Virat Kohli has been struggling to find form in IPL 2022 and advice and messages are pouring for the former Royal Challengers Bangalore captain. On Thursday, Chennai Super Kings veteran Dwayne Bravo posted a message for the Indian batter, stressing that he is ‘No 1’.
Kohli has scored 216 runs in 11 games this season at an average of 21.60 and strike rate of 111.91. His best came against the Gujarat Titans – a slow 58 off 53 balls. With the poor run, the 33-year-old’s place in the India squad for the T20 World Cup, to be held in Australia later this year, is under question.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated the Chennai Super Kings by 13 runs on Wednesday. Faf du Plessis and co rode on Mahipal Lomror’s 42 and a combined effort from the bowlers to register their sixth win of the season. The 2016 runners-up are placed on the fourth rung of the IPL 2022 points table.
Against CSK, Kohli got off to a decent, but slow, start. He faced 33 deliveries, scoring 30 runs, before falling to Moeen Ali.
Dwayne Bravo, after CSK’s loss, posted a message for a struggling Kohli on Instagram.
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“Enjoy life and appreciate greatness! @virat.kohli Respect #NumberOne numbers don’t lie! #Champion,” Bravo wrote as caption under three pictures of him and the former India captain.
Text under the second picture read: “IPL’s leading wicket-taker and leading run-scorer in a single picture”. The post was liked more than 222,109 times and went viral on Twitter.
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Virat Kohli leads the run charts in the IPL. He has scored 6,499 runs at an average of 36.51 in the league so far at a strike rate of close to 130. He has five centuries and 43 half-centuries to his name, 113 being his highest score.
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Dwayne Bravo, on the other hand, tops the bowlers’ charts. The West Indies all-rounder has taken 181 wickets in 159 games at an average of 23.86. He missed the tie vs RCB due to fitness issues. The 38-year-old has taken 14 wickets in eight games this season.
