Virat Kohli in motion for RCB throughout IPL 2024© AFP
Indian cricket staff star batter Virat Kohli has emerged as an unlikely choice for opening the innings together with Rohit Sharma amid his tremendous run of kind in IPL 2024. Kohli, who scored one other half-century for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the course of the match towards Gujarat Titans on Sunday, is at present the very best run-scorer within the competitors and lots of specialists together with former India skipper Sourav Ganguly backed him to open the innings within the T20 World Cup 2024. However, legendary India batter Virender Sehwag believes that Virat ought to proceed to bat at No. three and even talked about Sachin Tendulkar’s choice to demote himself to No. four in the course of the 2007 World Cup to make his level.
“If I were in that team, I wouldn’t send him to open. I’ll play him at 3. Rohit Sharma and Yashasvi Jaiswal will open, and Kohli will continue to bat at no.3. The middle-overs approach is his headache, he knows if there’s an early dismissal, he can take care of powerplays. If the wicket falls late, it’s the captain and the coach’s responsibility to tell him to keep the momentum intact. A player has to do this,” Sehwag mentioned on Cricbuzz.
“Sachin Tendulkar also left his opening role to bat at no.4, and carried the momentum in that role. He batted at no.4 in the 2007 World Cup. Even he didn’t like to bat in the middle-order, but he had to do that for the team. If your team has two good openers and you are asked to bat at 3, you have to do that. You have to carry the momentum that the openers have set. I don’t think Virat Kohli will be too bothered.”
Meanwhile, Kohli blasted his critics after his staff’s victory over GT in IPL 2024.
“Not really, all the people who talk about strike-rates and me not playing spin well are the ones talking about this stuff. For me, it’s about winning the games for the team and there’s a reason why you’ve done it for 15 years, you’ve done this day in and day out, you’ve won games for your teams, I’m not quite sure that if you haven’t been in that situation yourself, to sit and talk about the game from the box. For me, people can talk about their assumptions day in and day out, but those who have done day in and day out, they know what’s happening and it’s a kind of muscle memory for me now,” Kohli mentioned.
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