If there is any team in the IPL that has almost always struck the right balance it has to be Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). However, despite the near-to-perfect team composition, RCB has never won an IPL title.
The Virat Kohli-led side ahead of the auction retained the captain, AB de Villiers and Sarfaraz Khan.
At the IPL 2018 auction, the Bangalore based franchise managed to buy back spinner Yuzvendra Chahal and all-rounder Pawan Negi using Right to Match (RTM) cards.
List of players bought by the RCB at the IPL 2018 auction:
- Brendon McCullum (3.6 Cr)
- Chris Woakes (7.4 Cr)
- Colin de Grandhomme (2.2 Cr)
- Moeen Ali (1.7 Cr)
- Quinton de Kock (2.8 Cr)
- Umesh Yadav (4.2 Cr)
- Yuzvendra Chahal (6 Cr)
- Manan Vohra (1.1 Cr)
- Kulwant Kejroliya (85 Lakh)
- Aniket Choudhary (30 Lakh)
- Navdeep Saini (3 c)
- Murugan Ashwin (2.2 Cr)
- Mandeep Singh (1.4 Cr)
- Washington Sundar (3.2 Cr)
- Pawan Negi (1 Cr)
- Mohammad Siraj (2.6 Cr)
- Nathan Coulter-Nile (2.2 Cr)
- Anirudha Joshi (20L)
- Parthiv Patel (1.7 Cr)
- Tim Southee (1 Cr)
- Pavan Deshpande (20 L)
RCB’s squad of 24, includes eight overseas players to choose from going into IPL 2018.
