IPL 2019: Three Chennai Super Kings players Royal Challengers Banglore wish they had

The 2019 edition of the Indian Premier League is reaching its business end as the league stage has ended and now we know who has qualified into the playoffs. This year just like every year has been full of excitement and action.

This year's table was very different from the ones we have seen in previous years. Sunrisers Hyderabad is the first team in 12 seasons to qualify on 12 points into the Playoffs, while the top 3 had 18 points which makes it a 6 point difference between the third and the fourth.

This year, we will again see MI and CSK fight it out in the first playoff, while the eliminator is going to be played between DC and SRH. One team which failed miserably again this year was Royal Challengers Banglore. The Virat Kohli led side has now made it a habit of disappointing their fan base by underwhelming performances.

Their bowling department has again been poor and their batting order came to the party very late into the tournament. In all that time, CSK made their way again into the playoffs and how Kohli would have loved to have some of the yellow players in his squad. So, in this slideshow, we take a look at the 3 CSK players RCB wished they had.

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#3 Dwayne Bravo

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Right now, everybody knows about the problems that RCB face when it comes to death bowling. They are the worst team in the IPL in that department and they have been that for some time now.

RCB never really buy specialist T20 fast bowlers in the auction and they pay for it every year. This season also, the likes of Mohammed Siraj, Time Southee, Umesh Yadav, etc, failed to do the job. That is why Kohli would have loved to have someone of the experience of Dwayne Bravo.

In this season, Bravo has picked up 9 wickets in his 9 matches at an economy rate of just 8. That's impressive for someone who bowls mostly at the death. The West Indian is a specialist death bowler and if he would have been with RCB, who knows where they might have ended up but then again, it is only a wish.

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#2 Imran Tahir

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Another big problem that RCB faced this year was the lack of wicket taking bowlers they had in their ranks. Barring Yuzvendra Chahal, no one really stepped up and picked wickets in the middle phase of the innings, which is the most crucial part of the match.

The likes of Marcus Stoinis, Colin de Granddhome, Pawan Negi, etc struggled to help Chahal. Forget about picking up wickets, their economy rate also wasn't up to the mark. If RCB had someone like Imran Tahir, the wicket-taking load would have been shared between the two leg-spinners and both of them also contain the innings very well.

In his 14 matches, Tahir has picked up 21 wickets at an economy rate of 7.8. There are no questions over Kohli lacking a wicket-taking option in the middle overs but if he had some like Tahir, the picture could have been completely different, but that was not to be.

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#1 Deepak Chahar

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If you are an RCB fan reading this article, you would have probably guessed that Deepak Chahar's name would be here somewhere. RCB's inability to pick wickets and contain the scoring rate could be seen by the number of runs they were giving away in the powerplay.

Umesh Yadav was brilliant for them in the powerplay last year but this year, they just haven't been picking up wickets in the first six overs. So, how could you not wish to have one of the best new ball bowlers in the IPL currently?

Deepak Chahar has been getting breakthroughs in the first six almost in every match and that can be seen by his stats. In his 14 matches, Chahar has picked up 16 wickets at an economy rate of 7.5. On that Chinnaswamy track, wickets in the first six are very important and Chahar could have provided them if he would have been wearing the red and black.

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