ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 India will kickstart their campaign of Super 8 from today against Afghanistan and the challenge won’t be easy so it will be a tough fight between Asia rivals.
India won all the matches except against Canada as it had washed out due to rain and so India successfully qualified for playoffs. Bowlers did their job in every match but batters fell short while scoring runs it’s understood that the surface in New York was not proper and batters struggled a lot to make runs.
Irfan Pathan supports Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli had backfired in IPL 2024 a lot and also bagged Orange Cap but as soon as he arrived in New York fortunes were turned and had a leaning patch in group matches, he scored just 5 runs in 3 matches which seems to be a huge collapse for India, batter like Virat Kohli who is the king of this format is not playing well concerns will raise. This World Cup he started as an opener but feels like it didn’t suit him. Former Indian pacer Irfan Pathan supports Virat Kohli and says that he will come back in Super 8 with a bang and will score runs like earlier. Virat Kohli holds the record for most runs in the T20 World Cup and so he was the first batter to score 4k runs in T20Is. Irfan Pathan said:
“He knows how to stand up in big matches, isn’t he? That’s what makes him special. He’s a special player and I’m sure he’s going to put his hand up and say OK, I’m going to do this for Team India and when the time comes, especially the big matches, we always have seen from Virat Kohli that he performs.”
“Just wait and watch, the slog sweep will come out now. He will use those shots because, look, those conditions in New York. But now things will be different and you’ll see a real Virat Kohli coming to the fore.”
Firegun Virat Kohli will rise to the occasion as he is the man of big tournaments so his role is really important and the kind of aggression he brings is a surreal feeling for every Indian fan.
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