Virat Kohli, who bowled in T20I cricket after a spot of just about six years, was the spotlight of Hong Kong’s innings towards India on Wednesday.
Omg Kohli is bowling. Kohli is in kind. Kohli is epic #Virat Kohli #INDvHK #Cricket pic.twitter.com/5gB8AqcABt
— Arit Jindal – 10 yr outdated investor (@Jindalaarit) 31 August 2022
Kohli bowled the seventeenth over of the innings.
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— Prashant Gaurav (@prashantgauravg) 31 August 2022
Unfortunately, the 33-year-old did not take a wicket however conceded six runs in his single over, which received the web over.
Kohli had earlier joked that he might have had greater than eight worldwide wickets to his title if his India teammates had had sufficient religion in his capacity with the ball in his hand.
The final time Kohli bowled in T20Is was in 2016. On that event, MS Dhoni opted to bowl to him when India wanted to defend 7 runs within the final over, regardless of Ravichandran Ashwin nonetheless not fulfilling his quota of overs. ,
Virat Kohli is bowling after six years. #INDvHKG #INDvsHKG #Virat Kohli #RohitSharma pic.twitter.com/QYGDcLdblh
— ScoresNow (@scoresnow_in) 31 August 2022
Kohli had did not emerge as a hero with the ball on that event.
Kinguuu bowls too #ViratKohli𓃵 @imVkohli #INDvHK pic.twitter.com/DwEhyNpCPa
— SuManvitha (@ManviBad) 31 August 2022
“Nobody in the team believes in my bowling but I do. After that I had back problems and never bowled again (in an international match),” Kohli mentioned in a Star Sports interview.
Meanwhile, after India’s innings of 35 runs towards Pakistan within the first match of Asia Cup, former India captain Kohli performed a fluent innings of 59 off 44 balls towards Hong Kong in Dubai on Wednesday, scoring 52 runs towards West Indies. The latter is his first worldwide fifty. T20I in Kolkata on February 18 this yr.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
