Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) head coach Andy Flower praised Virat Kohli’s contribution in their fightback in IPL 2024 after they started the season poorly. He also acknowledged that the IPL 2024 was a very testing time for them and gave credit to the leadership group for pulling them through as well.

On the BBC Stumped Podcast, Flower said: “He’s been brilliant to work with. It was great seeing him up close, in the dressing room, in meetings, in training, in competition. He’s a really impressive guy, and last season was testing for all of us, particularly for the leadership group because we had such a bad start to the season.”In our first eight games we’d lost seven of them – luckily we turned it round and part of the reason for that was the leadership from within the playing group and Virat was a huge part of that.”

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The veteran also said that the veteran right-handed batter is a perfect role model due to everything he does in the game as well.

“When he leads, other people follow. He’s a great role model for the way people train, he’s still extremely hungry, he’s brilliant in the field, and listening to him talk in a team huddle and in meetings, he knows the game inside out and he’s an inspirational guy,” Andy Flower concluded.