Ambati Rayudu Demand For Virat Kohli: The first match of IPL 2026 was played last Saturday (28 March) between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH). In the match, RCB registered a one-sided victory by chasing more than 200 runs due to the strong innings of Virat Kohli.

In the run chase, Kohli scored 69* runs in 38 balls with the help of 5 fours and 5 sixes. Seeing this ‘great’ innings of Kohli, former batsman of Team India and Chennai Super Kings, Ambati Rayudu made a big demand and said that Kohli should return to the Indian team Test as captain.

What did Ambati Rayudu say?

Speaking on ESPN, Rayudu said, “I don’t feel at all that he is at the last stage of his career. There are still at least 5-6 years left. As we and Sanjay were talking – he (Virat Kohli) should return to Test cricket as a captain. He has been the best captain of red ball cricket, which I have seen in Indian cricket in the last few years. The way he is batting, it is a loss to Indian cricket.”

The target was bigger than 200, RCB chased it easily

If we talk about the match between Bengaluru and Hyderabad, then batting first, Hyderabad scored 201/9 runs on the board in 20 overs. Captain Ishan Kishan played the biggest innings for the team and scored 80 runs in 38 balls with the help of 8 fours and 5 sixes. Apart from this, Aniket Verma played an inning of 43 runs in 18 balls with the help of 3 fours and 4 sixes.

RCB, which came out for run chase, won by scoring 203/4 runs in just 15.4 overs. Virat Kohli played the biggest inning of 69 runs for the team. Apart from this, Devdutt Padikkal played a brilliant innings and scored 61 runs in just 26 balls. During this, 7 fours and 4 sixes came from his bat. Rest of the captain Rajat Patidar scored 31 runs in 12 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes.

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