Watch: Virat Kohli Delivers Passionate Speech In Dressing Room After RCB's Heartbreaking Loss In Eliminator
Updated - 07 Nov 2020, 02:16 PM
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Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli has delivered a passionate speech after his team’s journey in IPL 2020 came to an end on Friday. RCB lost the Eliminator to SunRisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets to bow out of the competition as their long wait for the first-ever title goes on.
Asked to bat first, RCB had manage to put up only 131 for 7 in the allotted 20 overs. AB de Villiers top-scored for the side, scoring 56 while Aaron Finch scored 32. Barring them, only Mohammed Siraj (10) managed to touch the double-digit mark as RCB came up with yet another poor batting display.
Virat Kohli’s message for his teammates:
Following the loss, Virat Kohli delivered a passionate speech in the dressing room as he urged his teammates to keep their heads high even after the heartbreaking loss. The skipper started by pointing out the memories created by the players while being in the tough environment of the bio-bubble.
“We spoke of creating memories as a team and I think we have done that a lot this season and when we said that this is probably the best environment we’ve played in for RCB, we’re damn right about it,” said Virat Kohli.
“It’s been an amazing time together. We came in three weeks before the tournament started got to spend a lot of time with each other got to know each other so well and I think the camaraderie is something that pushed us deep and far into the tournament and something that we can be proud of, hold our head high even the losses that we had we never gave up which I think is the most important thing which probably we haven’t done in the last few seasons.
“So there’s a positive already for me there that we’re heading in the right direction and I would just like to thank the support staff as everyone else has and the coaches especially you guys have created a brilliant structure this year and the hard work and the planning and the detail has been outstanding and something that we all thoroughly benefited from,” he added.
Virat Kohli, who has been facing the heat for failing to deliver the title once again, was quick to shift his focus to the next edition of the tournament and stated that RCB could have ‘one hell of a tournament’ if the players keep enjoying their time together.
“Next year probably things might be different, might have a few more allowances we never know but still as long as we keep looking forward to coming back together as a group and really enjoying our time together we’ll have one hell of a tournament next year as well,” said the India captain.
“We can be really proud of what we’ve done after the few seasons that that were tough for us and it’s only down to the character of all of you in the change room so just just hold that close in your heart and keep growing from here and believe that we can keep building on from here as a sport,” he added.
