It’s still early days of IPL 2024 and Virat Kohli has already set the pace with a classy knock of 77 for Royal Challengers Bengaluru hat set the base for their four-wicket win over Punjab Kings on Monday night.
Opening the innings, the batting maestro peppered the M Chinnaswamy Stadium boundary with stylish strokes to construct an innings comprising 11 fours and two sixes. With the RCB fans anticipating a three-figure score from the man who once made it a habit of churning out centuries with surreal consistency, Kohli ended up slicing one to hole out to the deep backward point fielder in an anti-climatic end.
Post his innings, a delighted Kohli was captured having a conversation with someone on his phone and social media users speculated that judging by the former RCB’s reactions, it must’ve been with his family.
Virat Kohli talking to his family is just ???? pic.twitter.com/Vad6J3X9sR— Harshit Poddar (@harshitpoddar09) March 25, 2024
The victory was RCB’s first of the season after they suffered a loss to defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the season opener last Friday. They overhauled the target of 177 with four deliveries to spare.
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IPL 2024 is the first competition that Kohli has been part of since he took a near two-month long break from any form of cricket to be with is family.
Kohli, one of the finest batters to have played the game, acknowledged the love he continues to receive from his fans.
“People talk about a lot of other things when you play sport – achievement, stats, numbers. But when you look back it’s the memories you create. Rahul (Dravid) bhai in the change room says the same nowadays. When you play, play your heart out because you’re going to miss these times. The love, appreciation and backing I’ve received has been amazing,” Kohli said after the match.
RCB have now a three-day break and will return to action on Friday when they face Kolkata Knight Riders at home.
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