IPL 2021: Virat Kohli and 11 other stars retained by Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)

Virat Kohli

It will be Kohli’s 14th year with RCB. He has represented only one franchise in the IPL so far.

AB de Villiers

De Villiers and Kohli are the only two players to have scored 4,000-plus runs for RCB in the IPL.

Yuzvendra Chahal

With 21 wickets, Chahal finished as RCB’s leading wicket-taker last season. Overall, the spinner has 121 wickets to his name in the tournament.

Devdutt Padikkal

The opening batsman had a terrific debut IPL season last year, where he scored 473 runs in 15 matches, including five fifties.

Navdeep Saini

The Indian fast bowler bagged six wickets in six matches in IPL 2020 for RCB.

Washington Sundar

Last season, the all-rounder scored 111 runs and picked eight wickets in 15 matches for RCB.

Mohammed Siraj

Siraj, who joined RCB from SRH in 2018, has picked 29 wickets including 11 in the last season.

Kane Richardson

The Aussie bowler was retained despite not featuring in the previous season.

Adam Zampa

Zampa, who was called in as Richardson’s replacement, has been impressive and hence, RCB decided to retain the Aussie spinner.

Josh Philippe

The Australian wicketkeeper-batsman played only five matches for RCB last season.

Shahbaz Ahmed

The all-rounder received only two caps in IPL 2020.

Pavan Deshpande

The 31-year-old did not get a game last edition in the UAE.