The Royal Challengers Bangalore took some crucial decisions ahead of the upcoming IPL auction where they stuck to their core group of players who pulled off a pretty decent show in the preceding edition of the IPL.

RCB Head coach, Sanjay Bangar opened up on RCB Bold Diaries about his share of thoughts that saw the management taking a few tough calls but, in the end, finishing as a happy bunch. 

Bangar said, “The second season after a mega-auction is always interesting. It is important because of the fact that it gives you an opportunity to measure yourself in terms of how your team selection was in the mega-auction. That’s where I felt, the kind of preparation that the management and the support group has put in, in terms of identifying players, putting up a combination, how to have a domestic and overseas player mix becomes extremely critical.”

He further added, “For us we have vindicated the fact that having retained 18 out of those 23 players that we had last season means that a bulk of the work which was done in the mega-auction was pretty spot on and it needed continuation because consistency is something that we are very big on.”

Bangar concluded by saying, “Identifying the core group of players and developing them around the year has been our endeavour; even after the end of the IPL season last year. Unfortunately, we had to release a couple of our players, Aneeshwar, CV Milind and Luvnith Sisodia. These are domestic players and I am pretty sure, the kind of exposure that they got last season, travelling with the team, training with the team, their interactions with overseas and international players, Indian international players would have certainly helped them quite a bit. Our best wishes for them.”