3 Reasons why Royal Challengers Bangalore haven't won the IPL so far

RCB is an IPL team that has possessed one of the biggest fan bases due to some of the best players of the modern era including the likes of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Chris Gayle, Brendon McCullum, Daniel Vettori, Yuvraj Singh, Ashish Nehra etc. to name a few.

However, the team is yet to win an IPL title which has been the biggest worry for them. They remain one of the three permanent IPL teams in this tally, the other two being the Kings XI Punjab and Delhi Daredevils.

Every year, the fans expect that the team will have their best chance this year, but the case has not been like that. They have produced quite disappointing performances every year which is not expected from a team as strong as that.

Take the example of last year only, when everyone expected RCB to win, thinking that it has got the best batsmen in Virat, ABD, Quinton de Kock and Brendon McCullum as well as the best bowling lineup in the likes of Umesh Yadav, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sunder, Yuzuvendra Chahal, and Tim Southee. But the team finished sixth on the points table, with six wins and eight losses. All the expected performers had failed to deliver.

Their best performances remain their qualification for IPL finals in the year 2009, 2011 and 2016, but they have not won any of them. Their performance declined even more after a magnificent campaign in 2016.

But the story behind RCB not being able to win the title is a lot bigger than that. Here are a few possible reasons which have prevented them from winning the IPL title.

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#3 Absence of a core bowling unit

Chahal has been their core bowler, but he too has failed to deliver.

A team cannot win without a good and settled bowling lineup. And RCB has not been able to fulfil this condition. RCB too has failed to establish a core and settled bowling lineup over the recent years which has been a big worry. The team has struggled to find a consistent bowling core since the retirement of Ashish Nehra and Daniel Vettori.

This worry was largely exaggerated in the previous season when RCB conceded runs at an economy of 11.9 during the death overs, the most by any team. Due to this, they lost most of those matches, which they could have easily won.

Yuzuvendra Chahal has been one of their key bowlers. However, he too has failed to deliver consistently. He had just 12 wickets in 14 matches in the previous season and 14 wickets in 13 matches in 2017 season.

The teams like CSK, KKR and MI have been successful because they have been in a contrary position. CSK have Lungi Ngidi, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo as their core bowlers, KKR have Andre Russell and Sunil Narine while MI has Jasprit Bumrah and Mitchell McClenaghan and all of them have been consistent performers for their team.

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#2 Overdependence on ABD and Virat

The two have been the lone batting warriors for RCB without any support.

Mr. 360 degrees (ABD) and Mr. Consistent (Virat) had joined their forces in 2011. The sight of two of the greatest cricketers playing together was a relief for the fans. However, these two have now become the only batting support for this team.

There has been no other batsman who has performed for RCB. These two have been phenomenal, but the opening and the middle-order has been very weak. This has prevented RCB from making big totals mostly in their home ground Chinnaswamy which is known for batting friendly pitches. Due to this RCB have not been able to win matches over here, because the opposition batsmen have taken their bowlers for runs as well.

They have dropped and tried different batsmen in the different season, most recently being Quinton De Kock and Brendon McCullum, but everyone has failed to deliver.

If RCB want to win the IPL title this time, they will need to look out for a settled and proper batsman who can help to reduce pressure on Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.

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#1 Loss of form of players

All the players bought by RCB have unfortunately lost form after the selection.

Say it a curse or a bad coincidence for RCB, but whichever player they have bought, has always lost his form. This has been one of the biggest factors for their consecutive bad performances.

Let us try to understand this through an example. Washington Sunder, who was fantastic for Rising Pune Supergiants in 2017, was bought by RCB in 2018. But his performance declined drastically with RCB. In 2017, he took eight wickets in 11 matches and had an economy of 6.16 even after he used to bowl three of his overs in the powerplay. But that rose to 9.6 in 2018. So bad were his performances, that the management was forced to drop him from the team.

Not only for Sunder but the case has been the same for most of the RCB players, including Yuzuvendra Chahal, Quinton de Kock and even Chris Gayle.

Take the examples of CSK and MI, who have won three titles each and are the most successful IPL teams. Their team has always been consistent, the players have delivered whenever needed. But, the case has not been the same with RCB.

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