Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore have shared a video of how their skipper Virat Kohli went about his business in the training session during IPL 2021. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had to suspend the tournament indefinitely after multiple cases of COVID-19 breached the teams’ bio-bubbles.
On Friday, RCB took to their official YouTube channel to upload a video of Virat Kohli’s practice sessions during IPL 2021. In the clip, the RCB skipper looked extremely focused while preparing for greater challenges ahead. Virat Kohli played shots all round the park and dominated the bowlers in those unseen footages from the net sessions.
Watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daLxqL3VBxQ
Virat Kohli had a mixed run in IPL 2021
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli had a mixed run as a batsman in IPL 2021. He played seven matches, scoring 198 runs at a strike rate of 121.47 before the tournament was suspended. Kohli’s best of 72* came in RCB’s 10-wicket win over the Rajasthan Royals. During the game against Rajasthan, Kohli also became the first batsman in the history of the IPL to breach the 6000-run mark.
He presently has 6076 runs from 199 matches at a strike rate of 130.41. The RCB skipper has five hundreds and 40 fifties to his name in the T20 league. Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bangalore looked in decent form in IPL 2021 and occupied the third spot before the tournament was called off.
As Team India’s leader, Virat Kohli’s next assignment will be the World Test Championship (WTC) final against New Zealand in England followed by a five-match Test series versus Joe Root’s men. The Indian team is expected to fly to the UK on June 2 and will undergo a quarantine before they begin their training. He will be focused to conquer England after failing to do so in 2018.
