Mumbai: Former India skipper Virat Kohli is the only player in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to play for the same franchise, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in all the seasons.
The RCB star revealed he was approached a few times by a few IPL franchises in the past to put himself in the auction but he preferred to stay at Royal Challengers Bangalore. But it’s his loyalty towards the franchise which he reveals helped him in his journey by buying him in 2008.
“I’ve been approached a few times as well to come into the auction somehow have thought about it,” Kohli said in a one-off podcast session.
“At the end of the day, a person lives a certain number of years, and then you die and life moves on. There have been many great players who have won trophies and things like that but no one addresses you like that. If you are a good person, people like you and if you are a bad guy, they stay away from you. Eventually, that’s what life is all about,” Kohli added.
The 33-year-old Kohli has played innumerable match-winning knocks and smashed 6,283 runs with an average of 37.4 in 207 IPL matches for RCB since its inception. However, RCB have never won an IPL title since the inception of the tournament in 2008.
“The loyalty with RCB, like how I follow my life, is far greater than five people saying you’ve finally won the IPL with XYZ. You feel good for five minutes and then the sixth minute you could be miserable with some other issue in life.”
“What this franchise has given to me in the first three years, and believed in me, is the most special thing. There were many teams who had the opportunity. They didn’t back me and they didn’t believe in me.” he concluded.
