India can suffer without Virat, know why King Kohli is 'need' for the team in T20 World Cup

Virat Kohli: It would not be wrong to call Virat Kohli the greatest player in the cricket world in the last decade. He will soon be seen playing for Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2024, but at this time there seems to be little hope of his inclusion in the T20 World Cup team. T20 World Cup 2024, which will start only a week after the end of IPL. Kohli may not be a power hitter or may not be able to play shots in strange directions like Suryakumar Yadav, but his ability to structure innings and the class in his batting make him different from everyone else.

Why is Virat Kohli special?

Virat Kohli has so far scored 4,037 runs in 109 innings of 117 T20 matches. Scoring runs at an average of 50 is not a common thing in T20 cricket and Kohli's average of 51.76 makes him truly unusual. He is not called chase master for nothing, statistics show that his average while chasing in T20 matches is 71.85 and whenever the Indian team has come out to chase a target while Kohli is playing, then the Indian team has won 40 out of 46 times. Has been.

There have also been reports that Kohli will be selected in the T20 World Cup team on the basis of his IPL performance. Kohli is such a player who keeps the scoreboard running with singles and doubles even in the absence of boundaries in the middle overs. This is what makes him a big threat to the opposition captains. At the same time, in difficult situations, he knows very well how to play stormy innings like any strong batsman. Even in the last few matches, he has tried to score runs at a higher strike rate as his total strike rate in the last 14 T20 matches has been 146.31.

This fact is also not hidden from anyone that with playing more balls, Kohli's strike rate also keeps increasing. He knows how to score runs well against not only fast but also spin bowlers. Talking about IPL, the record of scoring most centuries is in the name of Virat Kohli. Playing big innings regularly in the T20 format makes Virat Kohli an ideal batsman for this format of cricket. All these aspects show that Kohli has now become a necessity for the Indian team.

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