IPL 2025: Lost And Not Found Death Bowling ...? - 3 Weaknesses Of Virat Kohli's RCB

Virat Kohli For RCB [Source: @mufaddal_vohra/x.com]Virat Kohli For RCB [Source: @mufaddal_vohra/x.com]

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have been one of the most followed teams in the Indian Premier League. However, despite the massive fanbase, they have mostly disappointed their fans as even after 17 years their IPL trophy cabinet remains empty.

In the the IPL 2025 auction, RCB tried to form a solid squad. They have taken care to cover all their bases during the auction. However, there were some place that they could have worked on more. In this article, we try and analyse the weakness of the RCB squad for IPL 2025. 

Before going into the deeper analysis let us look at the RCB squad for IPL 2025 - 

RCB Squad For IPL 2025

Batters: Swastik Chikara, Tim David, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Phil Salt, Jitesh Sharma
All-rounders: Jacob Bethell, Manoj Bhandage, Liam Livingstone, Mohit Rathee, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd, Abhinandan Singh
Bowlers: Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvenshwar Kumar, Rasikh Salam, Suyash Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Nuwan Thushara, Yash Dayal

Weaknesses Of RCB For IPL 2025

3. Lack Of Designated Death Over Specialist

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have formed a great pace bowling unit. The presence of Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar give their bowling attack a solid outlook. However, a deeper analysis reveals that RCB lack a proper death over specialist. As a result they will have to find a combination to include someone like a Romario Shepherd or a Nuwan Thusara in their playing unit. These are bowlers who have experience of bowling in the death phase and hence can do the job for the Bengaluru based franchises in the upcoming edition.

2. Hit And Miss Middle Order

The Royal Challengers Bengaluru have players like Liam Livingstone, Tim David, Jacob Bethell and Krunal Pandya, who can bat in the middle-order for them. While these players have the reputation of being big hitters, they do lack consistency. If these players find their rhythm early and the batting order clicks, then RCB will have great time and would be able to post some high scores. However, there could be days where they crumble under pressure as consistency might be an issue with these players.

1. Non Reliable Spin Department

If we look at the spin bowlers of RCB, they have Suyash Sharma and Swapnil Singh. Besides these two bowlers they Liam Livingstone and Krunal Pandya to fill up for the team. Thus we can see that there is the lack of a world class spinners in the RCB team. Thus it could be that despite putting the opposition under pressure. The loss of a quality spinner in the middle overs might not let them build pressure on the team facing them.