Game after game, time after time, one has come to witness the greatness of Virat Kohli with the cricket bat in hand. Some would say he’s far too experienced to miss out on scoring well and brilliantly while others may simply say that here’s a lad who knows how to properly school bowlers, irrespective of who he’s up against- whether a fast bowler or a spinner, whether established with the ball or still rising in the craft. And an incredible example of just why such high quality praise often meets the great man from Royal Challengers Bengaluru is the very recent or latest inning played at the RCB’s home at the Chinnaswamy against Gujarat Titans!

The beauty of delivering the best

More on the above- well, how else would you put it. Though make no mistake for at one point of time, Virat Kohli may have had his heart in his mouth at offering a regulation catch to short mid wicket to Washington Sundar (off Siraj), he would soon make the most of the dropped chance.

A sitter gone down! 

The Kohli magic would soon unravel and the show would become a show stopping extravaganza with the bat.

No randomspeak this! How? For it took Virat Kohli just 44 odd deliveries to cruise to a blazing 81 run knock in a useful and as seen eventually, brilliant 115 run stand with Padikkal for the second wicket.

But instrumental in that sublime knock by Virat Kohli was what the onlookers at the ground and of course, the cricket analysts in the studio described as an “angle shot!”

Executed to pitch perfection, there was a moment in the game where Kohli, the classy right hander, danced down the wicket to Prasidh Krishna and converted a shorter delivery to a perfectly executed cut shot hit at an angle comfortable enough for it to not land into the hands of the short third man placed deliberately by GT for a catch.

Ravichandran Ashwin’s praise For someone who’s played alongside Kohli for the majority of his career and has been a first hand witness of the King’s genius, here’s what Ashwin exclaimed over social media-

Kohli knows Prasidh gets steep bounce, hence using the bottom hand to play the front foot stomp over cover and then stepped out to ride one over point, after getting beaten on length.

Genius at work👌👌