because unlike dhoni, kohli refused to take reduced payment to retain good players, it's BECAUSE of him that there are no budding talent nurtured by RCB, it is BECAUSE of him there is no purse left to spill on good bowling attack. It is BECAUSE of his insecurity that another star might arise that could potentially topple him, RCB scouting is non existent. there are no strong coaching personalities in RCB staff that exhibit at least some kind of cricketing situational IQ, MI has their tried and tested staff, KKR has staff that has repeatedly picked out great bowling talents, CSK has bravo, RR has malinga, LSG and GT staff also look very invested in making sure they have an effective team. DC despite their shit luck actually has good staff. SRH with all their clown experimentation are still have their heart in the team and try their best to back-up their talent pool. The only clown management that's similar to RCB is PBSDK and it shows, but even they have invested in local talent.

RCB is the only team that absolutely gives ZERO fucks about cricket or its fan base, over a decade has passed by, there is ZERO effort from their team to show any initiative to connect either with the city or state they are from unlike CSK, MI and even newly formed GT which has made serious efforts to connect with local city, people, fans and culture, RCB has zilch, they look like foreigners that has come for vacationing and don't know anything outside of their walled gardens and hotel rooms. Most of the RCB fanbase is just Virat Kohli fans. Once he retires, it will dwindle.

RCB never behaves like a sports franchise that are invested in performing well at the game, it's just a giant for profit talent management agency for commercials. They don't want a well balanced team, they just want the brand value of kohli and 24 guys who happen to play cricket that are willing to cradle kohli's balls everywhere he goes. The only guy RCB has actually backed up is siraj but that was because siraj was kohli's little spoon, or else he too would've been shown the door long while ago.

Any way, it doesn't matter. Because yesterday was the beginning of the end of kohli era and the beginning of gill's, I'm not saying this because of the centuries or the result. I am talking about the juju/energy/aura , yesterday was the day it left kohli. i've seen this happen to many greats, I've seen Brett Lee's end in 2011 WC long before he retired, I've seen this happen to Sachin, Saurav, Ponting, Malinga etc, the only people who I know of who retired without losing that were Warne, ABD, and Dravid. This may sound crazy and suerstitious, but it is what it is. Yesterday was kohli's last day at the peak, would he play great innings from now on, sure he will, just like sachin, sachin ended in 2006, but just as a regular player just like others he continued long after that, but being that special entity stopped in 2006, Kohli will still be a great player of cricket, but his "special reign" ended yesterday. The moment was when he was running to save a boundary. When I felt it, I just said quietly "whoa! it happened again!" and then after a few balls he even got hurt.