Former Delhi Capitals (DC) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) pace bowler Wayne Parnell picked RCB’s fan base in the IPL as the best in the world as well. However, RCB finally broke their trophy drought by winning their maiden title this year as well. Notably, Parnell played for RCB in IPL 2023, taking nine wickets in seven games.
Talking about the RCB fanbase in an interview with Cricket.com, Parnell said: “I played for RCB three seasons back and to this day, even after leaving RCB, everywhere I have been in the world, I get stopped and people talk to me about RCB. That’s one of the fanbases I’ve seen literally anywhere. 2. I can probably go to the moon and there’ll be someone there that goes, ‘RCB’. Throughout my whole career, that’s been the best fan base and the most passionate. And it was great to see them win it last season.”
“With RCB, because it’s not owned by people who are cricket people, and they have people in place to run the whole cricket operations and a director of cricket, the owners, while they wanted to win, but it was more like, ‘Hey, how are you doing?, how are you enjoying the environment?’, that’s the kind of conversation I had when I was with them,” he added.
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Wayne Parnell also picked the Mumbai Indians (MI) as the franchise he most wanted to play for in T20 cricket as well.
“It just looks like a really well run franchise (MI). Obviously within the franchise, it’ll be a high pressure environment but it just looks like a franchise where you can really go in and make a difference and be backed by owners, who also understand because of their experience in this cricket space. It’s a team like Real Madrid and Manchester United in footballing terms,” said Parnell.
“As a player, you want to be associated with them because you know it’s a big organization. MI was definitely the team every guy wanted to play for. It was looked at as the Real Madrid of the IPL.” “But from a cricketing point of view, maybe CSK. If I played under MS Dhoni, I think would have learnt a lot as well. MI and CSK would be the two most cricketers would want to play for,” Wayne Parnell concluded.
