Rajat Patidar, who has been appointed RCB's new captain, is a right-handed batter who leads Madhya Pradesh in domestic cricket. He was born on June 1, 1993 in Madhya Pradesh's Indore. He has been with RCB since 2021 and was retained for ₹11 crore ahead of the IPL 2025 mega-auction. He has scored 799 runs in 27 matches for RCB.