IPL: Three overseas players that may not be retained by RCB in 2020

The 12th season of the Indian Premier League is currently going on and it has reached the playoffs stage where all four teams have already been decided and one name that is once again missing from that list is the Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Virat Kohli-led franchise last qualified for the playoffs in 2016 where they lost in the finals against the Sunrisers Hyderabad in the finals by just eight runs and since then, they have failed to repeat this performance.

In the next three years, their performances looked like 8th (2017), 6th (2018) and 8th in 2019 as well. They are one of the strongest sides in the IPL on paper where they include some of the biggest match winners of this format of the game which include the likes of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer, Yuzvendra Chahal, Moeen Ali etc. But nothing went in their way this year as well as they miserably failed to make it to the final four.

All this may result in them dropping a few players in next year in which some of the overseas players might not be seen playing in the Red and Black jersey again are.

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#1 Tim Southee (New Zealand)

Tim Southee

The ace New Zealand fast bowler was retained in this year's auctions from the last season to lessen the burden from the shoulders of Indian pacers like Umesh Yadav and Mohammad Siraj but that could not happen as he was smashed all around the park in this year along with the other two mentioned bowlers.

The Kiwi pacer managed to feature in just three games where he picked up just a solitary wicket at a disastrous economy of over 13 runs per over. After seeing all this, Virat Kohli will look to find an alternative for him in the next year's auction pool table as bowling was a huge concern for his side in this edition of IPL.

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#2 Heinrich Klaasen (South Africa)

Heinrich Klassen

The hard-hitting South African wicketkeeper-batsman was bought by RCB at a whopping amount of ₹2.8 crores where he was set with a base price of ₹50 lakhs in this year's auctions. As a result, a lot of expectations were made from him to perform for his team and replicate the performance that he showed against India during the 2018 series. Klaasen was seen in good touch during that series where he was batting in the middle overs.

It may be the case with him that he was not provided with enough opportunities as featured in just three games where he could score a paltry of nine runs and managed to face just 10 deliveries. All this came at a forgettable average of 4.5 which showcases how much miserable IPL season he had in 2019. This may lead Royal Challengers Bangalore to have an alternative for him at the 2020 auctions to strengthen their middle order batting which could empower their top order to play more freely.

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#3 Colin de Grandhomme (New Zealand)

Colin de Grandhomme

One more player from New Zealand appears in this list and this is their fast bowling all-rounder who has loads of experience when it comes to international cricket. But he could not replicate any of his such performance in the 2019 edition of the Indian Premier League neither with bat nor ball. He has been with the franchise from Bangalore since the last year where his numbers were alright and hence, he was retained in this season but could not do any justice to that decision this year.

The hard-hitting left-hander managed to have just 46 runs to his name in the four matches that he played that came at a strike rate of even less than 100. In bowling, his performance was even worse as he could not take even a single wicket. Now, it will be interesting to see whether RCB stays with Graandhomme in the next season or not.

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