IPL 2019: All the things you know about RCB before the start of new season

The 12th season of the Indian Premier League will start from 23rd March, Saturday. The season opener will be played between Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Chennai.

Royal Challengers Bangalore performance in IPL:

Royal Challengers Bangalore has played a total of 166 matches in IPL so far and out of 166 matches they have managed to win 76 games. While Many times the performance of RCB has been shocking and worse than the average.

Even after the presence of big stars like Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Dale Steyn, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli and AB De Villiers. But, the overall team's performance remained below par in the majority of the seasons.

History of Royal Challengers Bangalore from 2008 to 2018:

In the inaugural season of IPL in 2008, the RCB team finished the tournament at number seven. But after that, they reached the finals and came runner up in 2009 and reached the playoffs in 2010 and again became runner up in 2011.

In 2012 and 2013 they finished at fifth spot and in 2014 ended at seventh place and eliminated in playoffs in 2015. RCB had the best season in 2016 and almost won the title but lost the match in finals. And in 2017 and 2018, the team was left behind at eight and sixth place respectively.

Indeed, the Bangalore team reached the final three times in 2009, 2011 and 2016, but could not win the title.

Owners and Coaching Staff:

• Owner: Royal Challengers Sports Private Ltd
• Head Coach: Gary Kirsten
• Bowling Coach: Ashish Nehra
• Venue: M. Chinnaswamy Stadium

Strengths of Royal Challengers Bangalore:

The Royal Challengers Bangalore team is unimaginable filled with star players and balancing the team has made them unpredictable, but this season the team looks more balance which is the strength of the team.

After from batting, they have talented bowlers like Yuzvendra Chahal, Washington Sunder, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Mohammad Siraj and Nathan Coulter Nile. Along with this, the team also included 5 all-rounders, Colin de Grandhomme, Pawan Negi, Moeen Ali, Washington Sundar and Stoinis

Royal Challengers Bangalore squad for IPL 2019:

Virat Kohli (c), AB de Villiers, Moeen Ali, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Colin de Grandhomme, Pawan Negi, Umesh Yadav, Shimron Hetmyer, Marcus Stoinis, Tim Southee, Parthiv Patel (wk), Washington Sunder, Navdeep Saini, Prayas Barman, Kulwant Khejroliya, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Akshdeep Nath, Himmat Singh, Shivam Dube, Gurkeerat Mann Singh, Devdutt Padikkal, Milind Kumar, Heinrich Klaasen.

We wish good luck for the fans favourite - Royal Challengers Bangalore and come victorious in this season. send your wishes to RCB in the comments section below. PLAY BOLD

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