Iyer also became a fan of PatidarImage Credit source: PTI
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Rajat Patidar is explosive batting in IPL 2026. Under his leadership, the winning streak which the team started in the last season is continuing this year also. It was Patidar who made Bengaluru the IPL champion for the first time. In such a situation, not only the fans of RCB but also many legends of world cricket are impressed by him. One of them is Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer, who himself has become an IPL champion and is making waves with his captaincy as well as batting.
But which specialty of Patidar is Shreyas Iyer impressed by? Which qualities of the RCB captain have made Iyer his fan? The Punjab captain himself revealed this in a special video. IPL broadcaster JioHotstar posted a video of an interesting interview with an Iyer on YouTube. In this interview, he was asked 20 questions to which short answers were to be given.
Among these 20 questions, there were 2 such questions in response to which Iyer took the name of Patidar and this was really shocking. Shocking because one question was about captaincy and the other was about batting. When Iyer was asked from which IPL captain he would like to take advice, he directly took the name of Rajat Patidar. After this, when he was asked who he thinks is the most stylish batsman in the current generation, the Punjab captain once again told Patidar as his choice.
However, considering the success of Patidar’s captaincy and his batting, the answer does not seem wrong at present. Last year itself, Rajat Patidar took charge of RCB for the first time and in the first season itself, he ended the wait of 18 years by making the team champion. Rajat Patidar is among the most successful batsmen in IPL since the 2022-23 season. Especially he has a big contribution in the success of Bengaluru. This season too, Patidar has scored 214 runs in just 5 matches at an astonishing strike rate of 214, in which 21 sixes have come from his bat.
