Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) have retained 12 players for IPL 2021 from their 2020 squad. They are Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Yuzvendra Chahal, Devdutt Padikkal, Washington Sundar, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Adam Zampa, Shahbaz Ahmed, Josh Philippe, Kane Richardson and Pawan Deshpande. Some prominent players released by RCB include Umesh Yadav, Aaron Finch, Chris Morris and Shivam Dube.