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Indian skipper Virat Kohli, who was rested from Nidahas Trophy 2018, will be seen in action in the upcoming season of Indian Premier League (IPL).
Virat Kohli will captain Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the eleventh edition of the Indian Premier league. IPL 2018 will start on April 7.
Virat Kohli-led RCB will start their campaign with an away game against Dinesh Karthik’s Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens on April 8.
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Ahead of the cash-rich league, Virat was recently seen sweating it out on the ground. The official Twitter handle of Royal Challengers Bangalore shared a photograph of Virat and captained it, ” When the 👑trains, all you do is watch and learn. #TheSkipperHasArrived #PlayBold.”
” Just can’t get enough of the man, can we? 👑 #PlayBold #KingInTheNets,” RCB wrote in another Tweet.
When the 👑 trains, all you do is watch and learn. #TheSkipperHasArrived #PlayBold pic.twitter.com/cmc9nZqCCP
— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 1, 2018
Just can’t get enough of the man, can we? 👑 #PlayBold #KingInTheNets pic.twitter.com/fsaRil21yz
— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 1, 2018
Virat has also shared took to photo-sharing application Instagram to share a photo from his personal training session.
Recently Virat was rested from India’s Sri Lanka tour because he asked for rest saying his body did agree with his workload anymore.
“Physically I had a few niggles, I am just getting over those. The workload has started to disagree with me a little bit. I have to be very careful about how I go forward with my body, my mind, my cricket,” Kohli said.
“It is just nice to be resting for a bit, relaxing, (it is) very important to have these times as well and I am just embracing it, enjoying all the downtime. Trying to recoup and recover and (will be) on the road again soon,” added the Indian captain.
Earlier, Virat had an exceptionally brilliant tour of South Africa. Virat scored 871 runs across the three Tests, six One Day Internationals (ODI) and two T20Is (he did not play the third T20I). And by doing so Virat become first ever Indian to score 500 runs in a bilateral ODI series.
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