Impressed by Virat Kohli’s batting, former Australia all-rounder Shane Watson has termed his figures within the T20 World Cup as a ‘tremendous freakish’.
Kohli has to this point scored three fifties, together with a half-century towards Bangladesh on Wednesday, changing into the best run-scorer in T20 World Cup historical past within the present showpiece, surpassing former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene’s complete. There are 1,016 runs.
Watson mentioned on Star Sports, “More than 1000 runs at an average of over 80 in the T20 World Cup, I can’t focus on it.”
“T20 cricket is a excessive threat recreation, excessive threat batting and to assume he can do it within the greatest event, averaging a lot and profitable so many video games for his nation.
“He’s a freak and those stats are super weird. It’s unbelievable that you can bat in such a high-risk format and score consistently. It’s ridiculous.” Kohli has scored 220 runs towards Bangladesh along with his innings of 82 not out, 62 not out, 12 and 64 not out.
Jayawardene scored his runs in 31 innings however Kohli made solely 23 runs to enhance him.
With Kohli getting stronger, India grabbed the highest spot in Group 2.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
