Finally, the IPL team RCB managed to register their second win of the season as they defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 35 runs in the match which was played yesterday at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad.
RCB batted first after winning the toss and posted a competitive total of 206/7 on the scoreboard, while Rajat Patidar (50 runs, 20 balls, 2 fours & 5 sixes) and Cameron Green (37 runs, 20 balls, 5 fours) played blistering knocks, Virat Kohli (51 runs, 43 balls, 4 fours & 1 six) also scored a fifty but he got slammed for it because of his slow strike rate (118.60).
In his first 18 balls, Virat Kohli scored 32 runs but in his next 25 balls, he scored only 19 runs and this batting style left former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar a little angry.
During the commentary, Sunil Gavaskar said, “It’s just been singles, singles and singles from Kohli. There is [Dinesh] Karthik to come; there is [Mahipal] Lomror to come. You’ve got to try and take a few risks now. Look at Patidar. He had already hit three sixes in that over. If he had wanted, he could have taken a single or left the ball for a wide. But no, he went for it because the opportunity was there.”
He further said, “That’s the approach RCB now need. Yes, Kohli has played and missed; it’s not easy, because when you’ve been in your shell, you’ve just been working the ones, and suddenly connecting is not going to be easy. But that is what Kohli needs to do; needs to attempt. He has got to attempt the big shots no.”
Little Master even feels that Kohli has lost touch; he said, “In the middle, he just seemed to have lost touch. I am not sure of the exact numbers, but I think from 31-32 to the time he got out, he did not hit a boundary. So at the end of the day, when he got out when you are facing the strike in the first ball of the innings and you get out in the 14th or the 15th over, you have got strike rate of 118, that’s not what your team expects from you.”
Do you agree with Sunil Gavaskar?
