IPL 2025: Rating Teams based on their final squads

9. Royal Challengers Bengaluru - 6/10

With the amount of money they had at the start of the auction, one might have thought that they could make an extremely good squad, which could challenge for the title. They retained Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar and Yash Dayal and wanted to build a squad around that but their decision to not use RTM cards on Will Jacks and Mohammed Siraj was slightly strange. Especially Jacks, who went for only INR 5.25 crore.

Yet, they have signed some quality talents such as Josh Hazlewood, Phil Salt, Tim David, Nuwan Thushara and Liam Livingstone among others. They have also spent INR 11 crore on Jitesh Sharma and INR 10.75 crore on Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Overall, even though the team looks ready to challenge for the title, with the amount of money they had, RCB could have made a much stronger base.

They bought Devdutt Padikkal for INR 2 crore from the unsold category, who will arguably be their backup opener. However, his recent form in the cash-rich league is concerning and for the same reason, no other franchise showed interest in having him. Meanwhile, the bowling unit looks sorted with Bhuvneshwar, Hazlewood, Dayal, Rasikh Dar and Krunal Pandya. Their middle order looks good as well but still, they miss the ‘X-Factor’ and will depend heavily on Salt and Kohli as other batters lack consistency.

Check the full squad below: