Players you didn’t know played for RCB

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1)Mohammad Kaif :- Mohammad Kaif surprisingly was left out at the last moment in the final squad of Rajasthan Royals for 2009 season but he did play for 5 years with his last two years in the year 2011 and 2012 with star studded squad Royal Challengers Bangalore.

He had high score of 34 in all IPL seasons but for RCB he played 9 matches only for 55 runs.

His total income was 7.59 crore.

2)Cheteshwar Pujara :- Once a red ball specialist who is not in the plans for India in red ball cricket for now has difficulty in finding buyers at the IPL auction due to his low strike rate.

He didn’t play IPL from 2015 to 2020 until he saw a bidding coming through from Chennai Super Kings in 2021 for 50 lakhs.

For RCB, he played 14 matches in 3 IPL seasons from 2011 to 2013. His highest score was 51 not out and he got around 12 crores in total from his IPL duties.

3)Tanmay Mishra :- The Kenyan cricket or Indian cricketer, Tanmay Mishra has some confusion to his whereabouts.

He moved to Kenya at the age of 8 and then went on to represent Kenya at international stage. The highlight of his career was 72 runs he made against Australia in 2011 World Cup. He was the second highest run scorer for Kenya in 2011 World Cup after recently retired Collins Obuya.

He got featured in IPL in 2012 for Deccan chargers and then in 2014 for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

At the age of 37, he is still playing. He played the Vijay Hazare trophy 2023 from Meghalaya and still able to put bat to the ball.

He played 1 IPL match for Deccan chargers but he didn’t get chance to bat.

4)Bhuvneshwar Kumar :- From 2014, Bhuvneshwar Kumar is donning the orange jersey of Sunrisers hyderabad but not many know he started his career from Royal Challengers Bangalore, for which he played in 2009 and 2010 season for a humble amount of 6 lakhs.

5)Tinu Yohannan :- Tinu Yohannan is few of the Christian cricketers who went on to play for India. Tinu along with representing India, also had a stint with Royal Challengers Bangalore for 2009 season.

6)Wasim Jaffer :- Another player not known for his strike rate made into the RCB squad for consecutive seasons of 2008 and 2009. 8 matches for 130 runs and a high score of 50 is what the Mumbai batter could manage in his IPL career.

7)Prasanth Parameswaran :- Married to actress Shivani Bhai, Man of the match on IPL debut and also being responsible for most expensive over of IPL with 37 runs, the left arm 6 foot 3 inch fast bowler from Kerala had mixed bags in his career.

8)Rahul Dravid :- Once again the super dependable and current Indian head coach but not someone who is known for his strike rate, Dravid spent half of his IPL time in RCB in initial years.

He played for RCB from 2008 to 2010 before finishing his IPL career with 3 seasons with Rajasthan Royals.

He played all the matches for RCB in those 3 seasons with a high score of 75 and strike rate of 120.

9)Ravi Rampaul :- The Indian origin Ravi Rampaul who had the skills for the shortest format of the game played for RCB in two seasons.

10)Praveen Kumar :- The Uttar Pradesh pacer who had silent post retirement career until now where he is seen giving some interviews and little more active on social media, also played for RCB for his first 3 seasons.