Delhi: Prior to the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025), Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have taken a big decision. The franchise announced the new captain for the next season on Thursday. Surprisingly, RCB ignored veteran Virat Kohli and handed over the command of the team to Rajat Patidar, which created a stir in the cricket world. Now in such a situation, the question arises as to why Kohli was not made captain. Let us know 3 major reasons behind it –
Virat Kohli is the only player in the history of IPL, who has played only for RCB from 2008 to 2024. He has been the team’s biggest match winner in the last 17 years. However, his captaincy records cannot be called bad. He captained RCB in 143 matches, winning 66, ie the percentage of victory was around 46%. But despite this, the team led by Kohli could never win the title and keeping this in mind, the legendary batsman was not chosen as the captain.
Second reason: Virat Kohli himself announced in 2021 that he would not captain RCB in the IPL. After this, he also gave up the captaincy of the Indian team. It is believed that he wanted to pay more attention to his batting, so he did not show interest in becoming captain again. For this reason, Virat did not take interest in becoming captain.
Third reason: RCB now wants to start a new start from 2025 and for the next 3-4 years, the team wanted to hand over the leadership to a new player. Rajat Patidar recently performed brilliantly in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and took his team to Madhya Pradesh to the finals. Based on this performance, the franchise has expressed confidence in them.
Significantly, Royal Challengers Bangalore shared a video on social media, in which Virat Kohli was seen praising the new captain Rajat Patidar. Kohli said, “I and other team members are with you in this journey, the way you have developed and performed in this franchise, it is a commendable compliment. You have made a special place in the hearts of RCB fans and you are fully worthy of this role. “
This decision of RCB has surprised the fans, but now it has to be seen how Rajat Patidar performs as a captain.
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