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Virat Kohli’s message to Royal Challengers Bengaluru fans: ‘Don’t call me King..’

Virat Kohli will always be synonymous with the Indian Premier League franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore and on Tuesday, he assured the fans that he is always going to be there and be part of the group that wins the IPL for Bengaluru for the very first time. “As everyone knows, I will always be here to be part of the group which wins for the first time, I will try my absolute best for the fans and the franchise. It’s a dream of mine as well to know how it feels to win the IPL – hopefully this year,” he said in a video shared by RCB. The former RCB skipper also lauded the women’s team for their WPL title victory and he also gave a guard of honour to Smriti Mandhana and Co in the RCB Unbox event at Chinnaswamy Stadium on Tuesday. Virat Kohli at RCB Unbox LIVE 🤩 King Kohli speaks about ...
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Why RCB doesn’t have home advantage at Chinnaswamy Stadium

On any given day during the summer, the energy levels at M Chinnaswamy Stadium can act as a catalyst for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). Speaking strictly of atmosphere, the franchise can stand on an equal footing with Chennai Super Kings and Mumbai Indians. Despite the trophy-less years, it still enjoys a fanatical following with the decibel levels at the stadium on match days capable of intimidating noise. Perhaps as intimidating as Chepauk when it clears its throats as MS Dhoni takes guard or Wankhede when Rohit Sharma tees off. But the Chinnaswamy stadium is nowhere close to being an intimidating venue for the opposition from a cricketing perspective. Thanks to the venue’s history of offering flat decks to go with short boundaries on all sides, it is a stadium where opposition te...
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Virat Kohli should be in India’s T20 World Cup squad, even if he has a middling IPL season

Ever since Virat Kohli returned to India, even the minutest detail about the 35-year-old has found its way to social media. That he spotted a salt-and-pepper beard when he arrived at the Bangalore Airport; that he wore baggy black t-shirts, or he lunged to his left and then sprung to his right during a fielding drill.Suddenly, the narrative that Kohli needs a profitable IPL to guarantee his spot in the T20 World Cup, which begins a week after the league, has vanished. Such a thought was ludicrously to begin with. True that Kohli is not a super-modern batsman in this format and that a posse of incredibly talented youngsters has staked their claims. But the simple reality is that he remains undroppable in any version of the game. It’s not because of his stature, or the grand past, or the ...
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Virat Kohli joins Royal Challengers Bangalore ahead of IPL clash with Chennai Super Kings

Virat Kohli made his first public appearance after the birth of his son when he returned to Bengaluru to join the Royal Challengers Bangalore camp ahead of the upcoming Indian Premier League season. “It’s really good to be back, firstly playing cricket and just starting off the IPL. Always exciting to come back to Bangalore for the start of the IPL season. So similar emotions, similar feelings and I haven’t been off the media radar. I have been into the normalcy, you can say for 2 months. So, yeah, I am pretty happy and excited to be back and I hope all the fans are excited and happy as well,” Kohli said in a video shared by RCB. Kohli, who was out of the country for the birth of his second child, arrived in India on Sunday. The former India and RCB captain was seen taking rounds of the...
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India vs South Africa: Virat Kohli meets fan, signs Royal Challengers Bangalore jersey

Virat Kohli shared a heartwarming moment with a young fan before the start of the second day’s play between India and South Africa at the Centurion on Wednesday. In the video Kohli was seen meeting the fan and signing a Royal Challengers Bangalore jersey before posing with the kid for a photograph. Kohli will return to RCB duties once the Indian Premier League season kicks off around March-end next year and will be hoping to help his franchise grab its very first IPL trophy. ಕಣ ಕಣದಲ್ಲೂ ಕೆಂಪು 😍@imVkohli #SAvIND #Bangalore #KingKohli pic.twitter.com/oSMbjvGr6E — Star Sports Kannada (@StarSportsKan) December 27, 2023 Speaking of the Test match, Dean Elgar struck a stroke-filled unbeaten century to guide South Africa to 194 for three at tea in reply to India’s 245 all out in the first inni...
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AB de Villers compares Virat Kohli to Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic

AB de Villers has never shied away from showing his appreciation for his former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) teammate Virat Kohli. Even after his retirement the bond between both the stars seems to be intact. Kohli scored 100 in his 500th international game and appreciating the knock De Villers heaped praises on former India captain and compared him to Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic. Speaking on his YouTube channel De Villers said, “One thing stands out I see a similar thing in the greatest sportsmen worldwide. I have seen Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Djokovic, the list goes on. You mention anyone all of them have one thing in common which is desire hunger and a fighting spirit. The desire to never give up they want to win the medals they w...
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Grudges, anger, negativity… I don’t have time for it: Virat Kohli posts cryptic Instagram story featuring Kevin Hart

Former India and Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli on Wednesday posted a cryptic video on his Instagram story featuring American stand up comedian, Kevin Hart. Kohli, who was at the centre of a post-match brawl last week with Lucknow Super Giants’ Naveen-ul-Haq and Gautam Gambhir, has posted a video that features Hart speaking about moving on from grudges, anger and negativity. “No matter how much emotions and feeling that you have, or how much hurt you have, the life has to go on. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. So if you don’t process that, and understand you’re stuck in whatever time period it is, you are hurt forever. Grudges, anger, negativity… I don’t have time for it. Because I’m living so many positive things. I can’t stand in the past, and bathe in what was wrong,”...
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IPL 2023: History repeats itself as Kohli clashes with Gambhir, his team

Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore were involved in yet another eventful encounter and former RCB skipper Virat Kohli and LSG team mentor Gautam Gambhir had a go at each other post match as well. Kohli and Gambhir were seen exchanging words and had to be separated by the two sets of players, including RCB captain Faf du Plessis and his LSG counterpart KL Rahul. “It’s unbecoming for the game,” former India international Robin Uthappa would say on air. “I also want to say if a bowler came up with those kinds of celebrations that we saw earlier today, they would be docked or reprimanded for it.” The incident seemed to have originated following what appeared to be in-game sledging involving Kohli and Lucknow’s Naveen-ul-Haq when the latter came to bat during the chase. Fol...
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I would have become an egoistic maniac’: Virat Kohli speaks about his battles with mental health

Former India and Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli, in a candid conversation with Robin Uthappa, spoke about the challenges he faced during his battle with mental health issues and how his wife Anushka Sharma helped him to deal with the same. Acknowledging the role of his wife, Kohli said,” I always say Anushka’s name, because she has seen the challenges of being in this position. She knows it. She has been there for so many years. She still understands that what it takes to handle the pressure of a public figure.” So her conversations with me have always been priceless, because she tells me the truth,” said Kohli on Jio Cinemas. “How she spoke to me during that whole phase is something that kept me in check. Had I been left to myself to figure out, I would have become an ...
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I’d no belief, tank was empty: Virat Kohli on quitting IPL captaincy

Star India batter Virat Kohli has opened up on his decision to step down as skipper of Royal Challengers Bangalore after 2021 season, saying he had no “belief” and his “tank was absolutely empty” towards the end of his IPL captaincy tenure. RCB had a horror run in 2019 when they lost six games in a row to eventually finish at the bottom of the IPL table. They were wooden spooners in the 2017 edition as well. Kohli quit as RCB captain after the 2021 season with South Africa’s Faf du Plessis taking over the reins. Virat Kohli’s pep talk to the RCB Women’s Team King came. He spoke. He inspired. He’d be proud watching the girls play the way they did last night. Watch @imVkohli's pre-match chat in the team room on Bold Diaries.#PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #WPL2023 pic.twitter.com/fz1rxZnID2 — Royal ...