India, May 6 -- Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) legend AB de Villiers, on Monday, brutally hit back at Virat Kohli's critics as he dug out old remarks of Sunil Gavaskar and Virender Sehwag. De Villiers' comment came after Kohli's fiery knock of 62 runs against Chennai Super Kings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, which helped RCB win by two runs, go to the top of the points table and have one foot in the playoffs of the IPL 2025.

Last year in the IPL, Kohli was subject to immense criticism for his strike rate in T20 cricket. Former India cricketer Sehwag had criticised the RCB star for scoring the joint-slowest century in the history of IPL. His eighth career IPL ton, en route to an unbeaten 113 against the Rajasthan Royals in Jaipur, came...