2017 Royal Challengers Bangalore season

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Royal Challengers Bangalore is a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, India, which plays in the Indian Premier League. They are one of the eight teams which are taking part in the 2017 Indian Premier League. They are captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Daniel Vettori. This was one of the most difficult seasons for RCB, as when it started their key players were injured and missed initial matches. Shane Watson took the responsibility of captaining RCB.

Season standings

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Auction

The player auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League was held on 20 February in Bangalore.^[1] Five players were signed by the franchise.^[2]

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Salary	Notes
Batsmen
11	KL Rahul	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	Template:INRConvert	Occasional wicket-keeper
18	Virat Kohli	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014 (since 2008)	Template:INRConvert	Captain
23	Mandeep Singh	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2015	Template:INRConvert
34	Travis Head	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
36	Sachin Baby	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	Template:INRConvert
81	Kedar Jadhav	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	Template:INRConvert	Occasional wicket-keeper
97	Sarfaraz Khan	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2015	Template:INRConvert
333	Chris Gayle	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2014 (since 2011)	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
	Harpreet Singh Bhatia	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2017	Replacement signing
All-rounders
15	Pawan Negi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2017	Template:INRConvert
33	Shane Watson	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2016	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
84	Stuart Binny	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2016	Template:INRConvert
Wicket-keepers
4	Vishnu Vinod	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed		2017	Replacement signing
17	AB de Villiers	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014 (since 2011)	Template:INRConvert	Overseas/Vice-captain
Bowlers
3	Yuzvendra Chahal	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2014	Template:INRConvert
6	Sreenath Aravind	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2014 (since 2011)	Template:INRConvert
9	Aniket Choudhary	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2017	Template:INRConvert
13	Harshal Patel	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014 (since 2013)	Template:INRConvert
19	Avesh Khan	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2016	Template:INRConvert
20	Adam Milne	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2015	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
21	Iqbal Abdulla	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2016	Template:INRConvert
37	Billy Stanlake	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm fast	2017	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
56	Tymal Mills	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2017	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
77	Samuel Badree	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2016	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
90	Tabraiz Shamsi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	2016	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
	Praveen Dubey	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2017	Template:INRConvert

Personnel

The team is owned by Diageo through United Spirits Limited. Amrit Thomas, acts as the director of team. Retired Indian cricketer Brijesh Patel, serves as the CEO for the team. Russell Adams is the vice president for commercial operations. Avinash Vaidya is the team manager. Daniel Vettori heads the coaching team which consists of Allan Donald (bowling coach), Trent Woodhill (batting and fielding coach), Even Speechly (physio) and Shankar Basu (strength and condition coach).