Bengaluru, March 20 -- Star Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) and India batter Virat Kohli started practising ahead of the Indian Premier League (IPL) title defence starting a week from now.

RCB will start their IPL title defence from March 28 onwards with a high-octane contest against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at their home venue of M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Virat, who has had three back-to-back seasons of 600-plus runs, will be extremely crucial to RCB's success, and it will be another season for the man with number 18 on his back chasing history and batting records.

Taking to X, RCB posted a brief glimpse of Virat's net session, where he displayed his majestic ball-striking with some special focus on aerial hits.

The leading run-gette...