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After defeating the Chennai Super Kings and securing their spot in the IPL 2024 play-offs, the players of Royal Challengers Bengaluru were in a different frame of mind. Universe Boss Chris Gayle was spotted having fun in the RCB’s changing room following the game. He told his old teammate that he had the most sixes this season when Virat Kohli first met him.
“Maximum Sixes this season, yeah?”
Kohli said to Gayle in a video shared by RCB in the X handle to which he replied
“How Much?”
and Kohli answered
“37”
Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli in the RCB dressing room together – nostalgia max! 🥹
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets) May 20, 2024
Virat jokingly asks Chris to come back to the #IPL – what do you think about it, 12th Man Army? 😉#PlayBold #ನಮ್ಮRCB #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/Bj9HVFfVka
By the end of the RCB vs. CSK game, that was a record for the most times that Kohli has cleared the ropes this season, but Abhishek Sharma had smoked 41 of those. The SRH batsman outscored Kohli by four maximums with a blistering 66 off 28 balls, which included five fours and six sixes.
Kohli was also seen having fun with Gayle asking him to join RCB as an impact player in the coming season. He poked saying “You don’t have to field anymore, it’s designed for you” and both of them laughed on it.
In the match on Saturday, Kohli passed the 700-run barrier and matched Gayle’s record. Gayle has scored more than 700 runs for RCB twice, in 2012 and 2013. While Kohli broke the record in 2016 with a season that saw him collect a record-breaking 973 runs, he has now achieved a double this year. There’s a good likelihood that Kohli will surpass his all-time IPL total if RCB can win the match.
After signing with RCB in 2011, Gayle spent seven seasons on the team. Gayle dominated the charts and scored 3163 runs for the team before being released by the team in 2018. For a while, Gayle’s record of the most IPL centuries stood at six, but Kohli and Jos Buttler eventually surpassed it.
In that match against CSK in Chinnaswamy, Virat Kohli also wrote history by being the first player to reach the 3000 run mark in a specific stadium. In a game of life or death, Kohli got off to a devastating start and reached the milestone with two sixes in the third over. With four sixes and three fours in his 29-ball 47, he was dismissed by Mitchell Santner.
