Although there are other names in the list of teams that have never won the IPL, the biggest name is Royal Challengers Bangalore – RCB. This team's record has become a never-ending story of heartbreak. It has been more than 5800 days since we suffered a crushing defeat against KKR in the IPL opening match and since then, this team has been talked about more than anyone else for not winning the title. When we add to this that the team for which Virat Kohli is playing has never won the title, then this statement turns into a surprising truth.

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If we don't expect any miracle then this season has also gone for RCB. Till the time of writing this report, only 1 win in 6 matches and mathematics says that RCB needs to win 7 out of 8 matches. 5 biggest reasons for disappointment:

The crazy fans will cheer but the players have to play: The hearts of fans are breaking whose count is increasing despite waiting for the title. RCB currently has 24.2 million followers on social media and counting – notably 3.52 million YouTube subscribers, 7.1 million Twitter followers and 13.6 million followers on their Instagram handle. All this and the crowd for RCB matches not only at the home ground, Chinnaswamy Stadium, but the crowd outside too will not bring the title.

Virat Kohli is just scoring runs: Virat's IPL record is 7582 runs in 235 innings of 243 matches with 8 scores of 100 but this performance could not bring the title. Well, except him, most of the batsmen do not have that confidence and enthusiasm to score runs, but Virat's runs fell short of the team's need for victory – among the top scorers of IPL, Virat Kohli contributed more than 7500 runs in the winning match. Despite the runs, he is at 51.12 percent while Shikhar Dhawan (58.28), David Warner (56.47), Rohit Sharma (61.09), Suresh Raina (64.38), AB de Villiers (57.47) and MS Dhoni (58.23) have contributed more than him. -For your team.

Think tank failed to form a balanced team: It has been going on since the beginning that the team is unbalanced. Batting is weak in some seasons and bowling is weak in others. The team's low confidence in Indian players other than Virat is a surprising truth. Apart from Virat, no Indian batsman of the team scored even 1000 runs. Not retaining Yuzvendra Chahal is also similar. Somewhere, it seems that despite being with the team for so long, Virat never gave him the right advice.

If we look at this season itself, there are only 6 examples of losing 4 matches while defending a score of 170+ in an IPL season and RCB's name is there 3 times in this – in 2016, 2023 and 2024 whereas in this season only after playing 6 matches. Record equaled and still 8 matches left.

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Team playing without plan A and B: The current season is a very good example of this. Mahipal Lomror shone against Punjab Kings but was out of the playing eleven in the very next match. Vijaykumar Vaishya showed pace against KKR but after that he was put in the impact role. Even a sensible coach like Andy Flower – with a record of many successes – has become useless with this team. What about Plan B? They don't even have Plan A. Another example – In the slog overs against Rajasthan Royals, the inexperienced Sourav was playing with Chauhan and Cameron Green while Lomror and Dinesh Karthik were resting in the dug-out.

Now see – From MI, they took Cameron Green, who could not do anything there, for Rs 17+ crore while releasing Josh Hazlewood, Wanindu Hasaranga and Harshal Patel. Well, Hazlewood was not available for the entire season but not retaining Hasaranga also made the spin attack useless – Mayank Dagar became the most special spinner who has taken only one wicket in 5 matches. Mohammad Siraj has become completely useless – all of them are playing for 4 wickets in 6 matches because there is no option. No trust in one's players – An example: When Avinash Singh was bought, his fast bowling was discussed a lot but after that he was released. On the contrary, no one knows why Anuj Rawat and Manoj Bhandage are supported.

No one feels pain in team management: The specialty of IPL from the beginning has been that the team owners themselves bear the pain of performing with the team – the joy also goes hand in hand. There is no 'Shahrukh' and no 'Kavya' with this team – the group is running it like a business corporate in which the CEO may not have any interest in cricket. The team management should understand – 1) You will not be able to win IPL by organizing big but wasteful programs, 2) Openers should be such that they score more runs in the powerplay at any cost, 3) You will not be able to win IPL by just filling the batsmen – good bowling. And 4) If the intention is just to make money then don't fool the fans and say you want to win the trophy.

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