Indore
After Rajat Patidar, another achievement has been added to Indore in the IPL tournament. Venkatesh Iyer of Indore has been made the vice -captain of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The team announced on Monday in this regard. The captain of this team has been made Ajinkya Rahane.
Venkatesh Iyer, who sold for Rs 23.75 crore in the mega auction, is the second most expensive and KKR’s most expensive player this time. There were discussions about him being made captain from day one. KKR became the champion in the 2024 season under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, this time he was bought by Punjab Kings in the auction.
KKR team will remain this IPL season
Ajinkya Rahane (captain)
Venkatesh Iyer (vice -captain)
Other players
Sunil Naren Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana, Ramandeep Singh, Quinton Dickock, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Enark Nokia, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Mayank Markande, Rowman Powell, Manish Pandey, Spenser Johnson, Lavneet Sisodia, Roy, Moin Ali, Umran Ali, Umran Ali, Umran Malik
Three players of Indore in IPL
In the 18th season of IPL, Rajat Patidar, Venkatesh Iyer, besides the third player Avesh Khan. He will play from Lucknow this time. Fast bowler Avesh Khan has been included in his team by Lucknow for Rs 9.75 crore. His base price was 2 crores. In the last season, he took 19 in 16 matches for Rajasthan.
9th captain of Ajinkya KKR
Ajinkya Rahane will be the 9th captain of KKR. Prior to him, Sourav Ganguly, Brendon McCullum, Gautam Gambhir, Jacks Kallis, Dinesh Karthik, ON Morgan, Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Rana have also captained the team. Of the 8 previous captains, only 2 players have been able to win the trophy. The team won the title in 2012 and 2014 under the captaincy of Gautam Gambhir. At the same time, Shreyas Iyer made the team champion in 2024.
Let me tell you, under the captaincy of Ajinkya, Maharashtra won the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, while MP’s team was runner -up in it. The captain of the MP team then was Rajat Patidar. Rajat has been the captain of Madhya Pradesh in the 2024-25 season of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy. Ranji team was the silver Patidar of Madhya Pradesh’s captain Indore, he has been made the captain of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB).
Silver Patidar became Royal Challengers Bangalore captain
Rajat said that I feel honored. Many legends will get a chance to lead here.
The young cricketer Rajat Patidar (31 years) of Indore, Madhya Pradesh, has been declared its captain by the Indian Premier League team Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). This was informed from RCB’s official account on social media platform x.
The Indian Premier League (IPL) starts on 21 March. RCB has bought Rajat for IPL-2025 for Rs 11 crore. Rajat is with RCB since 2021. Rajat has been the captain of Madhya Pradesh in the 2024-25 season of Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy and Vijay Hazare Trophy.
Many legends will get a chance to lead, Rajat said that I was disappointed if I was not selected in the mega auction. Fearing that I would be selected in IPL or not. Then I was picked up as a replacement. The second chance was very confident that when I have come here, I can go further.
Feeling myself honored. Many legends will get a chance to lead here. I will captain everyone in a very efficient way. My journey has been very up and down. I trust myself, this is my strength and will remain further.