Zoom News : Mar 31, 2024, 06:00 AM
IPL 2024: Virat Kohli is counted among the fittest players in world cricket and he is constantly seen defeating many young players in terms of his fitness. In the 17th season of IPL, something similar was seen in the match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders. In this match, Kohli played an excellent unbeaten inning of 83 runs in 59 balls in which he also hit four fours and 4 sixes. Apart from this, he scored a lot of runs by running, which shows about his fitness. A video of the same match is also going viral on social media, in which Kohli is trying to take two runs and narrowly avoids getting out due to Rinku Singh's rocket throw.Kohli teased Rinku Singh like a child after surviving the throw.During the Royal Challengers Bangalore innings, in the 15th over, Virat Kohli quickly completed the first run after playing a cut shot towards cover on the fifth ball of Sunil Narine and then ran to take the second run. Meanwhile, Rinku Singh, who was fielding there, threw quickly towards the wicketkeeper, after which Kohli dived to avoid getting out and saved himself. After avoiding run out, Kohli, in his own style, gestured to Rinku and teased her like a child, in which he was also seen telling how close he came to avoid being run out. Now the video of this incident is going viral on social media. However, later in this match, RCB had to face defeat by 7 wickets, which is their second defeat after 3 matches this season.Virat Kohli again leads in the race for Orange CapVirat Kohli scored an unbeaten inning of 83 runs in this match, while earlier in the match against Punjab Kings, he had also played a brilliant half-century. After the innings against KKR, Kohli has now reached the first place in the race for Orange Cap this season. After 3 matches, Kohli has scored 181 runs at an average of 90.50. At the second place in this list is Heinrich Klaasen, a part of Sunrisers Hyderabad team, who has scored 143 runs in 2 innings at an average of 143. Riyan Parag is at third position with 123 runs while Sanju Samson is at fourth position with 97 runs.