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In his 400th T20 appearance, Virat Kohli was off to a brilliant start with the bat in Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s run-chase against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2025 season opener in Saturday on Kolkata. For the first four overs, Kohli had the best seat in the house for the Phil Salt show. Another former KKR player, Salt has enjoyed batting at the Eden Gardens. And the English opener was off to a flier on Saturday night, racing to 44 off 19 balls.
Kohli, until then, had faced just 5 balls – he had hit a couple of boundaries, but both were streaky. After dragging the 2nd four through the leg side, Kohli shook his head. Four runs alright, but he wasn’t timing it right. All that would change at the start of the fifth over, as Kohli produced two early contenders for the shots of the season. Spencer Johnson landed a couple of deliveries in the slot, and Kohli freed his arms, down the ground.
The first one, standing tall in the follow-through but the second one was even better as he crouched into his signature off-drive stance, the bottom hand coming more into play, and arrowed it over the bowler’s head. Salt was doing the bulk of the run-scoring early on, but Kohli’s two sixes were headline-worthy. Kohli and Salt’s early assault took RCB to 80/0 at the end of the powerplay.
Earlier in the day, RCB’s bowlers – led by Krunal Pandy’s three-for – restricted KKR to 174/8 despite the hosts and defending champions getting off to a strong start, led by Ajinkya Rahane’s half century.
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