Virat Kohli Reaction: Royal Challengers Bangalore have lost by 21 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders. Virat Kohli’s team had a target of 201 runs to win the match, but could only manage 179 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. For Royal Challengers Bangalore, Virat Kohli scored an inning of 54 runs in 37 balls while Mahipal Lomror contributed 34 runs in 18 balls, but could not take the team to the threshold of victory. However, Virat Kohli has given his reaction on this defeat.
What did Virat Kohli say on this match?
At the same time, after this defeat, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli said that we did not play well in the match… We deserve to lose. We gave a chance to the opposition team to win, our performance was not as expected. If you look at the match, you will find that we could not capitalize on the opportunities we got. We dropped many catches, due to which we got to chase 25-30 more runs. Apart from this, our batsmen kept getting out continuously, due to which we could not reach the target. He also said that just a good partnership could have changed the course of the match, but it did not happen.
The condition of the match was like this
Apart from Virat Kohli, Mahipal Lomror definitely scored runs for RCB, but the rest of the team’s batsmen disappointed. Especially, players like Glenn Maxwell and Faf du Plessis were left cheap. Faf du Plessis scored 17 runs off 7 balls, but could not convert the fast start into a big innings. At the same time, Glenn Maxwell went on to score 5 runs in 4 balls. Apart from this, Dinesh Karthik played a slow inning of 22 runs in 18 balls. For RCB, both openers Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis made a stormy start. Both players added 31 runs in just 2.1 overs, but after that Virat Kohli’s team kept losing wickets at regular intervals. As a result, Royal Challengers Bangalore had to face defeat by 21 runs.
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