Cricket world erupts over Virat Kohli and Steve Smith moment
The cricket world watched on in awe as Virat Kohli was handed the ball and rolled the arm over against rival Steve Smith in India's convincing win against Australia ahead of the T20 World Cup.
India cruised to Australia's target of 5-152 with ease in the T20 World Cup warm-up match, which was treated as such.
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This was no more evident with India using seven bowlers, while Australia used eight.
But the highlight for many cricket fans was when Kohli was tossed the ball for two overs.
And he bowled some medium pace to none other than Australia's mercurial Smith.
Cricket fans went wild over the rare moment.
One fan even pointed out, Smith bowled to Kohli more than 10 years ago when he joined the Australian ODI team as a bowling allrounder.
Virat Kohli is bowling to Steve Smith and Glenn Maxwell. This is peak cricket. 🤯🤯 pic.twitter.com/rJsIbJJrk4
— Harsh(old id s worded) (@100off52) October 20, 2021
Virat Kohli Has Elected To Bowl Today 😎@imVkohli • #INDvAUS • #T20WorldCup pic.twitter.com/CFpZ2Bhtao
— Nithish kumar (@life_of_MRnk) October 20, 2021
Rohit Sharma's tactical nous:
Brought Virat Kohli in to bowl earlier than Varun Chakravarthy, the former having a better economy than the latter, and Ravindra Jadeja. #AUSvsIND pic.twitter.com/VaJJQRVmi7— Rahul Pandey (@sportstoryguy) October 20, 2021
Virat Kohli bowling under Rohit Sharma captaincy.
Wow. How Delightful this is. 😍🥰— The Cricketist (@dCricketist) October 20, 2021
This over made me realise that Kohli is the greatest right arm quick bowler
— I S H A N ¹⁸ (@Kohlify_18) October 20, 2021
It's happening
Kohli bowling 😀😀 pic.twitter.com/ZNF139XcCE— Lord Shardul 💛 (@CricCrazyGunda) October 20, 2021
#INDvsAUS
King Virat Kohli bowling against mighty Australia 🏏 pic.twitter.com/vuHHuGpxbk— ROHIT MEENA (@RohitHr36) October 20, 2021
FIELDING✅
BATTING✅
BOWLING✅
KEEPING✅
And LEADING✅😎
A PERFECT TEAM MAN💙💙
Hail Virat King Kohli ❣️❣️#CricketTwitter #ViratKohli https://t.co/f3jbBdkOdc pic.twitter.com/HKWSZx2dK4— 𝐒𝐢𝐯𝐚 || VK One 8 (@happy_soul12) October 20, 2021
20th October 2010 - Steve Smith Bowling to Virat Kohli
20th October 2021 - Virat Kohli bowling to Steve Smith pic.twitter.com/IR4bGYqtYN— অভিযান পাল (@PaulAvijan) October 20, 2021
Despite bowling two overs for 12 runs, it would be unlikely Kohli bowls during the T20 World Cup tournament.
Kohli hasn't bowled since the semi-final of the 2016 T20 World Cup.
Australia's struggles ahead of World Cup
Nevertheless, the one-sided nature of the match will have been a concern for Australia only three days before the start of the competition.
Smith and Glenn Maxwell rebuilt the innings adding 61 in 53 balls before the latter was bowled for 37 off 28 balls.
But, India cruised to the target with more than two overs to spare with Australia's bowling also poor after dismissing only one batsman.
However, perhaps the most concerning moment in Australia's performance was Warner's dismissal.
The Aussie opener followed a golden duck against New Zealand in the first warm-up with a seven-ball one.
He has now played four innings since April scoring 0, 2, 0, 1, the other two being IPL matches.
with AAP
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