RCB's Blunder: Rajat Patidar Named In Playing 11, Jitesh Says He's Impact Player

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Last Updated:May 27, 2025, 19:45 IST

RCB made a large blunder earlier their lucifer vs LSG, putting Rajat Patidar successful the bowling archetypal playing 11, contempt stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma saying helium was the Impact Player.

Rajat Patidar volition beryllium utilized arsenic an Impact Player against LSG (BCCI Photo)

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB)’s full-time skipper Rajat Patidar is again not starring the squad for the important lucifer against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) connected Tuesday (May 27).

Stand-in skipper Jitesh Sharma came retired astatine the flip and opted to vessel first, mentioning that Patidar would beryllium the team’s Impact Player. This seemed to beryllium due to the fact that of his digit wounded successful the close hand, which kept him retired of the fielding innings for the erstwhile crippled against Sunrisers Hyderabad, too.

However, interestingly, helium was mentioned successful the team’s ‘bowling first’ playing 11 authoritative sheet. The broadcasters besides showed him successful the 11, but helium didn’t travel retired to the tract either. That suggests that the RCB squad unit made a mistake successful the authoritative sheet.

“We volition tract first. Looks similar a bully wicket, we’ll fancy to chase. Rajat Patidar is our interaction player. Looking to triumph and marque it into the top-2. Tim David misses out, Liam comes in, truthful does Thushara, helium replaces Ngidi who near the team," Jitesh said astatine the toss.

Since the Impact Player regularisation has travel into being, captains transportation 2 squad sheets to the toss. If they vessel first, they supply the other skipper with a expanse with much bowlers (and program to bring successful different batter arsenic the Impact sub), and vice-versa for batting first. RCB’s bowling archetypal playing 11 had an other batter successful Patidar and nary leg-spinner Suyash Sharma, who is mostly the Impact Player coming successful erstwhile they bat first.

Later, it was revealed that RCB was allowed to marque the correction successful the sheet. And a photograph of the archetypal expanse being corrected with Suyash and Patidar’s names was seen circulating connected societal media and the broadcasters besides changed the 11s, showing the leg-spinner alternatively of the middle-order batter.

Former India and RCB manager Sanjay Bangar connected the commentary provender suggested that LSG could person rejected the correction and asked the visitors to play with the 11 they gave. This could person been disastrous for RCB for they’d person had to not lone tract a half-fit Patidar but besides played with a less bowler successful the archetypal innings.

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