Former India skipper Virat Kohli won the game for India against Pakistan in the 20-20 World Cup 2022. In the game, the Green Brigade batted first after losing the toss. They amassed 159 runs thanks to Iftikhar Ahmed, Shan Masood, and cameos from Haris Rauf, and Shaheen Afridi. In reply, the Men In Blue lost four wickets for 31 runs and looked like losing the game.
However, the likes of Kohli and Hardik Pandya put together a match-winning partnership. The latter stayed unbeaten till the end and scored 82 runs. This led to a memorable win for the former World Champions in T20I and ODI World Cups. Meanwhile, a few months after this, the two-time World Cup winner revisited the innings.
“I still can’t make any sense of it. That’s a very honest admission. And a lot of people have tried to ask me what were you thinking, how did you plan and I have no answers. The fact of the matter is that I was so much under pressure that my mind had shut off completely by the 12th or 13th over.
Don’t remember anything said by Rahul Dravid during the game: Virat Kohli
The right-hander added that during a drinks break in India’s innings, he had a chat with head coach Rahul Dravid. The former said he forget everything said by Dravid almost immediately.
“I was going through what I was going through, then I came back in Asia Cup and I was playing well and I felt like wow I’m ready to play to play in this World Cup. At the 10th over mark, we were 31 for 4 and I had just ran Axar out. I was 12 off 25, or something. I remember in the break, Rahul bhai came to me and I don’t remember what he said. I swear and I even told him this as well. I told him, ‘I have no idea what you told me in that break because I was zoned out’,” he said.
