Rajasthan Royals insult and humiliate Virat Kohli for this reason after the latter scores his 8th IPL 100

Royal Challengers Bengaluru opening batsman Virat Kohli was the lone wolf last night from his team as the South Indian franchise lost their 3rd consecutive match in a row, this time against Rajasthan Royals.

While it was yet another tough day at the office for Kohli and RCB, their opponents - Sanju Samson's Royals enjoyed their 4th victory of the season and kept their 100% win record alive after the first 4 matches.

Following their victory, the RR X (formerly Twitter) did not hesitate to troll Kohli, who scored one of the slowest centuries in IPL history. 

Having walked out top open along with skipper Faf du Plessis, Virat Kohli had played the anchor role throughout 1st innings. His gameplan against the competent and strong Rajasthan bowling line-up was very simple.

On a pitch that was not exactly a batting pitch and was holding up the ball before going to the batter, Kohli displayed his technical prowess to prevail against all odds and solely relied upon just putting his bat at the right time. 

The timing was the name of the game that Virat Kohli adopted last night against a daunting bowling attack consisting of Trent Boult, Nandre Burger, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, and Avesh Khan. If it wasn't for his calm and composed batting, then RCB could not even have posted the 180+ total which they eventually set up for RR to chase down.

As it was said before, Kohli turned up to the Sawai Mansingh stadium as the lone wolf or the last man standing or the savior of his team. Though his century came at a crucial time, many think that Kohli could have scored that faster and Rajasthan Royals, with their tweet, also tried to express the same thing. 

What did Rajasthan Royals say about Virat Kohli?

As soon as the 1st innings ended after Sanju Samson won the toss and elected to bat first, Rajasthan Royals used a picture of Yuzvendra Chahal to troll RCB and Virat Kohli. The RR X admin wrote, "184 sounds good on a day when 200+ was possible👍". 

184 sounds good on a day when 200+ was possible 👍 pic.twitter.com/Cm47TNbN7Q

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) April 6, 2024

It was a direct dig towards Virat Kohli for the fact that he took more than 50 balls to complete his century and that he did not do enough to help his team reach 200. But it should be also noted that other than Kohli, only du Plessis played out a decent knock of 44 off 33 balls at a strike rate of just 133.

The remaining batters - Glenn Maxwell, debutant Sourav Chauhan, and Cameron Green had disappointing performances as they got out for 1, 6, and 9 respectively. 

Another reason that kept RCB from scoring 200 was the management's decision to drop in-form uncapped batters, Anuj Rawat and Mahipal Lomror. Plus the decision to not let Dinesh Karthik walk into bat and prevent him from playing the finishing role was also a bad move by the Andy Flower-led coaching staff. 

Virat Kohli's century was overshadowed by Jos Buttler's knock

Virat Kohli's 113 off 72 was eventually overshadowed by RR opening batsman Jos Buttler, who led the charge for his team by remaining not out at 100 off 58 at a strike rate of 172. Buttler was also adjudged as man of the match whereas the Orange cap is still on the head of Kohli.