IPL Auction 2020: 3 teams that will be looking to sign specialist openers  

#2 Royal Challengers Bangalore

Parthiv Patel and Virat Kohli

Squad: AB de Villiers, Devdutt Padikkal, Gurkeerat Singh, Moeen Ali, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Parthiv Patel, Pawan Negi, Shivam Dube, Umesh Yadav, Virat Kohli, Washington Sundar, Yuzvendra Chahal

Royal Challengers Bangalore raised quite a few eyebrows when they played with just a couple of specialist openers in their squad last season. Parthiv Patel and Devdutt Padikkal were the only specialist openers in RCB's squad in IPL 2019. Fortunately for them, Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel opened the innings throughout the season and did exceptionally well for the side.

It will be interesting to see whether RCB decide to take the punt once again, or try and include more openers. If it is the latter, one player RCB will be looking at with interest is the recently released Chris Lynn.

Lynn has decimated several bowling attacks in the IPL in the past and will be a perfect fit for RCB, who have spent big bucks on big hitters in the past.