2023 Royal Challengers Bangalore season explained

Club:	Royal Challengers Bangalore
Season:	2023
Coach:	Sanjay Bangar
Captain:	Faf du Plessis
Ground:	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
Jersey Sponserers:	Jio
Comp1:	2023 Indian Premier League
Comp1 Result:	6th
Most Runs:	Faf du Plessis (730)
Most Wickets:	Mohammed Siraj (19)
Prevseason:	2022
Nextseason:	2024
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The 2023 season was the 16th season for the IPL cricket franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. They were one of the ten teams to compete in the 2023 Indian Premier League. The team is captained by Faf Du Plessis, and coached by Sanjay Bangar.

Background

The side retained three players ahead of the 2022 mega-auction.^[1]

Retained: Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmad, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, David Willey

Released: Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautam, Sherfane Rutherford, Luvnith Sisodia, Chama Milind

Acquired during the auction: Will Jacks, Reece Topley, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandage

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold
• Squad strength: 25 (18 - Indian, 7 - overseas)

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Notes
Captain
13	Faf du Plessis		13 July 1984	Right-handed		2022	Overseas
Batters
18	Virat Kohli		5 November 1988	Right-handed		2008
	Finn Allen		22 April 1999	Right-handed		2021	Overseas
97			1 June 1993	Right-handed		2021
43			6 December 1997	Right-handed		2021
	Will Jacks		21 November 1998	Right-handed		2023	Overseas
All-rounders
32	Glenn Maxwell		14 October 1988	Right-handed		2021	Overseas
49	Wanindu Hasaranga		29 July 1997	Right-handed		2021	Overseas
21			12 December 1994	Left-handed		2020
15	David Willey		28 February 1990	Left-handed		2022	Overseas
16			16 November 1999	Left-handed		2022
33	Karn Sharma		23 October 1987	Right-handed		2022
4	Michael Bracewell		14 February 1991	Right-handed		2023
8	Kedar Jadhav		26 March 1985	Right-handed		2023	Injury replacement for David Willey
			11 November 1999	Right-handed		2023
			5 October 1998	Left-handed		2023
Pace Bowlers
73	Mohammed Siraj		13 March 1994	Right-handed		2018
38	Josh Hazlewood		8 January 1991	Left-handed		2022	Overseas
1	Siddarth Kaul		19 May 1990	Right-handed		2022
9	Harshal Patel		23 November 1990	Right-handed		2021
21	Shahbaz Ahmed		12 December 1994	Left-handed		2020
11			15 December 1996	Right-handed		2022
8	Reece Topley		21 February 1994	Right-handed		2023	Overseas
			8 July 1996	Left-handed		2023
31			31 January 1997	Right-handed		2023	Injury replacement for Rajat Patidar
7	Wayne Parnell		30 July 1989	Left-handed		2023	Injury replacement for Reece Topley
45			4 January 1998	Right-handed		2023
Spin Bowlers
44			6 June 1998	Right-handed		2023

Teams and standings

Points table

Matches

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Statistics

Most runs

No.	Name	Match	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave.	BF	SR	100s	50s	0	4s	6s
1	Faf du Plessis	14	14	1	730	84	56.15	475	153.68	0	8	0	60	36
2	Virat Kohli			2	639		53.25	457	139.82	2	6	1	65	16
3	Glenn Maxwell				400	77	33.33	218	183.48	0	5	2	29	31
4	Dinesh Karthik	13	13	1	140	30	11.67	104	134.61			4	13	5
5	Mahipal Lomror	12	10	2	135		26.88	97	139.17		1	1	9	8

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Most wickets

No.	Name	Match	Inns	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	BBI	Ave.	Econ.	SR	4W	5W
1		14	14	50.0	0	376	19	4/21	19.78	7.52	15.78	1	0
2		13	13	47.0		454	14	3/32	32.42	9.65	20.14	0
3		7	7	21.3		223	10	2/19	22.30	10.37	12.9
4		8	8	29.0		258	9	2/24	28.66	8.89	19.33
		7	7	25.1		236		3/10	26.22	9.37	16.77

Notes and References

1. Web site: VIVO IPL 2023 Player Retention. 15 November 2022 . IPLT20.com . Indian Premier League.