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Bengaluru : Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and India star batter Virat Kohli gifted Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and India’s upcoming middle-order batter Rinku Singh a bat following his side’s loss to two-time champions at their home arena of M Chinnnaswamy Stadium on Friday.
KKR also posted a picture of them on their official X handle, tweeting, “The bond we love to see! : @RCBTweets.”
Following Virat’s gesture, Rinku posted an Instagram story, thanking Virat for “advice” and the bat.
Virat is an all-time great of the game, having made 26,733 runs in 522 matches at an average of 54.11, with 80 centuries and 139 fifties. To many, he is the successor of the Indian batting great Sachin Tendulkar.
The 35-year-old also leads the IPL’s all-time run-scoring list with 7,444 runs in 240 matches with seven centuries and 52 fifties. Though he has won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, and ICC Champions Trophy 2013 with Team India, his side is yet to lay its hands on an IPL trophy.
Rinku, on the other hand, is a domestic cricket star from Uttar Pradesh, who shot to fame last year by smashing Gujarat Titans’ Yash Dayal for five successive sixes in the final over to complete a tense 200-plus run chase.
