By India Today Sports Desk: Virat Kohli was animated all through Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) celebrations after their 18-run win over KL Rahul’s Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) on Monday on the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow.
After the tip of the match, Kohli was involved in altercations with LSG fast bowler Naveen-ul-Haq and Super Giants’ mentor Gautam Gambhir. Later, when RCB had been busy rejoicing their win over LSG, Kohli was heard saying, “If you can give it, you got to take it, otherwise don’t give it.”
Kohli moreover dropped a cryptic message, quoting the earlier Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, who as quickly as said, “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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Kohli, inside the meantime, was fined 100 laptop of his match expenses after he pleaded accountable for breaching the IPL’s Code of Conduct.
Kohli was moreover delighted after RCB secured an vital win on May 1. After opting to bat first, the Challengers scored solely 126 for the shortage of 9 wickets. Faf du Plessis was as soon as extra their star batter after he scored 44 runs off 40 balls with one 4 and a six sooner than Amit Mishra accounted for his wicket.
Later, Josh Hazlewood and Karn Sharma picked up two wickets apiece as RCB bowled the Super Giants out for 108 in 19.5 overs. Mohammed Siraj, Glenn Maxwell, Wanindu Hasaranga and Harshal Patel purchased one wicket apiece.
“It was an important win on the road for us. The fact that we got more support than the home team is an unbelievable feeling. It tells you all about how much we are liked as a team and how people come out and back us. It’s a sweet win and feels good for many reasons, but most importantly, for the kind of character we showed defending that total, everyone had the belief that we could do it and we ended up on the winning side,” Kohli said after the win.
