Rajat Patidar — the new king of Chinnaswamy

At Bengaluru’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium, the precocious tier of the ‘B’ Stand, located successful the South-West country of the ground, is thrown unfastened to fans during home tournaments. A just smattering of spectators turns up – the numbers are understandably much erstwhile Karnataka are successful enactment – to cheer for individuals much than teams, and particularly if these said individuals person been/are a portion of Royal Challengers Bengaluru.

There was the mandatory 250-odd radical successful attendance astatine the Ranji Trophy last betwixt Mumbai, the multiple-times champions, and Madhya Pradesh, seeking their archetypal crown, successful June 2022, erstwhile the knockouts were played exclusively successful the Garden City conscionable arsenic cricket was attempting to clasp a semblance of normalcy successful the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic. Mumbai went into the contention arsenic favourites, arsenic they mostly do, but successful the absorption campy was a respected fig from Mumbai cricket who knew what it took to marque underdogs punch supra their weight.