Virat Kohli warm-up showcased his extravagant reflexes on the field in the warm-up match against Australia on October 17, Monday, in Brisbane.Â
In the warm-match between India and Australia, a whole lot happened. Kohli’s sensational catch and his run out by his rocket-throw.
Kohli’s contribution to the team’s score was not much but it can surely be compensated with his fielding performance.
Just after the videos of Kohli’s one handed catch and run out goes viral, fans flood the internet and twitter with Kohli’s skills. One user mentioned on Twitter that catches win matches, while others claimed that India won only because of Kohli.
Match Summary
The toss fell into the favour of Australian Captain, Aaron Finch. Finch invited the Indian batters to bat first.
Team India’s openers, Rohit Sharma and KL Rahul couldn’t give it a better start than going for maximums. KL scored a half-century in just 24 balls and headed towards the pavilion with a score of 57 in his stats.
Surya Kumar Yadav, is another in the list of smashing down the Australian bowlers. Surya’s knock added another 50 in just 33 balls, with 6 boundaries and 1 maximum to the team’s total.
Virat, with 19 off 12 deliveries, caught by Mitchell Starc’s bowling, while going for a six. Hardik Pandya departed for just two. Dinesh Karthik’s power-hitting could also be witnessed by the fans. Indian batters put a total of 186/7 on the board.
Australian batters gave a good start and Aaron Finch was seen leading his side, as a captain. As the batters were settling on the pitch, Indian bowlers took things under their supervision. Yuzvendra Chahal bamboozled Steve Smith.
Mohammad Shami was returning back in the squad after recovery from Covid. So, the ball was handed over to him only in the last over and he took 3 wickets.
Kohli’s running out Australian batter Tim David made the match even more interesting.
Virat’s saga of extraordinary fielding continued as he took a one-handed magnificent catch to dismiss Pat Cummins. And, this served as a treat to Virat’s fans.
India took 4 wickets in the last over and ended the match with a small winning margin of 6 runs.
Stars of the Match
Mentioning Virat Kohli as the star of the match, will never be an exaggeration after what he did in the warm-up match against Australia. Virat holds several records under his name. He was out of his aggressive playing for some months but after his 71st century, things are going well for him since then. The yesterday’s match proved an evidence to it.
Shami proved himself
But there’s another player, Mohammad Shami, whowas first not considered a well fit for the T20 World Cup 2022. However, due to some player’s unavailability, he was called upon at a very short call.
On the field, Shami proved everyone wrong after his last over of the match as he took 3 wickets in just 6 balls, to dismiss Josh Inglis and Kane Richardson. Shami’s yorkers were on point as ever.
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