It is a mouth-watering prospect for the followers when India’s prime batter Virat Kohli faces as much as India’s prime bowler Mohammed Siraj. However, this incidence is a rarity as each Kohli and Siraj are teammates at Royal Challengers Bangalore and barely get the chance to go up towards one another other than the RCB web session.
One such observe session was captured on digicam by RCB with RCB’s stand-in skipper Virat Kohli going through their prime bowler within the IPL 2023 season – Siraj – forward of their subsequent match towards Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Siraj started by beating Kohli twice, as soon as exterior off and the second time leaving his RCB teammate all at sea. Kohli then nodded his head in acknowledgment.
WATCH Virat Kohli bat towards RCB teammate Mohammed Siraj HERE…
Virat vs Siraj within the nets was a excessive intense high quality match up! Here’s how the duo ready for this night’s huge conflict towards KKR.#PlayBold #____RCB #IPL2023 #RCBvKKR pic.twitter.com/rBZKpgqB9z
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets) April 26, 2023
Kohli then went after Siraj and took him aside. Former India skipper hit some monstrous sixes – together with the straight six he famously hit off Haris Rauf towards Pakistan on the T20 World Cup 2022 final October. Kohli hammered one lofted drive after one other on the up. At the top, even Siraj acknowledged that he was in any case, bowling to one of many GOATs.
“The way I operate in the Powerplay, I stuck to the same approach. When the ball is new, obviously there is some swing. After that, we all know what King Kohli is capable of when he is in form. He smashed me all over the Chinnaswamy,” Siraj mentioned within the video.
Kohli is the fifth-highest run-getter to this point within the IPL 2023, despite getting out for a golden duck within the final match towards Rajasthan Royals. The RCB stand-in captain has scored 279 runs in 7 matches with 4 fifties at a strike-rate of 141.62 and a mean of 46.5.
Siraj, then again, is the main wicket-taker for RCB within the IPL 2023 season with 13 wickets in 7 matches to this point. He held the IPL 2023 Purple Cap until Tuesday night time earlier than Gujarat Titans leg-spinner Rashid Khan took excessive place with 14 wickets. Siraj has maintained a superb economic system fee of seven.17 as properly this season.
RCB are up towards Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan-owned KKR subsequent and will probably be aiming for his or her fifth win of the season on Wednesday night time.
