Considered to be the unluckiest team in the IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore can make big changes in the team by making some tough decisions looking ahead to IPL 2024. The auction for the 2024 tournament is scheduled to take place on December 19 in Dubai. Before that, however, the trade window is open where teams can trade players among themselves. At the same time, RCB might release some of these players before IPL 2024, which one cannot even expect.
This time RCB can release the team’s star fast bowler Harshal Patel. Harshal couldn’t do what he did for the team in 2021 in the last two seasons. He took 32 wickets in IPL 2021. But after that, in the 2022 and 2023 tournaments, he took 19 and 14 wickets respectively.
Harshal’s economy was a concern heading into the 2023 tournament. He spent runs at an economy of 9.66. While Harshal Patel is proving to be a big problem for the team in the death overs. Taking all these things into consideration, RCB can release him before the auction.
Fast bowler Siddharth Kaul’s name might be second in the list. RCB bought him in 2022 for a price of Rs 75 lakh. He only played one game for the team in 2022 and did not get a chance to play a game in 2023. In such a situation, Siddharth can be released by RCB before the 2024 IPL auction.
Dinesh Karthik could be third in this RCB list. For 38-year-old Dinesh Karthik, IPL 2023 was nothing special. He had scored just 140 runs in 13 games. Dinesh Karthik, who averaged 25.81 in the 2023 tournament, might be released by the team this time given his age. However, before that, IPL 2022 went well for Karthik where he scored 330 runs as a finisher.