‘Virat Kohli’s greatness has been diminished’: Harbhajan Singh’s huge warning for IPL 2024 | Cricket News

For Virat Kohli’s relentless run in the IPL, the MA Chidambaram Stadium here remains the pinnacle that the Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman has yet to reach. Kohli is miles away from the rest of the players in the IPL as he has scored 7263 runs in 237 games with 700 runs and a strike rate of 130. But at Chepauk, his dominance dropped, as he averaged just 30 points per game and shot 111 from the field. In this context, former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh said RCB faced defending champions Chennai Super Kings in the first match of the IPL at Chepauk on March 22 this year. ), Koohli must perform better. In terms of his overall performance on that surface. It’s a tricky surface to hit, especially as an opening batsman against a weird type of tennis ball bounce.

“They (CSK) have found the great (Ravindra) Jadeja bowling stumps. He will spin the odd ball and then keep the odd ball low. It’s really tricky,” Harbhajan told Star Sports.

In fact, Kohli has been dismissed in the powerplay three times in the last five innings against CSK and Harbhajan said the star batsman must find a way to bat for longer.

“If he is really ready to bat around 20 balls, then he can put in a match-winning performance because hitting 200 at the easily accessible Chinnaswamy Stadium is not necessarily a guarantee at the Chebauk Stadium. can achieve the same results,” he said.

Kohli has not been able to score an IPL century at Chepauk so far and has a middling record against the Super Kings. The 35-year-old has scored 985 runs in 30 games against CSK, with a highest score of 90.

Harbhajan, himself a former CSK player, said Kohli needs to get back to the form he had with RCB in 2016 to really challenge for the elusive IPL title.

“It’s important for him to have a season like 2016 because if Villa keep scoring goals the team will go forward. I don’t know if they will keep winning trophies.”

“But with the great individuals they have in the team – Virat, (Glenn) Maxwell, (Cameron) Green, a few others like Patidar – I believe they have a lot of good batting Ability. Everyone hopes Virat can repeat 2016,” he added.

That year, Kohli scored 973 runs in 16 games with 4 hundreds and 7 fifties, still the highest scorer in an IPL season.

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