57 -year -old anonymous hero made RCB champions. (Photo- PTI)
The 18 -year long wait for Royal Challengers Bangalore is over. Finally, RCB has also written the champion in front of its name. IPL 2025 was quite memorable for RCB. The RCB, which started the season with a win, never looked back and captured the title. After this historic victory, the players are being praised. Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar are everywhere everywhere. But a 57 -year -old veteran also has an important contribution in the victory of RCB, which is being talked very little.
57 -year -old anonymous hero made RCB champion
Royal Challengers Bangalore created history by winning their first trophy in IPL 2025, and his head coach Andy Flower was a big contribution behind this victory. The record of this veteran coach of Zimbabwe has been very spectacular as a coach, and he manages to win the title to whichever team he joined. After making RCB champion in IPL 2025, Flower once again proved that he is an extraordinary coach in the cricket world.
Andy Flower held the post of Head Coach of RCB in 2024. In 2024, the team reached the playoffs, but missed the title. However, in 2025, Flower’s strategy and leadership gave RCB the success, whose fans had been waiting for 18 years. On 3 June 2025, RCB won the IPL Trophy for the first time by defeating Punjab Kings by 6 runs. Flower kept the team united and made the right synergy of experienced stars with young players, due to which the team won a total of 11 matches this season.
Flower’s great coaching career
Andy Flower’s coaching career is full of achievements. He won 2–1 in the Ashes series with the England team in 2009. After this, in 2010, he won the T20 World Cup to England. In the same year, he defeated Australia 3–1 in the same house in the Ashes 2010-11. Flower has also shown the magic of his coaching in different leagues. In the Abu Dhabi T10 in 2019, he made the Maratha Arabians champion, and in 2021-22, Delhi Bulls brought to the finals.
In the Caribbean Premier League, St. Lucia along with Kings reached the finals in 2020 and 2021. In the Pakistan Super League, he won the title in 2021 with Multan Sultans and reached the final in 2022. Trent rockets were made champions in 2022 at The Hundred, and in the International League T20 (ILT20), Gulf Giants were given the title in 2023. In 2023 too, Multan took Sultans to the final in PSL. At the same time, in 2022 and 2023, Lucknow Super Giants were taken to IPL playoffs. In this way, Flower performed brilliantly with every league and team. Now he also ended the long wait of RCB.