Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) once again failed to perform upto their reputation as the star-studded side couldn't qualify for the playoffs in IPL 2018 and finished at the sixth position in the league stage with only six wins from fourteen games.
Royal Challengers Bangalore began their IPL 2018 journey with a loss against Kolkata Knight Riders at the Eden Gardens and registered their first win at home Bangalore in their second match but they failed to perform with consistency and lost five out of first seven games, in the second half of the league their bowling put up a good fight and they won three consecutive games and it gave them some hopes of qualifying for the playoffs, but in the last league match against Rajasthan Royals, their batting collapsed and this ended their season on a disappointing note.
Captain Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers performed through out the season as the duo combinedly scored more than 1000 runs this season but it was not enough to win the games as they had no support from the lower order batsmen. In bowling department Umesh Yadav has been excellent as the pacer ended up with 20 wickets, Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Siraj too had a good season with the ball. Death bowling was RCB's achilles heel in IPL 2018.
Here is a look at Royal Challengers Bangalore's IPL 2018 performance :
Team Records :
1. Result Summary :
| Opposition | Match | Won | Lost | NR |
| Sunrisers Hyderabad | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Chennai Super Kings | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Kolkata Knight Riders | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Rajasthan Royals | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Mumbai Indians | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kings XI Punjab | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Delhi Daredevils | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 14 | 6 | 8 | 0 |
- Royal Challengers Bangalore four out of seven games at Bangalore and only two from seven games away from Bangalore.
2. Highest Team Total :
218/6 vs SRH at Bangalore
205/8 vs CSK at Bangalore
198/6 vs RR at Bangalore
3. Lowest Team Total :
127/9 vs CSK at Pune
134 vs RR at Jaipur
141/6 vs SRH at Hyderabad
Batting Records :
1. Most Runs :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Runs | Avg | SR | HS | 100 | 50 |
| V kohli | 14 | 14 | 530 | 48.2 | 139.1 | 92* | 0 | 4 |
| AB de Villiers | 12 | 11 | 480 | 53.3 | 174.5 | 90* | 0 | 6 |
| Mandeep Singh | 14 | 13 | 252 | 25.2 | 135.5 | 47* | 0 | 0 |
| Q de Kock | 8 | 8 | 201 | 25.1 | 124.1 | 53 | 0 | 1 |
2. Highest individual scores :
Virat Kohli - 92* vs MI at Mumbai
AB de Villiers - 90* vs DD at Bangalore
AB de Villiers - 72* vs DD at Delhi
Virat Kohli - 70 vs DD at Delhi
3. Highest batting average (Min 5 innings played) :
AB de Villiers - 53.33
Virat kohli - 48.18
Parthiv Patel - 30.60
Colin de Grandhomme - 26.20
4. Highest batting strike rate (Min 100 balls faced) :
AB de Villiers -174.54
Parthiv Patel - 140.36
Virat Kohli - 139.10
Mandeep Singh - 135.48
5. Most fifty plus scores :
AB de Villiers - 6
Virat Kohli - 4
Moeen Ali / Quinton de Kock / Parthiv Patel - 1
Bowling Records :
1. Most wickets :
| Player | Mat | Inns | Wkts | Avg | Eco | BBI | 4-fers |
| Umesh Yadav | 14 | 14 | 20 | 20.9 | 7.9 | 3/23 | 0 |
| Y Chahal | 14 | 14 | 12 | 30.2 | 7.3 | 2/22 | 0 |
| M Siraj | 11 | 11 | 11 | 33.4 | 8.9 | 3/25 | 0 |
| C Woakes | 5 | 5 | 8 | 23.7 | 10.4 | 3/36 | 0 |
2. Best bowling figures in an innings :
Umesh Yadav - 3/23 vs KXIP at Bangalore
Umesh Yadav - 3/23 vs KXIP at Indore
Mohammed Siraj - 3/25 vs SRH at Hyderabad
Umesh Yadav - 3/25 vs RR at Jaipur
3. Best bowling average (Min 5 wickets) :
Umesh Yadav - 20.90
Chris Woakes - 23.75
Yuzvendra Chahal - 30.25
Mohammed Siraj - 33.36
4. Best economy rate ( Min 10 overs bowled) :
Yuzvendra Chahal - 7.26
Moeen Ali - 7.36
Umesh Yadav - 7.86
Colin de Grandhomme - 8
