Pietersen suggests Kohli move to Delhi Capitals after RCB crash out of tournament

TIL Desk Sports/ Former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen has suggested talismanic batter Virat Kohli to join Delhi Capitals and move on from the Royal Challengers Bangalore after the franchise was knocked out of IPL 2023 post a six-wicket loss to Gujarat Titans at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium.

“Time for VIRAT to make the move to the capital city, wrote Pietersen on his Twitter account after Kohli’s quest to win an IPL trophy ended despite him making his second consecutive century through an unbeaten 101.

Kohli, who entered the Indian team after playing for Delhi in domestic cricket, has been a part of the Bangalore franchise since the tournament’s inception in 2008. Interestingly, Delhi had picked left-arm pacer Pradeep Sangwan over Kohli during the first-ever IPL player auction, held shortly after the right-handed batter had led India to U-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup trophy in Malaysia.

“There was one conversation where I heard from people that the Delhi team was interested to go after me but the dynamics of their team turned out to be such that they went for Pradeep Sangwan who was a left-arm seamer, amazing bowler, at that time he was our best bowler in U-19.”