In order to advance to the playoffs, RCB must win a critical game against the fourth-place Chennai Super Kings.
Famous batsman Virat Kohli of the Royal Challengers Bengaluru talked up about the team's struggles and their comeback to form in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 fans. When RCB lost five of their seven games in April, their season completely fell apart. They were at the bottom of the table for most of the month, but they emerged victorious after five straight wins. In April, when the squad was struggling to win most of its games by two points, Kohli spoke candidly about his mindset.
"The month of May has been very good. In April, I thought we were going into a very dark place. We found a ray of sunlight in May. We are glad that we made the fans happy again," Kohli noted in a conversation with Mr Nags.
Currently leading the race for the orange cap in the ongoing IPL season, Kohli has amassed 661 runs in 13 innings with a strike rate of 155.16 and an incredible average of 66.10. Five fifties and one century power his remarkable total.
Currently sitting sixth in the IPL standings with 12 points from 13 games is RCB. On Saturday, they take on the fourth-ranked Chennai Super Kings, who have 14 points from 13 games, in a pivotal encounter.
In order to avoid elimination from the playoffs, RCB, with their net run rate of 0.387, needs to win in order to overtake CSK, with their NRR of 0.528.
In what could be the game that defines their season, RCB will confidently go into their home stadium on Saturday night and win.
Following the end of the lucrative competition, Kohli will play for India in the Twenty20 World Cup. The main event will begin in the USA and the West Indies in June.
India is paired with co-hosts the United States of America, Ireland, Canada, and bitter rival Pakistan in Group A of the ICC competition.
Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya (vice captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Sanju Samson (wk), Shivam Dube, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, and Mohd. Siraj are the members of the Indian squad.