Royal Challengers Bangalore’s star batsman Virat Kohli is the highest run-scorer in the current IPL 2024, but there is a lot of debate about his strike rate. Kohli has scored 430 runs in 9 matches at a strike rate of 145.76, but there have been times when fans and experts thought he could have provided better pace to his innings. Kohli once again remained the top scorer for his team by scoring 51 runs in 43 balls against Sunrisers Hyderabad on Thursday, but his strike rate of 118.60 once again restarted the discussion on the topic and the Indian cricket team. Great batsman Sunil Gavaskar also joined this conversation.
Gavaskar said that although Kohli scored an important half-century, he was not able to hit a single four for a long time and his innings was not what his team “expected from him”.
“In the middle, it looked like he lost the rhythm. I’m not sure about the exact number, but I think from 31-32 till he got out, he didn’t hit any fours. So the day Gavaskar said at the end, when you are facing strike on the first ball of the innings and you are out in the 14th or 15th over, your strike rate becomes 118, your team does not expect that from you. On Star Sports.
Thankfully for RCB, their bowling unit finally made the breakthrough and restricted SRH to 171/8 while defending a total of 206/7. If Bengaluru had lost the match, Kohli’s explosive half-century would have become a big talking point for fans and experts.
After the game, RCB captain Faf du Plessis was happy as his team got back to winning ways, especially considering that apart from Virat, other players were performing well with the bat.
“In the last two matches, we have shown great signs of fight. SRH’s game was over 270, we got 260. KKR’s game too – 1 run. We were close for a while, but you have to win the match to gain confidence. You need to sleep comfortably as a group. You can’t talk about confidence in a group. Only performance gives you confidence. You will suffer if you are not 100 percent.
“Now more people are scoring runs. In the first half of the tournament, only Virat was scoring runs. It will be huge for Greeny to score runs now. We know Chinnaswamy, it has been a big disappointment for us. It has been a big disappointment for us to bowl. “I’ve tried to find a recipe for it, but it’s hard,” he said.
But, Royal Challengers still have a long way to go in this IPL.
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