On the cricket field, when it comes to action in play, you always want to be a part of the game’s hottest stuff and this Thursday was no exception. First he played an awesome innings and then did a ‘Superman’ act on that field, batting straight away in Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) thumping win over Kings XI Punjab at the HPCA Stadium dharamshala.
Kohli opened for RCB as usual and made a brilliant 92 off 47 balls with 6 sixes and 7 fours to give RCB a mammoth total of 241 for 7 Momentum maintaining his strike rate, Rajat Patidar who scored fifty five runs out of twenty three balls and Cameron Green with forty six runs from twenty seven balls adding momentum in middle order and final stages respectively.
Lately, he has become the highest run scorer during IPL four seasons after scoring as many as KL Rahul in two seasons.
He topped the wickets list after taking 3/38.
Punjab could only manage a score of 181 in seventeen overs despite Rilee Rossouw’s brilliant innings of sixty one runs coming off just twenty seven balls.
This chase also saw kohli running out of the ground. Shashank SinghThe score was achieved within one hundred nineteen balls.
After Shashank had a nasty collision with RCB captain Faf du Plessis in the fourteenth over, Punjab batsman hit Lockie Ferguson towards leg side trying to take second over The deep mid-wicket went far away However Kohli immediately took a catch – delivered stumps within same motion through hitting them directly for instant celebration.
The third umpire on replay found Shashank’s bat missing the crack and declared the batsman out.
It was their fourth consecutive win; fifth win overall which helped them reach ten points keeping their slim hopes alive for playoffs.
