IPL 2019: SWOT analysis of the Royal Challengers Bangalore squad

Opportunities

FINAL - ICC Under 19 World Cup

The Indian Premier League is known for providing young and talented youngsters with an opportunity to fulfil their dreams of making it to the Indian national team and for sure these trend is not going to break this season.

Talking about RCB, then they have many IPL debutants in Shivam Dubey, Devdutt Padikal, Himmat Singh, Milind Kumar, and Prayas Ray Burman and there is no doubt that their excitement level will be head-and-shoulders above the rest.

As mentioned above, IPL provides the perfect platform to make an impact and the biggest example is Mayank Markande, who was not known by many before he played the IPL for Mumbai Indians and now, in less than one year, he has already made his international debut for India.

Just like Markande, Shivam Dubey, Prayas Ray Burman and all the players mentioned above have a great opportunity and if they are able to capitalize on it then their chances for playing India will take a huge leap.

Threats

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RCB will be forming a solid XI with the likes of Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Shimron Hetmyer and Yuzvendra Chahal in it. However, the threat to this Kohli-led side is that they don't have quality back-ups.

If an Indian all-rounder (Shivam Dubey) gets injured then the RCB don't have any reliable option and thus, in this case, they will be forced to change their tactics.

Thus RCB needs to make sure that their key players are totally fit as they lack back-ups and if they fail to do so then they might have to wait for another season to lift the IPL trophy.