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The 2024 Indian Premier League (IPL) mini-auction will be held in Dubai on Tuesday, December 19. All 10 teams aim to pick some impact players to form a formidable squad for the upcoming season. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) management will be at the forefront of the bidding war this time. On the eve of the auction, the team's Director of Cricket, Mo Bobat, revealed their main focus for the day.
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RCB have retained their key players including captain Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, and Mohammed Siraj. A day after the deadline for player retention announcements, the Bangalore-based franchise bought Cameron Green from Mumbai Indians (MI) for a whopping Rs 17.50 crore in a trade deal.
"We have got a strong core of retaining players, and we have got a very powerful top order. Part of the decision-making that we had around our player release decisions was to try and strengthen the middle order, and bringing Cameron Green was a fantastic move," said Bobat.
RCB aims to find right support for Mohammed Siraj
With this, they have re-strengthened their batting line-up, but concerns remain over the bowling department. Despite participating in the league since its inception in 2008, RCB never managed to win the trophy. They reached the final three times and 2016 was their best season. All season they come with a strong batting unit but their bowlers are disappointing.
This time they have released bowlers like Wannindu Hasaranga, Harshal Patel and Josh Hazlewood. RCB's main focus is sure to be on acquiring top-class bowlers in the auction, with former pacer Mitchell Starc at the forefront. Bobut emphasized that RCB's primary focus will be on finding the right support for their star bowler Mohammed Siraj.
“Mohammad Siraj is a core part of what we do so supporting Siraj with some more bowling options including overseas bowling options is going to be a real priority for us moving forward. Then we have got a core of local spinners, which I think is quite strong. Some of them got some opportunities over the last year or two and they might play more leading roles moving forward,” said Bobat.