Sports Desk: The IPL 2025 is scheduled to begin from 22 March. Everyone is eagerly waiting for this T20 league. This time the 18th season of the IPL is to be played, where the first match will be played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore on 22 March. However, before this match, there has been a big disclosure about the captaincy of RCB. A team player has told why the franchise has not made Virat Kohli the captain of the team?

In fact, until Bangalore had announced his captain, it was being speculated that Virat Kohli may once again handle the captaincy of RCB. But then the franchise surprised everyone by declaring Rajat Patidar as captain. Since then, there was a question in everyone's mind that why Kohli was not handed over the captaincy, on which Jitesh Sharma has now spoken openly.

Why Kohli did not become captain?

Jitesh Sharma has told that Virat Kohli himself rejected the captaincy offer. The franchise had talked about giving him captaincy, but he refused. After which Rajat Patidar was given the captaincy. According to Jitesh, silver is definitely eligible to become captain. He has served RCB for many years.

There was a war between Rajat Patidar and Jitesh Sharma

For information, let us know that apart from Rajat Patidar, Jitesh Sharma was also in the captaincy race. It was believed that RCB could hand over the captaincy to Jitesh Sharma, although this did not happen and Rajat Patidar became captain. In such a situation, this time everyone's eyes will be on their captaincy as well as their form.

Jitesh Sharma included in RCB for Rs 11 crore

It is to be known that in the recent IPL mega auction, Royal Challengers Bangalore had added wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma for Rs 11 crore. Earlier, Punjab Kings released Jitesh Sharma. In fact, in the IPL mega auction, there was a bid war between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore for Jitesh Sharma. When the price of Jitesh Sharma reached Rs 7 crore, Punjab Kings used the Right to Match card, but after that RCB bought Jitesh Sharma for Rs 11 crore.

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Royal Challengers Bangalore team

Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar, Yash Dayal, Phil Salt, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Jitesh Sharma, Liam Livingstone, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar, Tim David, Swastik Chikara, Mohsin Khan, Mahipal Lomorore, Manoj Bhandage, Nathan Alice, Tom Kurren, Saurabh Chauhan, and