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With the start of the 15th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) just a few days away, franchises have started gearing up. While the nine teams have their leader sorted, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are due to announce their new captain. As Virat Kohli stepped down from RCB's captaincy last year, the Bangalore-based team is in search of a new face who can lead them to their maiden title.

A few names are doing rounds to take the captaincy baton. Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, and Dinesh Karthik are in contention to be appointed as RCB's next captain. While the RCB fans wait for the official announcement, the franchise has dropped a big hint about who can be their next captain under the RCB Unbox campaign.

The official announcement is due for March 12 but the poster put by the franchise on their social media handles gives a hint about who can be their captain for IPL 2022. In a designer post, a few RCB stars are seen gathered around and probably discussing what's in the RCB Unbox campaign. Virat Kohli, Harshal Patel, Faf du Plessis, Glenn Maxwell, and Mohammad Siraj are all present, but Dinesh Karthik is not there.

"We’ve even got our stars curious about the #RCBUnbox event and they can’t wait to #UnboxTheBold either," read the caption of the post. This means that everyone is unaware of what's in the box or better say whose name is in the box apart from Karthik who already knows it is him.

Fans start guessing!

The post from the franchise was enough to send the fans into the Sherlock Holmes mode as they started guessing the big hint. And as already mentioned above, all the guessing leads to one name and that's Dinesh Karthik.

Stars align for Dinesh Karthik

Dinesh Karthik may get a nod for the captaincy role with some critical points working in his favor. A few points that an IPL franchise looks at while appointing a captain include better if it's Indian cricketer, should have good international experience, IPL captaincy experience an added advantage. Looking at all these points, Karthik is ahead of the other two contestants. Plus, Virat Kohli will definitely have his say in deciding RCB's next captain, and Kohli will also not mind playing under Karthik.