Mike Hesson, Director of Cricket Operations at Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) on Saturday said the franchise will decide on their captain once the ongoing 2022 IPL mega auction is over.
On Saturday — Day 1 of the auction — Bangalore picked Faf du Plessis, Dinesh Karthik, Josh Hazlewood, Anuj Rawat and Akash Deep apart from buying back last year’s players Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga.
“We haven’t had that discussion yet. We have got three incredible leaders in our group. The likes of Maxwell, Virat and Faf so we are really happy with those three leaders. Also, we got Josh Hazlewood, a leader from a bowling point of view. We are really happy with the group in terms of combination leaders. We will make the decision around captaincy after the auction,” said Hesson in the virtual press conference.
Hesson expressed delight over buying back Patel, who was the leading wicket-taker in the 2021 edition with 32 wickets and made his India T20I debut against New Zealand last year. Bangalore battled past attempts from Sunrisers Hyderabad and Chennai Super Kings for a whopping sum of INR 10.75 crore.
