News India Live, Digital Desk: RCB’s Big Decision: In the IPL, stopping or leaving players in the team has always been a puzzle, and the decisions of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are often in the headlines. Before the 2025 IPL auction, when RCB released Mohammad Siraj, many fans were shocked. However, the team’s cricket director, Mo Bobat has now told the full story behind this decision. Why was Bhuvaneshwar Kumar RCB a priority? According to Mo Bobat, the team had the longest discussion on this before removing Mohammad Siraj. He revealed that his team wanted to connect experienced fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar, because Bhuvi can bowl well in both new ball and death over. Bobat said, “We wanted to take Bhuvi in ​​the team to bowl from both ends, and we felt that keeping Siraj in the team would make it difficult to achieve Bhuvi. So we took this decision keeping in mind many things.” Bhuvneshwar Kumar played an important role in RCB’s historic victory in IPL 2025. He took 17 wickets in 14 matches, while Siraj took 16 wickets in 15 matches for Gujarat Titans. It was a difficult decision to release Siraj, who took 99 wickets in 102 matches in 7 years for RCB, it was a difficult decision to release him. He said that Indian international bowlers did not get easily, so he thought for a long time whether Siraj should be retained, released or brought back through ‘Right to Match’ in the auction. He interacted with Siraj on every possibility, RCB bought Josh Hazelwood for ₹ 12.50 crore and Bhuvneshwar Kumar for ₹ 10.75 crore. Siraj was bought by Gujarat Titans for ₹ 12.25 crore. Bobat also said that Australian all -rounder Cameron Green was also not retained due to injury, if he had fit, he would have been kept in the team. How important is it to maintain the balance of the players.