New Delhi:
Royal Challengers Bangalore (
RCB) When the campaign against KKR will start on the 22nd of this month, the team will take the field under the leadership of the new captain Rajat Patidar. The management did not retain Fafa du Plessy, captaincy from 2022 to 2024 due to increasing age. There was a loud discussion that Virat would once again take command, but the management surprised everyone by choosing the silver Patidar as captain. Now everyone’s eyes will be engaged in the mega event and will be engaged in the Patidar and his captaincy how he performs as a captain.
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There is something like this in IPL
Since starting the IPL career in the year 2021, Rajat has 21 matches for RCB. In this, he has scored 779 runs with a strike-card of 158.85. In the year 2022, he scored an unbeaten 112 against Lucknow in the Illiminator match. Before the auction this year, RCB retained him for Rs 11 crore. By the year 2021, his fee was only Rs 20 lakh, but this year he made up for previous years.
Something like this is the record of captaincy
Patidar will captain the IPL for the first time, but he has led Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket. He became the captain of MP during the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy in 2024. Under his captaincy, the team reached the final. This year, Patidar stayed in the tournament with an average of 61.14 and the strike-card of 186.08.
His brilliant performance continued in Vijay Hazare. Rajat scored 226 runs at an average of 56.50 in the Fifty-Fifty overs premiere tournament. Under his captaincy, MP’s team was third in Group E. However, his record clearly says that the captaincy does not affect his performance. Let’s see how he handles the team in the IPL.