IPL 2021: Strength and weakness of each team ahead of UAE leg

6. Royal Challengers Bangalore

Strength- In-form premier batters 

For a change, the RCB team is placed third in the points table and after a very long time are found as favorites to bag the IPL 2021 title. Perhaps the bagging of Glenn Maxwell has also brought in a fresh vitality as most of RCB’s premier batters have scored match-winning runs in the first half of IPL 2021. Right from the top, both skipper Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal are averaging around 33 and 39 respectively alongside Maxwell and ABD’s brimming batting form. And especially with De Villiers average also soaring above 50 certainly then makes their batting a strong force to reckon with. 

Weakness- Lack of batting options after Maxwell and ABD

However, for instance, if the above of the four batters are having an off day then there’s barely someone who can uplift the side during crises. Apart from Dan Christian, hardly there seems to be someone whose well equipped in the lower batting order which in many ways surely leaves a big void. The two losses against CSK and PBKS were resulted because of such scenarios wherein barely any batter had raised its hands when the above four had malfunctioned. Hence, while it may not be every day that the likes of Kohli and De Villiers will fail, but an additional bolstering certainly looks the best way forward for the RCB.