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Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) obtained knocked out of IPL 2023 after they misplaced the league sport towards Gujarat Titans on Sunday (May 21). Virat Kohli‘s stupendous knock of 101* runs batting first that helped RCB put up 197 runs on the board went in useless with Shubman Gill overshadowing him with an excellent ton within the chase. However, greater than the RCB loss, Kohli sitting within the dug out for the final 5 overs of the match apprehensive the followers.
India are because of play Australia within the World Test Championship (WTC) ultimate in a fortnight’s time and Virat Kohli injuring himself raised rather a lot of eyebrows. He was seen sitting helplessly within the dugout for the reason that fifteenth over watching his staff bottle the sport. Coming again to his damage, the previous RCB skipper damage his knee whereas taking a catch to dismiss Vijay Shankar within the fifteenth over off Vijaykumar Vyshak’s bowling.
Soon physio attended him however Kohli walked off the sector and by no means got here again. However, RCB head coach Sanjay Bangar gave an update on the identical within the post-match press convention confirming that the damage is not severe. He identified how Virat Kohli was on the sector for your entire innings within the earlier sport and in addition within the sport towards Gujarat Titans whereas stating that the physique will hassle sooner or later after enjoying a lot of intense cricket.
“Yeah, he had a bit of a niggle in his knee. But I don’t think there is anything serious. Having score two back-to-back hundreds within a gap of 4 days. He is somebody who not only wants to contribute with the bat but even when he is fielding. He did a lot of running around. 40 overs a couple of days ago and today, for 35 overs he was on the field. He was giving his best. So it is going to bother at some point but I don’t think its anything serious,” Bangar mentioned.
With RCB knocked out of IPL 2023 now, Virat Kohli is more likely to be among the many first batch of gamers to depart for England for the WTC Final.