Kolkata: Aren’t we all aware of the camaraderie between Indian former skipper Virat Kohli and former South African cricketer AB de Villiers? Kohli claimed that he misses de Villiers and hinted at a possible comeback for de Villiers to RCB while speaking to ‘Mr. Nags,’ on RCB’s Youtube channel.
“I miss him a lot. I speak to him regularly, quite regularly. He keeps messaging me,” Kohli said in the video.
“He was in the US recently watching golf. Augusta Masters is what I heard it was called. So he told me he was there experiencing it with his friends and family,” he said.
“So we stay in touch and he’s very keenly watching RCB and hopefully here next year in some capacity,” Kohli said, with a wry smile.
Interview of the year! Catch Virat Kohli in a relaxed, honest and fun avatar, even as Mr. Nags tries to annoy him just like he’s done over the years. 😎🤙
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— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) May 11, 2022
“Did I spill the beans?” Kohli joked when the film switched to a repeat of him making the major announcement and then went into old backstage videos of AB de Villiers with Mr Nags.
ABD may return as a mentor for the RCB club ahead of the IPL 2022 season, according to unconfirmed sources in March. This was during the time that RCB had not yet announced Faf du Plessis as their captain, and there were rumors that ABD would return to command the side as well, which turned out to be incorrect.
In November of last year, ABD declared his retirement from all forms of cricket, thereby ending his IPL tenure with RCB. He declared his retirement from international cricket in 2018 but has since been playing franchise cricket. De Villiers joined RCB in 2011 and has played 150 matches for the team, scoring 4491 runs. In the IPL, ADB has 5162 runs from 184 matches.
