Royal Challengers Bangalore batsman Virat Kohli came under fire for scoring the slowest century once morest Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and invited Bangalore to bat first in the IPL match on Saturday.
Bangalore scored 183 runs for 3 wickets in the allotted 20 overs, Virat Kohli scored a century off 67 balls and played a total of 113 runs off 72 balls.
Virat Kohli’s century is joint slowest in IPI history.
Earlier in 2009, Manish Pandey scored a 67-ball century to earn the unwanted title of the slowest IPL century.
Rajasthan team easily achieved the target of 184 runs thanks to Josh Buttler’s brilliant century. Buttler played an unbeaten innings of 100 runs off 58 balls.
Virat Kohli, who was criticized for his strike rate even before the IPL, was being told that he would not make it to the T20 World Cup, but Kohli once once more scored the slowest century in the match once morest Rajasthan. Criticized.
He was also trolled by cricket fans on social media, while Pakistani cricketer Junaid Khan also trolled him and tweeted on X.
Junaid Khan wrote that ‘Congratulations Virat Kohli for scoring the slowest century of IPL’.
Apart from this, former Indian cricketer Virender Sehwag also criticized Kohli and said that Kohli’s century score is good but his strike rate should have been better.
According to Indian media, Sehwag said that when you complete a fifty in 39 balls, then you should score more runs.
Apart from this, the Rajasthan Royals team trolled Bangalore and tweeted that scoring 183 runs on a pitch that might have scored 200 runs is good enough.
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2024-04-20 19:20:43
