Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) received knocked out of IPL 2023 after they misplaced the league recreation towards Gujarat Titans on Sunday (May 21). Virat Kohli‘s stupendous knock of 101* runs batting first that helped RCB put up 197 runs on the board went in useless with Shubman Gill overshadowing him with a superb ton within the chase. However, greater than the RCB loss, Kohli sitting within the dug out for the final 5 overs of the match apprehensive the followers.
India are as a consequence of play Australia within the World Test Championship (WTC) last in a fortnight’s time and Virat Kohli injuring himself raised so much of eyebrows. He was seen sitting helplessly within the dugout for the reason that fifteenth over watching his crew bottle the sport. Coming again to his harm, the previous RCB skipper damage his knee whereas taking a catch to dismiss Vijay Shankar within the fifteenth over off Vijaykumar Vyshak’s bowling.
Soon physio attended him however Kohli walked off the sphere and by no means got here again. However, RCB head coach Sanjay Bangar gave an update on the identical within the post-match press convention confirming that the harm is not critical. He identified how Virat Kohli was on the sphere for all the innings within the earlier recreation and likewise within the recreation towards Gujarat Titans whereas stating that the physique will trouble in some unspecified time in the future after taking part in a lot of intense cricket.
“Yeah, he had a bit of a niggle in his knee. But I don’t think there is anything serious. Having score two back-to-back hundreds within a gap of 4 days. He is somebody who not only wants to contribute with the bat but even when he is fielding. He did a lot of running around. 40 overs a couple of days ago and today, for 35 overs he was on the field. He was giving his best. So it is going to bother at some point but I don’t think its anything serious,” Bangar mentioned.
With RCB knocked out of IPL 2023 now, Virat Kohli is more likely to be among the many first batch of gamers to go away for England for the WTC Final.
