With eyes firmly set on playing the “bold brand of Cricket” in the IPL 2025 season, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) are gearing up to make strategic moves in the IPL 2025 mega auction from November 24 to 25 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia .

RCB, armed with detailed information on the domestic game, analysis of players who can take advantage of Chinnaswamy’s unique playing conditions and backed with multiple scenarios that can improve their depth of play and add edge to their campaign, aims to strive for excellence.

“We combined our preparation for the auction with a camp, dedicating two long consecutive days to assessing local talent,”* said Mo Bobat, RCB Director of Cricket. * “Given Chinnaswamy’s distinctive characteristics, we strongly believe that variety in the bowling attack is essential. With the retention of Yash Dayal, our focus will be to complement our attack with players who can excel in these conditions and at the same time address others key roles in the auction”.

Before the auction, RCB retained three key players – Virat Kohli (INR 21 CR), Rajat Patidar (INR 11 CR) and Yash Dayal (INR 5 CR). The combined retention of INR 37 CR reflects RCB’s strategic approach of combining experienced leadership, promising talent and dynamic team synergy.

“Over the last week, I woke up with a player or a number in my head. Every morning, I find myself thinking about what the team structure should be. My perspective on how I would be picked, based on who would want me, is very different. now that I am sitting on the other side. The danger involved makes the auction an interesting and unpredictable place,” said batting coach Dinesh Karthik, who until last year was part of RCB as one of the members. your key players.

Having retained three, RCB will head into the IPL 2025 mega auction with INR 83 CR in the bank and three Right to Match cards, which can be exercised on three capped players or one uncapped and two capped players. Additionally, RCB will have 22 spots available in the auction, of which eight are reserved for foreign players.