{"id":575817,"date":"2025-11-17T08:38:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575817\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:38:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:38:16","slug":"strong-core-real-opportunity-mo-bobat-on-rcbs-auction-plans-ahead-of-ipl-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/575817\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cStrong core, real opportunity\u201d &#8211; Mo Bobat on RCB\u2019s auction plans ahead of IPL 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RCB\u2019s retention of 17 members from their title-winning squad of the IPL 2025 will present the management with an opportunity to channel their focus on filling a few important slots at the IPL 2026 Auction.<\/p>\n<p>On an episode of Big Basket presents Bold Diaries, RCB\u2019s Director of Cricket, Mo Bobat spoke on how the think-tank will approach their strategies at the auction with a strong core already set in place.<\/p>\n<p>Bobat said, \u201cI&#8217;m not sure there&#8217;s such a thing as a chilled-out auction. I predict we&#8217;ll have less business to do than some of the other teams, but we still want to prepare really well. We&#8217;ve got some important roles to fill in our squad, so we will prepare very thoroughly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAnd actually, you never know what can happen at an auction, and you have to be prepared sometimes to capitalize on an opportunity. So, I wouldn&#8217;t describe it as chilled-out, but it is nice going into an auction knowing that the core of your squad is strong and has achieved success in the year before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Englishman further said, \u201cSo, I feel like it&#8217;s a nice place to be, but we&#8217;re certainly not taking anything for granted, and it&#8217;s a real opportunity for us to improve our squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andy Flower, RCB\u2019s Head coach, offered his thoughts on how signing the right players at an auction plays a role in building the right character as he said, \u201cIt&#8217;s amazing to reflect on the success of last season, and that was obviously really satisfying. Starting afresh and refreshing our squad, strengthening our squad, and shifting our gaze forward is a really exciting part of being involved in professional sport. So, I&#8217;m really looking forward to that shift of focus. A big part of the strength of a dressing room in the franchise world is getting the right people in the dressing room, and so auctions are important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RCB\u2019s retention of 17 members from their title-winning squad of the IPL 2025 will present the management with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,157302,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-575817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-mo-bobat","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115564138007768775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}