“Well, it’s a surreal atmosphere. I honestly have no words. I have no idea how that happened,” Kohli said after his scintillating innings
In India’s first match in the tournament, they beat Pakistan by four wickets, with Kohli scoring a match-winning, incredible 53-ball 82 (not out).
Kohli hit six fours and four sixes.
In his own words, Kohli had “no idea how he had engineering India’s epic win over arch-rivals Pakistan.”
India were staring at defeat at 31 for four in a tricky chase of 160 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Then Kohli came up with an innings that could go down as one of the best in the history of T20 World Cups.
He got solid assistance from Hardik Pandya who scored an invaluable 40, with the two posting a fifth-wicket stand of 113 runs.
“Hardik kept telling me, just believe we can stay till the end. I’m lost for words,” Kohli remarked after the match.
“I think when Shaheen (Afridi) bowled from the Pavilion end, I told Hardik we have to take him down,” Kohli said pointing out when he decided to shift gears.
“The calculation was simple. Nawaz had one over to bowl, so if I could take Haris down, they would panic. It came down to 16 off 6. I’m kind of lost for words,” he said.
When asked about his two sixes off Haris Rauf, who pegged India back with his double blows early on, Kohli said, “It’s just instinctively I saw it, told myself to stay still. The one at long-on was unexpected, it was a back-of-a-length slower ball. The fine leg one, I just threw my bat at it.”
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