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IPL 2025: Will Virat Kohli lead RCB? Team official gives big update, doesn’t rule out possibility

IPL 2025: Will Virat Kohli lead RCB? Team official gives big update, doesn’t rule out possibility

IPL 2025: Till now, Virat Kohli has led RCB in 143 matches, winning 66 of those, and losing 70 in all.

So, now we have entered the white-ball phase, as soon after the Champions Trophy, the IPL 2025 will begin on March 21. All the teams are ready with their squads, after the IPL Auction in November last year. But having said that, RCB are still left with a captain in their squad. The team had decided to part ways with last year skipper Faf du Plessis.. and for now, no name has been zeroed on.

Virat Kohli or Not?

Many believe, like an unsaid, unwritten rule, that ex-skipper Virat Kohli will take over the reigns of RCB again, but then there has been no official word for the management. In fact, he had left the captaincy in 2023. During an interview with Sports Tak, RCB COO Rajesh Menon answered if Virat will lead the team in the IPL this year.

He said, “Currently we have not decided anything. We have multiple leaders in the team. 4-5 leaders are there. We have not deliberated what we need to do. We will deliberate, and we will come to a conclusion.” Having said that, Virat Kohli has been franchises most successful captain, where he led the side in 143 matches and won 66 encounters. The team lost 70 matches.

RCB COO Opens Up on IPL 2025

At the auction, the team made a decent buys, including the likes of Phil Salt, Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, Tim David, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jitesh Sharma, Devdutt Padikkal, and Josh Hazlewood. Looking at these players, the COO said, “We were very clear in terms of what kind of gaps we have and what all we need to fulfill and what is the Indian core that we require to build, and if you want to play in M Chinnaswamy (Stadium), what kind of bowling attack we require. And that is what we did.”

“If you see Day 1, it was low-key for us. People thought we were not participating in the auction, but at the end of Day 2, everybody, right from fans to experts, felt saying what we have done is the best because we have covered all the gaps, and I think we have got one of the best teams.”

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