India batter Virat Kohli rolled his arm over in entrance of his Indian Premier League (IPL) residence crowd on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru and even managed to dismissed Netherlands skipper Scott Edwards of their ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 match on Diwali day on Sunday. Kohli equalled England all-rounder Ben Stokes’s unimaginable report as effectively by selecting up this wicket for the primary time after 10 years.
Kohli and Stokes are the one cricketers to have scored a fifty and picked up a wicket thrice in ODI cricket. The former India captain has scored 51 off 58 balls after which claimed 1/13 with the ball.
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The final two occasions that Kohli achieved this feat was towards England in Cardiff in 2011 and towards New Zealand in Wellington in 2014. However, India went on to lose each of these matches. In truth, Kohli had scored 100 and picked up wicket in Cardiff however England went on to win a rain-hit match by DLS methodology.
India posted a large 410 runs after batting first towards Netherlands in Bengaluru and went on to publish their ninth successive win in World Cup 2023 by 160 runs on Sunday. Even skipper Rohit Sharma rolled his arm over – the ninth bowlers for the hosts on Sunday.
“We enjoyed the company of each other once the tournament started. We wanted to play the game on the field with a lot of fun, excitement and that reflected on our performances. When we try and do these kind of things, we keep the atmosphere nice and healthy outside, guys tend to perform really well without any burden. When you have five bowlers, you want to create those options within the team,” Rohit Sharma mentioned within the post-match presentation.
“Today we had nine (bowling) options, it’s important, this was the game where we could have tried certain things. The seamers bowling those wide yorkers when it was not needed, but we wanted to do that. As a bowling unit, we wanted to try doing something different and see what we can achieve,” he added.
Even head coach Rahul Dravid had jokingly commented on Kohli’s bowling earlier within the World Cup 2023 marketing campaign. “The fact is that we will not be in a position to have a proper sixth option,” Dravid mentioned.
“We do have the choice to name upon our wrong-footed, in-swinging menace. And with the group behind him, I’d again him for a few overs there and some wickets. The crowd was demanding his bowling within the final sport. We got here very near giving him an over. And then we have Surya who can flip his arm over a little bit bit. And Rohit’s bowled a bit as effectively.
“I mean, obviously, the sixth option is something that Hardik gave us. But we have been playing the last four games without the sixth bowling option. We also played a couple of games in the Australia series before the World Cup without the sixth option,” Dravid had mentioned.
