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Virat Kohli’s 82 not out against Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2022 will remain a legend for decades, writes Sahay. (AP Photo)
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Virat Kohli, the proud recipient of the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Cricket Men’s Decade (2010-2020), is in stunning purple, breaking world records at will
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Shooter Virat Kohli was on fire last month. As England beat Pakistan to clinch the T20 World Cup crown in 2022, the Virat all-rounder is high on the pole position as the highest scorer – “296 runs in six matches with four fifties”.
Despite Kohli’s resurgence, the men’s dream was dashed as they bowed out shyly of Thursday’s semi-final, losing to wild England (eventual trophy winners), with the ignominy of being their first T20. World Cup history to lose a match, twice by 10 wickets. India’s 168 proved uneven on the small Adelaide pitch against the havoc wrought by England’s stacked openers.
Earlier, Team India, riding on Kohli’s superb form and Surya’s heroics, came top in Group 2, in the Super 12, in a tournament that had no Winoos and cricket gods. Ireland beat England, Zimbabwe stunned Pakistan, Namibia sent Sri Lanka home, Holland put the South Africans on the plane to Johannesburg, defending champions Australia were forced to bite the dust on the field, and Jos Buttler and Alex Hales killed India’s dream of ICC trophy.
With the destruction at the hands of the England openers, India have now missed out on a World Cup semi-final in the last four matches they have reached there – the 2015 and 2019 ODI World Cups and the 2016 and 2022 T20 World Cups.
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In ICC tournaments, for the last five decades, India “doesn’t have much to ask for”. Exceptions are ODI World Cup wins (1883, 2011), T20 World Cup win (2007) and Champions Trophy win (2013).
The last ICC trophy India won was the Champions Trophy in 2013, beating England by five runs in Birmingham. And India’s record in knockout matches in the last decade is pathetic – out of 8 senior knockout matches played in the 50-over and 20-over formats, India have lost six – two in the final and four in the semi-final.
The T20 World Cup, the most democratic form of the big game of cricket, proved that Indian water polo – MS Dhoni’s boys’ victory parade at the inaugural World Cup 2007 was definitely the ‘Aha!’ and England’s last semi-final defeat by England in 2022. it is the worst moment of pain. If we remove the 2014 final and the 2016 semi-final, in the other editions – 2009, 2010, 2012 and 2021 – India were sent home in the league stage. In 2009, three defeats on the trot to West Indies, England and South Africa, in 2010, consecutive losses to Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka, slumped in 2012 due to poor pace and lost to Pakistan and New Zealand in the Super 12 in 2021 year.
It was not meant to be, but what do you expect when, in this most democratic form of cricket, everything goes wrong – throwing away the smiles, robbing India, masters of the chase, a chance to chase; when the team spends the Power Play (India 38/1 in six overs, England 63/0), when three of the first four wickets (Rohit, Rahul and Suriya Kumar) go on at rest and when the bowlers and 11 fielders are rested. Surprisingly, Kohli’s fighting 50 off 40 balls (slower than desired) and Pandya’s knock of 63 off 33 balls were not enough to save India from being destroyed by Alex’s hail. Hales (86 off 47) and the clinical Jos Buttler (80 off 49) smashed England with 10 wickets off 24 spare balls.
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For those who watched the semi-final, the most vivid image will be of the distraught captain, Rohit Sharma, at the end of the match, alone on the field, head down, face down, pensive, chin plucked. lost deep in thought.
What happened on Thursday does not need the death of argumentative Indians, however, it needs serious introspection and analysis of the root causes and a radical overhaul in the team’s composition and approach, like what England did with the white-ball team after their early exit. of ODIs in 2015. World cup. He gave birth to England’s “aggressive no-nonsense team”.
It is clear that India have had more ‘Waterloo’ moments than ‘Aha’ moments in the shorter versions (T20 and ODI) of the World Cup and it is time again to introspect, retrospect and correct the mistake, recast the 2023 squad. The ODI World Cup will be held in India.
Although England beat Pakistan to lift the World Cup and India reached the semi-finals, posterity will hail it as the Virat Kohli tour, where “King Kohli” returned from the ashes, rising like a phoenix to rewrite history. His tally – 296 runs in six matches @98.6 and 136 hits (25 fours, 8 sixes) – puts him well ahead of the trio of Alex Hales, Jos Buttler and Mohammad Rizwan who played in the final.
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Make no mistake, it was Kohli who facilitated India’s entry into the semi-finals in a big way. One, King’s scintillating 82 was not beyond a masterclass against Pakistan in 53 balls at a strike rate of 154.71 (from India’s dangerous score of 31/4) a match decided on the last ball; two, Kohli’s 64 not out in 44 balls against Bangladesh in a match which India won by five runs and three had Kohli at 0 instead of the 62 runs he made against the Netherlands, where India’s margin of victory was achieved by Kohli, India . would lose to the small Netherlands like South Africa.
But for King Kohli to fight back, India would have been decimated in the Super 12. The only match in which Kohli did not score, against South Africa, India lost.
Kohli, the proud recipient of the ICC Cricket Men’s Decade (2010-2020) Sir Garfield Sobers Award, is in stunning purple, breaking world records at will. He became the first batsman to score 4000 runs in the shortest form of cricket. And with 1141 runs from 27 innings at an average of 81.5 in T20 World Cups, Kohli moved well ahead of Sri Lanka’s ICC Hall of Famer Mahela Jayawardene (1016 runs, 31 innings, 39.07 average) and the West Indian Hurricane, Chris Guy running). innings, 34.46 avg) as leading run-scorer in T20 World Cup; Kohli has also scored the most half-centuries (14) in the history of the T20 World Cup.
Also, with 319 and 273 runs in the 2014 and 2016 World Cups respectively, Kohli is the only player to be named the T20 World Cup player of the tournament twice and nominated for the third time, but he missed out badly against Sam Curran today. , which reached the maximum. 13 wickets in the tournament. Also, Kohli has won the most ‘Man of the Match Award’ in T20 World Cup and all these accolades Kohli has collected in just five T20 World Cups that he has played.
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Unsurprisingly, on 7 November, Kohli was named the ICC Player of the Month for October based on voting by global media, the ICC Hall of Fame, former international players and registered fans.
For the sake of brevity, I say – “King Kohli is back” and to paraphrase India captain Rohit Sharma as he said in a post match chat with Harsha Bhogle after India beat Pakistan, “Virat was always there”.
T20 World Cup 2022 speaks loudly why Virat Kohli is the Kohli King. It’s QED (Quod Erat Demonstrandum) Kohli baiters, time to shut up. Time to free Kohli from unnecessary scrutiny to let him play his natural game. As long as his willow continues to shoot, Team India will be a net beneficiary.
Kohli turned 34 on November 5 in the middle of the World Cup. With his fitness regime and passion for the game, I confirm, “Virat has many years of cricket in him.” It should be known that Vinu Mankad, the cricketing great of yesteryear and Sachin Tendulkar, the icon of the modern era of cricket played after the 40s – Sachin played for 24 years. England’s James Anderson, 40 years and 105 days (the world’s most successful fast bowler with 174 Test appearances and 656 wickets) has no intention of retiring anytime soon. And Sri Lankan Sanath Jayasuriya played till the age of 42. Like wine, these cricket giants have gotten better with age.
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Make no mistake, while Kohli is not enjoying cricket, he can play longer than Tendulkar and Jayasuriya. And Kohli’s purple patch in the T20 World Cup should be seen against what he did in September in the Asia Cup, where he was India’s top scorer – 276 runs, 5 matches, 2 fifties and a century.
Time to leave Kohli alone, to do what he does best, enjoying cricket. Controversies, when in doubt, should read Wisden’s last quote – Despite not playing in the first three iterations of the World Cup and ranking just 26th in terms of World T20 appearances, Virat is the top scorer , has more 50 runs and a higher average than anyone else in history.
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