2017 Royal Challengers Bangalore season

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.

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2017 season
Coach	Daniel Vettori
Captain	Virat Kohli
Ground(s)	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
League stage	8th
Most runs	Virat Kohli (308)[1]
Most wickets	Pawan Negi (16)[2]
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Season standings

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR
1	Mumbai Indians (C)	14	10	4	0	20	0.784	Advanced to Qualifier 1
2	Rising Pune Supergiant (R)	14	9	5	0	18	0.176
3	Sunrisers Hyderabad (4)	14	8	5	1	17	0.599	Advanced to the Eliminator
4	Kolkata Knight Riders (3)	14	8	6	0	16	0.641
5	Kings XI Punjab	14	7	7	0	14	−0.009
6	Delhi Daredevils	14	6	8	0	12	−0.512
7	Gujarat Lions	14	4	10	0	8	−0.412
8	Royal Challengers Bangalore	14	3	10	1	7	−1.299

Source: ESPNcricinfo^[3]

The four top ranked teams qualified for the playoffs

Auction

The player auction for the 2017 Indian Premier League was held on 20 February in Bangalore.^[4] Five players were signed by the franchise.^[5]

• Pawan Negi
• Tymal Mills
• Aniket Choudhary
• Praveen Dubey
• Billy Stanlake

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	India	(1992-04-18)18 April 1992 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	₹1 crore (US$150,000)	Occasional wicket-keeper
18	Virat Kohli	India	(1988-11-05)5 November 1988 (aged 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014 (since 2008)	₹12.5 crore (US$1.92 million)	Captain
23	Mandeep Singh	India	(1991-12-18)18 December 1991 (aged 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2015	₹80 lakh (US$120,000)
34	Travis Head	Australia	(1993-12-29)29 December 1993 (aged 23)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	₹50 lakh (US$77,000)	Overseas
36	Sachin Baby	India	(1988-12-18)18 December 1988 (aged 28)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)
81	Kedar Jadhav	India	(1985-03-26)26 March 1985 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2016	₹2.17 crore (US$330,000)	Occasional wicket-keeper
97	Sarfaraz Khan	India	(1997-10-27)27 October 1997 (aged 19)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2015	₹50 lakh (US$77,000)
333	Chris Gayle	Jamaica	(1979-09-21)21 September 1979 (aged 37)	Left-handed	Right-arm off break	2014 (since 2011)	₹8.4 crore (US$1.29 million)	Overseas
	Harpreet Singh Bhatia	India	(1991-08-11)11 August 1991 (aged 25)	Left-handed	Right-arm medium	2017	Replacement signing
All-rounders
15	Pawan Negi	India	(1993-01-06)6 January 1993 (aged 24)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2017	₹1 crore (US$150,000)
33	Shane Watson	Australia	(1981-06-17)17 June 1981 (aged 35)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2016	₹9.5 crore (US$1.46 million)	Overseas
84	Stuart Binny	India	(1984-06-03)3 June 1984 (aged 32)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2016	₹2 crore (US$310,000)
Wicket-keepers
4	Vishnu Vinod	India	(1993-12-02)2 December 1993 (aged 23)	Right-handed		2017	Replacement signing
17	AB de Villiers	South Africa	(1984-02-17)17 February 1984 (aged 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2014 (since 2011)	₹9.5 crore (US$1.46 million)	Overseas/Vice-captain
Bowlers
3	Yuzvendra Chahal	India	(1990-07-23)23 July 1990 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2014	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)
6	Sreenath Aravind	India	(1984-04-08)8 April 1984 (aged 32)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2014 (since 2011)	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)
9	Aniket Choudhary	India	(1990-01-28)28 January 1990 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2017	₹2 crore (US$310,000)
13	Harshal Patel	India	(1990-11-23)23 November 1990 (aged 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium-fast	2014 (since 2013)	₹40 lakh (US$61,000)
19	Avesh Khan	India	(1996-12-13)13 December 1996 (aged 20)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2016	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)
20	Adam Milne	New Zealand	(1992-04-13)13 April 1992 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2015	₹70 lakh (US$110,000)	Overseas
21	Iqbal Abdulla	India	(1989-12-02)2 December 1989 (aged 27)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2016	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)
37	Billy Stanlake	Australia	(1992-04-13)13 April 1992 (aged 24)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast	2017	₹30 lakh (US$46,000)	Overseas
56	Tymal Mills	England	(1992-08-12)12 August 1992 (aged 24)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast	2017	₹12 crore (US$1.84 million)	Overseas
77	Samuel Badree	Trinidad and Tobago	(1981-03-09)9 March 1981 (aged 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2016	₹50 lakh (US$77,000)	Overseas
90	Tabraiz Shamsi	South Africa	(1990-02-18)18 February 1990 (aged 27)	Right-handed	Slow left-arm wrist-spin	2016	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)	Overseas
	Praveen Dubey	India	(1993-07-01)1 July 1993 (aged 23)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break googly	2017	₹10 lakh (US$15,000)

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).

Trivia

23 April was the highest total runs (263/5) in IPL by RCB (2013).^[6] Also at the same date they scored the lowest runs (49/10) in IPL.^[7]

Season

5 April	(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 207/4 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 172 (19.4 overs)	Sunrisers Hyderabad won by 35 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Anil Dandekar (India) and Nigel Llong (England) Player of the match: Yuvraj Singh (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
	Yuvraj Singh 62 (27) Stuart Binny 1/10 (1 over)		Chris Gayle 32 (21) Bhuvneshwar Kumar 2/27 (4 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

8 April	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 157/8 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Daredevils 142/9 (20 overs)	Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 15 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Sundaram Ravi (India) and Virender Kumar Sharma (India) Player of the match: Kedar Jadhav (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
	Kedar Jadhav 69(37) Chris Morris 3/21 (4 overs)		Rishabh Pant 57(36) Pawan Negi 2/3 (1 over)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

10 April	(H) Kings XI Punjab 150/2 (14.3 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 148/4 (20 overs)	Kings XI Punjab won by 8 wickets
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Holkar Stadium, Indore Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (India) and C Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Axar Patel(Kings XI Punjab)
	Hashim Amla 58*(38) Tymal Mills 1/22 (2 overs)		AB de Villiers 89*(46) Varun Aaron 2/21 (4 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

14 April	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 142/5 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai Indians 145/6 (18.5 overs)	Mumbai Indians won by 4 wickets.
16:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (India) and KN Ananthapadmanabhan (India) Player of the match: Kieron Pollard (Mumbai Indians)
	Virat Kohli 62(47) Mitchell McClenaghan 2/20 (4 overs)		Kieron Pollard 70(47) Samuel Badree 4/9 (4 overs)
Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field Samuel Badree (Royal Challengers Bangalore) took a hat-trick.[8]

16 April	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 134/9 (20 overs)	v	Rising Pune Supergiant 161/8 (20 overs)	Rising Pune Supergiant won by 27 runs.
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: KN Ananthapadmanabhan (India) and C Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Ben Stokes (Rising Pune Supergiant)
	AB De Villiers 29(30) Ben Stokes 3/18 (4 overs)		Rahul Tripathi 31(23) Adam Milne 2/27 (4 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field

18 April	Royal Challengers Bangalore 213/2 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Lions (H) 192/7 (20 overs)	Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 21 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Rajkot Umpires: Sundaram Ravi (India) and Virender Sharma (India) Player of the match: Chris Gayle (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
	Chris Gayle 77 (38) Basil Thampi 1/31 (4 overs)		Brendon McCullum 72 (44) Yuzvendra Chahal 3/31 (4 overs)
Gujarat Lions won the toss and elected to field. Chris Gayle (Royal Challengers Bangalore) became the first player to score 10,000 runs in T20s.[9]

23 April	(H) Kolkata Knight Riders 131 (19.3 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 49 (9.4 overs)	Kolkata Knight Riders win by 82 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Chris Gaffaney, O Nandan, Nitin Menon, K Srinivasan Player of the match: Nathan Coulter-Nile (Kolkata Knight Riders)
	Sunil Narine 34(17) Yuzvendra Chahal 3/16(4 overs)		Kedar Jadhav 9(7) Chris Woakes 3/6(2 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field Royal Challengers Bangalore's total score is the lowest in the history of IPL.

25 April	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore	v	Sunrisers Hyderabad	Match abandoned without a ball bowled
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Marais Erasmus (South Africa) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (India)
No toss. No play was possible due to rain.

27 April	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 134 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Lions 135/3 (13.5 overs)	Gujarat Lions won by 7 wickets
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (India) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Andrew Tye (Gujarat Lions)
	Pawan Negi 32 (19) Andrew Tye 3/12 (4 overs)		Aaron Finch 72 (34) Samuel Badree 2/29 (3 overs)
Gujarat Lions won the toss and elected to field. Ankit Soni (Gujarat Lions) made his T20 debut.

29 April	(H) Rising Pune Supergiant 157/3 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 96/9 (20 overs)	Rising Pune Supergiant won by 61 runs
16:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (India) and Marais Erasmus (South Africa) Player of the match: Lockie Ferguson (Rising Pune Supergiant)
	Steve Smith 45 (32) Stuart Binny 1/17 (2 overs)		Virat Kohli 55 (48) Imran Tahir 3/18 (4 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

1 May	Royal Challengers Bangalore 162/8 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai Indians (H) 165/5 (19.5 overs)	Mumbai Indians won by 5 wickets
16:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (India) and Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand) Player of the match: Rohit Sharma (Mumbai Indians)
	AB de Villiers 43 (27) Mitchell McClenaghan 3/34 (4 overs)		Rohit Sharma 56 (37) Pawan Negi 2/17 (4 overs)
Royal Challenges Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

5 May	Kings XI Punjab 138/7 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H) 119 (19 overs)	Kings XI Punjab won by 19 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Chris Gaffaney (New Zealand) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Sandeep Sharma (Kings XI Punjab)
	Axar Patel 38* (17) Aniket Choudhary 2/17 (4 overs)		Mandeep Singh 46 (40) Axar Patel 3/11 (3 overs)
Royal Challenges Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

7 May	(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 158/6 (20 overs)	v	Kolkata Knight Riders 159/4 (15.1 overs)	Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wickets
16:00 (D/N) Scorecard				M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Anil Dandekar (India) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders)
	Travis Head 75* (47) Umesh Yadav 3/36 (4 overs)		Sunil Narine 54 (17) Pawan Negi 2/21 (3.1 overs)
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field. yes

14 May	Royal Challengers Bangalore 161/6 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Daredevils (H) 151 (20 overs)	Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 10 runs
20:00 (D/N) Scorecard				Feroz Shah Kotla, Delhi Umpires: C. K. Nandan (India) and Chettithody Shamshuddin (India) Player of the match: Harshal Patel (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
	Virat Kohli 58 (45) Pat Cummins 2/21 (4 overs)		Rishabh Pant 45 (34) Pawan Negi 3/10 (2 overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat. Avesh Khan (Royal Challengers Bangalore) made his T20 debut.