IPL: Royal Challengers Bangalore's first ever IPL XI- Where are they now?
Royal Challengers Bangalore is the favorite IPL franchise of majority of cricket fans, but same cricket fans consider Royal Challengers Bangalore as perennial chokers in IPL, since they have lost three IPL finals in 2009,2011 and 2016.
The inaugural edition of IPL was a disappointing one for Royal Challengers Bangalore as they won just four matches and finished at the 7th place, thereby failing to qualify for the semifinals.
Royal Challengers Bangalore played their maiden IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders on 18 April 2008, which is also the first ever IPL match to be played. In their maiden IPL match, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost to Kolkata Knight Riders by a huge margin of 140 runs, and their bowlers were smashed to all corners of the stadium by Brendon McCullum who scored 158 runs of just 73 balls.
Only one player who took the field for Royal Challengers Bangalore in their maiden IPL match against Kolkata Knight Riders is now part of Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise currently.
So let us look at the playing XI of Royal Challengers Bangalore, which took the field in their maiden IPL encounter against Kolkata Knight Riders: