2023 Royal Challengers Bangalore season

Royal Challengers Bangalore

2023 season
Coach	Sanjay Bangar
Captain	Faf du Plessis
Ground(s)	M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru
2023 Indian Premier League	6th
Most runs	Faf du Plessis (730)
Most wickets	Mohammed Siraj (19)
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The 2023 season was the 16th season for the IPL cricket franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore based in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. They were one of the ten teams to compete in the 2023 Indian Premier League. The team is captained by Faf Du Plessis, and coached by Sanjay Bangar.

Background

The side retained three players ahead of the 2022 mega-auction.[1]

Retained

Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, Mohammad Siraj, Faf du Plessis, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmad, Anuj Rawat, Akash Deep, Josh Hazlewood, Mahipal Lomror, Finn Allen, Suyash Prabhudessai, Karn Sharma, Siddarth Kaul, David Willey

Released

Jason Behrendorff, Aneeshwar Gautam, Sherfane Rutherford, Luvnith Sisodia, Chama Milind

Acquired during the auction

Will Jacks, Reece Topley, Rajan Kumar, Avinash Singh, Sonu Yadav, Himanshu Sharma, Manoj Bhandage

Squad

• Players with international caps are listed in bold
• Squad strength: 25 (18 - Indian, 7 - overseas)

No.	Name	Nationality	Birth date	Batting style	Bowling style	Year signed	Notes
Captain
13	Faf du Plessis	South Africa	(1984-07-13) 13 July 1984 (age 40)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break	2022	Overseas
Batters
18	Virat Kohli	India	(1988-11-05) 5 November 1988 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2008
	Finn Allen	New Zealand	(1999-04-22) 22 April 1999 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	2021	Overseas
97	Rajat Patidar	India	(1993-06-01) 1 June 1993 (age 31)	Right-handed	Right-arm off break	2021
43	Suyash Prabhudessai	India	(1997-12-06) 6 December 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2021
	Will Jacks	England	(1998-11-21) 21 November 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	2023	Overseas
All-rounders
32	Glenn Maxwell	Australia	(1988-10-14) 14 October 1988 (age 36)	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	2021	Overseas
49	Wanindu Hasaranga	Sri Lanka	(1997-07-29) 29 July 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break	2021	Overseas
21	Shahbaz Ahmed	India	(1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 30)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2020
15	David Willey	England	(1990-02-28) 28 February 1990 (age 34)	Left-handed	Left-arm fast medium	2022	Overseas
16	Mahipal Lomror	India	(1999-11-16) 16 November 1999 (age 25)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2022
33	Karn Sharma	India	(1987-10-23) 23 October 1987 (age 37)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break	2022
4	Michael Bracewell	New Zealand	(1991-02-14) 14 February 1991 (age 33)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg-break	2023	Overseas, Injury Replacement for Will Jacks
8	Kedar Jadhav	India	(1985-03-26) 26 March 1985 (age 39)	Right-handed	Right-arm off-break	2023	Injury replacement for David Willey
	Sonu Yadav	India	(1999-11-11) 11 November 1999 (age 25)	Right-handed	Right-handed medium-fast	2023
	Manoj Bhandage	India	(1998-10-05) 5 October 1998 (age 26)	Left-handed	Right-handed medium	2023
Pace Bowlers
73	Mohammed Siraj	India	(1994-03-13) 13 March 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2018
38	Josh Hazlewood	Australia	(1991-01-08) 8 January 1991 (age 34)	Left-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2022	Overseas
1	Siddarth Kaul	India	(1990-05-19) 19 May 1990 (age 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast-medium	2022
9	Harshal Patel	India	(1990-11-23) 23 November 1990 (age 34)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast medium	2021
21	Shahbaz Ahmed	India	(1994-12-12) 12 December 1994 (age 30)	Left-handed	Slow left-arm orthodox	2020
11	Akash Deep	India	(1996-12-15) 15 December 1996 (age 28)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2022
8	Reece Topley	England	(1994-02-21) 21 February 1994 (age 30)	Right-handed	Left-arm fast-medium	2023	Overseas
	Rajan Kumar	India	(1996-07-08) 8 July 1996 (age 28)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2023
31	Vijaykumar Vyshak	India	(1997-01-31) 31 January 1997 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm medium	2023	Injury replacement for Rajat Patidar
7	Wayne Parnell	South Africa	(1989-07-30) 30 July 1989 (age 35)	Left-handed	Left-arm medium-fast	2023	Injury replacement for Reece Topley
45	Avinash Singh	India	(1998-01-04) 4 January 1998 (age 27)	Right-handed	Right-arm fast	2023
Spin Bowlers
44	Himanshu Sharma	India	(1998-06-06) 6 June 1998 (age 26)	Right-handed	Right-arm leg break	2023

Teams and standings

Points table

Pos	Grp	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	NR	Pts	NRR	Qualification
1	B	Gujarat Titans (R)	14	10	4	0	20	0.809	Advanced to Qualifier 1
2	B	Chennai Super Kings (C)	14	8	5	1	17	0.652
3	A	Lucknow Super Giants (4th)	14	8	5	1	17	0.284	Advanced to Eliminator
4	A	Mumbai Indians (3rd)	14	8	6	0	16	−0.044
5	A	Rajasthan Royals	14	7	7	0	14	0.148
6	B	Royal Challengers Bangalore	14	7	7	0	14	0.135
7	A	Kolkata Knight Riders	14	6	8	0	12	−0.239
8	B	Punjab Kings	14	6	8	0	12	−0.304
9	A	Delhi Capitals	14	5	9	0	10	−0.808
10	B	Sunrisers Hyderabad	14	4	10	0	8	−0.590

Source: Indian Premier League[2]

The four top-ranked teams will qualify for the Playoffs.
  Advance to Qualifier 1
  Advance to Eliminator

Matches

Match 5 2 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Mumbai Indians 171/7 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H) 172/2 (16.2 overs)
Tilak Varma 84* (46) Karn Sharma 2/32 (4 overs)		Virat Kohli 82* (49) Arshad Khan 1/28 (2.2 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 8 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Tapan Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Faf du Plessis (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
• Arshad Khan and Nehal Wadhera (Mumbai Indians) both made their T20 debuts.

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Match 9 6 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Kolkata Knight Riders (H) 204/7 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 123 (17.4 overs)
Shardul Thakur 68 (29) David Willey 2/16 (4 overs)		Faf du Plessis 23 (12) Varun Chakaravarthy 4/15 (3.4 overs)

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 81 runs Eden Gardens, Kolkata Umpires: Virender Sharma (Ind) and Vinod Seshan (Ind) Player of the match: Shardul Thakur (Kolkata Knight Riders)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
• Suyash Sharma (Kolkata Knight Riders) made his T20 debut.

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Match 15 10 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 212/2 (20 overs)	v	Lucknow Super Giants 213/9 (20 overs)
Faf du Plessis 79* (46) Amit Mishra 1/18 (2 overs)		Marcus Stoinis 65 (30) Mohammed Siraj 3/22 (4 overs)

Lucknow Super Giants won by 1 wicket M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Nand Kishore (Ind) Player of the match: Nicholas Pooran (Lucknow Super Giants)

• Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 20 15 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 174/6 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Capitals 151/9 (20 overs)
Virat Kohli 50 (34) Mitchell Marsh 2/18 (2 overs)		Manish Pandey 50 (38) Vijaykumar Vyshak 3/20 (4 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 23 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Delhi Capitals won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 24 17 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Chennai Super Kings 226/6 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H) 218/8 (20 overs)
Devon Conway 83 (45) Wanindu Hasaranga 1/21 (2 overs)		Glenn Maxwell 76 (36) Tushar Deshpande 3/45 (4 overs)

Chennai Super Kings won by 8 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Devon Conway (Chennai Super Kings)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 27 20 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Royal Challengers Bangalore 174/4 (20 overs)	v	Punjab Kings (H) 150 (18.2 overs)
Faf du Plessis 84 (56) Harpreet Brar 2/31 (3 overs)		Prabhsimran Singh 46 (30) Mohammed Siraj 4/21 (4 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 24 runs Inderjit Singh Bindra Stadium, Mohali Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) Player of the match: Mohammed Siraj (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Punjab Kings won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 32 23 April 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 189/9 (20 overs)	v	Rajasthan Royals 182/6 (20 overs)
Glenn Maxwell 77 (44) Trent Boult 2/41 (4 overs)		Devdutt Padikkal 52 (34) Harshal Patel 3/32 (4 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 7 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore Umpires: Michael Gough (Eng) and Saidharshan Kumar (Ind) Player of the match: Glenn Maxwell (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Rajasthan Royals won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 36 26 April 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Kolkata Knight Riders 200/5 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore (H) 179/8 (20 overs)
Jason Roy 56 (29) Wanindu Hasaranga 2/24 (4 overs)		Virat Kohli 54 (37) Varun Chakravarthy 3/27 (4 overs)

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 21 runs M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Rohan Pandit (Ind) Player of the match: Varun Chakravarthy (Kolkata Knight Riders)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 43 1 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Royal Challengers Bangalore 126/9 (20 overs)	v	Lucknow Super Giants (H) 108 (19.5 overs)
Faf du Plessis 44 (40) Naveen-ul-Haq 3/30 (4 overs)		Krishnappa Gowtham 23 (13) Josh Hazlewood 2/15 (3 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 18 runs BRSABV Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow Umpires: Anil Chaudhary (Ind) and Sadashiv Iyer (Ind) Player of the match: Faf du Plessis (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 50 6 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Royal Challengers Bangalore 181/4 (20 overs)	v	Delhi Capitals (H) 187/3 (16.4 overs)
Virat Kohli 55 (46) Mitchell Marsh 2/21 (3 overs)		Phil Salt 87 (45) Josh Hazlewood 1/29 (3 overs)

Delhi Capitals won by 7 wickets Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi Umpires: Yeshwant Barde (Ind) and Rod Tucker (Aus) Player of the match: Phil Salt (Delhi Capitals)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 54 9 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

Royal Challengers Bangalore 199/6 (20 overs)	v	Mumbai Indians (H) 200/4 (16.3 overs)
Glenn Maxwell 68 (33) Jason Behrendorff 3/36 (4 overs)		Suryakumar Yadav 83 (35) Vijaykumar Vyshak 2/37 (3 overs)

Mumbai Indians won by 6 wickets Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai Umpires: Saiyed Khalid (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Suryakumar Yadav (Mumbai Indians)

• Mumbai Indians won the toss and elected to field.

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Match 60 14 May 2023 15:30 (D/N) Scorecard

Royal Challengers Bangalore 171/5 (20 overs)	v	Rajasthan Royals (H) 59 (10.3 overs)
Faf du Plessis 55 (44) Adam Zampa 2/25 (4 overs)		Shimron Hetmyer 35 (19) Wayne Parnell 3/10 (3 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 112 runs Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur Umpires: K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan (Ind) and Navdeep Singh (Ind) Player of the match: Wayne Parnell (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat.

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Match 65 18 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Sunrisers Hyderabad 186/5 (20 overs)	v	Royal Challengers Bangalore 187/2 (19.2 overs)
Heinrich Klaasen 104 (51) Michael Bracewell 2/13 (2 overs)		Virat Kohli 100 (63) T. Natarajan 1/34 (4 overs)

Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 8 wickets Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad Umpires: Bruce Oxenford (Aus) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Virat Kohli (Royal Challengers Bangalore)

• Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to field.
• Heinrich Klaasen (Sunrisers Hyderabad) scored his maiden IPL century.[3]

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Match 70 21 May 2023 19:30 (N) Scorecard

(H) Royal Challengers Bangalore 197/5 (20 overs)	v	Gujarat Titans 198/4 (19.1 overs)
Virat Kohli 101* (61) Noor Ahmad 2/39 (4 overs)		Shubman Gill 104* (52) Mohammed Siraj 2/32 (4 overs)

Gujarat Titans won by 6 wickets M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Umpires: Nitin Menon (Ind) and Virender Sharma (Ind) Player of the match: Shubman Gill (Gujarat Titans)

• Gujarat Titans won the toss and elected to field.
• Himanshu Sharma (Royal Challengers Bangalore) made his T20 debut.
• Mumbai Indians qualified for the playoffs and Royal Challengers Bangalore were eliminated as a result of this match.

Statistics

Most runs

No.	Name	Match	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave.	BF	SR	100s	50s	0	4s	6s
1	Faf du Plessis	14	14	1	730	84	56.15	475	153.68	0	8	0	60	36
2	Virat Kohli			2	639	101*	53.25	457	139.82	2	6	1	65	16
3	Glenn Maxwell				400	77	33.33	218	183.48	0	5	2	29	31
4	Dinesh Karthik	13	13	1	140	30	11.67	104	134.61			4	13	5
5	Mahipal Lomror	12	10	2	135	54*	26.88	97	139.17		1	1	9	8

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Most wickets

No.	Name	Match	Inns	Overs	Maidens	Runs	Wickets	BBI	Ave.	Econ.	SR	4W	5W
1	Mohammed Siraj	14	14	50.0	0	376	19	4/21	19.78	7.52	15.78	1	0
2	Harshal Patel	13	13	47.0		454	14	3/32	32.42	9.65	20.14	0
3	Karn Sharma	7	7	21.3		223	10	2/19	22.30	10.37	12.9
4	Wanindu Hasaranga	8	8	29.0		258	9	2/24	28.66	8.89	19.33
	Wayne Parnell	7	7	25.1		236		3/10	26.22	9.37	16.77

References

1. "VIVO IPL 2023 Player Retention". IPLT20.com. Indian Premier League. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
2. "2023 Indian Premier League Points table". Indian Premier League. Retrieved 15 March 2024.
3. "Heinrich Klaasen slams maiden IPL ton, fires SRH to 186/5 against RCB". Times of India. 18 May 2023. Retrieved 18 May 2023.