Virat Kohli Believes He is Playing His Best T20 Cricket Again Despite Criticism

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Virat Kohli in a match against Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League 2023, at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru on May 21, 2023.

After scoring an unprecedented seventh IPL hundred, Virat Kohli hit back at his critics who thought that he was no longer a top T20 batter. During an interview with the BCCI’s “world feed” after his 101 not out against the Gujarat Titans on May 21, Kohli stated, “I feel great. A lot of people think that my T20 cricket is declining, but I don’t feel like that at all. I think I am playing my best T20 cricket again.”

Following the T20 World Cup semi-final exit in the previous year, indications have arisen that India’s T20 team will undergo a revamp. Although the official excuse has been the “workload management” of senior players, captain Rohit Sharma and Kohli haven’t played for India in the shortest format.

Though Shubman Gill’s outstanding 52-ball-104 not out overshadowed Kohli’s scintillating ton, the latter’s consecutive hundreds against the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Gujarat Titans have now placed him at the top of the list of the highest number of century makers in the cash-rich league.

“I’m just enjoying myself. This is how I play T20 cricket; I look to hit gaps, hit a lot of boundaries, and then the big ones towards the end if the situation allows me to,” Kohli, who is close to reaching 12,000 career T20 runs, said. He added, “You have to read situations and rising up to the occasion when the situation demands.

I feel really good with my game at the moment and how I’m batting.” Currently, he has 639 runs and is third in this year’s list of run-getters, behind skipper Faf du Plessis (730 runs) and Shubman Gill (680 runs).

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