IPL 2019: 3 weakest teams based on the players retained

#1 Royal Challengers Bangalore

It might be hard to believe but it is true. Fan-favourites Royal Challengers Bangalore walk into the IPL Auction 2019 as the weakest team based on the squad of retained players. A team which is known to be heavy on paper has let go a lot of big names and the only ones left are Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.

The RCB have many loopholes in their squad which they have to plug in as they go into the IPL 2019. They don't have an attacking foreign opener to start with. Apart from Kohli and de Villiers, there is not a single experienced batsman who is capable of putting his hand up and delivering when the batting unit crumbles. In fact, they do not have a single Indian batsman in the middle order barring Virat Kohli himself.

The bowling as always has let the franchise down. The best that RCB got in fast-bowling contingent is Coulter-Nile, Southee and Umesh Yadav who are tidy but not regarded as best in the business. Mohammed Siraj and Kulwant Khejroliya, while good, were quite expensive last season and cannot always be relied upon all the time. Yuzvendra Chahal is the only experienced spinner in their ranks while his back-ups Pawan Negi and Washington Sundar haven't consistently delivered.

Having so many bases uncovered, the men in red have a lot of work to do at the auction and is arguably the weakest retained squad on the paper.

Squad: Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Parthiv Patel, Marcus Stoinis, Moeen Ali, Colin de Grandhomme, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Washington Sundar, Pawan Negi, Tim Southee, Yuzvendra Chahal, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Navdeep Saini, Kulwant Khejroliya