RCB has chosen Rajat Patidar as the new captain for IPL 2025. He will be the 8th player to captain this team. But do you know that the Rajat Patidar to whom RCB has now handed over the captaincy, has also been removed from the team once? Now the question is, how did the player whom RCB had never even thought of releasing from the team, get made the captain directly? What did the RCB team management see in Rajat Patidar before IPL 2025?

Rajat Patidar entered RCB in the year 2021. But, before the mega auction of the next season, RCB released him, that is, dropped him from the team. After this, RCB did not buy Patidar even in the mega auction of IPL 2022. The result was that he had to remain unsold. But fate had something else in store. In IPL 2022 itself, Rajat Patidar rejoined RCB as a replacement and then never looked back.

Rajat Patidar played 8 matches for RCB in IPL 2022, in which he scored 333 runs with 1 century and 2 half-centuries. After this, he did not play in IPL 2023 due to injury. But in 15 matches of IPL 2024, he scored 395 runs with 5 half-centuries. But, this performance in IPL is not the only reason for Rajat Patidar being made the captain. Apart from this, what he has done as a captain and batsman in domestic T20 has also played an important role.

Rajat Patidar has captained 16 matches in domestic T20, in which he has won 12 matches. That is, his winning percentage as a captain was 75. Apart from this, in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25, Rajat Patidar led the domestic team Madhya Pradesh to the finals under his captaincy. During this, he also scored runs with the bat. He scored 428 runs in 5 matches played in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy 2024-25.

The explosive performance he showed with the bat along with captaincy in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy impressed the RCB team management a lot. And somewhere that became the reason for him being made the captain.