On October 23 at the MCG, Virat Kohli, playing his career-best T20 innings, scored an unbeaten 82 off 53 balls and helped India win against Pakistan.
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More than two weeks have passed since the T20 World Cup ended in Australia and it has been 20 days since Team India was out of the tournament. The Indian team had to face a crushing defeat in the semi-finals and thus another tournament ended in a bad way for them. Despite this, this World Cup gave such a memory not only to Indian cricket, but also to world cricket, which hardly anyone can forget. at Melbourne Cricket Ground Virat Kohli Of ‘those two sixes’. Now for the first time, Pakistan’s fast bowler Haris Rauf has expressed his feelings on those sixes.
India and Pakistan were face to face in their very first match of the World Cup on 23 October. There were more than 90 thousand fans in Melbourne Cricket Ground and millions of people were watching this match all over the world. India won this match in an exciting way in the very last ball and veteran batsman Virat Kohli played a big role in it. The former Indian captain led the team to victory by playing an unbeaten inning of 82 runs in just 53 balls.
‘Only Kohli could hit that six’
Kohli’s innings was made most special by two consecutive sixes in the 19th over, which changed the picture of the match. When India needed 28 runs in 8 balls, Kohli hit pacer Haris Rauf for a stunning six over long-on with a straight bat, which surprised everyone. Now Rauf has spoken about that six and said that only Kohli could have played that shot. In an interview on the Cricwick YouTube channel, Rauf said,
“The way Virat Kohli played in the World Cup, that is his class. Everyone knows the kind of shots he plays. The way he hit those sixes at that time in the match, I don’t think any other player could have hit those sixes. If Dinesh had hit Karthik or Pandya, I would have felt bad. But if Kohli kills, he is in a different class.”
never expected to play such a shot
When asked whether he had failed to plan his bowling, Rauf said that it was not so. The stormy pacer said, “I knew that the next over is of Mohammad Nawaz and he is a spinner, so I tried to leave about 4 big boundaries for him. In the first 4 balls of the over, I bowled 1 fast, 3 were slow. Then I felt that if I hit a slow ball, then the boundary in front is big, I did not think that he (Kohli) will hit in front, so the ball I bowled was right, but hitting those sixes is his class.
After this six, Kohli hit another six over deep square leg on the very next ball and thus brought the target of 28 off 8 balls to 16 off 6 balls. That first six of Kohli was also chosen by the ICC as the best moment of the tournament. India finally defeated Pakistan by scoring 16 runs in the last over and paid off the defeat in last year’s World Cup.