Axar Patel picked Virat Kohli as the Indian cricketer most likely to become an IPL owner in the future. He said it during a rapid fire segment on Brut India’s Brainrrt show, posted on August 19, 2026.
The question was simple. The answer carried weight.
In the same rapid fire, Axar named Suryakumar Yadav as the perfect Indian cricketer for Bigg Boss and pointed to Ishan Kishan as the teammate who spends the most time in front of the mirror. Three answers. Each one tells you something about how India’s players see each other when the format is light and the filters are off.
But the Kohli pick is the one that lingers.
🚨 AXAR PATEL RAPID FIRE🚨
Q. Who would be the perfect Indian cricketer for Bigg Boss Show
🗣️ Axar Patel: Suryakumar YadavQ. Who could become an IPL owner in the future?
🗣️ Axar Patel: Virat KohliQ. Who spends the most time in front of the mirror?
🗣️ Axar Patel: Ishan… pic.twitter.com/ZxG68uZjGP— Central Cricket (@arshdeep3444) August 19, 2026
Kohli’s estimated net worth stands at Rs 1,090 crore ($131 million). He sold his One8 brand to Agilitas but reinvested Rs 40 crore to maintain a key ownership stake, profiting from global sales without running daily operations.
His Instagram posts generate approximately Rs 9 crore each. Over 30 global endorsement deals command Rs 7.5 to 10 crore per partnership.
RCB, the franchise Kohli represented for his entire IPL career, sold for $1.78 billion ahead of IPL 2026. The IPL’s total valuation crossed $20 billion.
He has shifted his investment focus toward tech startups, sports platforms, and finance companies. The pattern is of someone building a portfolio that could fund a franchise bid within a decade.
When Axar names Kohli, he is not flattering a senior. He is stating what he has observed from the inside: Kohli thinks like an owner already.
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Axar received his Test cap from Kohli in 2021. He has trained alongside him at RCB before moving to Delhi Capitals, shared Indian dressing rooms across formats, and watched Kohli’s off-field evolution at closer range than any journalist or commentator.
Players in that dressing room have watched Kohli’s conversations shift over the years. The talk moves from match preparation to investment calls, from sponsorship deals to equity stakes. You notice when a teammate starts thinking in terms of ownership, not endorsement.
🚨Axar Patel hits back at Rohit Sharma fan clubs and PR narratives over Virat Kohli’s match-winning knock in the 2024 T20 World Cup Final.🚨
“It’s very easy for people on the outside to troll because they don’t really know what’s happening inside the team or the kind of… pic.twitter.com/xgjyIATAx7
— Indian Cricket 🏏 (@Indiancric1cm) August 19, 2026
Axar’s pick is not a guess from someone watching highlights. It is a read from someone who has seen Kohli reshape how teammates approach their careers and their money.
SKY for Bigg Boss, Ishan at the Mirror
The Suryakumar Yadav pick carries its own subtext. Axar and SKY navigated one of the more uncomfortable episodes of India’s T20 World Cup 2026 campaign together. SKY dropped Axar from the playing XI for the Super 8 match against South Africa in Ahmedabad.
“He was very angry, and he should have been. He’s an experienced player, he leads a franchise. He should be angry. I apologised. I told him I made a mistake and I’m sorry, but it was a call taken for the team.”
Suryakumar Yadav, The Indian Express,
India lost that match. SKY later described it as the eye-opener that turned their campaign around. India treated every remaining game as a knockout, beating England in the semi-final and New Zealand in the final. Axar played a central role in that run.
That he now names SKY as the Bigg Boss candidate, a show built on personality clashes and alliances under pressure, reads like a teammate who has seen SKY handle exactly that kind of environment. There is warmth in the pick, not a dig.
The Ishan Kishan answer is pure dressing room humour. Axar and Ishan have been close since their overlapping India and IPL careers. After the IPL 2026 auction split them across franchises, Axar recalled their shared tradition of singing a personal IPL anthem with Rishabh Pant and Avesh Khan to tease Ishan.
“We sing this song in the IPL. Myself, Rishabh, Avesh Khan and Ishan. We would keep singing it loudly to tease Ishan.”
Axar Patel, 2 Sloggers YouTube channel,
Calling Ishan the mirror enthusiast is the same energy. It is an inside joke delivered on camera, aimed at someone who will laugh at it.
Three rapid fire answers. One genuine business prediction. One nod to a captain who earned respect through a difficult decision. One joke between friends. None of them random.
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