WPL 2023: Virat Kohli Interacts RCB Women’s Team With Motivational Speech

Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) men’s team captain Virat Kohli gave a motivational speech to the women’s team after Smriti Mandhana and Co who started the Women’s Premier League (WPL) with five losses on a trot. The veteran came to the RCB women’s dressing room before the match against the UP Warriorz on Wednesday, March 15 at the Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai as well.

However, RCB women’s team had a poor start and started at an early elimination too as well. Meanwhile, Virat Kohli said that despite not being able to win an Indian Premier League (IPL) title, the RCB men’s team takes the field every season with the same zeal and belief.

“I have been playing IPL for 15 years and I haven’t won it yet, but that doesn’t stop me from being excited everywhere. That’s all I can do. That’s the effort I can put, every game, every tournament that I play. If we win, great, if we don’t, I’m not going to go to my grave, thinking that only if I had won the IPL, I would have been a happy man dying. It doesn’t happen like that,” Virat Kohli was quoted as saying.

“So always think about the opportunity you had rather than how bad it is right now. There’s always a flip side to it and could always be worse than this. And the fact that we haven’t won the IPL, I still feel we have the best fans in the world, only because we are always committed in every game we played for RCB and that has been the most special for our fans,” he further stated.

“Now when they see RCB, the smile on their faces tells me that the belief in our commitment for the team is all we could have given them. There is no guarantee that we can give fans a cup every year, but there’s a guarantee that we give our 110 percent. And that’s all you can strive to do,” Virat Kohli again shared.

However, the pep talk did its work for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, who beat Alyssa Healy’s UP Warriorz by five wickets. After bowling the opposition out for 135, they chased down the target with 12 balls in hand as well. Meanwhile, young Kanika Ahuja became the Player of the Match after she scored a valiant 46 runs off 30 balls with the help of eight fours and one six.