DTVHINDIMI or KKR- which IPL team does Virat Kohli consider his arch enemy?
Virat Kohli has named Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as his favourite IPL opponent ahead of Mumbai Indians (MI). Virat Kohli of RCB (Image Source: BCCI/IPL) Virat Kohli is an IPL legend and holds a special record of being the only player to represent the same franchise in every season. The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) star batsman joined the franchise as a rookie in the 2008 draft. Despite his initial struggles, RCB backed Virat and retained him ahead of the IPL 2011 mega-auction. After that Virat Kohli became the full-time captain of RCB in 2013. Virat has been playing for RCB since 2008, so he has had a long rivalry with every opponent in the T20 league. While talking to Star Sports, Virat talked about IPL and picked his best opponent. Which IPL team does Virat Kohli consider his arch enemy? Virat has named Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) as his favorite IPL opponent ahead of Mumbai Indians (MI). Let us tell you that Virat was a part of the first IPL match played between RCB and KKR on 18 April 2008. The team captained by Sourav Ganguly scored a total of 222 runs and RCB was all out for 82 runs. Virat was out after scoring 1 run off 5 balls in that match. Kohli’s stats against Mumbai Indians Kohli played his first IPL match against Mumbai Indians on 20 April. He scored 23 runs off 14 balls and RCB achieved the target of 166 runs. At the same time, he has scored 855 runs in 33 matches against Mumbai Indians. Kohli has also scored five half-centuries against MI. Kohli’s stats against KKR Virat has played 34 matches against KKR and scored 962 runs. He has one century and six half-centuries to his name. Interestingly, RCB has never faced Mumbai Indians or KKR in the IPL final. Kohli’s IPL career The Indian legend is the highest run scorer in IPL. He has scored 8004 runs in 252 matches. Virat has 8 centuries and 55 half-centuries to his name. Virat has played 3 IPL finals with RCB, but has never won the trophy.
Big news! Rahul Dravid got a big offer from KKR for IPL 2025, will replace Gambhir
Gautam Gambhir will soon be appointed as the next head coach of Team India. He will replace Rahul Dravid in the Indian team and will join the team later this month before the series against Sri Lanka. According to reports, the left-handed batsman has already shot a video saying goodbye to the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) fans at Eden Gardens and BCCI will soon appoint him. Interestingly, KKR has approached Dravid to replace Gambhir as mentor for IPL 2025. After his tenure as India’s head coach ended, Dravid is not currently associated with any team, so KKR wanted to include Dravid in their team. KKR has contacted Gautam Gambhir for IPL 2025 According to the news of News18 Bangla, Rahul Dravid has been contacted by the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) team and they want Dravid to join the team as a mentor in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025. But the former Indian coach has not yet responded to this. During Dravid’s tenure, Team India won the T20 World Cup 2024, won the Asia Cup, reached the final of the World Cup 2023 and the World Test Championship. Gambhir was the mentor of KKR in 2024 and KKR won the title. After this, BCCI was constantly talking to Gambhir about the post of head coach. Recently Gambhir has returned from Kolkata. It is being said that he has had a farewell in Kolkata and soon BCCI can seal his name as the head coach. After winning the T20 World Cup 2024 title, the Indian team is currently playing a five-match T20 International series on the Zimbabwe tour and after this, Team India has to go on a Sri Lanka tour next month. VVS Laxman has gone on the Zimbabwe tour as the head coach and there are reports that Gautam Gambhir will take over his post before the tour against Sri Lanka.
VIDEO: Will Harshit Rana ever give a flying kiss to Virat Kohli on the field? Know the answer of KKR bowler
‘So I didn’t provoke him, I have respect for him (Virat Kohli)’- Harshit Rana Harshit Rana, Virat Kohli (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Harshit Rana has shown a great game for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2024. The young bowler has taken 19 wickets in 11 matches. Harshit Rana’s onfield flying-kiss celebration has made a lot of headlines in the season. He did this celebration after dismissing Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman Mayank Agarwal in the very first match. After which the BCCI also fined him. Due to this celebration, Harshit was also banned for one match. Recently, during an interview, Harshit Rana told that he had never thought that he would do such a celebration before going to the field. Also, a big question was asked to the player whether he would be able to do this flying-kiss celebration in front of Virat Kohli, let us tell you what the bowler replied to. I can’t do this in front of Virat Kohli- Harshit Rana Harshit Rana has recently been seen talking about many things on Shubhankar Mishra’s YouTube channel. During this interview, Shubhankar Mishra asked Harshit about his flying-kiss celebration that, ‘Will you do it in front of Virat, will you be able to give a flying kiss to Virat? Harshit Rana: “I didn’t tease Virat Kohli. I have respect for him, as I do for all players. But in front of him, you shouldn’t do such things (Flying Kiss) anyway.”😂❤️ pic.twitter.com/YuefR35ZYb — Virat Kohli Fan Club (@Trend_VKohli) June 17, 2024 Harshit Rana replied saying, ‘Sir, I mean I am telling you that I did not even think of doing this in the first match. And in the second match also something like this… I mean people started relating to me that I should do it in the RCB match.’ Harshit Rana then said that he respects every player, but Virat Kohli’s status is so high that he will never be able to do the flying-kiss celebration in front of him. ,So I did not provoke him, I have respect for him (Virat Kohli), respect for all the players, but I cannot do this in front of him.
Janhvi Kapoor took training from KKR’s coach to become a cricketer in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Mahi’
Janhvi Kapoor told during an interview that she has taken training from Abhishek Nair to become a cricketer in the film. Janhvi Kapoor and Abhishek Nayar (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Janhvi Kapoor and Rajkumar Rao’s film ‘Mr. and Mrs. Mahi’ has been released in theatres on 31 May. In this film, a husband fulfills his dream of becoming a cricketer through his wife. Fans are liking this heart-touching story a lot. The film has earned 6.85 crores on its first day. Critics and fans are praising Janhvi Kapoor’s character in the movie. Janhvi has worked very hard behind the scenes for this character. Recently, Janhvi told during an interview that she has taken training from Abhishek Nair and was also a part of the training camp with Dinesh Karthik. My training program was similar to Kartik’s- Janhvi Kapoor Abhishek Nair is the assistant coach of IPL 2024 champions Kolkata Knight Riders. Janhvi Kapoor has taken cricket training from him. Abhishek Nair trained Janhvi in the same way as he trains Kolkata players. Janhvi Kapoor told during an interview given to the media, “My coach is KKR’s (assistant) coach, Abhishek Nayar. In his training camp, he was training me the same way he does with KKR players for the IPL season. I went to this training camp with Dinesh Karthik. And my training program was similar to Karthik’s. We know a lot about street cricket, but the kind of technical knowledge that is required in professional cricket – understanding the timing of the ball, is what makes it very difficult. Janhvi Kapoor said, “My coach was Abhishek Nayar, the assistant coach of KKR. He trained me just like they train a KKR player. I was in the camp with Dinesh Karthik.” – We’ve got a player for the WPL. Who’s in? pic.twitter.com/am5Z4xhR9o — Vipin Tiwari (@Vipintiwari952_) May 31, 2024 In IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders have shown excellent performance under mentor Gautam Gambhir, coach Chandrakant Pandit and assistant coach Abhishek Nair. Abhishek Nair has made a lot of headlines after Kolkata became the champion. Many KKR players say that Abhishek Nair has a big hand in the team becoming the champion.
Vaibhav Arora, who reached home for the first time after winning the IPL 2024 trophy, was given a warm welcome in his hometown Ambala
During this time drums were played and fireworks were also done Vaibhav Arora (Pic Source X) Recently IPL 2024 concluded, where Kolkata Knight Riders won the title for the third time. Shreyas Iyer’s team defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets in the final. There was tremendous enthusiasm among the players after KKR won the trophy. Now, after KKR became the champion, fast bowler Vaibhav Arora was warmly welcomed on reaching his hometown Ambala. During this, people lifted him on their shoulders and welcomed him by garlanding him. Apart from this, drums were also played and fireworks were also done. Vaibhav Arora sent Travis Head to the pavilion on a duck in the final Vaibhav Arora played an important role in KKR winning the title for the third time. He took 11 wickets in 10 matches. In the final of IPL 2024, Vaibhav Arora sent Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Travis Head to the pavilion without opening the account. After this, KKR bowlers pushed SRH on the backfoot. Earlier, the 26-year-old took the big wicket of Abhishek Sharma during Qualifier-1 against SRH and once again set the tone for his team with the new ball in a crucial match. Arora recorded his best performance of the season against Delhi Capitals, where he took three wickets for 27 runs in his four-over spell. Talking about the final match, Hyderabad’s team, which batted strongly throughout the season, was bowled out for just 113 runs. In reply, KKR chased the target in just 10.3 overs thanks to Venkatesh Iyer’s unbeaten 52* runs. In this way, Kolkata won its third IPL trophy by winning by 8 wickets.
T20 World Cup 2024: This is why Rinku Singh was not selected in Team India’s 15-member team
T20 World Cup 2024 starting from June 1 Rinku Singh (Photo Source: X/Twitter) Indian cricket team’s middle order batsman Rinku Singh has not been selected for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024. He is not in the 15-man squad for the T20 World Cup, but he has been selected as a reserve player. It is worth noting that due to his amazing performance in IPL 2023, Rinku was successful in making his debut for Team India. However, when Rinku made his debut for the Indian team, at that time he finished many matches with a high strike rate. After showing such an amazing game in T20 cricket, fans started speculating that Rinku Singh would be selected for the T20 World Cup. But the selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar has shown faith in all-rounder Shivam Dubey, who performed brilliantly in IPL 2024 for CSK, instead of Rinku. So now former Indian player RP Singh has given a big statement regarding the selection of Rinku Singh in the Indian cricket team for the T20 World Cup 2024. RP has cited the impact player rule used in IPL 2024 as a major reason for Rinku’s selection. Because of this Rinku Singh was not selected Let us tell you that in a promotional event of the Indian cricket team jersey, RP Singh said as quoted by India Today- Rinku Singh should have definitely been in the T20 World Cup team, I think his not being selected was a bit unfortunate. If there was no impact player rule, I think Rinku would have made it to the T20 World Cup team. Indian squad for T20 World Cup 2024: Rohit Sharma (captain), Hardik Pandya, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant, Sanju Samson, Shivam Dubey, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Arshdeep Singh, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj reserve: Shubman Gill, Rinku Singh, Khaleel Ahmed, Avesh Khan.
Shahrukh Khan is excited after winning the IPL 2024 trophy, shared a picture on social media and said ‘Thank you’ to all the players
Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan has shared a picture on his official social media account in which all the players of the team are getting their picture clicked with the trophy after winning the final. KKR (Pic Source-X) In the final match of the Indian Premier League 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets and won the trophy of this great tournament. All the players from Kolkata Knight Riders performed very well in the final and played an important role in their team’s victory. Along with this, Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shahrukh Khan has shared a picture on his official social media account in which all the players of the team are getting their picture clicked with the trophy after winning the final. In this picture, it can be seen that all the players of Kolkata Knight Riders are present in the stadium. Not only this, all the players were seen imitating Harshit Rana’s send-off ‘flying kiss’. Not only this, the best thing about this picture was that Shahrukh Khan tagged all the players of the team in it through hashtag. He wrote in its caption, ‘For all my boys and for my team. For my champs. My stars of KKR.’ Here’s Shah Rukh Khan’s Instagram post: Let us tell you, there were many players in the Indian Premier League 2024 who played an important role in the victory of Kolkata Knight Riders by performing strongly. The team performed very well under the mentorship of Gautam Gambhir. Kolkata Knight Riders have won the trophy of this great tournament for the third time. Kolkata won the trophy of 2012, 2014 and 2024 seasons. Talking about the final, Sunrisers Hyderabad batted first and scored 113 runs after losing all the wickets. All the bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders bowled very well and took important wickets. In response, Venkatesh Iyer scored a match-winning half-century from the team. In his post, Shahrukh Khan also praised Gautam Gambhir and Shreyas Iyer. Shreyas Iyer captained Kolkata Knight Riders this season. Sunil Narayan won the title of Most Valuable Player. Not only this, Mitchell Starc won the Player of the Match award in the final. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Which teams changed their captains before the start of IPL 2024
When Sunil Narine fearfully asked Gautam Gambhir- Can I bring my girlfriend to IPL?
Sunil Narine is one of the important players of Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Sunil Narine and Gautam Gambhir. (Photo Source: Getty Images) Gautam Gambhir has recently made a big revelation about Sunil Narine. Gautam Gambhir told that Sunil Narine had made a strange demand from him in the Indian Premier League 2012. Sunil Narine had asked the then Kolkata Knight Riders captain Gautam Gambhir if he could bring his girlfriend to the stadium to watch the match. Let us tell you, Sunil Narine is one of the important players of Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League. Sunil Narine has been playing for Kolkata Knight Riders for the last several seasons and his performance has always been very good. Gautam Gambhir captained the Kolkata team in IPL 2012. He revealed that Sunil Narine used to be very quiet in the 2012 season and not a single word came out of his mouth. However, during the first practice session of KKR, he requested Gautam Gambhir to show the match to his girlfriend. Gautam Gambhir told Sportskeeda, ‘Sunil Narine and I are the same kind of people. I still remember when Sunil came for the first time in IPL 2012. We were in Jaipur and all the players were going for practice. I asked him to come for lunch. He was a very quiet person and did not say a single word during lunch. The first question Sunil Narine asked was, can I bring my girlfriend to IPL?’ Sunil Narine is like my brother: Gautam Gambhir Gautam Gambhir further said, ‘In the first season, Narayan was very quiet but now we talk about everything. He is like my brother and I don’t see him as a friend or a teammate. If both of us need each other, we call each other. We both don’t show much emotion and come back after doing our work.’ Sunil Narayan also performed very well in the Indian Premier League 2024. He was the most valuable player this season. Sunil Narayan played an important role in the victory of Kolkata Knight Riders with both bowling and batting. Many people praised his performance. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Which teams changed their captains before the start of IPL 2024
Our next goal is to make KKR the most successful team in IPL: Gautam Gambhir
Recently, Gautam Gambhir revealed that he is still hungry for the IPL trophy and he wants to make Kolkata Knight Riders the most successful franchise. Gautam Gambhir (Photo Source: X/Twitter) In the final of the Indian Premier League 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets. Kolkata Knight Riders’ performance was very good under the mentorship of Gautam Gambhir. He took many important decisions this season due to which the Kolkata team won the final. Recently, Gautam Gambhir revealed that he is still hungry for the IPL trophy and he wants to make Kolkata Knight Riders the most successful franchise. Let us tell you, Kolkata Knight Riders have won the IPL trophy three times. They have won the trophy of 2012, 2014 and 2024 seasons. In an exclusive interview with Sportskeeda, Gautam Gambhir said, ‘We are still two trophies behind Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings. Even though we won the trophy this season, Kolkata Knight Riders is still not the most successful franchise in IPL. To do that, we will have to win the tournament three more times and for that we will have to practice a lot. Our next goal is that Kolkata Knight Riders become the most successful team in IPL. There would be nothing better than this for us. Our journey to reach that place has already begun. We will face many challenges at every step: Gautam Gambhir Gautam Gambhir further said, ‘When you come to IPL, your first thought is that our team should reach the playoffs. When you are near the playoffs, you want to make your place in the top 2. After this we want to make our place in the finals. You have to face many challenges at every step. Today I am sitting at home and I am very happy. IPL is such a league in which we should not take any team lightly. When you win the tournament, you feel very good. Now I just want to go on a holiday with my family. I want to spend some time with my family. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Which teams changed their captains before the start of IPL 2024
IPL 2024: We hoped that Mitchell Starc would prove to be the X-Factor for us: Gautam Gambhir made a big revelation after winning the final
According to Gautam Gambhir, he had absolutely no doubt about Starc and he knew very well that the excellent fast bowler would prove to be the X-factor for him. Mitchell Starc (Photo Source: BCCI/IPL) Kolkata Knight Riders mentor Gautam Gambhir has praised Mitchell Starc for his excellent bowling in the Indian Premier League 2024 playoffs. Let us tell you, Mitchell Starc took three wickets for 34 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Qualifier 1, while in the final he took two wickets for 14 runs against the same team. Many people praised Mitchell Starc’s bowling. In the Indian Premier League 2024 auction, Mitchell Starc was included in the Kolkata Knight Riders team for Rs 24.75 crore. The performance of the brilliant fast bowler was quite disappointing in the initial matches of IPL 2024. In the first two matches, Mitchell Starc gave 100 runs in 8 overs and did not take a single wicket. However, by the end of the tournament, Mitchell Starc had 17 wickets at an average of 26.12. According to Gautam Gambhir, he had no doubts about Starc and he knew very well that the excellent fast bowler would prove to be the X-factor for him. Gautam Gambhir told Sportskeeda on the match, ‘We had no doubt about Starc and we all knew that he would prove to be the X factor for us in this tournament. We all knew that at the right time he would present his tremendous performance in front of the world and he did just that. Starc bowled very well in Qualifier 1 and the final and this is the mark of a big player. There was no talk of money at all and with Starc’s arrival our team became even stronger.’ Gautam Gambhir praised Mitchell Starc a lot Regarding Abhishek Sharma’s bowling in the final, Gautam Gambhir said, ‘You expect a bowler to bowl a ball like this. Kolkata Knight Riders expected a great performance from Mitchell Starc in Qualifier 1 and the final and he did just that. I cannot say whether this ball was playable or not because there is no ball that cannot be played but yes it was a very good ball. I don’t care what people are saying about Starc or what is being discussed about him on social media. According to me, there should be no discussion about performance because big players always leave their mark in important matches. 5 Australian players who scored half-century in their debut IPL match IPL 2024: These 11 foreign players took crores of rupees but flopped IPL 2024: 5 players who hit the most sixes in the 19th and 20th overs of IPL 5 fastest bowlers in IPL history Who are the head coaches of all 10 teams in IPL 2024? Which team has won the most matches against RCB in Chinnaswamy IPL 2024: 3 former RCB players who are wreaking havoc in SRH 4 players who have played more than 500 T20 matches MS Dhoni: Dhoni’s amazing record as CSK captain Which teams changed their captains before the start…
