Overseas Gujarat Titans star gets special gift from Virat Kohli with personal message. cricket news

Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) icon Virat Kohli on Friday reclaimed the IPL 2024 Orange Cap, awarded to the leading run-scorer of the tournament. Kohli, who was nine runs behind Chennai Super Kings (CSK) skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad, scored a quickfire 42 off 27 balls during the match against Gujarat Titans (GT) and topped the charts with 542 runs in 11 matches. But reached. Kohli hit two fours and four sixes before being outfoxed by young GT spinner Noor Ahmed in the 11th over.

Noor bowled a googly which went away as Kohli was trying to push it away for a run, resulting in an outside edge which was collected by Wriddhiman Saha behind the stumps.

Expressing his gratitude to Noor for his delivery, Kohli gave his signed matchwear jersey to the young Afghanistan player after the match. Noor shared a picture of it on her Instagram story.

“Always one of my favourites,” Noor wrote on his story.

Coming back to the match, GT lost three wickets for 19 runs inside six overs, before big-hitter Shahrukh Khan, who scored 37, stood strong by sharing a 61-run partnership with David Miller, who scored 22 runs in 20 balls. Scored 30 runs.

Left-hander Rahul Tewatia smashed 35 off 21 balls and along with Rashid Khan played another key role as GT were all out for 147 runs.

Mohammed Siraj, who dismissed both GT openers, was named man of the match with figures of 2-29, but the fast bowler said he almost missed the game due to being “sick since last night”.

In reply, Faf du Plessis (64) and Kohli made a partnership of 92 runs in 35 balls to reach the target with 6.2 overs remaining.

However, RCB suffered the loss of stumps in the middle of the innings as their score was staggering at 117/6 at one point. Dinesh Karthik, who scored 21 runs, and Swapnil Singh, who scored 15 runs, ensured there was no more drama in the end.

(With AFP inputs)