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This is the year 2019 when Virat Kohli’s captaincy was threatened. Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) slipped to the bottom of the point table this year and after that the discussion of making Parthiv Patel a captain started. Ing …Read more

Highlights
- In 2019, a plan was made to remove Kohli from captaincy.
- This plan was made after RCB’s poor performance.
- Parthiv Patel was ahead in the captaincy race: Moin Ali
RCB won only five of the 14 matches in 2019. She was at the bottom of the point table with 11 points. This year, Parthiv Patel’s season was fine. He scored 373 runs at an average of 26.64 and a strike rate of 139.18. In the year 2020, Virat Kohli gave Aaron Finch and Devdutt Padikkal as an opener. The team also performed improved this year and finished fourth. Parthiv was also with RCB in 2020 but did not play any matches. After this, he retired in December.
Moin Ali of England has spoken in detail to India Today to remove Virat Kohli from the captaincy and Parthiv on the discussion of this responsibility. He said about being in the race to become the captain of Parthiv. ‘Yes, I think. When Gary Kirsten was there. Parthiv was in the race to become captain. He had a great cricketing mind. This was the discussion at that time. I do not know what happened later or why it did not happen.
Virat Kohli finally left the captaincy of RCB in 2021. After this, Faf du Plessy took command of this team by 2024. In the year 2025, Do Plessy was released and Rajat Patidar of Madhya Pradesh was elected captain. This decision of RCB brought color. RCB won the IPL title in 2025 under the captaincy of Rajat Patidar. He won the trophy by defeating Punjab Kings (PBKS) in the final. Kohli was the top scorer of the team.

Active in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of Sports as Associate Editor Sports in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page-1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi, Sports, India and abroad, Election D …Read more
Active in journalism for two decades. Responsibility of Sports as Associate Editor Sports in News18Hindi from April 2020. Page-1 in Dainik Bhaskar, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala newspapers before News18 Hindi, Sports, India and abroad, Election D … Read more