England all-rounder Jacob Bethell recently shared playing alongside Team India star Virat Kohli for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) in the IPL as well. He has played nine matches for the franchise across two seasons as well. Bethell also recalled the first time he opened the batting with Kohli at RCB’s home ground, M. Chinnaswamy Stadium as well.

He said on the YouTube channel The Super Over: “We were walking out to bat, and I couldn’t hear myself think. They’re just going, ‘Kohli..Kohli,’ the place is bouncing, there’s no really gap in it. They feel like they’re on top of you. Luckily enough, we managed to put on a few runs. I scored a few, he scored a few. I remember I hit my second ball for four, and I had never heard a sound that loud.”

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He shared, “He is good with, like comes off the field and stuff, but he didn’t say a whole lot that game because I think I was going pretty well at the time, in terms of the knock. It’s just more encouragement rather than anything like you can play a shot, and you hear him go at the other end, ‘shot man!'”

Jacob Bethell also stated that he wanted to learn Suryakumar Yadav’s trademark pick-up scoop.

“I would love to be able to play the Surya-like pick-up. I can pick it up over square leg, but someone’s bowling on top of middle, and you just go, head down, six,” Jacob Bethell concluded.