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Follow UsThe former Indian skipper and the senior batter Virat Kohli is enduring a lean patch for the last couple of years and waiting for his 71st century since he scored his last one against West Indies in November 2019. Kohli also failed to deliver in the rescheduled fifth Test match against England. The right-hander could score only 11 and 20 respectively in both innings of the match.
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Today, he got a chance to feature in the playing of India for the second T20I against England. He was not a part of the squad in the first T20I. The bad patch for Kohli continued in this match also as he couldn’t score runs against the hosts.
Cricket fans took to Twitter for trolling the right-hander for his poor form with the bat. Some of the went on to say that he should sit out of the T20I squad if he is not performing up to the mark.
If a player of Ravichandran Ashwin’s caliber can sit outside T20 team then why can’t Virat Kohli - Kapil Dev
The 33-year-old was included in the team by excluding the Rohtak-based explosive batter Deepak Hooda from the playing XI. The Delhi-based senior batter came to bat at number three after the dismissal of skipper Rohit Sharma. Kohli could score only 1 run off 3 balls and succumb to the debutant pacer Richard Gleeson.
A few days back, former legendary Indian captain Kapil Dev also said that “if a player of Ravichandran Ashwin’s caliber can sit outside T20 team then why can’t Kohli if he is not in good form with the bat.”
Speaking of the second T20I between India and England so far, then India posted a respectable total of 170 runs for the loss of eight wickets in the allotted 20 overs. Senior Ravindra Jadeja ended up as the highest run-scorer in the Indian inning. He made 46 runs off just 29 balls with five boundaries.
Other than Jadeja, skipper Rohit Sharma and another opener Rishabh Pant played the innings of 31 and 26 runs respectively. Chris Jordan and debutant Richard Gleeson picked the four and three wickets respectively.
Here’s how Twitter users reacted to Kohli’s dismissal.
Thand Pad Gayee bhai @imVkohli Beizzati Karakar! You didn’t play last match and India won easily. Kuch Toh Sharam Kijiye Janab! #INDvsENG
— KRK (@kamaalrkhan) July 9, 2022
#indvseng Hey @ABdeVilliers17 and @msdhoni please give some tips to our #Kohli. We all know he is great batsman but this day @imVkohli time not going good please kings helps us kings 😢 #CricketTwitter #ViratKohli𓃵
— Indian Culture (@Gujarat_Titan) July 9, 2022
Sachin Tendulkar suffered from Nervous ninety.#ViratKohli suffering from Nervous single digit score.
— Gunasekaran S (@Walke16Mountain) July 9, 2022
Please leave your woke and pray to god seriously.
Virat Kohli is an actor, not a cricketer 🏆💫
— Mahendra Korwekar (@mahipreneur22) July 9, 2022
His focus is on advertising rather than Indian cricket🇮🇳💸💸
Money 💸is everything for him 😏😏
#ViratKohli I Think it's time to say Bye to the 👑 As a fan it hurts 💔 but for his Postion there or lot of spots left especially #Hooda #Samson Hence it's going to be an end of Era of the one and only 👑 KOHLI 💔😣 pic.twitter.com/afLBPpLnGB
— AKASH R (@1006_ll) July 9, 2022
finished ? #ViratKohli
— sathish (@sathishkumar411) July 9, 2022
@BCCI @imVkohli ko drop kar do team india se aur ranji ke kisi team me bhej do
— Love Mehra (@LoveMeh59011533) July 9, 2022
Virat Kohli should take a break. Go back to domestic cricket, score runs and then come back to international arena.
— Jitender Singh Bhatia (@True_Sikh) July 9, 2022
But no need to retire as of now. He has still lot of cricket left in him
Virat Kohli coming out of stadium after making 1(3) runs .#ENGvIND pic.twitter.com/B9oT2xTHB1
— Raghav Masoom (@comedibanda) July 9, 2022
I don't mind Virat Kohli got out. I can now say this indian team playing fearlessly in this series and this is how T20 should be played . And in this way of T20 approach you will get failures sometimes but that doesn't means you are not a good player .
— VK 🌨️ (@Suprvirat) July 9, 2022
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Hooda, after realising he might sit out for Kohli/Pant/Iyer today: pic.twitter.com/ZKlagScwt9
— Souvik Roy (@souvikroy_SRT) July 9, 2022
Kohli fans are trolling a legend Kapil Dev for speaking out on Kohli’s continuous drought of runs!
— K Sudarshan (@SudarshanEMA) July 9, 2022
deepka hooda played brilliant innings in previous game and then too dropped for out of form kohli. imagine the kind of pressure in which hooda,sky etc are playing. one poor series and they'll be history.#ViratKohli #ENGvIND
— A. (@Deludedindian) July 9, 2022