstone took 111 runs and 3 wickets in 7 matches at an average of 22.20. Finisher- Jitesh Sharma and Tim David can be seen playing the role of finishers for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the upcoming season. Jitesh Sharma scored 187 runs in 14 matches for Punjab Kings in the last IPL season at an average of 17 and a strike rate of 131.69. At the same time, Tim David scored 241 runs for Mumbai Indians in 13 matches at an average of 30.13. Bowling Unit- Royal Challengers Bangalore have an excellent fast bowling unit in the form of Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood and Yash Dayal. Hazlewood did not play last season due to personal reasons. At the same time, Bhuvi took 11 wickets in 16 matches at an…
Hardik Pandya made a big disclosure about his finisher role before the match against Australia
Star Sports shared the video of Hardik Pandya’s interview on social media. Hardik Pandya (Image Credit- Twitter X) An important match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 is to be played between India and Australia in St. Lucia today i.e. on 24th June. Both the teams have left their mark in this important tournament so far and would definitely like to win the upcoming match as well. However, before this match, a video of Indian team’s experienced all-rounder Hardik Pandya is going viral on social media in which he has reacted to his batting in the death overs. This video of Hardik Pandya is from Asia Cup 2022. Star Sports shared the video of Hardik Pandya’s interview on social media. In this video, Hardik Pandya said, ‘Finishing means that if you go to a good and expensive restaurant and if they have made very good food but have not finished it well, then you will not like it. Something similar happens on the cricket field as well. It is not important how you started or how you batted in the middle overs, the most important thing is how you finish the match as a batsman.’ Why is a strong finish crucial while batting in the death overs? Hardik Pandya explains! Will he repeat his heroics from the last game for #TeamIndia as they take on Australia, who face elimination with a loss? don’t miss the # 𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐲 #AUSvIND , pic.twitter.com/XSFzGJQXMG — Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia) June 24, 2024 Who will be ahead in the race for the semi-finals? Let us tell you, the semi-final teams from Group 2 have been confirmed so far. South Africa and England have confirmed their place in the semi-finals. South Africa achieved this great feat by defeating West Indies while England confirmed its place in the semi-finals by defeating America. If we talk about the Indian team, they have almost achieved this great feat but it is very important for them to win the match against Australia. Talking about Australia, the team had to face defeat against Afghanistan. It is very important for them to win the match against India. Apart from these two teams, Afghanistan is also still in the race for the semi-finals. Talking about Afghanistan, they have to play their last match against Bangladesh. Hardik Pandya has left his mark in this tournament so far with both batting and bowling and he would like to perform brilliantly in the match against Australia as well. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as…
Gujarat Titans got their new finisher, head coach Ashish Nehra chose this player for the role
Gujarat Titans bought this Tamil Nadu batsman for Rs 7.40 crore Shahrukh Khan Now a few days are left for the start of IPL 2024. But before this, Gujarat Titans have cleared their stand regarding the role of finisher. Franchise head coach Ashish Nehra said that Tamil Nadu’s explosive batsman Shahrukh Khan will play the role of finisher for GT in the upcoming edition of IPL. Let us tell you that Shahrukh Khan He was added by Punjab Kings for the first time in 2021 for Rs 5.25 crore. After this, before IPL 2022, in the mega auction, Punjab bought him for a huge amount of Rs 9 crore. However, he could not do justice to his ability. The franchise released Shahrukh before the 2024 mini auction. And then Gujarat Titans bought this Tamil Nadu batsman for Rs 7.40 crore. Shahrukh Khan will be the ‘main actor’ this season Now before the start of the tournament, Nehra, when asked a question about the finishers in the team, said, ‘We are going to see Shahrukh Khan becoming the ‘main actor’. Ashish Nehra Having said that, IPL is a long tournament. It is not that we are playing only four, five matches. Conditions are also difficult in May-June. This will be difficult for the players especially the fast bowlers. Injury may also occur. So the number of players we have is important. He continued by saying that we have experienced players. Spencer Johnson, if you look, has performed well wherever he plays. Azmatullah Umarzai, as an all-rounder, he has all the skills. We hope he has a great IPL. In the upcoming season of IPL, Gujarat Titans will play under the captaincy of Shubman Gill. Whereas after Hardik Pandya going to Mumbai Indians, Shahrukh will now be seen playing the role of finisher. Shahrukh has scored 426 runs in 31 innings in the tournament so far. During this period, his average was 20.29 and strike rate was 134.81.
