2018 Royal Challengers Bangalore season

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The 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.^[1]

On 26 March 2018, the franchise onboarded HP Inc India as the principal sponsor of the team.^[2] Earlier that month, the franchise had partnered up with Nuvoco Vistas for the solus position on the back of the team jersey.^[3]

On 29 March 2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore's home match against Delhi Daredevils on 12 May was moved to Delhi due to the Karnataka Legislative Assembly election on the same day. The away game against the same team on 21 April was moved to Bangalore.^[4]

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Salary	Notes
Batsmen
9	Mandeep Singh	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert
17	AB de Villiers	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas/Vice Captain
18	Virat Kohli	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Captain
36	Manan Vohra	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert
42	Brendon McCullum	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
97	Sarfaraz Khan	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
All-rounders
6	Pawan Negi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2018	Template:INRConvert
8	Moeen Ali	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
10	Chris Woakes	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
77	Colin de Grandhomme	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
78	Corey Anderson	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
555	Washington Sundar	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
Template:NA	Pavan Deshpande	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
Template:NA	Aniruddha Joshi	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2018	Template:INRConvert
Wicket-keepers
69	Quinton de Kock	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed		2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
72	Parthiv Patel	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed		2018	Template:INRConvert
Bowlers
3	Yuzvendra Chahal	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2018	Template:INRConvert
4	Kulwant Khejroliya	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
19	Umesh Yadav	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert
21	Mohammed Siraj	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert
38	Tim Southee	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
89	Murugan Ashwin	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2018	Template:INRConvert
Template:NA	Nathan Coulter-Nile	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2018	Template:INRConvert	Overseas
Template:NA	Navdeep Saini	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert
Template:NA	Aniket Choudhary	Template:Cr	Template:Birth date and age2	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2018	Template:INRConvert

Personnel

Owner – United Spirits
Head coach – Daniel Vettori
Bowling mentor – Ashish Nehra^[5]
Batting coach - Gary Kirsten^[6]
Fielding Coach - Trent Woodhill
Bowling Talent Development and Analytics - Andrew McDonald

Season

League table

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Results

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Statistics

Most runs

Name	Mat	Runs	HS	Ave	SR
Virat Kohli	14	530	92*	48.18	139.10
AB de Villiers	12	480	90*	53.33	174.54
Mandeep Singh	14	252	47*	25.20	135.48
Quinton de Kock	8	201	53	25.12	124.07
Parthiv Patel	6	153	53	30.60	140.36

Source: ESPNcricinfo

Most wickets

Name	Mat	Wkts	BBI	Ave	Eco
Umesh Yadav	14	20	3/23	20.90	7.86
Yuzvendra Chahal	14	12	2/22	30.25	7.26
Mohammed Siraj	11	11	3/25	33.36	8.95
Chris Woakes	5	8	3/36	23.75	10.36
Tim Southee	8	5	3/30	52.20	9.00

Source: ESPNcricinfo

References

↑ Nehra and Kirsten join RCB coaching staff. ESPNcricinfo.
↑ IPL: HP joins hands with Royal Challengers Bangalore as principal sponsor. Zee News.
↑ Nuvoco Vistas looking to increase media spends by about 25% next fiscal. Livemint.
↑ IPL 2018: Royal Challengers Bangalore's home game against Delhi Daredevils rescheduled due to Karnataka Assembly polls. Firstpost.
↑ RCB appointed Kirsten as their batting coach. The Hindu. Retrieved 2018-01-12.
↑ RCB appointed Nehra as their bowling coach. The Hindu. Retrieved 2018-01-12.

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[:1-1] Nehra and Kirsten join RCB coaching staff. ESPNcricinfo.

[2] IPL: HP joins hands with Royal Challengers Bangalore as principal sponsor. Zee News.

[3] Nuvoco Vistas looking to increase media spends by about 25% next fiscal. Livemint.

[4] IPL 2018: Royal Challengers Bangalore's home game against Delhi Daredevils rescheduled due to Karnataka Assembly polls. Firstpost.

[5] RCB appointed Kirsten as their batting coach. The Hindu. Retrieved 2018-01-12.

[6] RCB appointed Nehra as their bowling coach. The Hindu. Retrieved 2018-01-12.

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