Vihaan Malhotra — Royal Challengers Bengaluru Player Profile, Role & IPL Record

Royal Challengers Bengaluru · IPL 2026 squad (date-stamped) · Profile updated 26 October 2026

Ask a Royal Challengers Bengaluru supporter about Vihaan Malhotra and the answer usually starts with a moment — one innings, one spell, one night at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. This profile covers the verified ground behind those moments: squad role, team fit and what the 2027 season is likely to ask of the player.

Vihaan Malhotra — Role and Squad Fit at RCB

The 2026 season reshaped every roster through trades and the mini-auction, and Vihaan Malhotra came through it as a RCB squad member. The role recorded here is: PENDING — specialist role awaiting verified listing. Supporters should treat any stat not shown in the table below as PENDING verification — this site only publishes IPL numbers it can trace to official or reputable records.

There is a wider story around Vihaan Malhotra's place at RCB. The franchise plays out of Bengaluru, where the home crowd at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium has its own demands, and the leadership group around Rajat Patidar has been clear about role clarity since the mega-auction rebuild. For supporters tracking Vihaan Malhotra, the useful question is never just 'is he in the XI?' — it is which job in the XI is his on a given night.

Stat Table — Vihaan Malhotra

Player	Vihaan Malhotra
Career IPL runs / wickets	PENDING — no reliable published figure at build time
Most catches (IPL career)	PENDING verification against official records
Listed role	PENDING — specialist role awaiting verified listing
Batting highest score (IPL)	PENDING — this site prints it only once a reliable source confirms it
Country	Awaiting verification from official scorecards (PENDING)
Age / date of birth	PENDING — omitted rather than invented
Squad status	Established squad member in the 2026 listings
Wicketkeeper?	No
Franchise	Royal Challengers Bengaluru
Best bowling figures (IPL)	PENDING — this site prints it only once a reliable source confirms it
Verified X / Twitter	Not publicly listed (no handle printed — never invented)

Vihaan Malhotra — IPL 2027 Outlook

Finally, a word on expectations for Vihaan Malhotra: the healthiest way to read a squad player's season is by role delivery, not headline stats. Did the brief get done, in the games that swung the table? By that measure, plenty of Royal Challengers Bengaluru seasons have been quietly carried by players with profiles exactly like this one. All of it plays out against the backdrop of a title race in which CSK and MI, five titles each, are both chasing the defending champions.

Fitness is the silent variable: a 74-match season in a compressed window punishes squads whose depth players cannot stay available. Overseas-player limits mean Indian squad depth carries a premium that shows up every time an international star is rested or rotated. Coaching staffs talk about 'bankable overs' and 'bankable innings' — the unglamorous currency players in this bracket trade in.

Built from: Full IPL 2026 squad (InsideSport, post 2026 mini-auction). Related reading: the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium venue guide and the all-time record book.

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