Virat Kohli SNUBS Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma, picks ex-RCB star as best T20I opener

Ahead of the IPL 2026 season, Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) has shared a special video of Virat Kohli. The video captures how the batting maestro faced one after another rapid-fire question.

Before entering into a fresh phase of the Indian Premier League, the franchise did a quick-fire round with the former captain. The quick-fire round eventually turned into a competition to find out the best batter in the T20 format.

Who is the best T20 batter of all time according to Virat Kohli?

For a significant amount of time, the main man of Royal Challengers Bengaluru stuck with the former India opener Virendra Sehwag mostly because of the format. According to Virat, Sehwag could be a better batter in the Twenty20 format in comparison to Sachin Tendulkar, Brendon McCullum, Travis Head, Faf du Plessis, Shane Watson, or even Travis Head.

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In multiple junctures of the round, Kohli took significant amounts of time before throwing his verdict. He even asked multiple times to make sure whether the comparison is valid only for the T20 format.

Former international batters like Shane Watson and Faf du Plessis played for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the past. Kohli put Virendra Sehwag ahead of his former teammates.

Virat Kohli voted Virendra Sehwag in back-to-back comparisons

But when it was the turn for the 'universal boss', things shifted quickly. With a smile on his face, Virat chose the former West Indies opener Chris Gayle. For Virat, Gayle is the best batter among all the names that have popped up in the round.

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Royal Challengers Bengaluru has initiated its training sessions for the upcoming Indian Premier League season. As the defending champion of the tournament, for the first time in the history of the league, RCB will play in the opening match of the tournament. In the first match on March 28, they will be up against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the iconic M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, the home ground of RCB.

Kohli was the main cog behind RCB's triumphant IPL season

The Indian superstar batter, Virat Kohli is all set to feature for the Red and Black team again. In the previous season, the veteran batter hammered 657 runs in 15 matches at an average of 54.75 to help the team claim its maiden IPL trophy.

In the camping, Virat Kohli was one of the catalysts who drove the team to glory. Throughout the season, Kohli struck eight half-centuries and had a good strike rate of 144.71.

The 37-year-old batter, who retired from T20Is and Tests, played 267 IPL matches for the same franchise. In 18 IPL seasons, since the inception of the league, the top order batter has scored 8661 runs with a strike rate of 132.85, and a batting average of 39.54. During the course, the right-handed batter, who started as a middle-order batter and was later promoted to the opening position, has sixty-three 50s and eight 100s with his name.

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