5 Reasons Why RCB is the South Africa of IPL

5 Reasons Why RCB is the South Africa of IPL: Royal Challengers Bangalore has been the deprived heroics of IPL throughout all the seasons. Starting the tournament as hot favorites every time, the side’s destructive instinct just flickers away with the progression of the tournament. And as a conclusion, the tag of Chokers has been stamped over them. In this particular season too, after playing rather gloriously throughout the league, they were finally defeated in the final over of the second qualifier. Even after possessing a fiery line up, things just haven’t clicked for them all together. And this is what equates their IPL performances to the performances of South Africa from international cricket, especially from those in the World Cup. Here are the 5 reasons why RCB have been the South Africa of IPL.

1. Possession of the side to be the Favorites:

Having the powerhouse in the likes of Gayle, AB de Villiers, Kohli and Starc in the team, this particular team has always been a team hard to beat on paper. Alongside that, their young talents in the likes of Chahal, Harshal Patel and Sarfaraz Khan have come up to the occasions at times, which made them even more dangerous than any other team. Even with such sheer strengths, somehow and somewhere down the line, things went wrong for them and had to pay the price for the same. This can be related to South Africa’s semi final elimination in World Cup, 2015.