Tennis Legend Calls for RCB Sale After Poor Performance: "Time for New Ownership for the Sake of IPL"

It was a really hard day to be a Royal Challengers Bengaluru native on the 13th of this month. Sent to the batting arena, team Chennai Super Kings scored the highest ever in the IPL, leaving 287 in 20 overs for SunRisers Hyderabad. Despite Dinesh Karthik, Virat Kohli, and Faf Du Plessis, giving the audience a lovely thriller, the odds of overcoming a daunting target of 288 were stacked against them. Finally, RCB managed only a 25-run defeat and thus continued with their fifth loser streak in IPL 2024.

Now the odds of RCB to play post-season games remain more exaggerated with every lost game. As of now, the team stands at the bottom of 10 teams. Talking about 3 teams including Delhi Capitals, Punjab Kings, RCB, apart from these in the group are the ones which have been playing the IPL since 2008 but are yet to win the tournament.

On Monday, as RCB turn up defenseless yet again, the world-famous Indian Tennis star Mahesh Bhupathi is bound to have scribbled a behind-the-scenes note for X, “For the sake of the Sport, IPL, fans and even the players I humbly implore BCCI to sell this sports franchise to a new owner who will work in the true spirit of a "#tragic". Furthermore, Mahesh Bhupathi tweeted that.

Days before Bhupathi's statement, Michael Vaughan, the former captain of the English cricket team, offered his thoughts on why the RCB, while having some outstanding players in their lineup, has failed to produce as a unit.

"I enjoy that the RCB's lack of success shows that team sports are about more than just individuals. It has been demonstrated at the RCB that you cannot guarantee victory by assembling a squad with the greatest individual names available, as he stated on The Ranveer Show on YouTube.