Virat Kohli’s love affair with Chinnaswamy continues: A special bond with the crowd
Virat Kohli’s love affair with Bengaluru’s M.Chinnaswamy Stadium continued on Saturday when the crowd cheered themselves hoarse in his support in India’s second Test against Sri Lanka. Kohli, who is a Royal Challengers Bangalore player, having captained them till last season, played to the crowd as they rained down adulations on him.
The insane amount of support was present from the first ball as the crowd chanted Kohli’s name as India won the toss and came down to bat first. In a bizarre moment in the match, the partisan crowd even cheered the dismissal of Rohit Sharma as the next batter down was Kohli. As soon as he made his way down the field towards the pitch, the noise was deafening.
Even though Kohli failed to reger a big score, having being dismissed Dhananjaya de Silva at 23, the support refused to die down. The cheers continued as India came out to field after getting all out for 252.
As chants of “Kohli, Kohli” rang around the stadium, the man himself turned around and flashed a heart sign towards the galleries. In another instance, when the crowd started chanting for RCB, Kohli pulled up his India shirt to reveal a red coloured apparel below it.
Crowd chanting RCB…RCB.. and Virat showing the he also wearing red 😍❤️ @imVkohli #ViratKohli #KingKohli #RCB #India #INDvsSL pic.twitter.com/UcCXgaIxHu
— Avinash Batwara_VK_18 (@AvinashBatwara4) March 12, 2022
KOHLI KOHHHHLI KOHHHHLIIIII ❤️❤️https://t.co/wDpRJGmlrn pic.twitter.com/cE2vLGcZAq
— ً (@Sobuujj) March 12, 2022
WE Chanting ABD ABD♥ See KOHLI Reply🥺♥♥#INDvsSL #Bengaluru #Rcbcaptain #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/Uq3dPFBpFh
— Amith Jain (@amithapj) March 12, 2022
The fans were even chanting for the recently retired AB de Villiers, who is a hot favourite among the RCB fans and Kohli obliged mimicking a famous ABD shot.
Earlier, India were all out for 252 at the dinner break on the opening day of the second Test against Sri Lanka
Shreyas Iyer was out on 92 off 98 deliveries while Jasprit Bumrah remained not out without scoring. The dinner break was taken once Iyer was dismissed.
Wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant was the next highest contributor for India with a 26-ball 39 while Hanuma Vihari made 31.
Virat Kohli was out for 23 just before the tea break while captain Rohit Sharma scored 15.
For Sri Lanka, Lasith Embuldeniya and Praveen Jayawickrama took three wickets apiece while Dhananjaya de Silva got two.
