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Virat Kohli vs Commentators

Royal Challengers Bengaluru's Virat Kohli during an Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 T20 cricket match between Gujarat Titans and Royal Challengers Bengaluru, at the Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad. (PTI)

In this week’s less-talked about IPL news, Virat Kohli questioned the credentials of those calling the game and hinted that they, unlike him, didn’t have the first-hand experience of being in a tight T20 situation. This was after the commentators – an eclectic group of game’s greats and internationals of repute – had been critical about his strike rate and his skills to take on the spinners. “It is about winning the game for the team. And there is a reason you have done this for 15 years … You have done this, day in and day out. You have won games for your team. And I am not quite sure, if you have not been in that situation yourself, to sit and speak about the game from a box,” Kohli said. Here the ‘you’ alternately meant ‘I’ and the ‘commentators’. Kohli didn’t take names but it was easy to guess who he was targeting. (READ MORE)

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