Before the Indian team roster is announced T20 World Cupalthough Kohli is not scoring fast enough these days to reach the standard of T20 strike rate, there is still discussion Royal Challengers Bangalore Icon tops the list in the ongoing Indian Premier League season.
But Kohli is still almost in India’s 15-man T20 World Cup squad and has also made it into the official squad announced by the BCCI earlier this week.
Kohli has scored 542 runs in 11 games so far indian cricket league 2024react to comments.
what did kohli say
“Not really, all the people who are talking about strike rate and me not playing spin well are talking about that. For me, it’s about winning games for the team and that’s why you do it for 15 years in a row. “You do it day in and day out over the years, you win games for your team, and I’m not so sure if you haven’t been in that situation yourself, sitting in the box and talking about the game.”
“To me, people can talk about their assumptions day in and day out, but the people who do it day in and day out, they know what’s going on, and now it’s a muscle memory for me.”
Gavaskar’s response
“The commentators only question it when he’s hitting 118. I’m not sure. I don’t watch a lot of games, so I don’t know what the other commentators are saying. But if you come in and open the game, then dang When you’re out in the 14th or 15th over and you get a strike of 118, I mean, if you want to applaud that, it’s a little bit different.
“All these people are talking about, ‘Oh, we don’t care about the noise outside’. Ahcha! Then why are you responding to any outside noise or whatever? We all play a little bit of cricket, not a lot of cricket. We we don’t Any agenda, we don’t necessarily have any likes or dislikes, but we’re actually talking about what’s going on.
“I hope Star Sports recognizes that when that clip is shown, question the critics, and the critics are your own commentators. For you to show someone disparaging your own commentators, I’m not sure that’s a good thing. You need to realize that you and I have shown this enough times and if you did it again I would be very disappointed.
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