How is RCB, which was yearning for the trophy for 17 years, winning now? Team’s ‘Chanakya’ revealed the secret

When Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) ended the IPL trophy drought last season, it was considered a fluke. But RCB has proved its critics wrong by winning the title for the second consecutive time. RCB used only 16 players in this IPL season. Since the introduction of the impact player rule, no team has used less than 18 players in a season, which shows how settled a side RCB has now become.

Its Director of Cricket Mo Bobat has played a big role in bringing RCB to this strong position. In the IPL 2025 mega auction, RCB spent a huge amount on Indian players like Bhuneshwar Kumar, Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Salam Dar and Devdutt Padikkal. After this Bobat was made fun of a lot. Bobat, after the team’s second title win, reminded that when the ranking was made on the basis of the performance of the teams in the last mega auction, RCB was at the bottom. But he said he had a clear idea of ​​the kind of team he was building.

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RCB became ‘invincible’ in mega auction itself?

Since the IPL 2025 mega auction, RCB has lost only 9 out of 30 matches. During this period, she has not lost a single playoff match and has become champion twice. Bobat has said that the team management had full confidence in the group that they had selected in the last mega auction. In a virtual press conference of RCB on Monday (June 1), Bobat said, ‘I don’t know whether you can win any competition through auction or not. I think you might definitely lose in the auction.

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“Once you’ve done your first mega auction, it’s very difficult to change things that you may later regret,” Bobat said. He further said, ‘And then, in the next year you have to survive only with mini auctions and in the mini auction years, things become very difficult.’