Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter AB de Villiers has revealed that when he met former RCB skipper Virat Kohli for the fist time in 2011, he found him “cocky and arrogant”.

The South African great joined RCB in 2011 and established a strong rapport with Kohli. The duo became the mainstay of RCB’s batting line-up for almost a decade. De Villiers announced his retirement from cricket in November 2022 while Kohli continues to be an essential component of RCB. “I thought he [Kohli] was quite cocky when I met him for the first time. He had this hairstyle going and he was quite flamboyant,” De Villiers said during an interaction with Chris Gayle on an RCB podcast.