Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) batter Virat Kohli did all the things in his energy to carry his facet into the IPL 2023 Playoff however even his heroics had been on sufficient on Sunday. Kohli scored his second successive IPL century – a report seventh century within the T20 league – but it surely was Gujarat Titans opener Shubman Gill’s second hundred in a row which powered the defending champions to a six-wicket of their last league match towards RCB on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and ensured that the house facet failed to succeed in the Playoffs stage.
RCB’s exit meant that Mumbai Indians, who had defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad earlier within the day, would qualify because the fourth crew after GT, Chennai Super Kings and Lucknow Super Giants. Kohli, who scored an excellent 101 off 61 balls with 13 fours and 1 six to energy RCB to 197 for five was left teary-eyed in direction of the top of the match as Gill smashed 104 off 52 balls to make sure a GT with 5 balls to spare.
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However, after breaking former West Indies opener Chris Gayle’s report for many a whole lot in IPL, Kohli revealed that he’s again taking part in his greatest in T20 cricket once more. “Ya, I felt great. A lot of people feel my T20 cricket is declining, but I don’t feel like that at all. I feel I am playing my best T20 cricket again. I’m just enjoying myself, this is how I play T20 cricket. I look to hit gaps, hit a lot of boundaries and the big ones in the end if the situation allows me to,” Kohli advised former Team India head coach Ravi Shastri throughout the mid-innings break.
“Strike rates, all those kind of things like I said in the past as well… You have to read the situation and rise up to the occasion when the situation demands, and that’s something I take a lot of pride in doing, and I’ve been doing it for a while now. I feel really good with my game at the moment and how I’m batting out there in the middle,” Kohli added.
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Meanwhile, Gill, who scored his second IPL century stated that it was all about changing knocks right into a ‘big one’. “It’s all about getting a start and converting it into a big one. Thankfully it’s working out for me in the business end. You have to keep applying yourself, that’s important. The new ball was holding on a bit. The ball was getting wet with the dew. I thought Vijay Shankar was trying to go too hard. Once he found the momentum, he hit it a long way. I know my game… for any player it’s important to know who you are. I think we have a great bowling attack for that (Chennai) wicket,” Gill stated on the post-match presentation.
Gill and GT will now tackle MS Dhoni’s Chennai Super Kings in Qualifier 1 on the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on Tuesday.
