The Afghanistan cricketer Naveen-ul-Haq is leaving no chance of taking a dig at the Indian cricketer Virat Kohli through his cryptic posts on Instagram after the altercation that they had after the match between Lucknow Super Giants and Royal Challengers Bangalore on May 1 at Ekana Sports Stadium, Lucknow.
On 9th May, Royal Challengers Bangalore lost an IPL match by 6 wickets against Mumbai Indians which was played at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai, and when this match was played Naveen-ul-Haq made a post on his Instagram story in which he wrote “sweet mango’s” with image of mangoes and in background, the match between RCB and MI was shown on television.
Naveen once more took to his Instagram story, posted photos of mangoes and wrote, “Round 2 with these (mango emoji). One of the best mangoes I’ve ever had thanks @dhaval_parab bhai”. Everyone felt that it was a dig at Virat Kohli because in the background, the TV screen showed the match between MI and RCB and MI needed only 8 runs to win in 27 balls.
Now Virat Kohli has posted an image of himself in which he is seen dressed in a black shirt and trouser, sitting in a dark room with light on his head. He captioned the image, “The competition is all in your head. In reality it’s always you vs you.”
The competition is all in your head. In reality it’s always you vs you. pic.twitter.com/59OYBZ4WSF
— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli) May 10, 2023
As far as the match between RCB and MI is concerned, RCB put up a total of 199/6 on the scoreboard with the help of brilliant knocks of Faf du Plessis (65 runs, 41 balls, 5 fours & 3 sixes) and Glenn Maxwell (68 runs, 33 balls, 8 fours & 4 sixes). The target of 200 was a good one but MI batters especially Suryakumar Yadav ripped apart the RCB bowling and achieved the target with 21 balls left in their innings. While Ishan Kishan played a smashing knock of 42 runs (21 balls, 4 fours & 4 sixes), Suryakumar Yadav played a blistering knock of 83 runs for which he played only 35 balls and his innings included 7 fours & 6 sixes. Nehal Wadhera also played a good innings of 52 runs (34 balls, 4 fours & 3 sixes) and with this win, MI moved to the third position in points table with 6 wins in 11 matches.
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