IPL 2023: Equivalents of Indian teams in Big Bash League

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) - Melbourne Stars

Both RCB and Melbourne Stars have had a decent run in the league stages, qualifying more often than not, but eventually crashing out in the playoffs. This has almost become the template for both the teams, so much so that they have come to be dubbed as 'chokers'. Both these equivalents have strangely not yet been able to do justice to the amount of talent they possess within their folds.

High on the popularity charts but with nothing to show for it in their trophy cabinet, Royal Challengers Bangalore have been runners-up three times. The team was branded as a Test XI in 2008 when they went big on players with experience, expecting them to adjust quickly to T20s. This clearly didn't work in their favour as RCB managed to cobble together just four wins that year. In the next three seasons, however, they turned things around with two runners-up finishes.

Just like RCB, Stars, too, have featured in three finals but have failed to lift the trophy each time. The Melbourne Stars have been loved, loathed and laughed at throughout their existence. A decade into their existence, the men in green boast a catalogue of famous moments, great players and excellent home and away seasons. Undoubtedly, the franchise failed to rise up to the occassion at times when it mattered the most.