Virat Kohli in action for RCB in IPL 2024© AFP
There has been a lot of talk about Virat Kohli's strike rate and batting style in the ongoing IPL 2024 despite the Indian cricket team's star batsman being by far the highest run-getter in this year's competition. Kohli was in good touch again as he hit an unbeaten 70 off just 44 deliveries as Royal Challengers Bengaluru defeated Gujarat Titans by 9 wickets. After the win, Kohli condemned his critics, saying that he does not focus on the talk surrounding his strike rate and that he believes that no one who has not played high-level cricket can properly understand these situations.
“Not really, all the people who talk about the strike rates and me not playing well are the ones who talk about this stuff. For me it's about winning the games for the team and there's a reason why you do it you've been doing this day in and day out for fifteen years, you've won games for your teams, I'm not entirely sure if you haven't been in that situation yourself you should be in the box over the game. start talking For me, people can talk about their assumptions day in and day out, but those who have done it day in and day out know what happens and it's like a muscle memory for me now,” Kohli said after the match.
“We wanted to stand up for ourselves, play for our self-respect. We cannot play the way we played in the first half of the tournament. We also wanted to see the ball. We attack much more, the field players.” putting their bodies on the line, that's the way we want to play. So far we haven't met the standards, except for the last two games, but we just want to continue in the same way, we have a great atmosphere in the decoration. We want to play for ourselves, have some self-respect for why we play at this level and also for the fans who support us,” the Indian star added.
The match saw RCB keep their IPL 2024 play-off dreams alive thanks to another brilliant knock from Kohli and a sensational century from Will Jacks.
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