Hyderabad: Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Director of Cricket Operations Mike Hesson on Thursday admitted that RCB skipper Virat Kohli's decision to open their innings had a big impact on their auction strategy.
Hesson further revealed that RCB had decided that Kohli would open their innings even before the IPL auction.
“Certainly, we talked about it before the auction because that came into our auction planning in terms of how we wanted to structure our line-up So certainly no surprise there. Look it is a slightly different structure, but that helped determine our auction planning as well,” Hesson said.
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Bold Diaries: Virat Kohli to open for RCB in Vivo IPL 2021
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Mike Hesson talks about Virat opening the batting, and ABD still being a wicket-keeping option for the team heading into the all-important IPL season!#IPL2021 #PlayBold #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/TNFSlEtkEN
">Bold Diaries: Virat Kohli to open for RCB in Vivo IPL 2021
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) March 25, 2021
Mike Hesson talks about Virat opening the batting, and ABD still being a wicket-keeping option for the team heading into the all-important IPL season!#IPL2021 #PlayBold #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/TNFSlEtkENBold Diaries: Virat Kohli to open for RCB in Vivo IPL 2021
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) March 25, 2021
Mike Hesson talks about Virat opening the batting, and ABD still being a wicket-keeping option for the team heading into the all-important IPL season!#IPL2021 #PlayBold #WeAreChallengers pic.twitter.com/TNFSlEtkEN