‘This is equally his too’: Emotional Virat Kohli dedicated RCB’s IPL 2025 Triumph to AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle. Cricket news
New Delhi: Virat Kohli could not keep his feelings back as Royal Challengers Bangalore finally finished his 18 -year wait for the IPL title. But at the moment of Vijay, Kohli ensured that RCB’s two largest stallwarts – AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle – were in front and centers in the festival.Go beyond the border with our YouTube channel. Subscribe now!After RCB defeated Punjab Kings by six runs in the final of the IPL 2025, Kohli dedicated the title to two mythological pre -peers who shaped the franchise identity with him.Who is that IPL player?“I have spent our major years with him. I know how much we tried to win it. We were so close to two times, and we were such a good team; we had explosives, but we could never cross the line. We gave this franchise its major year, ”Kohli said, blindly emotional in the match chat with broadcasters.
De Villiers and Gayle were on the shore at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, saw the last chapter of a dream, which he once followed with Kohli. With the 2016 season, all three contributed significantly to the rise of RCB as one of the most followed teams of IPL-where they missed the title narrowly-Cut in Smriti.Kohli said, “I promise you that it seems 10 times more special because both of them are standing next to me. Honestly, it is as much as it is mine.” “These people have given everything to this team. When they come to Bengaluru, people go to Barsak. This is their trophy equally.”De Villiers scored 4,522 runs for RCB at a strike rate of 158.33, while Gayle scored 3,163 runs with five centuries, including 175 not outs. For Kohli, this victory was not just a redemption – this heritage was fulfilled, and shared.
