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After the elimination of Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) from the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, several questions have again been raised on Virat Kohli’s captaincy. Though this was his last season as RCB captain, he couldn’t win the IPL trophy since he took over the captaincy in 2013. India’s legendary batter Sunil Gavaskar on Star Sports has compared Virat Kohli to legends like Sachin Tendulkar and Sir Don Bradman. He said that though Kohli couldn’t win the IPL trophy as a captain but he had an ever-lasting impact on the team and as a batter. Gavaskar cited the example of Kohli’s 2016 season where he created all-time IPL record of 973 runs in a single IPL season guiding his team to the final.
‘Script is not always written in that way’
“Everybody wants to finish on a high. But these things never always happen according to your or fans’ wishes. Look at what happened to Sir Don Bradman. Just four runs were needed in his last innings and he gets out for a zero. Sachin Tendulkar would have wanted to finish with a hundred, he got 79 (Tendulkar scored 74) in Mumbai, his 200th Test match. 79 is not bad but somebody who is used to making hundreds would have wanted to get those extra 21 runs and then end his Test career there,” Gavaskar said.
"The script is not always written that way. Not everybody has this great fortune of going on a high. But can one ever dispute what he has done for RCB? He has done magnificently. There was one year when he got 973 runs, 27 runs short of 1000 runs. Nobody has done it, nobody looks like ever getting to 1000 runs." the 72-year-old added.
Kohli’s stint as RCB captain
The 32-year-old batter first became the captain of RCB in 2011 for few matches. He completely took charge of the franchise in 2013 and captained for eight years. In Kohli’s tenure, RCB played 140 matches out of which they won 66 while suffered 70 losses and four did not yield a result.
