IPL 2022: With change in management at RCB, we’d really see Virat Kohli of 2016, says Sunil Gavaskar

With the change in management at RCB, the IPL would possibly get to see Virat Kohli from the 2016 season when he amassed over 900 runs, reckons Sunil Gavaskar.

PBKS vs RCB: Sunil Gavaskar makes daring prediction for Virat Kohli in IPL 2022 (Courtesy by BCCI/PTI Photo)

HIGHLIGHTSVirat Kohli gave up RCB captaincy earlier than the IPL 2022 seasonWith change in management at RCB, we’d really see Kohli of 2016: GavaskarKohli will take the sector solely as a participant in RCB’s season opener

Batting nice Sunil Gavaskar believes that with the change in management on the Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2022 could witness Virat Kohli from the 2016 season the place he scored a record-breaking 900-plus runs.

Kohli will take the sector solely as a participant in RCB’s season opener towards Punjab Kings on the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai Stadium on Sunday. Kohli has an amazing file with the bat as an RCB captain the place he scored 4881 runs in 140 IPL matches.

Speaking throughout a Gameplan episode on Star Sports, the official broadcaster of the IPL, Gavaskar mentioned, “At the moment, we do not know whether Kohli will be captain again. Sometimes when a player is relieved of the burden of captaincy, he flourishes as he is not thinking about 10 other players.

“When you might be captain, you might be desirous about 10 different gamers and typically additionally the opposite members of your squad, about their type or lack of type and issues that they aren’t doing proper which, once they do it proper, will probably be good for the staff.

“This season, we might actually see the Kohli of 2016 when he got almost 1000 runs in the IPL season.” The final time Kohli was not main the RCB was in 2012, after which he took over the staff’s captaincy from New Zealander Daniel Vettori.

Speaking about star Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell, Gavaskar mentioned, “Maxwell’s cricket depends on how he approaches every inning. There are times when his approach has been unbelievably fantastic and then there are times it has not been that great.

“Last season, he was in a staff with Virat Kohli and ABD, two of the best batsmen that the sport has seen and so possibly he lifted his recreation. He raised the extent of his recreation to attempt to sustain with that.

“If he says to himself I am going to do what ABD has done for RCB, then RCB could be in for a real magic season from Maxwell.”