MUMBAI: India’s star batsman Virat Kohli has asked his fans to stop calling him ‘King’ as he finds it embarrassing.
Kohli shared these thoughts during the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) unbox event where the Indian Premier League (IPL) side unveiled their kit for the upcoming season.
“First you have to stop saying the word [king] to me. Please call me Virat. Don’t call me that word [king], I was just saying to Faf du Plessis that every year I feel embarrassed when you call me that,” Kohli said at the RCB unbox event on Tuesday.
RCB will begin their IPL 2024 campaign against Chennai Super Kings on March 22 at the Chepauk Stadium. The IPL final is scheduled for May 26, just five days before the men’s T20 World Cup kicks off in the USA and the Caribbean on June 1.
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With the upcoming Indian elections, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has announced only the schedule for the first two weeks. The rest of the game will be announced in due course.
The teams are divided into two groups of five with 14 group matches for each side. They will play the teams in their group once and the other group twice (home and away). The results are summarized in one table.
