New Delhi, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore easily on Friday. This was KKR’s second consecutive win in the IPL. Virat Kohli’s bat definitely played for Bengaluru in this match. But his hard work went in vain. Even the fans did not like his slow scoring. Now Aakash Chopra has also commented about Kohli.
Aakash Chopra said, “When Sunil Narine opens, his thinking is very clear. They come thinking that either I will stay or you will stay. He plays in the same style, tries to hit sixes. Every bowler knows that you need to bowl bouncers and yorkers again and again. But if you don’t get success in it, like Bengaluru didn’t in the first six overs, then it takes the match very far out of your control.”
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Akash further said, “Phil Salt was also there. Phil Salt scored 18 runs in his first over. He was amazing. The opposing team (KKR) bowled well but it took 59 balls for Kohli to score 83 runs and Kolkata scored 85 runs in 5.5 overs. Be it Alzarri Joseph, Mohammad Siraj or Yash Dayal, all the bowlers were badly beaten.”
Let us tell you that in this match, RCB had scored 182 runs for 6 wickets due to the brilliant innings of Virat Kohli. Kohli had scored 83 runs on 59 balls. During this period his strike rate was around 140. Was also the top scorer of the match. But his innings could not win the match for RCB. Apart from Virat, no other batsman of RCB could score even 40 runs.
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Tags: Aakash Chopra, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virat Kohli
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 30, 2024, 19:29 IST