Updated On: 02 April, 2023 07:22 AM IST | Bangalore | R Kaushik
RCB supporters eagerly await the return of their star batter Virat at Chinnaswamy after four years, but a power-packed Mumbai Indians outfit will look to spoil their party

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Virat Kohli at a practice session at the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Saturday. Pic/RCB @ Twitter
It’s been nearly four years since chants of ‘RCB, RCB’ rang out in a competitive setting at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. For all their travails in the Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore have amongst the most loyal and vociferous of supporters, their relationship with the franchise firmed up by the continued presence since season one of Virat Kohli.
Come Sunday evening, those chants will reverberate around the Chinnaswamy when the home side begins its campaign in season 16 of the most celebrated franchise-based T20 league in the world, against perennial favourites Mumbai Indians. Rohit Sharma’s men might have finished at the bottom of the pile last season, when they managed just four wins in 14 games, but anyone who seeks to judge them by that performance alone will be in for a rude shock.