In the 19th season of the Indian Premier League, the defending champion Royal Challengers Bangalore team did wonders by defending the trophy and winning it for the second consecutive season. RCB, who won the IPL trophy for the first time in the year 2025, did not have to wait long to win their second title and within a year they managed to win the trophy for the second time. With this, RCB team captain Rajat Patidar has achieved an achievement which no other captain before him had been able to do in IPL history.
Rajat Patidar became the first player to win the trophy as captain in the first season.
When the Royal Challengers Bangalore team decided to make Rajat Patidar its captain before the 2025 IPL season, no one expected that he would be successful in winning the first season under his leadership. Rajat Patidar answered all the critics and led the team brilliantly and managed to make it a winner. In the IPL 2026 season, the RCB team performed as a defending champion on the field and captured the trophy for the second consecutive time. With this, Rajat Patidar became the only captain in the history of IPL under whose leadership the team was successful in winning the title in the first two seasons. Even MS Dhoni and Rohit Sharma, who are counted among the most successful captains in IPL history, could not achieve such a feat.
Rohit Sharma’s record was also broken by Rajat Patidar
By making RCB the winner for the second time under his captaincy, another big achievement has been registered in the name of Rajat Patidar, in which he has become the captain to win the title twice in the least number of matches. Earlier this record was in the name of Rohit Sharma under whose captaincy his team had won the second title in 44 matches. Whereas Rajat Patidar managed to achieve this feat in just 28 matches. In this list, the name of MS Dhoni is at third place, who took 59 matches to win the second trophy as captain, while Gautam Gambhir is at third place, who took 79 matches to win the second trophy as captain.
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