Virat Kohli is all set to give up his opening slot and will bat at No. 3 for the Royal Challengers Bangluru (RCB) in the IPL, a position he has made his own in the national team. RCB has multiple opening options in Quinton de Kock, Brendon McCullum, Parthiv Patel, Mandeep Singh and Manan Vohra to name a few.
“In the past, it was more or less that I had to. I quite enjoyed that role. Predominantly, I will start at number three, having specialists at that order and that I have done well for Indian team at no 3.”
“I’ve a good understanding of playing at that position (No 3) and gives the team a lot of stability. I see myself starting there but it depends on who we playing against. But we are going to be flexible, adapting to different conditions,” Kohli added.
Kohli has scored 1,750 runs as an opener from 43 innings at an average of 53.03.
On their decision to let go Chris Gayle, he said: “Taking nothing away from Chris, we decided to go in with the balance that can sustain in the next three years. We did not want to be relying on 2-3 people all the time and those were few reasons behind it.”
