IPL 2024 | Twitter amused as laughing Kohli's exaggerated leave against Ashwin sparks World T20 nostalgia

IPL 2024 | Twitter amused as laughing Kohli's exaggerated leave against Ashwin sparks World T20 nostalgia

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By SportsCafe Desk, SportsCafe Editor

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Every run counts in a game of cricket where even the minute margins could be the deciding factor of a contest. In a riveting battle of the Royals on Saturday, Virat Kohli managed to emulate Ashwin's genius move against the World T20 2022's star himself to extract an extra run in Jaipur .

Anticipating dew in the latter half of the contest, Rajasthan Royals captain Sanju Samson won the toss and opted to field first. Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis offered a good start to RCB, playing through the powerplay phase with 53 runs. However, a cheeky moment followed post the field restrictions where Kohli was seen emulating Ashwin from the 2022 T20 World Cup. 

On the second ball of the seventh over, Ashwin fired a fuller delivery near the leg stump line that Kohli cleverly left by winding across the line. The flighted delivery would have hit his body if Kohli had not bent a tad towards the off stump, thereby extracting an extra out of the delivery. Ashwin had committed a similar act against Mohammad Nawaz during the India versus Pakistan clash at the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 2022 T20 World Cup, resulting in a famous win. Kohli was clearly reminded off the same as he broke out into a fit of laughter while looking at Ashwin after the umpire signalled wide.

The Twitterverse was amused about Kohli emulating an Ashwin genius against the 37-year-old himself.

Virat does Ashwin against Ashwin!

Hahaha! LOL xD xD

He is so animated!

King also copies someone now! LOL xD xD

Hahahaha!

Yeah he did!

Epic!

Yeah very similar manner!

That was fun to watch!

Rolf!

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