With most of the overseas spots being allotted to batters, RCB have had to depend on an India-heavy bowling attack. It has had a direct impact on their bowling as well. When their top three or four have fired they have not needed reinforcements, but when they haven’t, the lack of Indian batting depth has proved fatal. They have rarely invested in proven Indian batters. This over-dependence of RCB on international batting stars has had various cascading effects. It just goes on to show that in order to be a successful team in long tournaments like the IPL, the workload needs to be distributed nearly equally across the squad, and you can’t expect one concentrated portion of the XI (the top three or the top four) to give you long term success, which is what RCB have been doing for over a decade now. Similarly, Mumbai Indians, five-time IPL winners, have had 10 players score more than a thousand runs, seven of whom have been Indians. To compare this with the most successful IPL teams – Chennai Super Kings, four-time IPL winners, have had 12 players score more than a thousand runs for them over the years in IPL, with as many as seven of them being Indians. Kohli, the highest run-scorer in IPL history, is the only Indian batter who has scored more than a thousand runs for the franchise. Only six RCB players have scored more than a thousand runs for them in IPL history, with five of them being overseas players.
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