'Virat Kohli será el capitán del RCB' - AB de Villiers 'confirma' la capitanía de 'The King' en la IPL 2025

Kohli es el tercer capitán con más partidos internacionales en la IPL y es uno de los cuatro únicos capitanes que ha logrado 50 o más victorias.

Virat Kohli will take a U-turn on his captaincy retirement for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), reckons his former teammate AB de Villiers. Kohli, who took over the leadership role in 2013, announced at the end of the 2021 Indian Premier League (IPL) season that he’s decided to step down as RCB captain after 9 seasons. It wasn’t just a coincidence, as Kohli had decided to remove himself from the captaincy burden of the Indian team as well and thought it’d be the right time to do it in franchise cricket as well.

IPL 2025: Virat Kohli to return as RCB captain?

ABD reckons that Kohli will return to lead the side. Why? Well, his reasoning is that RCB haven’t gotten a captaincy-worthy player at the IPL 2025 auction. Jitesh Sharma, Krunal Pandya, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are the only three players they bought who have captaincy experience. However, it’s not saying much, as between the three of them, they’ve led in just 15 matches. Kohli, meanwhile, alone has 143 match experience as an IPL skipper.

Therefore, ABD thinks RCB will have no choice but to hand the captaincy role to Kohli. And maybe begrudgingly, but the star batter will have to accept it as well for the betterment of the team. “I don’t think it has been confirmed yet, but he will be the captain, I think, looking at the squad,” de Villiers said on his official YouTube channel.