Virat Kohli was clearly unhappy with the decisions made by RCB captain Rajat Patidar and was seen discussing the same with RCB mentor Dinesh Karthik. The discussion happened during the RCB’s recent IPL 2025 match against DC in Bengaluru on April 10.
RCB suffered their second consecutive home loss, this time against the Delhi Capitals by six wickets. The team, led by Axar Patel, scored 164 runs with 13 balls remaining. Virat Kohli was dissatisfied with how the final few overs of the game played out.
Kohli was seen having an intense and animated conversation with Dinesh Karthik at the boundary line during the 15th over of the Delhi Capitals' innings, delivered by Suyash Sharma.
Kohli was seen gesticulating towards the RCB batting coach, probably expressing his displeasure with captain Rajat Patidar's field settings or how the bowlers were leaking runs. The conversation between Karthik and Kohli occurred shortly after Josh Hazlewood conceded 22 runs in the 15th over.
Here is video:
“This is an animated conversation with the coach, Dinesh Karthik. He has to communicate this with captain Rajat Patidar in the middle. Rajat is the captain of this team. Virat Kohli can discuss it with Dinesh Karthik. Still, he needs to speak to Patidar,” said Aakash Chopra during the Hindi broadcast of the fixture between Delhi Capitals and RCB.
“I think Virat Kohli is speaking about the last over where Josh Hazlewood conceded 22 runs,” said Virender Sehwag.
It should be noted that when Josh Hazlewood conceded 22 runs in the 15th over, cameras moved to Virat Kohli's helpless expression, in which he conveyed his disappointment with how the bowling was not going as planned.
Earlier, RCB posted 163/7 in the allotted twenty overs. Phil Salt (37), Virat Kohli (22), Rajat Patidar (25), and Tim David (37*) were the main scorers.
In response, DC was reduced to 58/4 at one stage. KL Rahul, who walked out to bat at No.4, played an unbeaten knock of 93 off 53 balls as Delhi Capitals chased down 164. He formed an unbeaten 111-run stand for the fifth wicket with Tristan Stubbs (38*) to take DC to win.
