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No Way ! Virat Kohli- you CANNOT do that !

Virat Kohli backs away and drives over cover for four.

Statutory warning: Please don’t try doing this at home. You might end up injuring your back, calf, knees and right shoulders. Or you might end up giving an impression of playing an irresponsible shot and get out.

It has been three days since the incident happened and yet many fans are not over it. They keep raving about it in social media.

Jason Holder ran in and bowled a full-length delivery pitched on off stump angling into the right-hand batsman. Virat Kohli on a normal day would have stood there and driven it through covers. He might have flicked it over mid-wicket with a wristy bottom hand. He could also have flicked it behind square for a boundary.

India required 106 runs in 14 overs to win the match and series. The first four balls of 22nd over brought four runs. On the fifth ball, Kohli does something which even he will not be able to replicate.

As Holder bowled that above-mentioned delivery, Kohli has premeditated to move leg side and try to score a boundary of that ball. Holder saw that coming on his run-up and followed Kohli with a full ball angled in at him. How Kohli reacted to that delivery is the incident here and it all happened in a fraction of second as explained.

Kohli moved his right foot back to create room for himself to go over covers. He saw that the movement wasn’t adequate and moved it a bit more. Meanwhile, he moved his front leg across only to realize that Holder has followed him. He backed his front foot away, keeping the back foot in the position he had premeditated. In the process of doing all this, he had bent himself like a bow and from that position went through with his shot and hit that ball over covers for a boundary.

How did he manage to do that? In all the feet movement and bending of the back, his head stood still. Throughout the shot, Kohli managed to keep his head still. It was unbelievable to do that. Because he had his head still, he was able to bring his hands and bat through that angle and managed to hit the ball over covers.

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Sir Vivian Richards on commentary said, “Look At The Body Language..Ah Man..Ah.. I would be Happy to Have Played That Shot When I was Playing!”. Having watched that shot over and over again, I am still not able to come to terms with it.

Why is it special? Because, in general when a batsman backs away and the bowler follows him, the batsman would either fell off balance or go on with the shot on the leg side. Any other batsman would have gone towards the leg side or over long-on. What Kohli was able to do is something that very few could pull off. If I could think of any, it would be AB de Villiers.

I know I am late on writing this. Yet, I am among those people who are still going bonkers over that shot in twitter and YouTube. So pardon for the delay. Now go back and watch that shot in the highlights package so that we can talk more about it.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTopPdUOAkE&t=961s

Dear Virat Kohli, you cannot do such things and react as if it is a normal shot. Thank you for making us go crazy and keep up with it as both Rohit Sharma and Steve Smith are after your Number one ranking!


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