Former India player Aakash Chopra has praised Virat Kohli for scoring a match-winning fifty in the RCB’s IPL 2025 match against the Rajasthan Royals (RR). While saying that fans might complain that he doesn’t praise Kohli enough, Chopra said that the former RCB captain has always been a consistent performer. However, Kohli scored 70 runs off 42 deliveries against RR.

In a video shared on his YouTube channel ‘Aakash Chopra,’ he said, “Virat Kohli is consistently scoring runs. This was probably his fifth fifty of the season, and he is looking good for many, many more. He is batting extremely well. You might say I don’t praise Virat Kohli much. Virat Kohli is the Reserve Bank. He keeps printing notes every time.”

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“The problem was never about Virat Kohli. This franchise’s future and present will be decided by what people around him do. He has made the present by asking them to keep players around him who can drive the game fast, as he is dependable, the run machine, and the modern master. I thought a hundred was loading, but not to be, and it didn’t make a difference,” he again shared.

However, Aakash Chopra also praised Devdutt Padikkal for continuing his consistent run for RCB as well.

“Devdutt Padikkal has come as a breath of fresh air. He is batting extremely well. He has sworn that he will bat well only for this franchise and not for any of the others because he went to the Rajasthan Royals and the Lucknow Super Giants, and didn’t score runs there,” he said. “He has returned here and scored runs again. He used to score runs when he played here last time. A lot of runs were scored in the middle overs, they were scoring at almost 11 runs per over, and Devdutt Padikkal had taken the onus to score those runs. He was moving at the rate of knots,” Aakash Chopra concluded.