Updated On: 16 May, 2025 01:48 PM IST | Mumbai | mid-day online correspondent
In the ongoing IPL 2025, Rajat Patidar is one of RCB's middle-order batting mainstays. Featuring in 11 matches, the right-hander has scored 239 runs. Rajat also revealed how his captaincy appointment put him under pressure, but stalwart Virat Kohli's words helped him calm down

Rajat Patidar (Pic: File Pic)
Rajat Patidar, who is leading Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the IPL 2025, recollected the instance from 2022 of how the franchise ignored him despite assurances. Later, he was roped in by RCB as an injury replacement.
"I had got a message (ahead of the mega auction for IPL 2022) that you be ready... that we will pick you. I had a little hope that I will get another chance (to play for RCB). But I wasn't picked in the mega auction. I was a little sad," said Patidar on an RCB Podcast.