Asaduddin Owaisi on Virat Kohli: Asaduddin Owaisi is counted among the legendary leaders of India today, but there was a time when his deadly bowling batsmen used to sweat. He has played under-25 cricket at the university level. Owaisi has also played with India’s legendary bowler Venkatesh Prasad. Well recently, a video has been in the headlines on social media, in which he is seen praising Virat Kohli.

Virat Kohli is a tremendous player

Virat Kohli has retired from Test cricket a few days ago. He has already said goodbye to T20 format, in such a situation, he will be seen playing only ODI cricket. In a recent interview to news agency PTI, Owaisi praised Virat, “Hey, we are a tremendous player. We will always be deprived of his cover drive. The way he puts shots over the bowlers’ heads, he was amazing. Hey is a great player, a tremendous player.” Asaduddin Owaisi further said that more players like Virat Kohli will be born. They say that there is no shortage of talent in India.

Comparison with Mohammad Azharuddin

Asaduddin Owaisi said that if he had continued to play cricket, he could have played in big leagues. He could earn a big name like Hyderabadi players like VVS Laxman, Mohammad Azharuddin, but he refused to compare himself with great cricketers like Azharuddin. Owaisi says that he used to be just a small bowler than a great player like Azharuddin.

After playing the South Zone Inter-University under-25 cricket, the Vizi Trophy was selected in 1994. The Viji Trophy used to be a big level tournament for university teams.

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Virat kohli retirement from test: The day of May 7, when Rohit Sharma retired from Test cricket. Fans were hoping that at least Virat Kohli would play on England tour, but only five days after Rohit, ‘King Kohli’ also said goodbye to the Test format. Virat was the most successful Test captain of Team India in history and he has left many questions behind his retirement. Now a shocking revelation has been revealed that BCCI wanted to make Virat a captain again but the board took a U-turn on the last occasion.

BCCI hand in Virat’s retirement?

According to India Today, BCCI had given Virat Kohli a hint to make it captain again. This is about the time of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, in which India lost 3–1. The report stated that, “Virat Kohli’s close friends say that he had got the hint to be captained again after the Adelaide Test, but suddenly the circumstances had changed.”

In the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, India and Australia were on par with the Adelaide Test. In the Adelaide Test, Team India had to face a crushing defeat by 10 wickets. The report revealed that Virat Kohli had played the match for Delhi in the Ranji Trophy in the hope of becoming captain again, but the situation was completely changed after India’s 3–1 defeat in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Virat Kohli has now retired from T20 and Test cricket. He will be seen playing only ODI matches in the coming time. Virat Kohli, meanwhile, is playing in IPL 2025 and will also play in the match against KKR on 17 May. Please tell that Virat is currently in the race of Orange Cap. He has scored 505 runs in 11 matches so far and will get an orange cap as soon as he scored 6 runs.

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Virat Kohli IPL Stats: Virat Kohli is the highest run -scorer in the Indian Premier League and is also involved in the Orange Cap race of IPL 2025. Virat is the first player to touch the 8,000 runs in the IPL, while in IPL 2025 he has scored 505 runs so far. Kohli has fiercely beat the good bowlers, his fight against Jaspreet Bumrah has also been interesting for fans. Do you know that Bumrah is not the highest bowler to dismiss Virat Kohli in IPL.

Who did Virat Kohli out the most times?

Virat Kohli has so far scored 8,509 runs in his 263 matches IPL career. So far, Jasprit Bumrah has dismissed Kohli 5 times in the IPL, but there are 2 bowlers who have dismissed ‘King Kohli’ more often than Bumrah. Bumrah has proved to be fatal not only in the new ball but also in the death overs, so it is not a shocking thing that he has overshadowed Kohli more than once.

These 2 bowlers ahead of Jaspreet Bumrah

In the IPL, the names of the bowlers who took the wicket of Virat Kohli more than Jasprit Bumrah are Ashish Nehra and Sandeep Sharma. Nehra had taken the wicket of RCB veteran Kohli 6 times, while Sandeep Sharma, famous for his swing bowling, has taken the wicket of Virat Kohli on 7 occasions, which is the highest in IPL history. Let us know that Sandeep has taken 146 wickets in his IPL career so far.

Virat Kohli is not only the player to score the most runs in IPL history, as well as during IPL 2025, he has also made a record of putting the most fifty in this league. He has scored 70 half -centuries in the IPL so far.

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For any cricketer, debut matches, debut centuries, half -centuries or first wickets are moments that he never forgets, but Virat Kohli forgot the name of the batsman who took his first wicket in the IPL by dismissing him. Anyway, Kohli does not bowl much, he is a proper batsman but sometimes he also bowls. Kohli forgot but do you know which batsman he took in the IPL? Let us tell you.

Virat Kohli is one of the players who are playing in the IPL from the first edition. He has played for Royal Challengers Bangalore from the beginning and this time is a part of this team. He is the highest run -scorer in the tournament, he has scored 8253 runs in 251 innings of 259 matches. Virat also has 4 wickets in the IPL. He took his first wicket in the first season.

Virat Kohli forgotten batsman’s name

Between IPL 2025, Jatin Sapru took an interview of Virat Kohli, in which he asked Kohli many questions in the rapid fire round. He asked in a question that in the IPL, which batsman did you take the first wicket? On this, Kohli said Harshal Gibbs from the gate, which was wrong. He then took the name of Ravi Teja, but Jatin called it wrong and said that against Deccan Chargers in 2009 (although Virat took that wicket in 2008). Kohli took the names of Venugopal Rao and then Adam Gilchrist but they were all wrong.

Virat Kohli Interview with Jatin Sapru pic.twitter.com/8vykzboriv

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Virat Kohli took the first wicket in the IPL for which batsman?

Talking about the bowling performance in the IPL of Virat Kohli, he has scored a total of 251 balls, in which he has given 368 runs. He has taken a total of 4 wickets in the IPL, of which his best is 2/25. This is of the same match in which Kohli took his debut IPL wicket. In this match, Kohli dismissed a total of 2 batsmen.

Virat Kohli took the first wicket of Sri Lankan batsman Chamara Silva in the IPL, he was caught out. Kohli then bowled Ravi Teja in this match. Earlier, he had bowled in 3 matches, but did not get any wicket. Apart from Chamara Silva and Ravi Teja, Virat Kohli has dismissed Brendon McCullum and Wriddhiman Saha in the IPL. He has a total of 4 wickets in the IPL.

Virat Kohli stuck on another question

Jatin then asked Virat that you started your captaincy in the IPL against which team. So Virat recalled that perhaps 2013 but Jatin immediately interrupted Virat Kohli and said that it is not 2011. So Kohli was also shocked on this, he said “I don’t remember.”

Let us tell you that Virat Kohli played his first match against Rajasthan Royals in 2011 as captain. He got the chance of the captain because team captain Daniel Vettori was out due to knee injury. Kohli RCB’s full time captain was appointed in 2013.