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Ravi Shastri Envisions Virat Kohli with Most IPL Trophies in Alternate Universe
Ravi Shastri Envisions Virat Kohli with Most IPL Trophies in Alternate Universe
There is almost nothing that Virat Kohli hasn’t accomplished in his more than 15 years of playing Premier League cricket. In addition to being the most successful Test captain of India, he has won the World Cup, been named the ICC Player of the Year several times, and is the best all-around batter of the contemporary period. But one accomplishment, the reason for which we used the word “almost” above, still eludes him. Kohli has not yet taken home the IPL title, despite having a dazzling career filled with endless awards.
Despite displaying a run of individual excellence, Kohli hasn’t been able to take home the exquisite silverware in the Indian Premier League, having participated for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru since the league’s inception in 2008. He was there three times when RCB made it to the championship game—in 2009, 2011, and 2016—but each time they fell short of the finish line. Even though Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and MS Dhoni have each won the IPL five times, and the majority of his peers have at least one IPL victory under their belts, Kohli has failed to deliver in his seventeenth try at the game.
Regarding the same, one of Kohli’s closest confidants and former India coach Ravi Shastri offered a parallel universe explanation in which Virat would have already won multiple IPL titles. As previously stated, the issue is not with Kohli’s play; rather, it is with his franchise. Shastri may have discovered the reason why Kohli was unable to lead the RCB to a championship despite captaining the team for nine seasons. “If the Indian Premier League was an individual sport, Virat Kohli would have won the most trophies,” he stated on Star Sports.
Shastri’s Truth Bomb
One of the closest things to reality a Kohli fan could ever hear, my friends, is that. Take a look at the record-breaking year of 2016, when Kohli scorched the charts with 973 runs, which stands as the most ever scored in an IPL season. Or just last year, when, after three months of missing out on a single T20I, Kohli came into the IPL and smashed nearly 650 runs. With nearly 200 runs this year, including two half-centuries from four innings, Kohli is leading the list of run scorers and is the owner of the Orange Cap. Kohli smashed back-to-back fifties—77 and 83 not out—against the Punjab Kings and KKR after being out for 21 against CSK.
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Kohli has the most runs ever gathered by a player in IPL history, with 7466, second only to MS Dhoni, Dinesh Karthik, and Rohit Sharma in terms of caps. Kohli’s face indicated that RCB had lost to both the Kolkata Knight Riders and the Lucknow Super Giants on their home field, failing to chase down 182 on one of India’s smaller cricket grounds, despite coach Andy Flower’s best attempts to lift the players’ spirits. Following the completion of RCB’s first round of home games, Faf du Plessis and his group will travel to Jaipur to take on the Rajasthan Royals before playing the struggling Mumbai Indians on Sunday at Wankhede Stadium.
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