Already Knew Pakistan’s Plan – Virat Kohli
India’s star batsman Virat Kohli, who played a key role in India’s win over Pakistan in the T20 World Cup, said that he understood Pakistan captain Babar Azam’s plan.
The Indian Cricket Board shared a video of Virat Kohli and Hardik Pandya on their on social media, in which both the cricketers discussed the technique to be followed in the match against Pakistan.
Virat Kohli said, ‘When Hardik came to the ground after four early dismissals, I was under a lot of pressure. are’. He said, ‘Hardik came fearlessly to the crease and as soon as he came, he told me that we just have to build a partnership and save wickets, runs will come later, for now I have to stay at the crease.
Virat said, ‘During the break after the 10th over, I spoke to head coach Rahul Dravid and he also said that it is very important to have both of you at the crease, we were just focusing on our cricket’.
In the video released by the BCCI, Virat said, ‘When the match was in the final stages and we saw that Nawaz had only one over and Hardik could hit him comfortably for sixes, we realized right there that Babar will give him last over.
Kohli said, “I told Hardik that if we play shots in Haris Rauf’s over, the match will be set for us and Pakistan will panic, and coincidentally that’s what we thought, as soon as Haris went for runs Pakistan players started panicking.
Hardik Pandya said in an interview, ‘The situation when I came to the crease, I would have taken a bullet for Kohli but not let him lose his wicket, I knew that both of us can win the team, both of us.
It was very important for one of us to stand at the crease’. Hardik also said that ‘credit should be given to the Pakistani bowlers the way they bowled was fantastic, they bowled brilliantly’.
It should be noted that India defeated Pakistan by 4 wickets in the India-Pakistan match in which Virat Kohli played an unbeaten innings of 82 runs while Hardik got out after scoring 40 runs.
