Cricket legend blasts Virat Kohli..!? Slow Innings..!?
Cricket legend blasts Virat Kohli..!? Slow Innings..!?
virat kohli scored a fifty in the match against Sunrisers Hyderabad. However, his strike rate was abysmal. sunil gavaskar has criticized him harshly after seeing the game he played at turtle speed despite playing an action game first. In the 2024 IPL series, a league match between Sunrisers hyderabad and royal challengers Bangalore was held. Du Plessis was dismissed for 25 off 12 balls. On the other hand, virat kohli impressed with 32 runs off his first 18 balls. Bengaluru scored 61 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in the first 6 overs which were power play overs. After that only Rajat Patidar played action. virat kohli started batting at a snail's pace.
Kohli scored 32 runs off the first 18 balls and scored just 19 runs off the next 25 balls. Tested a lot of dot balls and single runs. Until then, Gavaskar, who had been responding to criticism of virat kohli, got angry at kohli himself this time. Talking about Kohli's relaxed batting, he said, "Just single, single and single from Kohli. Next, with action batsmen dinesh karthik and Mahipal in the batting line-up, kohli should try and hit some dangerous shots. Look at Rajat Patidar. He already has three in an over. He hit sixes. He might have taken a run off the last ball or left the ball unhitched. But he tried it because there was a chance to hit a boundary." He also said, "Bangalore needs a game like Rajat Patidar's. kohli missed a lot of balls. It's not easy to bat after you shrink yourself. You try to hit only the easy balls. If you suddenly want to hit a few balls, you won't be able to hit them properly. But, That's what kohli has to do, he has to try to hit the big shots," Gavaskar said.
Bengaluru scored 206 runs in 20 overs in this match. Sunrisers Hyderabad who played next scored only 171 runs. TheBengaluru team won by 35 runs. After this, Kohli's calm innings came under heavy criticism.