“To sit and talk to the box…” Virat Kohli hits out at critics

Virat Kohli’s strike rate and batting style is being discussed a lot in the ongoing IPL 2024, despite the star batsman of the Indian cricket team being the highest run-scorer in this year’s competition. Kohli once again looked in great form and played an unbeaten inning of 70 runs in just 44 balls, as Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Gujarat Titans by 9 wickets. After the win, Kohli slammed his critics, saying that he does not focus on the discussion surrounding his strike rate and believes that no one who has played cricket at a high level can. Cannot understand these circumstances properly.

“Not really, all those people who talk about strike-rate and me not being able to play spin well, that’s what they’re talking about. For me, it’s about winning games for the team. And there’s a reason you did this for 15.” Over the years, you’ve done this day in and day out, you’ve won games for your teams, I’m not quite sure if you weren’t in that situation yourself, sitting down and talking about games in the box to me, People can talk about their assumptions day in and day out, but people who do it day in and day out know what’s going on and it’s kind of muscle memory for me now,” Kohli said. Said after the match.

“We wanted to play for ourselves, play for our self-esteem. We can’t play like we did in the first half of the tournament, we also wanted to see the ball, we’re more attacking, “We are putting our bodies on the line, this is the way we want to play, we have not been up to standard except the last two matches, but we just want to continue like this, we have very good dressing skills,” the fielders said. The atmosphere is there. We want to play for ourselves, have some self-respect for why we are playing at this level and also for the fans who are supporting us,” the star batsman said.

Talking about the match, RCB kept their IPL 2024 playoff dreams alive thanks to another brilliant innings from Kohli and a sensational century from Will Jacques.