IPL 2025 Champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Team Players List Analyzed
Virat Kohli, the MVP, as we revisit the performance of the IPL 2025 champion, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) team players list.
It’s been only a few weeks since the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team was crowned as the champions of IPL 2025 for the first time in the Indian Premier League. This was a proud moment, not just for the team members, but also for the fans who had been passionately supporting the franchise for 18 years nonstop. It was a dream made possible by a group of 14-15 core lads, led by their proud Captain Rajat Patidar.
It is not that RCB never had the opportunity at the title before. They came close in 2009, 2011, and 2016, but couldn’t cross the ladder with either bowling or batting, letting them down. But 2025 has seen a complete team effort from almost everyone, as in 16 matches that the team played, there were 8-10 Individual match winners. This is a big thing for a franchise that has traditionally relied on a handful of match winners, and especially batters.
From the likes of star players like Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Ross Taylor, Kevin Pieterson, Mitchell Starc, Chris Gayle, Ab de Villiers, KL Rahul, etc., RCB are currently building a solid core with the likes of Phil Salt, Rajat Patidar, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Krunal Pandya, Jitesh Sharma, etc., the RCB team has come a long way. So, in this article, we break down the IPL 2025 performance of the champion Royal Challengers Bengaluru team players.
IPL 2025 Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) Team Champion Squad Players List Performance Analysed
Batters
- Devdutt Padikkal
- Mayank Agarwal
- Rajat Patidar
- Swastik Chikara
- Tim David (f)
- Virat Kohli
If we talk about the batters of the RCB team, and how they performed, Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Tim David, and Mayank Agarwal played an active role in RCB’s triumph. Virat Kohli leads the batting with 657 runs to his name from 15 matches at a solid average of 55. Kohli played the role of an aggressor and anchor throughout the tournament. From top-order, Devdutt Padikkal played a good part before getting injured as he scored 247 runs from 10 innings. Mayank filled the void after Padikkal left with 95 runs from 4 innings.
In the middle and lower-order, Rajat Patidar had a decent IPL 2025 with 312 runs to his name from 14 innings at a strike rate of 144. Tim David, as a finisher, did his part on most occasions, and he was able to score 187 runs at a solid strike rate of 185. Overall, the Royal Challengers Bengaluru team saw good contributions from their batters with Virat Kohli once again at the centre stage.
Wicket-keepers
- Jitesh Sharma
- Phil Salt (f)
- Tim Seifert (f)
Among wicket-keepers, Phil Salt and Jitesh Sharma played a key role for the team. Salt and Jitesh were both aggressive batters, and they scored 403 runs and 261 runs respectively. Both had a solid strike rate of 176, which showed they played with intent and aggression throughout the tournament. With both playing in different conditions, it certainly helped the team a lot.
All-rounders
- Jacob Bethell (f)
- Krunal Pandya
- Liam Livingstone (f)
- Manoj Bhandage
- Mohit Rathee
- Romario Shephard (f)
- Swapnil Singh
Coming to all-rounders, Krunal Pandya and Romario Shepherd played an active role in RCB’s triumph. With both playing most of the matches, they were supported by Jacob Bethell and Liam Livingstone, partially. In terms of performance, Krunal Pandya scored 109 runs, and took 17 wickets, thus playing the role of a bowling all-rounder perfectly. Shephard played a few good cameos, and he scored 70 runs at a strike rate of 291, and took 6 wickets. Meanwhile, Liam was a failure this season with just 112 runs from 8 innings. Bethell played only 2 matches, but scored a fifty in that.
Bowlers
- Abhinandan Singh
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar
- Josh Hazlewood (f)
- Lungi Ngidi (f)
- Nuwan Thushara (f)
- Rasikh Dar
- Suyash Sharma
- Yash Dayal
Coming to the bowlers, RCB saw a consistent bowling lineup with hardly any chop and changes in that. Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and Yash Dayal led the pace department, and Suyash Sharma led the spin department. In Josh’s absence, Lungi Ngidi and Nuwan Thushara also played some part. In terms of performance, Josh led the bowling with 22 wickets to his name from 12 innings at a good strike rate of 12. Bhuvi was equally good with 17 wickets to his name. Yash Dayal and Suyash Sharma had a decent outing, but were never dropped. Both managed to take 13 and 8 wickets respectively. Lungi Ngidi played two matches, and took 4 wickets. Whereas Nuwan played 1 match, and he took 1 wicket.
So, that’s about the performance of Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) players for IPL 2025. Overall, this has been a complete team effort, and all players played their part. The team will now have to build on this, and focus on a few gaps that still exist. It will be interesting to see how RCB go about the player retentions in IPL 2026.
