IPL 2019: 3 IPL Trophy winners who are now part of RCB

The Indian Premier League was initiated by the BCCI way back in 2008, with eight city-based franchises competing against each other to win the coveted title. Amongst the eight teams, Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings have been the most successful with three title victories each.

Kolkata Knight Riders are next with two championship wins while Rajasthan Royals, Deccan Chargers and Sunrisers Hyderabad have won it once each. On the other hand, teams like Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Capitals are yet to put their hands on the IPL trophy.

Royal Challengers Bangalore have reached the IPL final thrice but on all the three occasions they have ended up as runners-up while Kings XI Punjab finished runners-up in 2014. Delhi are yet to play an IPL final.

In the league's 11-year history, a lot of players have swapped teams with the likes of Aaron Finch, Parthiv Patel and Yuvraj Singh having played for almost all the franchises once. This means that the players who were once a part of champion teams land up in teams with no title victories to boast of.

In this article, we will have a look at the 3 IPL winners who are now a part of RCB:

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#3 Kulwant Khejroliya

Kulwant Khejroliya won the IPL title with Mumbai Indians in 2017 (Image Courtesy - BCCI/IPLT20)

Rajasthan-born fast bowler, Kulwant Kheroliya played his debut IPL season for Mumbai Indians in IPL 2017. Though the pacer did not don the MI jersey even once. Mumbai won the IPL that year thanks to Rohit Sharma's smart captaincy.

Next year, Kulwant Khejroliya moved to the Royal Challengers Bangalore and played 3 matches for them in the 2018 season. He could pick only 2 wickets in those matches and had to sit out of the playing XI for the remaining ones.

He was retained by RCB for the 2019 edition as well. Hence, a one-time IPL winner Kulwant is now a part of the RCB camp.

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#2 Umesh Yadav

Umesh Yadav won the IPL title in 2014 as a part of Kolkata Knight Riders (Image courtesy - IPLT20/BCCI)

Umesh Yadav started off his Indian Premier League journey as a part of Delhi Daredevils in 2009. He stayed with the Delhi franchise till 2013 before he moved to the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2014. His heroics with the ball for KKR helped the team win their second IPL title that year. This was the first ever IPL title victory of Umesh Yadav's career.

Unfortunately, till date, it remains to be his only IPL championship win as KKR could not win the IPL after 2014 while Umesh moved to RCB in 2018.

Last year, RCB could not make it to the second stage of the season and with the way they have played this year, the team is not expected to make it to the top four of the points table.

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#1 Parthiv Patel

Parthiv Patel has won the IPL title thrice in his IPL career! (Image Courtesy - IPLT20/BCCI)

Parthiv Patel has been like a rolling stone in the Indian Premier League. He has played for almost all the franchises in the league and his team has emerged as champions thrice. Parthiv's first title victory came as a part of CSK in IPL 2010. He then moved to Kochi Tuskers Kerala in 2011 and played for 3 more teams till 2015.

In 2015, he joined Mumbai Indians and won the IPL title twice with them (in 2015 and in 2017). Thus, Parthiv remains to be the most successful player in the entire RCB squad of IPL 2019.

The fact that Parthiv Patel has won the IPL title thrice while legends like Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers are yet to taste IPL glory showcases the magic of this league.

Ironically, these three IPL trophy winners, who share multiple title victories amongst themselves play for trophy-less RCB in IPL 2019!