IPL 2018, Royal Challengers Bangalore: Complete RCB squad after auction

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Bengaluru, Jan 30: Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are going to be one of the most sought-after teams in the India Premier League (IPL), for obvious reasons, with Virat Kohli being its skipper.

Presence of the T20 specialists like AB de Villiers, Brendon McCullum, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Quinton de Kock and Yuzvendra Chahal makes RCB one of the interesting teams of IPL 2018.

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RCB are among the perennial pre-tournament favourites but they haven't managed to live up to the reputation as they are yet to lift their maiden IPL trophy. However, they came close to winning it on a couple of occasions but lost in the finals.

This time the finalists of IPL 2016 would be hoping for a change of fortunes this time around under the leadership of their inspirational captain, who has been in ominous form across all formats.

Captain: Virat Kohli

Squad strength: 24

Overseas players: 8

Funds remaining: Rs 15 lakh

Players retained

Indian: Virat Kohli (Rs 17 crore), Sarfaraz Khan (Rs 1.75 crore)

Overseas: AB de Villiers (Rs 11 crore)

Bought at auction

Indian: Yuzvendra Chahal, Umesh Yadav, Washington Sundar, Navdeep Saini, Mohd Siraj, Murugan Ashwin, Parthiv Patel, Mandeep Singh, Manan Vohra, Pawan Negi, Kulwant Khejroliya, Aniket Choudhary, Anirudha Joshi, Pavan Deshpande.

Overseas: Chris Woakes, Brendon McCullum, Quinton De Kock, Colin de Grandhomme, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Moeen Ali, Tim Southee.

Costliest player/s for RCB in this season:

Virat Kohli Rs 17 crore (retained/costliest player of IPL 2018)

Chris Woakes - Rs 7.4 crore (at auction)