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{{Short description|Indian Premier League cricket team season}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox cricket club season
| club = Royal Challengers Bangalore
| season = [[2018 Indian Premier League|2018]]
| image =
| coach = [[Daniel Vettori]]
| captain = [[Virat Kohli]]
| ground = [[M.Chinnaswamy Stadium]], [[Bangalore]]
| comp1 = [[2018 Indian Premier League|League stage]]
| comp1 result = 6th
| most runs = [[Virat Kohli]] (530)
| most wickets = [[Umesh Yadav]] (20)
| most catches =
| most dismissals =
| prevseason = [[2017 Royal Challengers Bangalore season|2017]]
| nextseason = [[2019 Royal Challengers Bangalore season|2019]]
}}

The [[2018 Indian Premier League|2018 season]] was the 11th season for [[Royal Challengers Bangalore]]. The side was captained by [[Virat Kohli]] and coached by [[Daniel Vettori]].

==Pre-season==
In January 2018, the franchise appointed [[Gary Kirsten]] as batting coach and [[Ashish Nehra]] as the bowling mentor.<ref name=":1">{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/21938581/nehra-kirsten-join-royal-challengers-bangalore-coaching-staff|title=Nehra and Kirsten join RCB coaching staff|work=ESPNcricinfo|accessdate=3 January 2018}}</ref>

On 26 March 2018, the franchise onboarded [[HP Inc]] India as the principal sponsor of the team.<ref>{{cite news|title=IPL: HP joins hands with Royal Challengers Bangalore as principal sponsor|url=http://zeenews.india.com/cricket/ipl-hp-joins-hands-with-royal-challengers-bangalore-as-principal-sponsor-2093871.html|accessdate=16 April 2018|work=Zee News}}</ref> Earlier that month, the franchise had partnered up with Nuvoco Vistas for the solus position on the back of the team jersey.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nuvoco Vistas looking to increase media spends by about 25% next fiscal|url=https://www.livemint.com/Consumer/IuXKn57rTVzGF74o66Z9BM/Nuvoco-Vistas-looking-to-increase-media-spends-by-about-25.html|accessdate=16 April 2018|work=Livemint}}</ref>

On 29 March 2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore's home match against [[Delhi Daredevils]] on 12 May was moved to [[Delhi]] due to the [[2018 Karnataka Legislative Assembly election|Karnataka Legislative Assembly election]] on the same day. The away game against the same team on 21 April was moved to [[Bangalore]].<ref>{{cite news|title=IPL 2018: Royal Challengers Bangalore's home game against Delhi Daredevils rescheduled due to Karnataka Assembly polls|url=https://www.firstpost.com/firstcricket/sports-news/ipl-2018-royal-challengers-bangalores-home-game-against-delhi-daredevils-rescheduled-due-to-karnataka-assembly-polls-4411077.html|accessdate=16 April 2018|work=Firstpost}}</ref>

==Squad==
* Players with international caps are listed in '''bold'''.

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:85%;"
|-
! No.
! Name
! Nationality
! Birth date
! Batting style
! Bowling style
! Year signed
! Salary
! Notes
|-
! colspan="9" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Batsmen
|-
|9|| '''[[Mandeep Singh]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1991|12|18|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1.4|c|-3}} ||
|-
|17|| '''[[AB de Villiers]]''' || {{cr|SA}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1984|2|17|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|11|c|1}} || Overseas/Vice Captain
|-
|18|| '''[[Virat Kohli]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1988|11|5|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|17|c|1}} || [[Captain (cricket)|Captain]]
|-
|36|| [[Manan Vohra]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1993|7|18|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1.1|c|-3}} ||
|-
|42|| '''[[Brendon McCullum]]''' || {{cr|NZ}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1981|9|27|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|3.6|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|97|| [[Sarfaraz Khan (cricketer)|Sarfaraz Khan]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1997|10|27|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[off break]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1.75|c|-3}} ||
|-
! colspan="9" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| All-rounders
|-
|6|| '''[[Pawan Negi]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1993|1|6|df=y}} || Left-handed || [[Slow left-arm orthodox]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1|c|-3}} ||
|-
|8|| '''[[Moeen Ali]]''' || {{cr|ENG}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1987|6|18|df=y}} || Left-handed || Right-arm [[off break]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1.7|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|10|| '''[[Chris Woakes]]''' || {{cr|ENG}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1989|3|2|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|7.4|c|1}} || Overseas
|-
|77|| '''[[Colin de Grandhomme]]''' || {{cr|NZ}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1986|7|22|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium-fast]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|2.2|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|78|| '''[[Corey Anderson (cricketer)|Corey Anderson]]''' || {{cr|NZ}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1990|12|13|df=y}} || Left-handed || Left-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|2|c}} || Overseas
|-
|555|| '''[[Washington Sundar]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1999|10|5|df=y}} || Left-handed || Right-arm [[off break]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|3.2|c|-3}} ||
|-
|{{NA}}|| [[Pavan Deshpande]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1989|9|16|df=y}} || Left-handed || Right-arm [[off break]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|20|l|-3}} ||
|-
|{{NA}}|| [[Aniruddha Joshi]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1987|11|7|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[off break]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|20|l|-3}} ||
|-
! colspan="9" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Wicket-keepers
|-
|69|| '''[[Quinton de Kock]]''' || {{cr|SA}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1992|12|17|df=y}} || Left-handed || || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|2.8|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|72|| '''[[Parthiv Patel]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1985|3|9|df=y}} || Left-handed || || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1.7|c|-3}} ||
|-
! colspan="9" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"|Bowlers
|-
|3|| '''[[Yuzvendra Chahal]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1990|7|23|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[leg break]] [[googly]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|6|c|-3}} ||
|-
|4|| [[Kulwant Khejroliya]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1992|3|13|df=y}} || Left-handed || Left-arm [[Fast bowling|medium-fast]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|85|l|-3}} ||
|-
|19|| '''[[Umesh Yadav]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1987|10|25|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|4.2|c|-3}} ||
|-
|21|| '''[[Mohammed Siraj]]''' || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1994|3|13|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|2.6|c|-3}} ||
|-
|38|| '''[[Tim Southee]]''' || {{cr|NZ}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1988|12|11|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast-medium]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|1|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|89|| [[Murugan Ashwin]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1990|9|8|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[leg break]] googly || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"|{{INRConvert|2.2|c|-3}} ||
|-
|{{NA}}|| '''[[Nathan Coulter-Nile]]''' || {{cr|AUS}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1987|10|11|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|fast]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|2.2|c|-3}} || Overseas
|-
|{{NA}}|| [[Navdeep Saini]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1993|11|23|df=y}} || Right-handed || Right-arm [[Fast bowling|medium-fast]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|3|c|-3}} ||
|-
|{{NA}}|| [[Aniket Choudhary]] || {{cr|IND}} || {{birth date and age2|2018|04|07|1990|1|28|df=y}} || Right-handed || Left-arm [[Fast bowling|medium-fast]] || style="text-align:center;"| 2018 || style="text-align:right;"| {{INRConvert|30|l|-3}} ||
|-
|}

==Personnel==
* Owner – [[United Spirits]]
* Head coach – [[Daniel Vettori]]
* Bowling mentor – [[Ashish Nehra]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/kirsten-nehra-join-rcb/article22353650.ece|title=RCB appointed Kirsten as their batting coach|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en}}</ref>
* Batting coach - [[Gary Kirsten]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/kirsten-nehra-join-rcb/article22353650.ece|title=RCB appointed Nehra as their bowling coach|work=The Hindu|access-date=2018-01-12|language=en}}</ref>
* Fielding Coach - Trent Woodhill
* Bowling Talent Development and Analytics - Andrew McDonald

==Season==

===League table===
{{2018 Indian Premier League Points table}}

===Results===

{{hatnote|All times are in [[Indian Standard Time]] ([[UTC+05:30]])}}

{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match3}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match8}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match11}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match14}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match19}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match24}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match29}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match31}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match35}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match39}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match45}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match48}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match51}}
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{{#section:2018 Indian Premier League|match53}}

==Statistics==

===Most runs===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name

!Mat
!Runs
!HS
!Ave
!SR
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Virat Kohli]]

|14
|'''530'''
|92[[not out|*]]
|48.18
|139.10
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[AB de Villiers]]

|12
|'''480'''
|90[[not out|*]]
|53.33
|174.54
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Mandeep Singh]]

|14
|'''252'''
|47[[not out|*]]
|25.20
|135.48
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Quinton de Kock]]

|8
|'''201'''
|53
|25.12
|124.07
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Parthiv Patel]]

|6
|'''153'''
|53
|30.60
|140.36
|-
|}
* '''Source:''' [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/batting/most_runs_career.html?id=12210;team=4340;type=tournament ESPNcricinfo]

===Most wickets===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Name
!Mat
!Wkts
!BBI
!Ave
!Eco
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Umesh Yadav]]

|14
|'''20'''
|3/23
|20.90
|7.86
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Yuzvendra Chahal]]

|14
|'''12'''
|2/22
|30.25
|7.26
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Mohammed Siraj]]

|11
|'''11'''
|3/25
|33.36
|8.95
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Chris Woakes]]

|5
|'''8'''
|3/36
|23.75
|10.36
|-
| style="text-align:left" | [[Tim Southee]]

|8
|'''5'''
|3/30
|52.20
|9.00
|-
|}
* '''Source:''' [http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/records/bowling/most_wickets_career.html?id=12210;team=4340;type=tournament ESPNcricinfo]

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Royal Challengers Bangalore}}

[[Category:Royal Challengers Bengaluru seasons]]
[[Category:2010s in Bengaluru]]

2018 Royal Challengers Bangalore season - Revision history

NorineYoungblood at 13:48, 25 June 2025