‘We had some great memories batting together’ – Chris Gayle recalls time spent with Virat Kohli at RCB

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Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) explosive hitter Chris Gayle recalled his time with star batsman Virat Kohli forward of the upcoming version of the Indian Premier League (IPL). Notably, RCB kickstart their marketing campaign in opposition to Mumbai Indians on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Sunday, April 2.

Over time, the franchise has acquired quite a few star-studded cricketers within the squad who’ve by no means did not maintain their followers entertained. Nevertheless, Chris Gayle, Virat Kohli, and AB de Villiers are three gamers who’ve displayed scintillating cricket and plenty of a instances stored followers on the sting of their seats.

In an episode of ‘My Time with Virat’, out there completely on JioCinema, Gayle spoke about sharing the dressing room with Kohli, and recalled recollections of batting with the previous skipper.

“We had some nice recollections batting collectively. These moments we’ll at all times cherish. These dance strikes off the sector additionally, I’m certain you’ll be able to see them on social media, I’ll cherish these issues as nicely. Batting with Virat (Kohli) was simply unbelievable. I like the eagerness he has for the sport. I like his ardour and his work ethic, it is unbelievable. It’s important to give him credit score for that and he needs to indicate it along with his performances,” remarked Gayle.

Gayle reminisces the season when he overtook Virat to say Orange Cap

Gayle additional went on to share one other hilarious incident throughout his time with the franchise involving Kohli, when the latter was main the charts for the Orange Cap.

“One factor I keep in mind, simply to return a bit, I keep in mind Virat was the Orange Cap holder one specific season. I used to be getting runs however he was extra of the man on the time scoring loads of runs. Then, bam bam, two or three video games, regardless of the case could also be, I grew to become the Orange Cap holder. He was like, ‘man this man simply got here in, bang bang bang, and have become the Orange Cap holder?’ It was only a humorous factor that I am going to at all times keep in mind,” he added.

The duo stitched quite a few record-breaking partnerships, with their highest being an unconquered 204 runs in opposition to Delhi Daredevils (now Capitals) in 2012. The trio of Kohli, Gayle and de Villiers will likely be seen on the eagerly-awaited ‘rcb unbox‘ occasion which is able to happen on Sunday, March 26 in Bengaluru.