There is literally no doubt that Virat Kohli is the best in the business across all three formats for Team India. Although he was out of form for a long time, he literally turned up the heat against Afghanistan in Asia Cup 2022.
The right-handed batsman scored a wonderful century against the Afghans in the United Arab Emirates as he went on to slam his 71st international century and ended up century drought after a big gap of 1012 days.
The resurgence of Virat Kohli was the best thing that happened to Team India going forward into the showpiece event. He finished the tournament as the top run-getter with 296 runs in six games.
A major heartbreak for Virat Kohli in T20 World Cup despite giving it all in marquee events
During the semi-final clash against the England cricket team, Kohli scored the fourth fifty of this tournament. India could post 168 for the loss of 6 wickets in their quota of 20 overs.
Hardik Pandya scored 63 off 33 deliveries (4 fours, 5 sixes). On the other side of the coin, Chris Jordan took 3 wickets to his name for the Three Lions. In response, England chased down the target with 4 overs to spare.
England’s opening pair – Alex Hales and Jos Buttler scored 89 and 80 respectively. England beat India by 10 wickets and booked their place in the finals.
It is yet another heartbreak for India and Virat Kohli in T20 World Cups. Kohli scored 319 runs in T20 World Cup 2014 but lost to Sri Lanka in the final. Kohli scored 273 runs in 2016 T20 World Cup but lost to West Indies in the semi-finals.
India (Playing XI):
KL Rahul, Rohit Sharma(c), Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya, Rishabh Pant(w), Axar Patel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami, Arshdeep Singh
England (Playing XI):
Jos Buttler(w/c), Alex Hales, Philip Salt, Ben Stokes, Harry Brook, Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Chris Jordan, Chris Woakes, Adil Rashid
Twitter Reacts:
King 💔 https://t.co/xtaljkYuZR
— Troyboi™ (@1ove_it786) November 10, 2022
Never have I seen a player more letdown by his teammates than Virat. Deserved to win both tournaments in 14 and 16… https://t.co/5UBAuTlHbF
— ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ ︎ (@2_____2____) November 10, 2022
Virat was doing this for Dhoni
He did for Rohit,
But no one did for him.
It's the same story for India in T20WC Virat will perform but the other players fail to score.
Big flop of Rohit Sharma who didn't able to score runs throughout the tournament. Same for KL Rahul.#INDvsENG https://t.co/Ofe1DM5Tc4— Arceus (@viveksh_98) November 10, 2022
Bruv is the messi of cricket 😭 https://t.co/4hXWothi3O
— mayank thakur (@MayankThakurrr) November 10, 2022
Only guy who steps up in these tournaments. I don’t think the man of the series trophy means anything to him.
We talked about doing it for Sachin 2011. There’s going to come a time when we’ll have to do it for him. https://t.co/GAcNnm2C2Z
— Ayush Agarwal (@Ayushh_MUFC) November 10, 2022
Wow made this loss even better for me https://t.co/Qfs7D4uscB
— omair (@omairmcr) November 10, 2022
India & RCB 😒💔😕 https://t.co/Sswykw5fa3
— Omprakash S (@OmprakashSelvam) November 10, 2022
Indian team really don't deserve him…., God is so cruel with him,come on just give him a reason to smile https://t.co/7ZZroSvfpk
— ganesh (@Ganeshsportsfan) November 10, 2022
If this team doesn't win an ICC trophy for him before his retirement, I'll riot. 😭 https://t.co/mBP7OPS9We
— hi. (@yedukhbhi) November 10, 2022
But this Indian almighty team doesn’t 😤 https://t.co/trJMk0Svmp
— Tᴀᴜϙᴜᴇᴇʀ ᴢɪʏᴀ (@TauqueerZia) November 10, 2022
i’m so hurt for team India but especially him!!! 😭 https://t.co/4gS23w8HuS
— Kesha (@keshakapoor) November 10, 2022
