3 RCB Players Who Will Retire After IPL 2025

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), during the previous season of IPL, made a strong comeback in the second half of the tournament with a dominating performance under Faf du Plessis.

But they didn’t make the mistake of starting slow in this season of the event. Bengaluru made a good start to the competition, including three victories in the first four group-stage encounters. However, he has picked up the pace in the business end of the season with four wins in five clashes, including a washout fixture against the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR).

RCB has made a huge record in the tournament by winning all six of their group games so far, and could script the record of winning all of their games outside home. They have already qualified for the playoffs of the tournament with eight wins in 12 games at a net run rate of 0.482.

Bengaluru will host the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium a few days later, where they hope to win both their next two clashes to earn the top two spots on the points table. A few members of the franchise are not regular in the T20Is for the national side and could retire next year.

Here are the three RCB players who will retire after the IPL 2025

1. Bhuvneshwar Kumar

The Uttar Pradesh-born Indian pacer, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, has made a huge impact in the format with both the new and old ball inside the powerplay and during the last five overs of the innings.

Bhuvi has picked up 322 wickets in 304 innings at an average of 25.05 and a strike rate of 20.5, shouldering five five-wicket and five four-wicket hauls at the best bowling figure of 5/4 in an inning.

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The veteran pacer is 35 years old and can think of retiring from the game after the end of the IPL 2025. In case of the IPL, the current RCB pacer is the second leading wicket-taker of the league with 193 wickets in 186 innings at an average of 27.29 and a strike rate of 21.4, and an economy rate of 7.63.

During this ongoing edition, he has collected 12 wickets in 10 innings at an economy rate of 28.25.

2. Virat Kohli

Just after the end of the T20 World Cup 2024, Virat Kohli, the former RCB captain, declared his retirement from T20Is. Recently, he also announced his retirement from the longest format a few weeks ago. However, he has been an integral part of the RCB side for a long time.

In 393 innings of the T20s, the right-handed batter has collected 13391 runs at an average of 41.97 and a strike rate of 134.52, shouldering nine centuries and 104 fifties at the best score of unbeaten 122 runs. He is also the leading IPL run-getter with 505 runs in 11 innings at a strike rate of 143.46, thanks to seven half-centuries.

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Even though it’s not confirmed if he would take retirement from T20s, his recent Test retirement has started the speculation.

3. Swapnil Singh

The left-arm spinner of the RCB franchise, Swapnil Singh, in 14 innings of the IPL 2025, picked up seven wickets at an average of 34.42 with an economy rate of just below nine, which is not a great performance in his IPL career.

Swapnil, who featured in seven innings of the previous season for RCB, is already 34 years old and didn’t play a single game this year. He could put a curtain down on his career after the IPL 2025.