RCB captain and opener Virat Kohli bagged a golden duck against Rajasthan Royals on Sunday afternoon when the two teams met at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium for their mouth-watering clash. Fast bowler Trent Boult resurfaced the ghosts of the 2019 World Cup semi-final as he trapped Kohli lbw in a very similar fashion today as he did four years ago in England.
Bowling from over the wicket with the shiny new ball, Boult made the ball swing and talk and trapped the star batsman lbw, failing in his flick shot on the leg-side. Boult bowled a brilliant in swinger that, despite this being a day game, swung considerably from his hand, pitched on the middle-stump, and went on straight.
Virat missed the ball on his bat’s inside edge, perhaps he’d considered the ball to move a bit more but the ball straightened, went past his bat, and rapped him on his back leg. No sooner had Boult went up in his appeal than the umpire raised his finger.
While the RCB fans who had thronged in the Chinnaswamy stadium hoped that Kohli takes a review, the RCB captain for the day knew that he was plumb out and walked away straight without pondering a review with his opening partner, Faf du Plessis.
This reopened the worries that the Indian batsman Kohli and India’s top-order has had with left-arm pacers bowling with the new ball.
This also gave a chance to the Rajasthan Royals’ Twitter admin to make a hilarious tweet on Virat Kohli:
“Kabhi Khushi, Kabhi Gham,” the RR admin captioned the post with Kohli’s dismissal off RR Speedster in today’s match and that semi-final in 2019.
Here, check out RR’s post:
Kabhi Khushi, Kabhi Gham pic.twitter.com/nh0k2IDemd
— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 23, 2023
You can watch the dismissal of Kohli from Boult here:
Teams:
RR (Playing XI): Jos Buttler, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Sanju Samson(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Shimron Hetmyer, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Jason Holder, Trent Boult, Sandeep Sharma, Yuzvendra Chahal
RCB (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Faf du Plessis, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik(w), Suyash Prabhudessai, David Willey, Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Vijaykumar Vyshak
