IPL 2014: 5 players Royal Challengers Bangalore could retain

2. Chris Gayle

Early in the 2011 season, Ray Jennings’s men were on a negative spiral after going four games without a win in the competition. Australian fast bowler Dirk Nannes suffered an unfortunate injury which proved to be a blessing in disguise for RCB as they had the fortitude of replacing the Australian fast bowler with West Indies’s explosive batsman Chris Gayle. The rest as they say, is history.

Gayle’s performances in the Red and Gold jersey are stuff of legends. The Jamaican has – without doubt – been the biggest match-winner in the competition over the last three seasons. The top run-getter in the tournament in 2011 and 2012, Gayle has devastated bowlers in a way that is impossible to explain with mere words.

Though Gayle’s performances over the last year in other T20 leagues and at the international level have been indigent, it is unthinkable that RCB would not retain the services of Caribbean superstar, particularly because of his scintillating record at the cricket stadium adjacent to Cubbon Park in Bangalore.

Retention Possibility: 95%