Virat Kohli has been one of the top-performing batters for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the sixteenth edition of the Indian Premier League. He has been chipping in with a series of consistent scores this season.
The former Royal Challengers Bangalore captain is the fourth-leading run-getter this season with 538 runs. RCB largely benefitted from KGF (Kohli, Glenn and Faf) in the batting department.
In the just-concluded game against Sunrisers Hyderabad, Virat Kohli dominated the proceedings in the run-chase and let his bat do the talking. He scored an impressive century in the run-chase.
Virat Kohli’s sparkling century steers RCB to a surreal win over SRH
Virat Kohli took the bowling attack to the cleaners quite smartly. In the process, he scored his sixth IPL century in his career, which is also his first IPL ton in four years.
Batting first, Sunrisers Hyderabad posted a competitive total of 186 for the loss of five wickets in their allotted quota of 20 overs. Heinrich Klaasen scored his first IPL century. He ended up scoring 104 off 51 balls including 8 fours and 6 sixes.
In response, RCB chased down the target with four balls to spare and keep their playoff race alive. They won the game by eight wickets. After five straight away games, they will take on Gujarat Titans in the home fixture at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on May 21.
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s playing XI: Abhishek Sharma, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Harry Brook, Glenn Phillips, Abdul Samad, Kartik Tyagi, Mayank Dagar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Nitish Reddy
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Michael Bracewell, Wayne Parnell, Harshal Patel, Karn Sharma, Mohammed Siraj
Virat Kohli gives his haters another 100 reasons to cry ๐ค#ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/0gS37Si5pO
— Sushant Mehta (@SushantNMehta) May 18, 2023
Goat…
— Vishwajit Patil (@_VishwajitPatil) May 18, 2023
Unstoppable force of awesomeness!!! This is what Virat Kohli is !!!
— Sameer Singh ๐ฎ๐ณ (@sameer383singh) May 18, 2023
or maybe 100 reasons for his fans to smile๐
— Saurav (@saurav_b16) May 18, 2023
Literally crying and jumping
Kohli saab โค๏ธ— Aakash Agarwal (@agarwalaakash16) May 18, 2023
King โฃ๏ธ always
— Patiri (@18Patiri) May 18, 2023
Legend
— taha abbas ๐ฆ (@tahaabb62883980) May 18, 2023
King Kholi what a knock bhai @imVkohli ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐๐ป
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19) May 18, 2023
Texted AB de Villiers first pic.twitter.com/o9MCYC4Im3
— Rahul Sharma (@CricFnatic) May 18, 2023
Redemption๐ฅ
— ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ช๐ฎ๐๐จ๐ (@VirMessiSuyash) May 18, 2023
