The defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore is coming back again to defend their title in IPL 2026. After a fantastic title winning season, RCB led by Rajat Patidar and backed by Virat Kohli is totally stuck with their core team which was built in last year’s mega auction. With the picks of Phil Salt, Tim David, Josh Hazlewood, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Krunal Pandya, Romario Shepherd and Jityesh Sharma, this team looks all settled.

However, some players also bid adieu including the likes of star English All Rounder Liam Livingstone and Mayank Agarwal. RCB is currently having 16.40 Cr purse to fill 8 slots for the Mini auction and the amount looks pretty decent as they just need to pick one proper middle order Indian batsman and rest of the backups.

Auction Strategy

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