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Will Jacks And? 3 MI-RCB Swaps That Became Win-Win Factor For Both Teams In IPL 2025

Probuddha Bhattacharjee

Will Jacks For RCB and MI [Source: @Vkohlic18, AP Photos]Will Jacks For RCB and MI [Source: @Vkohlic18, AP Photos]

The IPL is a private league which results in changing team dynamics every season. The player who fails to deliver for one team one season moves to another team and succeeds there. This gains even more traction of discussion when the swaps happen between rivals like MI, RCB, CSK or KKR.

Being a mega auction season, IPL 2025 have seen plenty of such swaps. In the article we will take a look at the MI-RCB player swaps that have been successful this season - 

3. Romario Shepherd

Romario Shepherd [Source: @APTalksCricket, AP Photos]Romario Shepherd [Source: @APTalksCricket, AP Photos]

The West Indian all-rounder, Romario Shepherd was a part of the Mumbai Indians in the IPL 2024. For the five time IPL champions, Shepherd six matches and managed to score only 57 runs in them at a strike rate of 271.43. Although he has decent, MI decided to release him before IPL 2025 mega auction.

During the auction, RCB picked up Shepherd for ₹ 1.5 Cr. At the beginning of the tournament, RCB did not include him in the side. However, at last they decided to keep him in the playing combination and it paid great dividends for them. In the CSK match, Shepherd scored 53 runs at a rapid rate and took the game out of CSK's reach.

2. Tim David

Tim David for MI and RCB [Source: @Hitman45Cults/x.com]Tim David for MI and RCB [Source: @Hitman45Cults/x.com]

The Australian big hitter was a part of the Mumbai Indians till IPL 2024. Tim David played some brilliant knocks for the Mumbai Indians during his stay, yet they decided to release him ahead of the IPL 2025 auction. RCB paid ₹ 3 Cr for David during the auction.

So far, one can say that Tim David had hsi best time in IPL this season. In 11 matches, David has scored 186 runs at a strike rate of 193.75 while averaging 93. Besides the numbers, a look at the crucial knocks that he played in the lower middle-order makes us believe that this has been a perfectly well thought buy by the RCB management.

1. Will Jacks

Will Jacks For RCB and MI [Source: @Vkohlic18, AP Photos]Will Jacks For RCB and MI [Source: @Vkohlic18, AP Photos]

Will Jacks played a crucial role for the Royal Challengers in the IPL 2024 campaign. He played a major role for them in the dramatic turn around that they scripted during the season. It surprised everybody when RCB decided to release him ahead of IPL 2025 mega auction.

During the mega auction, Will Jacks was picked up for ₹ 5.25 Cr by Mumbai Indians. Even though they had the chance, RCB did not use the RTM for Will Jacks. While Jacks has not scored massively for the Mumbai Indians he has played some very useful knocks. Even against GT, Jacks scored a half-century at a difficult time when the Mumbai Indians were two down very early.