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Before IPL 2024, Virat Kohli starrer Royal Challengers Bangalore had hinted at changing its name, which was completed today and the name of Bangalore was changed from Royal Challengers to Bangalore. RCB launched the team's new jersey on its official YouTube channel with Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis and RCB Women captain Smriti Mandhana and also announced the name change at the event. Team management changed the name of the franchise to reflect the new name of the city. So that more and more fans can join the team.
There will be no change in the short form
The Bengaluru franchise announced during a live stream on YouTube that RCB will now be named Royal Challengers Bangalore instead of Royal Challengers Bangalore. The Government of India changed the name of the city of Bengaluru to Bengaluru on 1 November 2014. Keeping this in mind, the franchise decided to change the name. During the RCB Unbox Event 2024, Virat Kohli, Faf Duplessis and Smriti Mandhana together announced the new name of the team.
Recently, under the captaincy of Smriti Mandhana, RCB women's team won the WPL 2024 title. Now Virat Kohli also wants to be a part of that team. Whenever RCB won its first title. He said before IPL 2024, everyone knows that whenever RCB wins the title for the first time, I will be a part of this group. I will try my best to make this franchise a champion. I also dream that I can experience the experience of winning the IPL trophy. Hopefully we can do that this year.
What other changes did RCB make?
Royal Challengers Bangalore's first match will be against Yellow Army on 22 March. Royal Challengers Bangalore will face Chennai Super Kings at Chepauk Stadium, Chennai. Before this, RCB not only changed its name but also made two major changes. RCB has also changed its jersey and the team logo has also been completely changed. The jersey is red as before, but this time dark blue has been used on the T-shirt instead of black.