Watch: Virat Kohli Hits A Straight Six Off Haris Rauf To Bring India Back Into The Game Against Pakistan In ICC T20 World Cup 2022 Match

India batter Virat Kohli starred with the bat as Men in Blue defeated Pakistan in their opening encounter in ICC T20 World Cup 2022 match which was played on October 23 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) in front of over 93,000 fans.

Kohli led from the front scoring 82* with 6 fours and 4 sixes to his name and was awarded the Player of the Match award as well as India defeated Pakistan by 4 wickets.

Earlier, Iftikhar Ahmed (51) and Shan Masood (52*) added 76 runs for the third wicket after Arshdeep Singh with 3/32, had removed captain Babar Azam for a golden duck and then sent back Mohammad Rizwan for cheap. The duo and some late hitting from Shaheen Afridi took Pakistan to 159/8 in 20 overs.

Apart from Arshdeep, Hardik Pandya also took 3/30 in his 4 overs.

In reply, India also lost KL Rahul and Rohit Sharma for 4 runs each and then Axar Patel got run out for nothing. Suryakumar Yadav hit 15 glorious runs but fell to Haris Rauf. Then Kohli and Hardik Pandya (40) added 113 runs for the fifth wicket to bring India back into the game.

Virat Kohli Hits Two Sixes To Haris Rauf To Bring India Back Into The Game, Including One Straight Over The Bowler’s Head

In the 19^th over, bowled by Haris Rauf, India started with 31 runs needed in the last 12 balls. Rauf gave away just 3 runs in his first four balls and Kohli knew he had to hit some sixes to bring the required runs to a manageable amount for the last over.

Babar had put faith in Rauf and he had delivered knowing Mohammad Nawaz would bowl the last over. However, Kohli started off with a brilliant six straight over the bowler’s head off a length ball that bounced to stump height.

Kohli just twirled a bit and managed to give the ball enough elevation to send it over the boundary. He then hit a flick on the leg side on the last ball to hit another six.

However, his six over Haris Rauf’s head led to the MCG crowd swooning over his batsmanship.

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