I have gone back 8-9 years… Why did Kuldeep say this after seeing Kohli’s innings?

Virat Kohli once again showed his old magic in the ODI match played against South Africa in Ranchi. He played a brilliant inning of 135 runs in 120 balls, which included 11 fours and seven sixes. Along with Rohit Sharma, he also made a partnership of 136 runs for the second wicket. Rohit also scored fifty plus score in the third consecutive ODI match. After scoring 57 runs with the bat of Rohit.

Thanks to Virat Kohli’s brilliant century, the Indian team scored 349 runs for 8 wickets in the stipulated 50 overs and then Team India all out the guests for 332 runs and won the match by 17 runs. Spinner Kuldeep Yadav played an important role in the victory by taking 4 wickets.

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Seeing this innings of Virat Kohli, many fans and cricket experts remembered the era of 2016-17. During that period, King Kohli had scored a lot of runs with the bat in all three formats of cricket. Kuldeep Yadav also said after seeing Kohli’s innings that he has gone back 8-9 years.

Kuldeep Yadav said in the video shared by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), ‘When my career started, Virat Bhai was the captain. The way he batted, I felt as if I had gone back 8-9 years. The way he batted in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019. So it was a very good innings and he looked very confident. The ball was going well from his bat.

Tilak Verma, who was out of the Ranchi ODI match, considers himself very lucky to witness such batting of Virat Kohli. According to him, Virat’s energy, batting and fielding were ‘top class’. Tilak Verma said, ‘This was one of the best innings. I am very happy that I saw Virat Bhai’s century live. Be it fielding or batting, he is top in everything. It is a big thing to learn from him.

Virat Kohli was chosen ‘Player of the Match’ for his brilliant century. After the match, Kohli told that in future also he will play only in one format. Kohli surprised everyone by retiring from Test cricket in May this year. Now it has become clear from his statement that he has decided his priority and is going to focus only on ODI cricket. Seeing his batting style, timing of shots, intent, fitness and mindset, cricket experts are also saying that Virat has once again entered his peak phase.

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