Former India captain Virat Kohli will be seen playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) for the first time in IPL 2022, so all eyes will be on him. Will enter the field as a player. In such a situation, India’s cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar has expressed hope for the fans to see Virat Kohli of IPL 2016 season this time. Kohli scored 973 runs for Bangalore in 2016. Faf du Plessis has been appointed as the captain of RCB for IPL 2022. The team has to play its first match in this season against Punjab Kings on 27 March.
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Gavaskar said on Star Sports, ‘At the moment we do not know whether Kohli will be the captain again or not. Sometimes when a player is relieved of the burden of captaincy, he flourishes because he is not thinking of 10 other players then. When you’re the captain you’re thinking about 10 other players and sometimes other members of your team, their form or lack of form and the things they’re not doing right when they If we do it right, it will be good for the team. But this season Kohli is not the captain, so we can look at the 2016 Kohli where he scored almost 1000 runs.
The veteran cricketer said about Glenn Maxwell that the game of Australia’s star all-rounder depends on the way he approaches each innings. Gavaskar said, “Sometimes his approach has been brilliant and sometimes it hasn’t. Last season he was in a team with Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers, who are two of the best batsmen of the game and hence probably raised his game. If he tells himself that I am going to do what ABD has done for RCB, then this season of RCB can be great.