Out of all the franchises present in India’s glamorous fray, Royal Challengers Bangalore is fortune’s most neglected son. Despite bragging about the heftiest squads in IPL, the team is still to lay their hands on the coveted trophy.
Players have come and gone, but the team has failed to sustain majority of their squad, thanks to some consistent mediocrity from its gilt-edged members. Kohli and De Villiers have been the best possible glimmer of hope that Bangalore could manage, but the remaining have beeb nothing short of abysmal.
RCB is embroiled in an infamous record which flashes the fact that they have used the most number of IPL players in the fray’s history. Experiments continue to bolster the team’s reinforcements but most of them has failed until now.
We will take a look at five players of the RCB squad who are famous and were part of the squad but failed to register themselves a cap.
1. Nuwan Pradeep
One of Sri Lanka’s finest bowlers in the recent days, who has managed to play 28 Tests, 45 ODI’s and 14 T20’s for our continental neighbours, has been a part of the RCB squad once.
In 2011, he bagged a surprising call up from Bangalore but failed to notch up his debut in the fray and never returned to the cash-rich league.
2. Nathan Coulter-Nile
The Australian fast bowler is one of the best of the pace trade across the world at the moment. Sporting a smile on his face always, he goes on with his destruction.
In 2019, he was picked up by RCB but before he could start playing for the franchise, he sustained an injury that knocked him out of the fray with Steyn taking his stead.
3. Subramaniam Badrinath
Badrinath played a pivotal role for Chennai’s initial success, and was gobbled up by RCB in 2015.
Unfortunately the Chennai star failed to start a game in that edition of the tournament and that was the last time we saw the right-handed batsman donning on an IPL jersey.
4. Bhuvneshwar Kumar
India’s best swing bowler at the moment, Bhuvi failed to claw his way to the surface of the Bangalore elites. The Meerut-based player was part of the squad in 2009 and 2010 before he notched up international fame. He was neglected like fortune neglects Bangalore and he went to become a star in the ranks of Pune Warriors.
The only time he donned on the RCB jersey was against Delhi Daredevils in Champions League T20 in 2009.
5. Steven Smith
Jesse Ryder led Bangalore to quite a few victories in the 2009 edition of the fray, before being ousted of the fray with an injury.
Steven Smith was called to replace the Kiwi star. Unfortunately, the Australian failed to play a single game for Bangalore while he kissed the skies for Pune in the ensuing season.
